Subject: Ginny's future in Quidditch, and a little about Ron's "visions"

[Aesha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 72266


   From: "jonm234" <jonm234 at yahoo.com>


Now that Ginny's on the team, how willing will she be to just give up her position as seeker to Harry? Now that he's 
unbanned from Quidditch, I'm fairly certain he'll want his spot back, but how will Ginny take it?

And will Angelina be Captain next year? 

Now me:
    Well, I do remember Ginny saying she would rather be chaser, and that Katie and Alicia are no longer going to be Hogwarts students next year. So she's apparently ready and willing to give up the position of Seeker. So Harry will have it back... assuming there's not an even more phenomenal seeker out there to vie for the spot. :)
    As for Angelina, she's graduating this year, too. Of course it never states *exactly* that she's a 7th year, but in GOF she had just turned 17 the week before (so she was an older Hogwarts grad, seemingly, since she's almost 19 now), and the reason the Triwizard tournament had an age stipulation was because it was felt that 6th and 7th years would be better able to cope with the tasks given to them.
    I think that Ron *will* be captain.... Out of everyone who was on the team this year, the only ones who are *still* on it are Ron, Ginny, and the two beaters they had to replace Fred and George. I'm assuming they won't all have to try out again next year, though if someone new came along who was better, then it's possible that they'd get bumped from the team... and I'm assuming that Ginny will have to try out again, since she's going for a different spot. Will Harry have to try again? Doubtful. So we'll assume that Harry will automatically get his spot back, since he's not banned from Quidditch any longer, and the two beaters and Ron will be back, and Ginny, assuming she gets the Chaser spot. But as of now, Harry's not a member of the team... not until next year, kind of. So out of the four who *are* on the team- the Beaters, Ginny, and Ron- who's most likely to get captain? IMO, Ron. They wouldn't make someone who's not even on the team- Harry- the captain, and it seems that Captain is notified before the start of term, kind of like the prefects are. And while Harry may be a better player than Ron (which, maybe, is a question that's up in the air), Ron knows the rules of Quidditch and Quidditch strategies just as well as Harry, if not better. I would say Ginny is going to be Captain, but this fits in so nicely with Ron's Mirror of Erised "vision" of him as Quidditch Captain, holding the Cup... 
    Okay, about Ron. I love that his little "predictions" have come true- the Keeper, the Cup, a few other little things I can't remember- so it really bothers me that so many of them *have* come true. Especially because he said whatever it was about "We have as much chance of _____ as Dad being Minister of Magic" (I can't remember what the first part of the sentance was talking about). Because he said this, and his other little remarks actually ending up as fact, it seems like JKR won't do this to us- we'll be expecting it, so why would she give it to us? If not so many of his "predictions" had come true, then it would be more likely... but because we've seen so many of them, it seems obvious. Which is too bad, because once I read the whole thread a year or whatever ago about Arthur being the new MOM, I thought it was perfect, sensical, and a fabulous idea. I'm just afraid it won't happen now.

Aesha
P.S. I know many have already said the thing about Ron being Captain next year, so I wasn't trying to pass that off as a "new" theory- I just agree wholeheartedly!

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