Gertie Keddle is a witch and character in Quidditch Through the Ages. She is known for documenting the earliest known game of Quidditch in the eleventh century, but she is unhappy about the game being played by her house and she calls the players "numbskulls".[1]
Biography[]
Gertie lived in a house near Queerditch Marsh. One day, she began noticing a group of people playing a game on broomsticks by hitting a big leather ball nearby. She started documenting what they were doing in her diary. On a Tuesday, the leather ball fell into her cabbage patch and when one of the players tried to get it, she hexed him and described him in her diary as a "big hairy hog".[1]
The next Tuesday, she was picking nettles in the field when the group returned with a new ball. They started throwing it to each other and scoring goals with it between trees which she thought was "pointless rubbish". Gertie watched them from behind a rock. Then, the next Tuesday, her friend Gwenog visited for tea. They went out and discovered the group were back to play. She and Gwenog watched them and realised their neighbour, who lived on the hill, was also playing. The players had now enchanted two flying rocks to try and knock them off their broom. Gwenog told Gertie that she had also started playing the game, causing Gertie to go home in disgust.[1]
Her diary is now kept in the Museum of Quidditch.[1]