Quidditch Cup & House Cup

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1830

Hi --

Kelley wrote:

> When you said it was seven years since Gryff won the House Cup in SS,
> I was thinking Quid Cup too.  So, I went back through SS to check,
> and I can't find Quid Cup mentioned anywhere.

Chapter 10 (PS) -- Oliver Wood tells Harry that the Quidditch Cup will
have their name on it this year.  We aren't told who won the Quidditch
Cup since Harry missed the last match, but it would have been whoever
was behind Gryffindor in Quidditch matches.  Probably Slytherin since
they were ahead in terms of House points in the race for House Cup &
winning the Quidditch Cup yields a high number of points for the House
who wins it (not sure if it's ever said exactly how many).

> If there's a Quid Cup as well as a House Cup, winning a Quid match
> wouldn't affect their chances for the House cup would it?

Yeah -- the House that wins it gets more points (either because there's
a set # of points awarded for winning the Quidditch Cup or because each
win at a Quidditch match yields a certain # of points (50?) and it
stands to reason then that the team that wins the most matches, would
get the most points toward the House Cup.

> Do you think JKR realized how old it would make Bill and Charlie if
> it had been seven years before SS that they'd gotten out of school?
> Then decided to create and add in the Quid cup so she could say it'd
> been seven years (by PoA) since they'd won the Quid Cup, seven years
> since Charlie was there?  Hope this wasn't too confusing...

I'm not sure she's even yet cognizant of how confused we are all about
Bill & Charlie's ages.  Maybe it will be clearly spelled out in Book 5.
In any case, she didn't make up the Quidditch Cup to try & rectify the
age gap question since the Quidditch Cup is mentioned in PS (Ch 10).

Penny



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