[HPforGrownups] Re: Quidditch Reserves (No longer OOP)

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No: HPFGUIDX 55417

Hollydaze said:

  I have to say I disagree with the statement that Gryffindor played without a seeker in that last game and I have two quotes to show why. I've just finished reading Philosophers stone again (I'm starting my OOP re-reads early because I have A Level exams that only finish a day before the book comes out) and in PS Ron says to Harry: "you missed the last Quidditch match, we were steamrollered by Ravenclaw without you" (Pg 219, PS British Paperback). In CoS, this is explained further: "he (Harry) had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match, meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in 300 years" (Pg 84, CoS British Paperback). In neither case does it say they played without a seeker, and only in the second quote does it say that they were one player short.

  To me this suggested that they did have a seeker but that it was someone who had moved from another position (probably a chaser as there are 3 of them compared to only 2 beaters - and you really need both of them and the keeper). So because their skills were not those required by a seeker and as they would only have had two chasers, they lost. I think this just because looking at the basic rules of Quidditch, playing without a seeker is almost the same as forfeiting the match (at least at the level they are playing) it just makes no sense to me that they would even consider playing without a seeker.

  Although as some other people have pointed out in previous discussions about this subject, I don't understand why they didn't just play someone who had at least half decent seeker skills, surely in a house of between 70 - 250 students (depending on the number of students you believe are at Hogwarts) they should have found ONE person who could have taken on the role, even if they weren't anywhere near as good as Harry. The only way I can think that wouldn't work is if you have to submit your team - including reserves - and then only those people are allowed to play for you through the season. Then, if, as Harry says, there is no reserve seeker, then they would only be able to move someone from another position to fill Harry's.

  If I've missed anything that would make my thoughts wrong please 'point me' because I haven't read the books for a while and may have forgotten some important details.


  ME: Ok, they can play even if the team is one man short, but then, why did the Slytherins use Malfoy's injured arm as an excuse not to play the match in PoA? Or still better. Why didn't Wood ask for a few more days till his seeker was totally recovered??


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