Quidditch, Number of Games, & Who Attends

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50570

I realize that there is only just so much story time that JKR can
squeeze between the covers of a book. A recent post made me start
thinking about how many points Quidditch adds to the house total. That
in turn started me thinking about how many games would be played in a
season.

So how many games are played in a season? I should know the
mathimatical formula for this, but I don't, so I sketched it out with
a pen and paper. If all teams play an equal number of games, then
there would be a total of 6 games which would allow every house to
play every other house once.

While we do hear about Quidditch games that go on off page, we don't
hear about that many. And if Harry and Ron are such big Quidditch
fans, how come we never hear a passing reference to them attending
another house's games. Everyone attends the Gryffindor/Slytherin
games, all four houses.

So, I wonder if they used a process of elimination. The two weakest
teams from the year before, play the two strongest teams. Winners of
those two games play each other for the final championship. Total= 3
games. There is another variation of this, where the two weakest house
play each other. That winner plays the number two ranked team from the
year before, and that winner challenges the previous years winner.
Again, total equals 3 games. That seems closer to the number of games
we hear about. Eliminated teams, don't play anymore games. 

Based on the number of games I recall, the elimination process seems
close, but it doesn't seem very fair, and would certainly help
dominant houses to maintain their dominance. 

So the first question is, how are the tornements organised?

I'm sure we have heard of other off page games, but there is no
implication that Harry or Ron went to any of these. This puzzles me; I
would at least expect a passing reference to it. 

Don't you think two big Quidditch fans like this would go to every game?

Just some passing thoughts.

bboy_mn