Is there anything in the HP world that bothers you?

[ingachristsuperstar]

No: HPFGUIDX 56528

Sorry about the second post but this one just occurred to me:

Does it strike anyone else that Quiddich is not a particularly fair 
sport?  It seems like a lot rides (so to speak) on how fast one's 
broom is - on something that is entirely out of one's control, has 
nothing to do with talent, and entirely determined by how much 
money one's family has. 

As I recall, in PoA when Harry and Oliver are discussing "the 
competition" - Cho Chang - Oliver notes that she's a good flyer, 
but that her broom is sub-par (or sub-Firebolt in any case).  And 
of course in CoS we have the whole Slytherin team on brooms 
that are much faster than most of the Gryffindors'.

Now let's consider some analogies.  I suppose one would play 
better basketball in better sneakers.  True enough.  But I would 
say that short of have _no_ shoes, or shoes with holes in them, 
that the most expensive shoes one could buy would make very 
little difference to how well one could play.

I'm thinking its much more analogous to something like horse-
racing.  Now, I don't know much about Equestrian sports.  I know 
its in the Olympics.  This to me suggests that those sports 
involve a great deal of skill in the rider and that, as long as the 
horse is sound and up to the task, then the horse one rides 
would not make a lot of difference in the outcome.  Compare this 
to horse-racing - as in the kind that people bet on at race-tracks.  
In this situation it's the _horse_ that wins the race rather than the 
jockey because its only based on how fast the horse is, not the 
skill of the rider.

Quiddich would definitely involve skill of the rider of the broom - 
there's no doubt about this.  But how can it be fair that no matter 
how skilled Cho is, Harry is on a broom that just goes faster 
than her's does?

Maybe I'm missing something.

-Ing

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