"Ends the game? So it doesn't end before, or is it a lower bound, or...?"

"I think it's literally the end? There have been matches that go on for a few days before, I think, but they're rare."

"...erm. Why."

"… Why have there been matches that go on for days, or why is it the end, or…?"

"Why is it the end, that sounds like a terrible idea."

"I didn't design it? But it's not awful, it's not like it causes anything seriously bad, just weird?"

"It's not, like, awful the way malaria is awful, but it's bad game design."

Shrug. "I think a few sports are like that?"

"Like which?"

"… I'm not a huge sports fan but they mostly seem to be, uh, hit spheres at each other or things for, uh, reasons?"

"Yeah but they always end after the same amount of time."

He shrugs. "Lots of people seem to be fans of it."

"What other magical sports are there?"

"Well, it depends on what you call a sport, because, well, there's – wizard's chess, I'm guessing you know the nonmagical one?"

"I know the nonmagical one, how does that one work?"

"It's, I think, pretty similar but the pieces move themselves and you can tell them where to go?"

"Well, sounds cool, but that's not a sport anyway."

Pause.  "Dueling?"

"That's not a sport—well I guess it is but..."

"Do you mean, like, broom racing? Or hockey?"

"Yeah, those."

"They both exist," he says. "There's a broom race through – I think it's Sweden? – every year, international thing."

"Nothing else with balls, though?"

"– There's quodpot? It's, sort of, an American quidditch thing?"

"How's it work?"