Captain of Quidditch

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 29512

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Joywitch M. Curmudgeon" <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., raolin1 at h... wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., epoch2 at i... wrote:
> > >    After Gryffindor's fantastic defeat of Slytherin in book 
> three, 
> > > Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, finally securing the 
> > > Quidditch cup for Gryffindor, Oliver Wood was finally able to 
> leave 
> > > Hogwarts, secure in the knowledge that his name was finally to be 
> > > etched into the Cup. 
> > 
> > 
> > In SS when Harry joins the team, Wood is a 5th year -- the same 
> that 
> > Harry will be.  By making Harry the captain (after all, he's also 
> the 
> > star player) the team can have some continuity until he graduates.  
> > You're right in thinking that pretty much the whole team will 
> > graduate, so having some continuity in the captain becomes even 
> more 
> > desirable.
> 
> The difference, though, is that when Wood is captain in his 5th year 
> he is also the oldest player.  All the other team members are 
> younger -- Harry the 1st year, the twins are 3rd year, the girls are 
> 3rd or 4th year (since they are all still there in GoF).  When Harry 
> is in his 5th year, the twins and maybe some of the girls will still 
> be on the team and will be 7th years.  Would they want a younger 
> student as captain?
> 
> This brings up another thing about the Gryffindor Quidditch team in 
> SS/PS -- does it make sense that the team members are all 5th years 
> and younger?  Weren't there any Gryffindor 6th and 7th years who 
> played Quidditch?  Isn't this a tremendous disadvantage for 
> Gryffindor -- all their team members are 15 or younger, whereas the 
> other House teams probably have lots of 16 and 17 year olds.
> 
> --JMC

 It may be a factor in why they haven't won the Quidditch Cup in a while.