[HPFGU-Movie] Quidditch in SS/PS

[Odile Falaise]

Kriselda pondered:
<<< <slight snip of intro> In 
the movie, they said that whichever team's Seeker
catches the Golden 
Snitch, wins. They noted that throwing the quaffle
through the goal 
counted for 10 points, but because of the way they
explained the Snitch, it 
basically made those points sound useless, since
whoever caught the Snitch 
would win. Obviously, that's not how it works in the
books, where the game 
ends when the Snitch is caught and is worth the same
150 points the movie 
mentioned, but if the other team is ahead by more
points when the Snitch is 
caught, THEY win. <snip GoF Quidditch World Cup
issues> >>>

Then Taryn wrote:
<<<I always just took this as the fact that almost
/always/, if you catch the Snitch you'll win. I mean,
the QWC circumstances were /extremely/ uncommon. Wood
was basically saying that if they catch the Snitch,
it's a guaranteed win, which it almost always is.>>>

And now me (Odile):
True, Taryn, but the key phrase here is "almost
always."  Otherwise, why bother with the rest of the
players?  I had the DVDs on continuous loop for so
long that I had forgotten the "real" rules of
Quidditch and wondered aloud to a friend what the
point of playing the rest of the game is if the object
is to simply catch the Snitch!  [My friend's facial
expression is too difficult to make with emoticons -
suffice to say I turned off the DVD player and picked
up "Quidditch Through the Ages" again.]  Kriselda,
what they'll probably end up doing is either a) cut
the QWC out of the film altogether so that it's a
non-issue or b) completely ignore what Oliver Wood
said in the first film.  ^_~

Odile, 
who is convinced that the spikey-haired character on
the cover of OotP is Clay from American Idol.