[HPforGrownups] House Cup versus Quidditch Cup

[martin.soilleux-cardwell at aon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 54050


Elisabeth asked:

>1) Are the House and Quidditch Cups connected in any way?
>2) Is Bill Weasley a charm breaker for Gringotts?

A1) Short answer: yes. Longer answer: the House Cup is awarded at the end
of each year to the Hogwarts House with the highest total of house points.
The Quidditch Cup is awarded to the Quidditch Team with the highest
Quidditch score at the end of the school year. I understand it to be that
each team plays each of the other house teams once, for a total of 12 games
of Quidditch each year. I also assume that points scored in Quidditch games
are *added* to the house totals, meaning that both cups are often won by
the same house since Quidditch games score highly (at least 150 points) and
house points do not seem to be awarded in such huge chunks (there was anger
against Harry in PoA for losing 150 points when HRH were caught at night by
Filch after releasing Norbert). So the gain/loss of so many house points in
one go is unusual. However I may be wrong on the house/Quidditch points
link...

A2) I'm on less firm ground here. IIRC Bill is a cursebreaker for Gringotts
bank and has worked (works?) in Egypt although quite what requires his
skills there isn't made clear. My assumption with curses in Egypt leads me
to think of curses on mummies tombs which implies the Gringotts goblins
gain some of their investment capital through grave robbing, which isn't a
nice line of thought to pursue.

Regards
Martin


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