[HPforGrownups][OOP] Re: Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

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At 09:42 07-05-03 -0700, Ladi lyndi wrote:

>Lynn:
>
>Also, we don't know that there weren't reserves
>for the rest of the team, just that there wasn't
>a reserve Seeker, which may well be the problem
>position.

In that case Wood would surely have fielded someone
as Seeker in that catastrophy match where Harry was
missing. Instead he played one player short.
Of course he might have found reserves for the other
positions since then, but if Ron is the new Keeper,
then any reserve Keeper must have been Woods own year
or the year below.
My problem is that Wood should have had reserves for
all the positions - he should have taken the second
best for each position and groomed them as reserves,
no matter how much they were worse than the basic team.
If he had done that it would, however, IMO, be unlikely
that Ron would find himself on the team in OotP without
having been among the reserves previously, which is why
I prefer to believe that Wood wasn't as good a captain
as we have been let to believe (or rather - he was an
excellent captain, but a terrible team manager).

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