[HPforGrownups] Re: Could Quidditch really work?

[Sherry Garfio]

No: HPFGUIDX 47849

Welcome, James!

James wrote:
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> Just deviating off a point here for a second - but looking at it in 
> the context of a league, one can't really see how you could plan a 
> league if some games were to go for months, others a matter of 
> minutes.

Yes, I've wondered about this too.  The only definitive answer I've come up
with is - it's magic <G>.  I would guess that matches are scheduled rather
tentatively.  Perhaps very few official matches are scheduled at once, and if
one of the scheduled teams is still engaged in a match that has lasted a long
time, they could put another team in.  The rest of the teams would be
practicing amongst themselves or holding unofficial matches.  Or, and I like
this idea better, maybe there's no official professional Quidditch "season",
and they just keep playing teams against each other two at a time in a
round-robin fashion until two teams emerge as the ones to play in the Cup. 
Whenever one match finishes, the next match can begin.  It takes a long time to
get through everybody, and that's why the Cup doesn't happen every year.  The
WW doesn't seem quite as organized as ours, so maybe they don't expect
Quidditch to be so strictly scheduled.  They have tickets to the Cannons/Wasps
match, which is whenever the Magpies/Bats match ends, rather than on a
particular date.

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> What I found most interesting about the concept of quidditch was why 
> Hogwarts games never last as long as a professional quidditch game. A 
> game that lasts a few months could have quite a catastrophic effect 
> on the education at Hogwarts, especially for the players :). I 
> suppose the only answer is that the seekers at the top level are far 
> more talented, and have the ability to destract each other from the 
> snitch far easier, making use of moves such as the Wronski Feint to 
> distract each other from the snitch.

One possibility: the Hogwarts Snitch is a student model (perhaps all of the
balls are).  It's enchanted to get easier to catch the longer the match goes
on, so that if it continues past lights-out, the Snitch will pretty much just
fly into the nearest Seeker's hand.

Sherry


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