The origin of the word 'Quidditch'

Quidditch is a wizarding sport invented by my friend, the author J.K. Rowling. The sport first appeared in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). It is a potentially dangerous but very popular sport played by witches and wizards riding flying broomsticks.

So, it is the most popular game played by witches and wizards. As there are no known witches and wizards alive, one would imagine that quidditch isn't played anymore.

You'd be wrong in thinking that, because idiots with broomsticks between their legs imagined that they played quidditch. But now, because Rowling is a bit controversial in some small circles, these spineless people want to change the name of their game.

The 'governing bodies' said that 'Quidditch' will henceforth be known as 'Quadball.' The name change is to distance itself from author Rowling's comments to protect 'real' women from predatory men who claim to identify as women. Besides, the organisations do not own the tradename 'Quidditch', which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

The question you might ask is: where did J.K. Rowling find the idea for the word 'quidditch'?

In scholastic philosophy, 'quiddity' – deriving form the Latin quidditas - was another term for the essence of an object, literally its 'whatness' or 'what it is'. The Latin word quidditas, which was used by the medieval scholastics as a literal translation of the equivalent term in Aristotle's Greek to ti en einai (τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι) or "the what it was to be (a given thing)".

In law, the term is used to refer to a quibble or academic point. An example can be seen in Hamlet's graveside speech found in Hamlet by William Shakespeare. "Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures" says Hamlet, referring to a lawyer's quiddities.

The adaption of the word 'quiddity' to form 'quidditch' shows how well-read J.K. Rowling is, in stark contrast to the people who continue to attack her with false arguments. Or fallacies, as Rowling would probably say.