Harry not a seeker (WAS: Re: The Gryffindor Quidditch Team)

[nobodysrib]

No: HPFGUIDX 53447

Taryn wrote: 

> Why in the world would Harry cease being a Seeker? He's amazing at 
> it! One of the greatest Seekers in the WW even praised his flying 
> skills. 
> ...edited...

> bboy_mn:
> 
> Perfectly valid point, and I agree, but you missed my point. The
> question isn't whether Harry wants to be a Seeker, the question is
> whether he will be able to continue being Seaker when you consider
> the potential players he has available to build a team out of.
> [mentions Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom, Colin 
> Creevey, and Dennis Creevey]
<snip>
> I agree 100% that Harry want to be the Seeker, but will he be able
> to given the people who are available to build a team from?

Do we know what year Krum was/is?  (We know he was old enough to 
participate in GoF's tournament, but so were 6th year Gred and 
Forge.)  Might Krum's interest in Hermione lead him to transfer to 
Hogwarts?  Some might assume he'd be sorted into Slytherin 
(Durmstrang's reputation, he sat with Slytherin, etc.) but he could 
just as easily be sorted into Gryffindor.  Given that, who would 
*you* prefer be your teams' seeker - the best seeker Hogwarts has 
seen in years... or a professional Quidditch player who has even 
played a World Cup game?  Even if Harry were captain, can you see him 
not letting Krum be seeker?  And, if Harry weren't a seeker, I just 
assume that his love of quidditch would keep him from saying "either 
I'm seeker or I don't play at all," leading him to take on a 
different position.

[ btw, Can't you just see the upset this would cause to the Slytherin 
team?  Not only is Krum sorted into the opposing house, but now 
Gryffindor has a *professional* player!  (I bet Draco would get his 
daddy to buy the whole team firebolts as a defense.)]

Of course, we don't know if transferring schools is allowed since we 
have not seen it happen before (I giggle when I think of Krum lining 
up with all the other first years, waiting to be sorted), and there 
may be canon showing Krum was a 7th year in GoF (which makes his 
interest in Hermione a bit creepy and pedophiliac-ish, IMHO...).

- Nobody's Rib