Quidditch

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 133

I've already  wondered how big a wizarding population is required to
financially support the number of professional or even semi-pro
Quidditch teams that seem to exist. But it recently occured to me to
wonder how how big a wizarding population is needed just to have enough
players for all the teams. Someone suggested that there are 20 teams in
the (England? British Isles?) league, and I feel sure that each team
must have SOME reserve players (in case a match goes on for three
months, or a player has an injury that can't be healed during time-out),
so 10 players per team would be a low-end guess = 200 professional
Quidditch players. If we then figure out how long is the average playing
career (Bagman was long retired and he didn't even have a long white
beard yet!), we can compare the number of new professional Quidditch
players needed each year to the number of Quidditch players graduating
from Hogwarts each year. I get the feeling that there are plenty of pro
players who weren't good enough to make their House team at school!
That's the opposite of how we do it in the Muggle world.
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