New Gryffindor Quidditch Captain

[erniemu03]

No: HPFGUIDX 41573

Aloha wrote: 
> > I've heard somewhere that JK Rowling has said that the new 
Quidditch
> > Captain would be "not the obvious choice." Which, in my opinion, 
rules
> > out Harry. :) 
<snip>

Richelle then replied: 
> Actually in my mind the logical choice would be whoever the senior 
member of
> the team is.   Which wouldn't be Harry, not for another year or 
so.  How it
> would be determined among the others who have been on the team the 
same
> length of time is beyond me, though.  I would expect Harry to become
> Quidditch captain the following year (book 6).  Which means at 
least to me
> that it would be a surprise for him to be made Captain if most of 
the other
> players are his seniors both in age and experience.  Am I making 
any sense
> here?


While this argument makes total sense to me logically, I don't think 
it would be the first time that a new team member joined and became 
captain in the same year.  IIRC, Cedric is introduced in PoA as the 
new captain and seeker for Hufflepuff.  I always took that to mean 
(based on however it was worded in the text... I'm too lazy to go dig 
out the book) that Cedric was both the new seeker and the new 
captain.  He was a fifth year in that book... showing that Harry 
isn't too young, and it isn't TOTALLY beyond the imagination that the 
new Keeper could be the captain if best qualified.

I guess the real question is... does the captain pick the new player 
or does the team do it together and then decide on a new captain?  I 
see some sort of faulty loop if the captain has to pick the new 
player, but the new player is going to be captain ;).

Erin, who is too tired to go find a book but keeps reading these 
messages anyway... glutton for punishment??