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If you’ve got an itch to play Quidditch, you no longer have to be a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You could be a student at UC Berkeley.
Quidditch, the favorite pastime of wizards and witches in J.K. Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter novels, has recently come to life on Berkeley’s Memorial Glade field. Charlie Strauss, a 22-year-old junior psychology major, held Quidditch team tryouts in February after seeing a collegiate game played at Vassar College in New York.
“Basically, what we do is sort of a combination of rugby, football, dodgeball and tag. … But it’s really just Quidditch,” said Strauss, who donned a Harry Potter-esque white button-down shirt, red tie and gray V-neck sweater. Strauss is the self-proclaimed Quidditch commissioner and describes his clothing as his commissioner outfit.
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