After the match, all of Bulgaria's players except the unconscious Krum announced that they were retiring.
They claimed that during their Quidditch Match against England, they had discovered things they'd never noticed before. Connelly, captain of the Bulgaria Quidditch Representative Team, even told the cameras, "Life shouldn't be all Quidditch. There should be poetry and distant horizons, too."
But according to inside sources from the Bulgaria Quidditch Representative Team...
Connelly and the others had come down with a rare case of Quidditch Phobia. Whenever they saw a Bludger, they would scream and lose control of their emotions, leaving them no choice but to end their professional careers.
Bulgaria's mass retirement caused quite a stir.
But fans were more focused on the "villainous" England Representative Team—or, more specifically, Klein Grindelwald.
The player who had changed Quidditch forever from the moment he debuted had swept across the world like a shutout storm.
From the round of twelve to the round of six, from the round of six to the final four, and then the semifinals.
Klein kept switching between Chaser and Beater, driving England's opponents absolutely crazy.
Plenty of people had gone to the International Quidditch League to protest, saying the "Dual-Guard" tactic showed nothing but contempt and disrespect for Quidditch. They demanded that the International Quidditch League amend the rules of Quidditch Matches and explicitly forbid a whole series of seemingly absurd things that had nonetheless happened in real games, such as "Beaters using Bludgers to attack opposing players" and "Beaters using Bludgers to block Quaffle attacks."
The International Quidditch League responded that they would give the matter serious consideration after the World Cup.
England's opponents in the final, Ireland, were at their wits' end.
"The score is now 160–0. Klein, the starting Chaser, has scored for the sixteenth time this