Sport... spinoff question

[frantyck at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28051

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Vanessa" <vheggie at y...> wrote:
> > 2. How does Hagrid know Harry and Ron have Friday afternoons 
off?  
> Perhaps > all students, or all first-years, do….?
> 
> At British Universities, most leave Wednesday afternoons free from 
> lectures for undergraduates, for the purposes of inter-university 
> sporting events - it's not unusual for boarding schools to have 
> scheduled 'free afternoons' for similar purposes - sporting, or 
> amateur dramatics, etc.

So what do all the students who are NOT on their house Quidditch 
teams do for exercise? Haven't heard of any wand-operated treadmills 
yet... perhaps in the dungeons somewhere?

Do other students all play Quidditch, when the teams are not 
monopolising the pitch? Do they play soccer or cricket? Apparently 
not, because wizard children seem to be unaware of soccer (Dean's 
Muggle poster), and cricket is never mentioned (sacrilege!). Oliver 
Wood has never heard of basketball.

One might claim that this is Harry's POV, and he likely doesn't 
bother with anything that's not Quidditch, but surely part-Muggle 
wizards and witches obsess about Muggle sporting pastimes? And for a 
natural sportsman like Harry, shouldn't other sports also be somehow 
compelling?

Hmm?