Quidditch for Harry in HBP? Alternate View.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 126730


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/27/2005 10:58:13 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
> bboyminn at y... writes:
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> I predict -  
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> Keeper - unknown (Neville? Creevey? Transferred Slytherin?  Other?)
> Seeker - Ginny
> Beaters - Ron and Harry
> Chasers - Dean,  Seamus, Katie Bell
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> Captian - Harry in the beginning, but Ron by the  end.
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> Remember, you heard it here  first.
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> Steve/bboyminn
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> Chancie:
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> ...everyone is entitled to their own opinion but why would Ginny 
> stay on as Seeker?  She herself says that she's rather be chaser, 
> ... Why would the team keep Harry from ... seeker knowing ... he's 
> ..best ...?  ...
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> I ... agree ... Umbridge will not ... impact ...Harry's ...
>  Quiddich.
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> I predict:
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> Harry ... seeker
> Ron ... keeper ...
> Ginny, Katie Bell and ??? Chasers
> Dean and Seamus Beaters
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> Ron will be Gryffindor Captain.
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> Chancie

bboyminn:

I've had this belief that Harry and Ron would be Beaters for years,
believe it or not. Part of this theory allows for the fact that Harry
WANTS to be Seeker and Ron wants to be Keeper, but they will sacrifice
those desires for the greater good of the team. So, to your question,
the Team won't /make/ them do this, it will be a strategic move that
Harry and Ron will make for the greater good of the Team. 

Since I've had this notion for years, I formulated it before I saw how
BAD the current Beaters are. Now that the current Beaters are the
weakest link on the team, if they have any chance of winning, they are
going to have to figure out how to field the strongest team with what
they have to work with, and I believe that will involve making some
personal sacrifices.

I also think that Beaters are critical to the on-going game. Without
effective Beaters, the Chasers are crippled, and can't do their job
properly. True, Gryffindor did manage to scape a win, aided greatly by
Ron's goal Keeping, but you can't build a whole effective team around
one or two good players. They are going to have to do their best to
move people into positions that serve the team rather than the individual.

Certainly, I don't have a strong foundation to build this on, but the
recent changes to the team point to new Chasers and marginal Beaters
being the weak links. So, when I look at the available players, my
first objective is to fix those two problems. Also, remember that in
the first book Oliver Wood comments that Harry would make a good
Beater, and the narrative comments that Seamus considers himself a
good and experienced flyer. So, I do see some hints pointing in this
direction, though I must admit that they are weak.

None the less, in a few months we shall see if my prediction was right.

Steve/bboyminn