J.K. Rowling explains why Wizarding world supports Scottish rugby
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J.K. Rowling explains why Wizarding world supports Scottish rugby
Scotland may have received help from an unexpected corner in its dramatic win against Italy in the Six Nations on Saturday: JK Rowling has revealed in a new story why "it is considered infra dig for wizards to support any rugby team other than Scotland".
Ever since the 19th century, writes Rowling on her website Pottermore, the worldwide wizarding community has thrown its support behind the Scottish rugby team, even though they are forbidden to take part in "Muggle" sports themselves. In a rare appearance on Twitter, Rowling also urged her nearly three million followers to "help keep this noble tradition alive by tweeting #wizards4scotlandrugbyteam before #6nations Scotland v Italy", adding: "Wizards worldwide support the Scottish rugby team. It's an old magical tradition."
"The wizarding world's affection for the Scottish rugby team is all the more bizarre because a substantial part of wizarding society knows nothing about Muggle sports, which they regard as inherently dull and even silly," she writes in her new story on Pottermore. "Yet the Scottish rugby team has become a wizarding meme – part in-joke, part genuine interest – which has its roots in the 19th century and is a tale both sad and uplifting."
Cricket, on the other hand, is widely ridiculed by wizards. "As the chief sports writer in the Daily Prophet wrote in 1902: 'a Beater who is unable to fly defends three sticks instead of a hoop, while a Snitch without wings is thrown at the sticks. That's it. Sometimes for several days'. Rugby held more appeal," writes Rowling. "Wizards could not help but admire the strength and courage of Muggles prepared to engage in a sport so brutal, without recourse to Disapparating out of the way, or access to Skele-Gro to repair broken bones. It must be admitted that there was an edge of sadism to some wizards' enjoyment."
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/24/jk-rowling-story-wizards-support-scottish-rugby
Re: J.K. Rowling explains why Wizarding world supports Scottish rugby
Right now the Scottish rugby team needs all the help it can get. We're only a small rugby playing nation and some years we punch well above our weight but it just hasn't been happening lately.
This is encouraging though
This is encouraging though
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