Q reserve players / insomnia / half-dead / Dumbledore's age /

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No: HPFGUIDX 37226

Amy Z wrote:

> Rule 5 suggests that one *can* have a second string but that the
> original squad must play the entire game without substitutions. 

Or, as Naama said, that there can be substitutions during the match, 
but only if the removed player isn't too injured to play. Bringing in 
players whose ability or style is expected to be more useful against 
what the other team turns out to be doing springs to mind. Also, I 
think it was Ron who said something about a match that lasted four 
months and they had to bring in substitutes so the players could get 
some sleep.

Betty Landers wrote:

> Perhaps the question is *why* isn't there a reserve Seeker? Surely
> they could find someone in Gryffindor house who could play the role
> when Harry couldn't and do it adequately.

I imagine that McGonagall wouldn't have been able to get Harry a 
dispensation to be on the House team and own a broomstick at school 
IF Gryffindor had had ANYONE older than first-year who could play 
Seeker in a more adequate way than just sitting there on a broomstick 
and trying to stay out of the way of Bludgers and the other players.  

Porphyria wrote:

> Remember that insomnia is one possible symptom of depression, 
> guilt, angst and anxiety, but these things can also cause 
> exhaustion and a need to sleep 10-12 hours a day. So if I were to
> project my own personal experience of depression on Snape (and 
> where's the fun in life if I can't?) then I'd say he desperately
> needs his beauty sleep because he's so worn out from beating
> himself up all the time. And he needs several cups of Java-Jinni
> to get himself going every morning (hence the irritability).
                
Thank you. Yesterday I wanted to say something like that, but I 
couldn't think of a way to explain it clearly, as you have done.

Rita Dear (to distinguish her from me, Rita Irascible) wrote:

> Vampires are dead, no? How could one be partially dead? Could a
> dead thing mate and cause life within another to make a half dead
> child? I don't see how this is possible. Same with the dementor 
> concept. 

Pippin mentioned mythoi in which vampires are not dead. In addition, 
there are theories in which a person can be half-vampire because
hiser mother was bitten while pregnant with him. There is a post 
SOMEWHERE in the archive that suggests that Snape is half-Dementor 
because his mother was Kissed when pregnant with him. (I don'
t think that Snape is half-Dementor, half-vampire, nor full vampire.)
Kendra Grant-Bingham wrote:

> The whole timeline thing here has me confused. I know that
> Dumbledore has to be ancient, but how old was he when he was a 
> teacher in Hogwarts, when Tom was just a lad? And how old was he
> when Snape and that entire generation were in Hogwarts?

JKR said in an interview that Dumbledore "is" 150 years old, so he 
must have been 100 during the CoS flashback to fifty years ago. I 
think James and Lily were 21 or 22 when Harry was born, so subtract 
21 or 22 years from his current age to find his age in their school 
days.