Say good-bye to those hot, sizzling days of summer and hello to the cool breezes of fall as October comes steadily closer, bringing with it cool nights, falling leaves, and — you guessed it — Quidditch.

Easily ranking as the wizarding world's number one sport, Quidditch has reared with it an audience so large and diverse, that only a tiny 0.3% of wizards claim to dislike it (though eye witnesses have spotted said wizards attending many of the Quidditch games).

Each year the league produces a staggering amount of viewers and fans, this year being no different.

"We're expecting a large crowd this year," says Wilber Furmon, current employee the Department of Magical Games and Sports. "Twice as much as last year, and a shocking amount of them are women."

Shocking, indeed. According to the league's statistics, only a fraction of the percentage of wizards who watch Quidditch are women. And the amount of women actually playing is even smaller.

"It's rather lonely," says Janie London, current star Chaser and only female for the Bartleby Boars. "I mean, I love my boys, but it's hard working around all that testosterone."

Katterina Cay, Keeper of the Holyhead Harpies (the only Quidditch team with an all-female crew), says it's either a win or lose kind of game with the fans.

"They either love you or they don't," she says. "I've gotten a whole bunch of letters of support, but you wouldn't believe how many bigoted idiots there are still out there."

A fair number of support groups are sprouting around the England area, their main cry being that the league is against all things feminine. One of the more popular ones, W.A.I.L. (Women Against Intolerable Leagues), arranges frequent protests against the league.

"It's a bigoted conspiracy," huffs W.A.I.L.'s current president, Maddie Muck. "You'd only need to count the number of women there are in the league to realize it!" Stewart Muck (no relation), current C.E.O. of the league denies any kind of conspiracy.

"The reason for the lack of women in the league is simple," he explains. "Not many try out and make it, that's all. It's not because they're women."

Any who has tried out for a team in the Quidditch league know that if you don't make it, the most traditional route to take then would be practically anything that'll get you as close to the league as you possibly can.

"What a coincidene that all of the league's Healers are women," Maddie says under her breath.

"It is a coincidence!" shouts Stewart, who just so happened to hear. "There are women players," he continues. "There just happens to be more men who play better."

"Codswallop!" cries Maddie. "We've magical proof that this game was invented with the help of a woman and Muggles all around recognize a witch flying around on a broomstick — what game isn't better suited for women?"

Hmm.

Dangling hundreds of feet in the air with only a broomstick, logic, and skill to keep you from falling over.

Indeed.