House Points and Quidditch

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 30473

Heather Glude wrote:
> > I've been looking through the books and I've been having difficulty
> > resolving the following questions in my mind.
> > 1)      Does Quidditch affect the House points?

jc wrote:
> The way that I interpreted it was that the houses got one point for 
> house points (or at least the Quidditch cup) for each point scored in
> the game.  There's an argument about this in PoA after the Gryffindor
> loss to Hufflepuff and how much everyone needs to win or lose by.
> 
> Also, remember that Harry and Co. tend to lose points left and right,
> especially in Snape's class.  If they didn't have hundreds of 
> Quidditch points they'd probably never win the house cup!

The reference in the books to how many points people need to win is not to do with the house cup or the house points but how many points they need to win the Quidditch cup. The only reference I can remember is when Harry wins 50 points for catching the snitch in book 1 which would mean they can't be directly proportional (it should be 150 if that is the case). Also if a house won all 3 of its matches (so would have to win them with at least 150 points) and those then got added on to the house point totals, it would make the totals a little off key in the books. Just adding the totals on would mean they would have made about 450 points JUST from Quidditch (if they won all 3 games), plus the extra points they won in lessons and stuff so even when you take off points for "bad behaviour" it still would not even up to the 400-600 points they always seem to get in the books.

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