A couple questions for Brits

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "linda_mccabe" <lmccabe at s...> wrote:

> What I'm looking for is the likelihood that a sports crazed Muggle 
> such as Dean Thomas might be up on different sports such as 
> basketball and hockey.  We know he loves football.  But could he be 
> a fan and know some of the strategies of hockey even if he never 
> put on a pair of skates in his life?

Harry isn't sports-crazed, but he knows enough that, in Book 1, when 
Oliver is explaining Quidditch to him: "The Chasers throw the Quaffle 
and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So -- that's 
sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?"