[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP & Quidditch

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 41240


> >that's right, we're losing our charming young
> > Oliver Wood with this book, aren't we?
>
>Well, he was out of school in GoF, there just weren't any Quidditch
>games in that book.  I've heard people on here bring up the fact that
>it's kind of bizarre a new captain, or at least a new Keeper, wasn't
>chosen before now.
>
I've heard that too.  I don't know.

> > Surprise me, surprise me...well, they've got to bring on, what,
>three new
> > players this year.  I'd be extremely surprised if an existing team
>member
> > wasn't promoted (I'd think it would be Harry myself).
>
>Are they bringing on three new players in OoP?  I thought Fred,
>George, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie were all going to be 7th years.
>Am I wrong there?  Also, I think Harry would make sense as Captain,
>but that would hardly count as a surprise.
>
I thought Fred and George were done.  Or do they have one more year to go?

Sorry if I'm counting wrong - books not here.

We didn't play during the year of GoF.

I seem to remember thinking they had to have three new players next year.  
In any event, if it's just Wood they're replacing, it doesn't necessarily 
have to be a second year student - it could be someone from one of the other 
years who was good but had not been good enough to make the team in the 
past.

> > I can't beliee no one else plays Quidditch just because they're
> > not on a house team.
> >
>
>Yeah, I know what you mean.  Like, do none of the kids play it on
>weekends or whatever?  Otherwise, they don't really need to know how
>to ride brooms.  They aren't mentioned using them in school, outside
>of Harry playing Quidditch, and when they're out of school they can
>Apparate.  Huh...  any thoughts, anyone, as to why they need to have
>brooms in the first place, if they aren't playing Quidditch?  Or does
>this imply they DO play Quidditch in their free time?
>
>Lizbot
>
I assumed it was just another method of transportation - archaic, though.  
Everyone has to learn to fly them under Madam Hooch in their first year.

My guess would be that perhaps there are informal in-house matches in 
Quidditch, kind of like intramural soccer, on the school lawns whenever the 
teams aren't using the field, and that they jury-rig something (like using a 
spell to get tree branches to form hoops at either end of a lawn - the way 
you make do for a home plate or basketball net if you wnat to play pick-ups 
or just hit balls) when they're done with their homework just for fun.

Felinia

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