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

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 57299


>   Errol wrote: 

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

SS 302:
"You missed the last Quidditch match, we were steamrollered by 
Ravenclaw without you".
 
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)
 
   Me rubeus_hagrid at w...>(Izaskun)wrote:

   "Harry shifted guiltily in his seat. He had been unconscious in 
the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning 
that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst 
defeat in three hundred years". Chamber of Secrets 

They didn't have a reserve player. 


Now me, Fred Waldrop:

 I cannot remember any other passage that speaks of a reserve team, I 
know that in SS (US)page 186, it says "...a neat pass to Alicia 
Spinnet, a good find of Oliver Wood's, last year only a reserve...". 
(I seem to remember a few more passages, but can not put my finger on 
them right now)
So, There might no longer have a reserve team, but up until Harry 
began Hogwarts, there was one.

Fred Waldrop