[HPforGrownups] fairness of Quiddich (WAS: Is the anything that bothers you

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 56599

From: "ingachristsuperstar" <ingachristsuperstar at yahoo.com>

>if Cho and Harry saw the snitch at the same time, all Harry would have to 
>do is go after it.  As long as he did that, and it came down to a race for 
>the snitch, he would win, no matter how good a flyer Cho is.

Not so.  It's a combination of the flyer and the broom, just as the Tour de 
France is a combination of the rider and the bicyle.  (Or any NASCAR event 
is a combination of the driver and the car.  Or any horse race is a 
combination of the jockey and the horse.  Or anything other than running, 
really, is a combination of the individual and the equipment, and even 
that's debatable, because different runners have different *shoes.*)  Cho is 
a very good flyer on a decent broom; Harry is a very good flyer on an 
excellent broom.  And still, she gives him a run for his money.  If Cho were 
a very good flyer on a decent broom and Harry were a merely adequate flyer 
on an excellent broom, who knows how it would have turned out?

A player's skill, at any sport, is as much a matter of how she *uses* the 
equipment she's got as it is a matter of what she does independently of that 
equipment (or what the equipment is).

>My point is not that Quiddich is _inherently_ unfair.  Its just that it may 
>be _more_ fair if they played on standard issue brooms rather than allowing 
>some to be inherently faster than others.

Or -- okay, I think the brooms aren't *inherently* faster, is what I'm 
saying.  The Firebolt has a greater *potential* speed than the Whatever that 
Cho flies, but who's to say all the brooms fly at maximum speed at all 
times?  And even on the same brooms, different players have different levels 
of success -- you want to put Harry Potter and Aidan Lynch, both of whom fly 
Firebolts, up against each other?  :-)

(And "Quidditch" has a "t" in it.  [g])

Fox

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