[HPforGrownups] Re: fairness of Quiddich (WAS: Is the anything that bothers you about HP ...)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...>
wrote:

<snip several Quidditch scenes>

> So, I'm not sure that I agree that it's all about the brooms and
> equipment - skill definitely has something to do with it.
>
> -Tom

Bill wrote:
I would say that it's a combination of skill, brooms, and luck.

We want to compare the skill.

We can do nothing about the luck.

But we CAN do something about the brooms.

----Me----
Why?  Where in life does it say that everything has to be exactly equal and
fair?  In many things, it is the person with the most money (whether their
own or a sponsor's) that has the best.  Taking the good brooms away from
those that have them and forcing them to take inferior ones would be an
injustice to every one.  I wouldn't call it equality, I would call it
communism.

Someone else had compared quidditch to equestian competitions, which I found
interesting.  I don't know about televised competitions in other countries,
but I know when I watch the ones here (jumping events) they often talk about
how and when a rider acquired a horse, how much he spent on it, how many
compititions it had already fared well in, and the other horses in the
riders string.  Please don't try to tell me that money doesn't enter into
it.  A good horse is very expensive.  But, skill enters the equation as
well.  It takes a good rider to get the best out of the horse.

Quidditch is like many other things in life:  we learn to work with what we
have.

~Cathy~