This activity, in fact, will change its name: it will no longer be called quidditch, therefore, but will adopt the name of quadball. The decision was taken by the American authorities that control this discipline, apparently born at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2005, above all to distance herself from Rowling, an author who in recent years has very often allowed herself utterances considered by many to be blatantly transphobic. . The writer has in fact written numerous tweets and articles in which she essentially reiterates in particular that transgender women cannot be considered women in all respects. The reactions of a large part of society have been very harsh and now even the sport that owes her birth has taken a distancing position.
It must be said that the same quadball associations have also taken this decision to resolve an age-old issue of copyright: the rights of the word "quidditch", as well as of all the magical terms originating from the world of Harry Potter, are in fact owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, the same company that made films, video games and other merchandising related to the Wizarding World. The rebranding, therefore, takes two snitches with one stone, one might say, but it is a clear signal that Rowling is increasingly disliked, even to the fans who have drawn inspiration and stimuli from her world to create new bonds not only in the imagination but in the real world.