[HPforGrownups] Quidditch "potentially lethal?"

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 114743

 



Del comments:
"I'm not American, so I'm not familiar with those sports, but from what
I've seen on TV, I have a remark to make.
American football, hockey: don't the players wear helmets and other
kinds of protective pieces of equipment ?
Baseball : the ball is sent to one specific player, and if that
player misses it, a third player catches it, right ? And that player
is heavily protected, if I'm not mistaken.

Quidditch, on the other hand, is played without *any* kind of
protection, not even the most basic kind of helmet, and the bludgers
can be sent to any player on the pitch, even if that player is
intensely focusing on something else (chasing or seeking for example). 

So IMO Quidditch is indeed much more dangerous than any sport Muggle
children might play at school. Moreover, it's the *only* sport wizard
kids can compete in at Hogwarts, so they don't have a choice either.



Steve now:

 

I think quidditch is more dangerous 'to us' not to wizards. Broken bones and
torn whatevers can end muggle athletes' careers. Wizards breaking bones
isn't that big of a deal. Harry broke is arm in the quidditch match on
Saturday. He had it deboned, and reboned by Sunday morning. 

 

WW medicine, and wizard 'hardiness' (Neville's bouncing after being thrown
out the window) make for the lack of fatalities in quidditch.

 

Quidditch is the only sport that we know of right now; similar to the way we
know nothing of Hogsmeade visits before Harry's 3rd year. Personally, I
think there are other sports in the WW, maybe played by the students who
didn't make the house teams. We might not know about them because Harry has
not seen them. There's a charms club and a gobstones club, why not an after
school sports program?



Steve











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