Slytherin's behavior at the GoF final feast (was Re: Dumbledore's awarding of points PS/SS)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57098

Taryn:

> I'm agreeing with Heidi here. Yes, they have fouled. Rather 
brutally, at times. But sometimes fouling is necessary to a game. 
Especially in such cases with the Seeker, who can /end/ the game. If 
the Seeker of the opposing team is about to catch the snitch, the 
smartest thing to do is to /foul/ the Seeker. Sure, the other team 
will get a penalty shot. But you'll still be in the game. I'm hardly 
an athlete, but I've played basketball and I've had times when the 
coach has told me to just /foul/ someone, because we can't afford to 
have them make a shot.
> 
> --Taryn


Tell me, when the coach asked you to foul, did you just wrap the 
person up to get the foul called or did you hit the person over the 
head and then try to tell the ref you thought the player's head was 
the ball? My guess is the first, since basketball has the technical 
foul rule, so if you get too out-of-hand, you won't get the ball back.

Or, if you found out a player had an unnatural fear of say, spiders, 
did you dress up like a spider and go to the sideline of a game you 
weren't involved in and tried to get that player to miss a shot, or 
slip and fall on the court?

Those are two differences right there.

Darrin
-- Really wishes they'd change the rules in basketball so it's not 
good strategy to foul at the end of the game.