More than 40 teams from United States universities have donned cloaks, picked up broomsticks and headed to the Quidditch World Cup in New York.
The event is aimed at bringing to life the sport imagined by JK Rowling in her hit series about boy wizard Harry Potter.
The recreation in New York features the fictitious game's the golden 'snitch' - which it is the players' aim to catch as it flies around the field, to 'bludgers'- hurled at players in order to knock them off their brooms.
In the game played by JK Rowling's characters at their wizards' boarding school Hogwarts, the players fly on brooms.
However in New York, they are only able to run around the pitch, clutching the non-flying variety between their legs.
