SS/PS question

[jkoney65]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> 
wrote:
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> >Zanooda: 
> > Here is another question, not controversial this time :-). In Ch.11
> > ("Quidditch") Lee Jordan says: snip
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> Potioncat:
> I snipped it all because I never understood anything Lee Jordan said 
> that related to the game. Then again, I can't keep up with any sports 
> commentary in RL.
> 
> So I'm adding a question for the real sports fans out there. JKR said 
> she wasn't a sports fan. How well did you think she did at developing 
> Quidditch and having Lee Jordan act as sports caster?
>

Jack-A-Roe:
The penalty, for an illegal play was called against the opposing team, 
the result of a penalty is that that Spinnet was awarded a free shot on 
goal with only the keeper defending.

"Putting it away" would definitely be a slang like reference to scoring.

I think JKR over time explaind quidditch well enough. The original 
explanation left me a little confused until we saw harry play a game.

I thought the play calling was meant more as a comic interlude in the 
story than anything else. It also allowed us to understand a bit more 
about the game as he called it in between the humor.