Competitors take part in a match of Quidditch, Harry Potter's magical and fictional game, during the 4th Quidditch World Cup, in New York. Quidditch, the brainchild of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, has taken its flight in some 400 colleges and 300 high schools in North America, getting its start in 2005 at Middlebury College, Vermont. Hundreds of competitors took over a Manhattan park to participate in the games fourth world cup. - Photos by AFP.