[HPforGrownups] Quiddich Cup Winners?

Jedi Knight Jo jloveys at zoom.co.uk
Thu Mar 28 23:14:10 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 37108

>>Lately, there has been quite some talk about who paid for Harry's first
broom. Several times, people have pointed out that McGonagal wanted
Gryffindors to win the house cup, and that's why she bended the rules
for Harry to join the team (this is canon). However, we know that, in
fact, Gryffindor does NOT win the cup until Harry recieves his second
broom, from Sirius, in book 3 (PoA).
Anyway, I was wondering: are we ever told what house(s) win(s) the
first two quiddich cups Harry plays (PS & CoS)? I'd imagine that
they're not won by Slytherin (since Snape would have said something in
PoA about having won 9 consecutive times), but I'm not sure about it.
Views on the topic? Canon I'm missing?
On the same trend, who do you think is the student Wood uses to
substitute Harry when he's unable to play (broken arms, facing
Voldemort, etc.)?
Grey Wolf<<

But this isn't due to Harry not being as good as people think, rather that
for whatever reason there is no match or he didn't play.  In Book One, they
were a player short because he was in the infirmary, it says so in the book,
"Slytherin won... you missed the last  Quidditch match - we were steamrolled
by Ravenclaw without you..."  Although having said that and read the
passage, it doesn't actually say if they were short a player or not, just
that they were without Harry.

In Book Two, the matches are cancelled from about half way through the
season because of the Basilisk, so there was no completion of the tournament
and no winner.

The format of the whole inter house tournament seems to change throughout
the books though.  In the first book it seems to be that the points are
totalled up from all the matches played as every house plays every other
house.  In the third, it seems to be more of a progression thing with a
'final' at the end of the year between Slytherin and Gryffindor.  Unless I
just read wrong and it's the 'final match' of the year rather than the
'match final'. ;)

I think I made a comment on everything there. ;)
--Jo






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