Quidditch reserves (again!) (Was Re: Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 57237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "errolowl" <errolowl at y...> 
wrote:
 
 
 <<<I find it hard to believe that Wood played one player short. 
 Where's the canon for that?

  Oh no, they had a seeker all right, just not a very talented one.
 I'd go so far as to say they have reserves for the positions, but 
 they are just not considered important enough to mention 
 specifically. Though it wouldn't have hurt JKR to tell us who
 *did* play in Harry's place. (sigh)>>>

Sorry Errol, there is canon:

"Harry shifted guiltily in his seat. He had been unconscious in the 
hospital wing in the final match the previous year, meaning that 
Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst 
defeat in three hundred years" CoS p. 84 UK paperback edition.

I would agree that Wood should have made one of the other players 
the seeker, but it certainly seems as though they only played with 6 
players.

Ali