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The sport of Quidditch came into being a little more than 10 years ago.

But for most of that time, it was just an imagined game - the sport of witches and wizards in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.

It involves flying broomsticks and magically charmed balls.

But in 2004 some adventurous Middlebury College students wondered if they could rewrite the Quidditch rules to suit a more earthbound crowd.

NHPR Correspondent Sean Hurley recently attended the College Quidditch World Cup at Middlebury's Vermont campus

He wanted to see how well the game held up on its strange journey from the page to the pitch.