[HPforGrownups] Ron & Quidditch

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 11988

Sister Mary Lunatic wrote:

> A thought crossed my mind just now (A miracle! Call the Pope!).  Why
> isn't Ron on the Quidditch team?  He's so avid about Quidditch; his
> brothers Charlie, Fred, and George are/were all on the Gryffindor
> team... Why, after four years, is Ron still sitting in the stands
> during the games?

Sorry, this was in my to do file and I forgot to answer it. I think
Ron's not on the team because he doesn't have a broom up to standard. So
far as we've seen, the players on the teams provide their own brooms,
however they obtain them. If the older Weasley brothers were great
Quidditch players, then I'm betting that however they got their "team"
brooms, they kept them and still indulge in local games in idle moments.
So Ron may never have gotten a hand-me-down broom at all, much less one
that he can try out for the team on. Perhaps, if he manages to acquire
one somehow, we'll see him on the team...?

--Amanda


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