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

[errolowl]

No: HPFGUIDX 57249




I Wrote:
>>I find it hard to believe that Wood played one player short. 
Where's the canon for that?<<

And Ali promptly replied with:
>>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.<<


Oh Dear! How did I manage to miss that?! And I call myself a fan... 
(shakes head despondently) 

Oh well, It still feels wrong to be a player short. But the words 
can't just be attributed to Harry feeling he left Wood one option 
short-- he would have said "..meaning Griffindor had had to play 
another seeker, and had suffered their worst defeat in 300 years" 
wouldn't he?

Oh! hold on, that sounds too egoistical a thought for Harry to form.  
Maybe that's the problem here... some strange compulsive
humbleness preventing Harry from forming the right thought. <grin> 
Or...or, that other thing he is so good at – guilt. He realizes
that 
he was crucial to the team, and not being available was equivalent to 
leaving Wood one player short. 

I know, Excuses, Excuses!! And thanks to Andrea for providing another 
one:

>>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?:)) 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.<<


I'm still going to delude myself into thinking they have reserves 
though. Talk about Fudgeing..

Errol.