[HPFGU-Movie] Re: McGonnigal Played Quidditch

Kathryn Wolber katydid3500 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 21 04:35:02 UTC 2004



> > --- werebearloony <Erthena at a...> wrote:
> > > I'm probably not the first person to point this
> out
> > > but I found it 
> > > cool all the same.  While watching SS yesterday
> I
> > > was trying to find 
> > > out what year James's part said (1979) when I
> caught
> > > a glimpse of 
> > > somthing else.  Another part of the trophy said
> "M.
> > > ?.(sorry I didn't 
> > > write it down) McGonnigal"  The year undernieth
> > > wasn't too readable, 
> > > but the quesrtion remains, did McGonnigal play
> > > quidditch? It would 
> > > explain a lot, like how sheknew Harry would be a
> > > good seeker, her 
> > > sprightlyness, even why people pair her with
> Madame
> > > Hooch.

katydid3500 wrote:
> > Well, even if she did, the movie isn't proof
> enough.
> > That plaque in the trophy room has the wrong
> position
> > for James, as JKR said that he was a Chaser and
> not a
> > Seeker. Also, not to totally bring mainlist stuff
> > here, she has never officially said that James was
> in
> > Gryffindor(though I think he was).  They may have
> just
> > used her name because it's one they knew and it's
> > likely that she was in Gryffindor. But once again,
> I
> > wouldn't take that as proof of anything seeing as
> that
> > scene doesn't even happen in the book. In the book
> > McGonagall says "You're father would have been
> proud.
> > He was an excellent Quidditch player
> > himself."(SS-152US PB) No mention of postion or
> House.

--- barbienut75 <barbienut75 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Didn't she just write in OOTP that he was a seeker,
> in the part 
> where harry went into Snapes pensive (sp) James was
> playing with the 
> snitch? That he had just held on to after catching?
> Maybe I read it 
> wrong. 

Well she said in an interview that he was a chaser.
That leaves us to assume that he just took the snitch
to play with cause it's cooler than a Quaffle.
~Katie

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