[HPforGrownups] Quidditch Miscellania

[Renati Adriani]

No: HPFGUIDX 49879

Hi, this is my first post here so please be gentle.

>Alexander <voldemort at tut.by>:
>> Now, there are reserve players in Hogwarts teams as well.
>
>Are there? 

>From Chapter 11 of PS, Lee Jordan's commentary of the Gryffindor vs
Slytherin game: 
"And she's really belting along up there, a neat pass to Alicia Spinnet, a
good find of Oliver Wood's, last year only a reserve-"

>Then why does the main team apparently train alone? If you have enough 
>players to form two teams which play training matches against each other you 
>normally seize the chance, don`t you?

My guess is that they have separate practice schedules, with only the
occasional joint session for training matches. Perhaps the reserve team
doesn´t need to practice that often, and Wood being as driven as he is,
he´d much rather spend his time fine-tuning the main team anyway.

>Also, at the end of PS Ron tell's Harry "we've been steamrollered without
you" but 
>doesn't mention who played seeker. And in Harry's nightmare in PoA he
dreams the 
>team had to use Neville as seeker. Remembering Neville's flying skills,
this surely isn't a 
>n option in reality. All in all, it seems like they have no second seeker,
or any reserve 
>players at all.

I forgot - do we know who the last Gryffindor seeker was before Harry came
along? Harry could´ve gotten the job because a) there was a real vacancy
after the previous seeker graduated, or b) the team already had a seeker
who simply wasn´t much good. In the case of b), the unnamed seeker might
get demoted to the reserve team to make way for Harry, and subsequently
took his place in that "steamrollered" Ravenclaw match. Which might explain
why McGonagall and Wood were so excited to discover Harry. :)

Sorry for any typos and choppy editing - I´m still trying to get the hang
of this.


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