Snithches and Seekers

[Joanne0012 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30441

In a message dated 11/30/01 12:24:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> aiz24 at h... writes:
> 
> > You can't win the game without a Seeker, since only the Seeker is 
> > allowed to catch the Snitch (QTTA page 30; anyone but a Seeker 
> > touching the Snitch is called snitchnipping and is forbidden). 

But you could win a game without a seeker if the other team had one.  Catching 
the snitch wins 150 points and ends the game but as we saw in GoF, the team 
that catches the snitch doesn't necessarily win the game.    

A game in which one team was lacking a seeker would go on indefinitely until 
the sole seeker caught the snitch.  If the team with the seeker had lost their 
keeper, the seeker-less team would be almost certain to win.