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

[Jennifer Todd]

No: HPFGUIDX 57353

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Silver Stag said:

CoS 108, I believe...definitely ch. 7.  The team's just been roused by Wood
at the crack of dawn and they're in the locker room.
    "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."

There's also the passage in Sorcerer's Stone, Ch. 13, I think, just after
they find out Snape's refereeing.

    "Don't play," said Hermione at once.

    "Say you're ill," said Ron.

    "Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested.

    "Really break your leg," said Ron.

    "I can't," said Harry. "There isn't a reserve Seeker. If I back out,
Gryffindor can't play at all."

I believe Harry'd know if there was a reserve seeker.  However, that still
leaves the question of why there wasn't a reserve seeker, and how literally
we're to take the last part of that quote "if I back out, Gryffindor can't
play at all."  Apparently, they did play later that year, just one short.
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Jenn's Reply is:

This particular plot point really has bothered me.  I can't, for the life of me, figure out why on earth Wood would continue with the match sans seeker.  Considering the only way to end a match is for the seeker to catch the snitch, how could he justify playing without a (any) seeker present?  If POA, Flint calls off the match because of Injured!Draco, and they end up playing HufflePuff (thus introducing Cedric Diggory).  Why is it that Wood wouldn't be able to do the same when his seeker is not just injured, but totally unaware?

Jenn







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