Quidditch Cup & House Cup

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 1845

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<linsenma at h...> wrote:
> 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).

Aargh!  You're right Penny.  I found it just where you said.  Well, 
so much for that theory. ;o] 
 
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.

Okay, I see.  Actually McG tells the kids she's gong to deduct 50 pts.
from Gryff., Harry thinks "We'll lose the lead for the House Cup that 
I just won in the last quid match,"  Then McG says 50 points apiece.  
So, maybe the winning team gets the amount of points they get in the 
game added to their house points.
 
> 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

Yeah, you're probably right (about JKR not seeing the age gap).  I 
hope she does address this.  Too bad we can't get in touch with her--
she probably gets tons of letters, she can't read them all.  Maybe 
she checks out this site from time to time--Ha!

Thanks for straightening me out.

Kelley