[HPforGrownups] Sport... spinoff question

[Lucy Austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 28062

And not only do they never play sport for fun, but after that very first flying lesson, no-one except Harry (and Ron briefly in GoF) ever touches a broomstick! I'd like to have had some mention of their other flying lessons - does Hermione or Neville ever master it?

Lucy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: frantyck at yahoo.com 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:05 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Sport... spinoff question


  --- 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, doâ?¦.?
  > 
  > 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?


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