Gryffindor Quidditch Team -- Reserve players

[judyserenity]

No: HPFGUIDX 33789

Alexander <lav at t...> said:
> >   Has anybody noticed the inconsistencies in JKR
> > books concerning the Gryffindor Quidditch team? It
> > definitely looks like the team has no reserve players. Only in
> > Book 1 does Rowling say a word about Alicia Spinnet being
> > an ex-reserve player...

Kristie <kristie_renee at y...> wrote:

> ...As for the Reserves... I believe they do have them,
> but as finding a Seeker was so difficult they didn't
> have one for that position. As a matter of fact in
> Chapter 13, where they find out Snape's refereeing the
> next match, Ron and Hermione are telling Harry to find
> a way not to play.
> "Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested.
> "Really break your leg," said Ron.
> "I can't," said Harry. "There isn't a reserve Seeker.
> If I back out, Griffyndor can't play at all."...

What's really weird is that when Harry really does get injured (in the 
fight for the Philospher's Stone w/ Quirdemort), the match is played 
anyway, even though he's unconscious and his team has no seeker at 
all.  What's the point of that?  Wouldn't *any* seeker have been 
better than none at all?  

And, then in PoA, Slytherin gets to postpone a match because Draco is 
malingering and pretending his arm is hurt.  So, in PS/SS, Gryffindor 
has to play even though their seeker is in a coma, but in PoA, 
Slytherin gets to postpone their match when their seeker has (at most) 
one arm injured.  (I suppose that maybe Gryffindor's match couldn't be 
postponed because it was the end of the term, but you'd think they'd 
at least get to bring in a substitute seeker.) 

Very inconsistent indeed.

-- Judy