Quiditch

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 162222

career advisor:
<snip awesome concrete examples>

> Wow that was a lot to write for a fictional game. I do think JKR 
made on mistake in the scoring system of the game, making the center 
hoop 30 points instead of 10 would have made goal strategy more 
interesting for the keeper and made the chasers even more more 
important, but she wanted to empasize the seeker since it  is Harry's 
spot.  
> 
> What do you think?

zgirnius:
I think you are brilliant! This has always bothered me, but your 
explanation makes so much sense.

The only excuse for the Snitch I was able to come up with was the 
idea of very long games. If the Snitch simply decided to take a long 
flight off in a random direction, and play lasted for enough hours, a 
team whose Chasers/Seekers/Beaters were better would slowly rack up 
such an advantage that the Snitch would not be enough, and it would 
make little sense for the Seeker to deliberately wait, since it was 
the inferiority of the rest of his team that led to the problem in 
the first place. It's not like they would be able to make up the gap, 
it would probably only get worse.

But we only see or hear of one such game (QWC) that I can recall. But 
we see a Quidditch tournament almostg every year. :D