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Totally agree. The movies are complete shite compared to the books. Someday they'll make a 20 part Harry Potter mini-series that leaves all the dialogue and characters in.

Having only seen the movies, could you please explain how quiddich is supposed to work? In the first movie they give a brief explanation of the rules and objectives, but when they actually start playing it seems to devolve into some sort of pointless diversion or filler for the real story.

As memory serves, the way they explained it was that there are two teams of several players each who play som violent form of football on flying brooms. Then there's the real competition with the two players charged with catching the golden ball, with which they win the game outright. Now, doesn't that make the football part of the game completely moot?

Maybe they went into more details in the last book, but leaving it out of the movie seems like a good idea for us who haven't read up on our Harry Potter.

The big brown lopsided ball is the quaffle. Chasers try to put that through a hoop for 10 points. The medium size dark balls are bludgers, which chase after people and try to hit them.
The little one is the golden snitch. If the seeker catches it, he gets 150 points and the game ends. Usually whichever team catches the snitch first wins. Harry is seeker. The whole game is basically a metaphor for harry's role in the stuggle against voldemort. When Krum catches the golden snitch but still loses the quiddich world cup by 10 points, that foreshadows phyrric victory in the little hangleton graveyard.