Seeking: Is it meant to be a good thing?

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Melody <Malady579 at h...>" 
<Malady579 at h...> wrote:
 > I did not mean to say his "interest" in Quidditch could become
> obsessive.  What is borderline obsessive is the *way* Harry has to
> play the game.  When Harry is on the field and in the game, he *is*
> supposed to have a one-track mind.  Find the snitch before the other
> seeker does.  He kind of has to look out for bludgers, but he is not
> supposed to.  That is the beaters job.  What Harry has to do is bend
> his mind on that small golden snitch.  That is all.  That is also 
very
> close cousin to obsession.

Actually, to me that sounds less like obsession and more like the 
possiblity that Harry "lets himself be one with the snitch", in order 
to be able to sense where it is and find and catch it first. That's 
really a pretty Zen concept, IMO. Many sports seem to have a Zen-like 
aspect to them, and high-level athletes are notorious for "getting 
into the zone." Harry is "the youngest seeker in a hundred years" and 
is obviously a "natural" at the sport, so it didn't surprise me too 
much that, once he'd received some formal training from Oliver Wood, 
the Zen of Quidditch manifested itself in how he plays his position. 


Anne U, who remembers Harry riding the broomstick like a skateboard, 
almost as if he was thinking "The better to reach you and catch you, 
my dear"...