Substitue Quidditch Players (was Re: House-elves - SB's/RL's

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 37213

> 
> Kendra wrote:
> 
> >Rule # 5 states "In the case of injury, no substitution of players 
will 
> >take place. The team will play on without the injured player."
> 
> >I'm not sure if this rule only applied to players injured in the 
game or 
> >players not playing because of injuries. *S*

Amy wrote:  
> It's got to mean players injured in the game.  Otherwise the rule 
would be 
> that a Quidditch team can have only, and exactly, seven players:  
no second 
> string allowed.  Rule 5 suggests that one *can* have a second 
string but 
> that the original squad must play the entire game without 
substitutions.  
> (What an insane rule.)
> 
> We never hear about any reserves either, but Harry alludes to their 
not 
> having a reserve Seeker in PS/SS 13, which to me strongly suggests 
that they 
> have other reserve players and that it's the Law of Conservation of 
> Extraneous Detail that keeps JKR from telling us all about the 
other players 
> at practices.
> 
> But we do know that they play in the final game of PS/SS without 
him (17).  
> Maybe they put in any old reserve who, poor thing, had to be Seeker 
even 
> though he/she's really a better Beater.  They also could have 
fielded a 
> six-person team (no rule against that) but of course someone would 
have had 
> to have a go at the Snitch or else they couldn't possibly win.
> 

I don't have QTA, so I can't comment on the rules themselves, but 
isn't it mentioned somewhere in the books (haven't got them here, so 
can't check) that when there was a very long Quidditch game, they had 
to keep substituting players? (I seem to remember something about 
five months.) That would suggest that it is possible, at least in 
some cases, to substitute playes, and it certainly means that there 
are reserve players.

Naama