Ages? and Dumbledore's Mirror

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 7985

Penny wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Stephanie Becvar wrote:
> 
> > Penny but why 5 years ago?  I mean, the twins would have been in 
their
> > 1st year, so he wouldnt have been coming to watch them play 
Quidditch,
> > and Percy would have been in his 3rd year, but he didnt play
> > Quidditch.  This always confised me a lot....bc I want to know 
what he
> > was doing there...
> 
> He could have been at an alumni event 5 years prior to GoF.  He 
could
> have made a trip to revisit his old stomping grounds before leaving 
for
> Egypt.  Various things he could have been doing.
> 
> Think about it this way.  If Bill graduated 5 yrs prior to GoF, then
> Charlie must have graduated the year before Harry et al arrive at
> Hogwarts.  Yet, Gryffindor hadn't won the House Cup in 7(?) yrs and
> hadn't won the Quidditch Cup in 8 yrs from PoA (I think).  If 
Charlie
> was such an all-star Quidditch player, why would they have lost the 
cup
> all those years while he was playing for them?
> 
> Penny

It would be interesting to find out what event prompted Bill to visit 
Hogwarts 5 years before GoF.

Also it's very possible to have all-star players and have a losing 
team: the Baltimore Orioles had one of the best pitchers for the last 
two years and have been in last place; the Washington Redskins have 
good players and are a sorry team too. My high school had an average 
baseball team and an above-average pitcher (who was recruited by the 
New York Yankees right after graduation); they NEVER won a State 
championship in the 4 years he pitched, because the rest of the team 
wasn't very good. Quidditch, like baseball and football (both kinds), 
is a TEAM sport. The overall performance of the TEAM depends on the 
performance of ALL the members. So, it's quite conceivable that 
Charlie was a superstar on an good team that won "seven years" ago, 
but was a superstar on an average team that failed to win thereafter.

:-)Milz