Who is the better player? (was: Draco = Evil?)

[Julia]

No: HPFGUIDX 124927


> Betsy:
> But then, for some reason, Harry decides to leave off being Seeker 
> and help Angelina score.  No real reason for it, game-wise.  The 
> Gryffindor team has been scoring just fine without Harry's help, 
and 
> Harry is fully aware that if Draco gets the Snitch, Gryffindor 
will 
> lose.  And it *is* a mistake on Harry's part.  Because Draco 
doesn't 
> forget his duty as Seeker, and he does spot the Snitch. It comes 
down 
> to a race, and Harry wins because he has the better broom.
> 
> It's interesting to me, not because I think Draco is secretly the 
> better Seeker, but because I wonder why JKR chose to have Harry 
win 
> on equipment rather than skill.  

Julia:
That's very interesting what you're writing and I know what you want 
to say but still I can't agree with you.

Maybe it's right that in this scene it was Draco who acted as a good 
Seeker but I don't feel sorry for Draco. It's not that he hasn't got 
money to buy the same broom as Harry has. 

Apart froom that, I think that JKR has two goals in this scene:
One was to make Harry win this game, and the second to show us that 
it is Harry who really is good at Quidditch. 

In my opinion Quidditch is a team game and without good cooperation 
a team cannot win. Harry presents a better attitude than Draco does. 
He (Harry) feels that if he can he should help his teammates and 
that's why he helps Angelina score (he also knows that he can afford 
it cause he has the best broom). 
This is something Draco would never do and that's what makes him a 
worse player than Harry. I think that's what JKR tries to show us 
here - not the fact that Harry wins because he is simply fastest but 
that he can be a part of a team and this is the main difference 
between him and Draco.

Of course it would be better if wasn't for the fastest broom that 
Harry wins but as I said Draco is rich and he can afford it (but as 
we know even with the better broom he still loses :D)