House points and Dumbledore

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51124

Pippin wrote:
If Harry had played against Ravenclaw, he could have easily 
won the 160 points needed to beat Slytherin, and Slytherin 
knows this. Still, they not only cling to their false victory
(instead of offering to cede the Cup, as Cedric offered to cede 
the Tri-wizard Cup to Harry), they glory in it.

I reply:
I'm not sure that that's how Quidditch points work - i.e. that they 
translate exactly to the House Cup - and that means I'm dubious that 
Harry could have easily won that final 160 points in a Quidditch 
game. If that was the case, then our point totals at the end of the 
year, which are usually under 500, are either the result of massive 
points loss during the year (because there would be so many Quidditch 
points to lose), or else they don't translate point-for-point.

In fact, if anyone has any canon on this, I'd appreciate it, since I 
can't find anything, anywhere, to indicate exactly how winning the 
Hogwarts "Quidditch Cup" relates to winning the Hogwarts "House Cup."

-Tom