Chapter 8 Summary: The Quidditch World Cup

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 581

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jen Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> At last, we've finally come to the quidditch action (unfortunately, 
> the only quidditch action we're going to see in the whole book, 

And the narration says that it is Quidditch of a level that Harry had 
never seen before -- we see this is true, because it is not only so 
fast that there's no time for commentary, but the score mounts by 
goals to the level that 150 points for catching the Snitch is almost 
meaningless.

But if Hogwarts is the only wizarding school for all the British 
Isles (more or less equivalent to the political entities UK and 
Ireland), all the members of the winning Irish National Team must 
have gone to Hogwarts. I don't know how long a pro Quidditch career 
can last, but surely old-timers like McGonagall would have remembered 
them and mentioned them in the same breath as Charlie Weasley.