[HPforGrownups] Re: Could Quidditch really work?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 47937

On 7 Dec 2002 at 23:10, vaseemf vaseemf at yahoo.com wrote:

> Although this rare occasion did occur during the Quidditch World Cup 
> I wouldn't be suprised if this was a first in World Cup history. Also 
> there were very special circumstances that produced this occasion. 
> Ireland had *much* stronger Chasers that allowed Ireland to get 16 
> goals (I think) giving them 160 points. On top of that Bulgaria had a 
> strong enough seeker to stall Ireland's seeker from catching the 
> snitch for that long (using Wronski Feints). Also, I imagine that 
> Krum is one of the few seekers that have so little faith in his team 
> to get 2 goals in order for them to win.

I don't see any reason to suppose the situation at the World Cup is at all rare. All of 
our experiences of Quidditch, until the World Cup, have been of children playing - 
school teams - it could be that school games are *much* lower scoring than adult 
games.

Take cricket - a sport that may not be that familiar to Americans. My school had a 
decent cricket team playing in a decent schoolboy competition - and included 
players who are now international standard, and were playing at a state level whilst 
at school. Scores in a game for individual teams were often 120 runs - occasionally 
there were much higher scores, occasionally much lower.

In international cricket, a score of 120 runs is pretty poor under most conditions. 
Scores of over 200 are routine, scores of 400 are not at all uncommon, on very rare 
occasions scores have gone over 1000 in an innings (I think the international record 
is 903). International teams scoring bears no resemblance to that of schoolboy 
teams, even though generally they are just as likely to be playing in a fairly evenly 
matched competition (and bear in mind that Cricket, like Quidditch, is a game that 
can take days to play - allowing time for massive scores)

So it may be with Quidditch. In international competition, scores where the Snitch 
capture's 150 points, aren't that significant, may not be uncommon. We can't judge 
that likelihood by school level games.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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