Quidditch

Dissimulators

Dissimulators

Dissimulators are noisy, multicoloured, tube-shaped instruments which make loud shouts of support and give off smoke in national colours (QWC).

When wands were banned at the 1974 Quidditch World Cup, canny wizard Quidditch fans transfigured their wands into Dissimulators. When Royston Idlewind, who introduced the ban, appeared at the event, the Dissimulators were turned back into wands again (QWC).

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The dissimulators are a magical form of vuvuzela, brightly coloured plastic horns played at South African football matches. Much of the world found them amusing - but also loud and irritating - during the 2010 FIFA World Cup (Wikipedia).

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