Essay: It's All Fun and Games
There is no literal Quidditch in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series. However, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , every time Harry is obtaining a Horcrux, he is playing a virtual game of Quidditch. This is what JK Rowling has been leading up to: first she took each Quidditch match or another game—like the Triwizard Tournament—from a mock war or virtual-war to a literal war, then, partway through the fourth book—the midpoint of the series—she flipped the script and from then on, each battle Harry fought took on game-like overtones, requiring the combatants to be consummate game-players in order to win the battle, which had become a virtual game. In what would have been Harry’s seventh year in school, when he would normally have played three Quidditch matches against Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, he instead plays virtual Quidditch matches to get Slytherin’s locket from Dolores Umbridge, Hufflepuff’s cup from the Lestrange bank vault, and to get and destroy Rav...
