What to do with the Quidditch team? (WAS Untackled (?) Questions)

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 32564

Un-named wrote:
> Why are there 4-5 Quidditch players in Fred and
> George's batch (them, Alicia, and Angelina, and likely
> but not positively, Katie)? Is their year really that
> good?

This actually brings me onto a point I was thinking about just last night. What is the Gryffindor Quidditch team going to do in Harry's 6th year? 

They have already lost Wood their keeper (and their captain) who will (presumably) be replaced by a student between the 2nd year and Fred/George's year (more likely an earlier year as then they won't leave so soon) but what do they do in book 6?

We know that Fred, George, Alicia and Angelina are in the same year (and it seems very likely that Katie is too) which means that they will be loosing ALL their beaters and ALL their chasers (and IMO their new Captain too - would make sense to be one of the older players) That means they have to replace more than half their team with people who (likely as not) will be (relatively) inexperienced. They only old players who will be left on the team will be Harry and whoever the new Keeper is (as long as s/he is not in the same year as FGAAK).

Does this mean that due to the war with LV there will be no Quidditch (I can't see the school accepting that, even in WW I and WW II there was some sport, especially for the second time in three years) and if there is Quidditch, will there be any chance of Gryffindor winning? Yes Harry is an exceptionally talented seeker but he has been backed up by the best team in the school for the last three seasons (they have played) and I can not see the team winning with only one exceptional player, a (by then) good player and a few inexperienced ones (no offence to the new players but it takes time for a team to jell and understand one another). This also applies to Harry and the new keeper as they will have to jell with their 4/5 new team mates.

One other Question regarding Quidditch. In book one Dumbledore mentions that anyone interested in being on their house Quidditch team should talk to Madam Hooch and that trials will be held in the second or third week of term. How come then, in the second and third books, ALL the same people seem to AUTOMATICALLY be on the Gryffindor team 
-we don't know about the other houses, other than Cedric is Huff's new seeker in book 3-(there is no mention of Harry going to Trials). Also, it mentioned Alicia as being a new player and "a good find of Wood's, only a reserve last year" (Lee Jordan's commentary on the first (?) Quidditch match in book 1) Well doesn't that contradict what Dumbledore said about trials and Madam Hooch at the Sorting Feast if she is a "find of Wood's", surely she should have been selected by Hooch if she was a new player (even if she was a reserve last year).

Sorry, just me being picky and this has probably been discussed but I haven't seen the discussion so please direct me to it if it exists.

HOLLYDAZE!!!


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