Quidditch/Re: Ambition in the Wizarding World (Ron, Percy and Bill)

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 38789


> Penny wrote
> >>>>> BTW, I wonder if the tall lanky build is a liability in 
> Quidditch -- could this be one reason Ron hasn't attempted to try 
> out for the Team as a reserve player as far as we know?  I'd not 
> really correlated before, but Debbie's right that the Twins share 
> the same build as Charlie, and it's the 3 of them who are the 
> Quidditch players.  As far as we know, Bill didn't play Quidditch 
at 
> Hogwarts, and we know Percy didn't and Ron hasn't so far.  
> Interesting.<<<<


  Pippin wrote
> Long, lean Tom Riddle doesn't seem to have been a Quidditch 
> player either. Maybe JKR has jockeys in mind.


I don't think the body type really has anything to do with it- I 
think it sort of depends on the type of person.  Harry has been 
rather deprived of many boyhood things, so when he discovers he has a 
natural nack for Quidditch, he of course delights in playing the 
sport.  Both Percy and Ron are rather ambitious(on their own levels), 
and although Ron seems to delight in watching the sport(though maybe 
it's just because it's the "cool" thing to do?), perhaps he doesn't 
see going in as a team member as being very profitable in the long 
run.  Also, Tom Riddle was very very very ambitious(you know, wanting 
to rule the wizarding world and all) and it seems he didn't find 
Quidditch playing as all that important.  And plus, with the mentions 
of Ron's fear of failing, perhaps the though of having to be a member 
of a team and possibly playing a game in front of so many people just 
doesn't make Quidditch playing all that appealing to Ron.  The only 
people we've seen excel in Quidditch beyond school would be Ludo 
Bagman and Viktor Krum- and they hardly seemed to have the same 
personalily types as the aforemetioned Weasely brothers.