OOTP: Quidditch and House System (was: Still Catching Up..

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 67660

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zebco606" wrote:
> 
> I think we see a foreshadowing of this in the Sorting Hat's plea
> for unity. Will the house system be done away with altogether? 
> Will SLytherin be absorbed into the others? Will there be a new 
> house? Seems like we need at least four for Quidditch Cup play.

Hermione said that Quidditch is divisive.
It would be less divisive if it were separated from the Houses. 
There could be a system in which every student who had passed their 
[hypothetical] flying test, and was second year or over, and wanted 
to play, would sign up with Madam Hooch. Then I imagine an election 
in which all the students who had signed up for Quidditch would elect 
four captains. Then the captains would choose their players and 
reserves from all the students who had signed up. I mean, choose 
their players in a formalized version of the usual amateur I-pick-1 
then-you-pick-1 method. I imagine that the captains would have a 
normal amount of competitiveness and desire to win the Quidditch Cup, 
so they would try to pick the best players in the best combination, 
regardless of House.