What Quidditch Teaches Us about Donald Trump

Harry Potter and Donald Trump have one thing in common.

They’re both seekers.

In quidditch, the wizard world’s hybrid of polo and dodgeball, you win by scoring points. But there’s one twist: within that game (and apart from it) is another game where each team has a seeker. The seeker‘s job is to catch the elusive golden snitch and whoever does immediately wins no matter the score.

In the political arena, team GOP positioned Donald Trump as its seeker placing a bet that the celebrity could capture the elusive golden snitch. The snitch of the 2016 election (and I would argue also in the post-truth era of American politics) was a splinter of the voting population captivated by psychological manipulation in mass and social media.

So while the nimble flight of a boy on a broom may not conjure Donald Trump for you, maybe it should. Because Donald Trump can teach us what it means to play a game within a game that has the potential to win it all, regardless of whether you love the man or hate him.

By the way, I hate him.

Witches get snitches

Sometimes you’re told to be the seeker. Imagine you’re pulled aside at work and assigned an exploratory special project.