Quidditch

Fabius Watkins • Character Fabius Watkins is a Quidditch player. He was a Chaser for the Montrose Magpies and also their Team Captain (c. 1960s-1970s). He was killed in a collision with a helicopter (WoM). Read More

Fabius Watkins is born • Event Quidditch legend Fabius Watkins is born (WoM). Read More

Fabius Watkins collides with a helicopter and dies • Event Quidditch legend Fabius Watkins is killed when he collides with a helicopter (JKR, WoM). Read More

Falmouth • Towns Falmouth is a coastal town with an important harbour, and is located at the southwestern tip of England. Falmouth is also home to the Falmouth Falcons, a member of the British and Irish Quidditch League (QA7). Read More

Falmouth Falcons  • Sports teams The Falmouth Falcons are an English Quidditch team based in the Cornwall town of Falmouth (QA7). They are known for hard play. robes: dark gray with white, falcon-head emblem on chest home: Falmouth motto: “Let us win, but if we cannot win, let us break a… Read More

Famous Chaser Joscelind Wadcock is born • Event She would become known for her play with the Puddlemere United. Read More

Famous Montrose Magpies Seeker Eunice Murray dies • Event Murray was considered one of the best Seekers ever, once even asking for a faster snitch to keep the game challenging (QA7). Read More

Famous Seeker Roderick Plumpton is born • Event

Franziska Faust • Character Franzinska Faust was the Quidditch team manager for the German National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Her team’s participation in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup was cut short after an accident to their Seeker in their first match in the tournament against the Welsh National side. Faust reported that… Read More

Mervyn Fenwick • Character Mervyn Fenwick played Keeper for the Tutshill Tornados Quidditch team during the 1990s (DP2). He was affected by a bout of sleeping sickness during a match against the Ballycastle Bats, possibly caused by Bats’ captain Finbar Quigley hitting him with a Bludger (DP2). Read More

Ferdinand Jägendorf • Character Ferdinand Jägendorf was the coach and manager for the Liechtenstein National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Fernando Diaz • Character Fernando Diaz was a Chaser for the Brazilian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. A youthful Brazilian team went all the way to the finals in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup tournament, with Diaz and his fellow Chasers Alejandra Alonso and Gonçalo Flores leading the way (Pm). In spite of… Read More

Fiji National Team • Sports teams The Fijian National Teams are from the country of Fiji in Oceania, an area in the Southern Pacific Ocean. Quidditch The Fijian Quidditch team were in the playoffs of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup held in Argentina (Pm). Their team mascots, the Dukuwaga, were involved… Read More

Finbar Quigley • Character Finbar Quigley is the Captain of the Ballycastle Bats quidditch team and plays in the position of Beater (DP1, DP2). If eligible to play for Ireland, he is possibly the same person as the Quigley who a member of the Irish National Team that won the 1994 Quidditch… Read More

One of the finest Quidditch games ever seen - Harpies vs. Harriers (1953) • Event The Holyhead Harpies defeat the Heidelberg Harriers in what is widely agreed to be one of the finest Quidditch games ever seen. The game lasted for seven days, at the end of which Harriers captain Rudolf Brand proposed marriage to the captain of the Harpies,… Read More

finger-removing jinx • Spells Effect: Removes the target person’s fingers. Read More

Firebolt • Broomsticks The Firebolt, released in the summer of 1993, is the fastest racing broom in the world at that time. Developed by Randolph Spudmore, it is ground-breaking in that it has goblin-made ironwork parts – although working with goblins leads to frequent strikes, making this quite a rare broom. Features… Read More

Firebolt Broom Manufacturer • Broomsticks Firebolt is the broom manufacturer that developed the Firebolt brooms (PA4) and, probably, the Firebolt Supreme (Pm). Read More

Firebolt Supreme • Broomsticks The Firebolt Supreme is the racing broom used by the winning Bulgarian National Team during the 2014 Quidditch World Cup (Pm). Read More

Fitchburg • Cities Fitchburg is a U.S. town and the home of the Fitchburg Finches, who have won the U.S. Quidditch cup seven times (QA8). Read More

Fitchburg Finches  • Sports teams A Quidditch team from Massachusetts in the United States. Read More

Flacking • Quidditch A Quidditch foul committed by the Keeper, which consists of pushing any part of his or her body through the back of the goal hoop to prevent a score (QA6). Read More

Flanders • Place Flanders is a region that consists roughly of the northern half of Belgium and incorporates the Flemish region of the country. A Quidditch team from Flanders played against Transylvania in the first World Cup (QA8). Read More

Flanders National Team • Sports teams The Flemish National Teams come from the European country of Flanders. This is located in present-day Belgium. Quidditch The very first ever Quidditch World Cup final took place in 1473, between the European teams of Transylvania and Flanders (QA8, Pm). During this very violent match… Read More

Fleetwood • Businesses Manufacturers of Fleetwood’s High-Finish Handle Polish, included in the Broomstick Servicing Kit. (PA1)… Read More

Fleetwood's High-Finish Handle Polish • Broomsticks A broom maintenance polish manufactured by Fleetwood‘s. Read More

flesh memory • Magical effects A flesh memory is a memory retained by a Golden Snitch of the Seeker who caught it. Read More

He Flew Like a Madman • Books and Literature He Flew Like a Madman is a biography of the Quidditch player “Dangerous” Dai Llewellyn, written by Quidditch Through the Ages author Kennilworthy Whisp (QA). Read More

Flier • Quidditch An alternative term for a Quidditch player or broom rider, usually describing how well they fly – eg. good, daring, elegant (PA13, GF6, OP3, QA8, Pm). Read More

Marcus Flint • Character Marcus Flint was a Slytherin, Chaser and captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team for Harry’s first three years at Hogwarts. Harry thought he looked like he had troll blood. He wasn’t beyond a bit of cheating to win a match (PS11, CS7, CS10,… Read More

Gonçalo Flores • Character Gonçalo Flores played Chaser for the Brazilian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Darren Floyd • Character Darren Floyd was a Beater on the Welsh National Team at the Quidditch World Cup tournament in 2014. During the 2014 tournament, the skills of the Welsh team were overshadowed and possibly distracted by the controversy surrounding their volatile manager, Gwenog Jones (Pm). Winning their first… Read More

Flying Bus • Transportation The flying bus is a unique wizarding re-purposing of a Muggle transportation method. The first wizarding bus was the Knight Bus, founded in 1865 as an alternative for those who cannot be accommodated with Thestrals or brooms (DL). The Knight Bus picks up stranded witches… Read More

Flying With the Cannons • Books and Literature Flying With the Cannons is a book of interesting facts devoted to the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team, given to Harry by Ron as a Christmas present during their second year (CS12). The book is illustrated with moving photos (GF2, GF22). Read More

Flying Magic • Magical effects While “[n]o spell yet devised enables wizards to fly unaided in human form” (QA1), various spells create flying effects. Read More

The Flyte and Barker company introduces the Twigger 90 broomstick • Event Intended to rival or beat the Nimbus, the stylish Twigger showed a tendency to warp at high speed and has the reputation of being the broomstick of choice for wizards with “more Galleons than sense.”… Read More

Formation Looping • Quidditch A Quidditch manoeuvre for which the Sumbawanga Sunrays team are famous (QA8). Read More

Foul • Quidditch A foul is an infraction of the rules of Quidditch. When a player commits one of these fouls, the opposing team are awarded a penalty by the referee (QA6). According to Kennilworthy Whisp in his book Quidditch Through the Ages, there are seven hundred recorded ways… Read More

France National Team • Sports teams The French National Teams are from the European country of France. Quidditch The national side played in the final match of the 2006 Quidditch World Cup tournament, losing to Burkina Faso by 300 points to 220 (Pm). Read More

Fred Weasley • Character Fred Weasley is one of the seven children of Arthur and Molly Weasley and twin brother to George Weasley. The twins are co-owners of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, a highly successful joke shop in Diagon Alley. Sadly, Fred was a casualty of the Battle of Hogwarts. The Weasley twins are the… Read More

Otmar Frick • Character Otmar Frick was a Chaser for the Liechtenstein National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Front Three • Sports and competitions In Muggle rugby, the forwards who make up the first row in a collision with their opponents are referred to as the front row. By extension, the “front three” in Quidditch or Muggle football terms means the three players who will be first to meet the opposing… Read More