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

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 57241

--- Ali wrote:
> "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.

Just because they played with only 6 players doesn't mean there wasn't a
Seeker.  It doesn't seem *possible* that a team could play without one if
the Seeker is the only one who can end the game.  (Doesn't Harry think
once that Gryffindor would have to forfeit without a Seeker?  Sorry, I'm
in mid-move and my books are packed. :))  Probably one of the Chasers
would be shifted to play Seeker, leaving them a player short but at least
one person in each position.  Except none of the Chasers are good Seekers
AND they're now a Chaser short, so they get steamrollered. 


Andrea

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