[HPforGrownups] Gryffindor's New Quidditch Team Members...

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 44509


Alicia was said to be moved up from reserve when Harry was a first year.  That implies that she didn't technically play on the team in her second year but probably practiced with the team, possibly to replace a seventh year who would soon be gone.  Perhaps the usual practice when there are seventh years on a team is to recruit reserve players who learn to play that position but don't play in matches (unless the seventh year is ill or injured) until after the older player leaves school.  
 
Normally, a system like this would mean that in Oliver's seventh year someone should already have been training to replace him as Keeper.  Considering how Quidditch-mad Oliver was supposed to be, this is quite an oversight.  JKR seems to have forgotten writing about Alicia being a reserve player.  Hopefully she will return to her own canon and fix this problem in book 5.  Ideally, once the new Keeper and captain are chosen, the new captain will be alert enough to realize that with so many players scheduled to leave school soon, reserves should be recruited and trained so that they are ready to fill the void(s) when Harry is in sixth year.
 
--Barb
 
 Fyre Wood wrote:
 But what happens when Book 6 comes about and Gred/Forge graduate? What about when Angelina, Alicia, and Katie do as well? Who will get put in their places?


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