[HPforGrownups] Quidditch for Harry in HBP?

[Lindsay]

No: HPFGUIDX 126704

-p writes
> I've been reading plot theories on how Ginny will be a Chaser and
> Ron will be Keeper and Harry will be Seeker again next year - Why
> does everyone want to put all the popular characters on the team?
> -I have a nagging suspiscion that JKR may keep Harry off the
> Quidditch pitch for good.
> 
> Just because Umbridge has been discredited doesn't mean everything
> is hunky-dory does it? What if Harry's school Quidditch days are
> over?
> 

Well, we do have this tidbit in OOtP, chp. 26:

'Good catch,' Harry told Ginny back in the common room, where the
atmosphere resembled
that of a particularly dismal funeral.

'I was lucky,' she shrugged. 'It wasn't a very fast Snitch and
Summerby's got a cold, he
sneezed and closed his eyes at exactly the wrong moment. Anyway, once
you're back on the team -'

'Ginny, I've got a lifelong ban.'

'You're banned as long as Umbridge is in the school,' Ginny corrected
him. 'There's a
difference. Anyway, once you're back, I think I'll try out for Chaser.
Angelina and Alicia are both leaving next year and I prefer
goal-scoring to Seeking anyway.'

----

So we know that Ginny will try out for Chaser next year.

And now that Umbridge is gone and faith restored in Dumbledore, I'm
sure he can get all those Educational Decrees removed and Harry back
on the Quidditch team.

Whether or not Ron will be there - I think he still will be, but as
Keeper?  Probably, unless he possibly tries out for Chaser, seeing as
there will be two openings next year.

But I think it is pretty positive that we'll see Harry as Seeker and
Ginny as Chaser next year.

I also think that Millicent will be Keeper for Slytherin, seeing as
there will be an opening next year and she is one of those who checked
out Quidditch Through the Ages.  I believe that JKR was leaving a
hint.  :)

--Lindsay