[HPforGrownups][OOP] Quidditch Reserves (was Re: Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57284

--- Troels Forchhammer <t.forch at mail.dk> wrote:
> In that case Wood would surely have fielded
> someone
> as Seeker in that catastrophy match where Harry
> was
> missing. 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).

Lynn:

I agree that if reserves were the norm, than Wood
did let the team down.  But, do we know that all
the teams have reserves?  If they did, why was
Slytherin allowed not to play it's first game
against Gryffindor in PoA because of Malfoy's
injury?  If there were reserves for the teams,
the reserve should have been able to step in.  Of
course, that would have lost the dramatic
Quidditch finale between Gryffindor and Slytherin
for the Cup.  Still, is that an indication that
the teams don't field reserves?  Yet, Lee Jordan
tells us that Katie Bell was a find of Wood's,
had been a reserve and moved up.  So, perhaps
Wood did look for reserves but there just weren't
any available.  You can't make people play and
maybe there was no one who wanted to play
Quidditch or wanted to play those positions where
there weren't reserves.

Lynn
(who though KC Jones was a sweet guy but hated
what he did to the Celtic starting 5 in 1987)

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