Quiditch

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No: HPFGUIDX 162250

 <snip> zgirnius:

<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

<end snip>

Actually I was going to add in an explanation of the Bulgaria/Ireland thing but I already felt the post was too long. 

I'm you read GOF you will see that other World Cup pre-liminary games are mentioned. England is beaten by some African country which I can't recall and it is is a shocking upset and there prob' were other games. These were prob round robin with a cumalative point system as with Hogwarts.
 
Most likely these 'pre-liminary world cup games' were played somewhere other then then England so that the muggles wouldn't catch on, and only the final championship was played in England. The top two teams on points played again in the championship game. 

It seems logical that Bulgaria came in down on points to Ireland because of Ireland's superior chasers. However, they must have been within snitch points because there was heavy beating on Bulgaria. 

When Ireland pulled away like they did there was a good chance Bulgaria would be embarrased on  the world stage, since the point lead very quickly became beyond snitch range; so Krum either finished it when he did to keep the final score respectable like Harry said, or maybe Ron was right and Krum just messed up by miscalculating the points (was he distracted by Hermione IIRC it said in the book that Krum noticed Hermione ). 

Ron at least doesn't think him very bright, but if he spends all the time in the library with Hermione, Krum must have learned something. We won't know unless JKR has Krum tell us. 

By the way, I'm DA Jones. I can't believe I  made such a long post and left off my tag. LOL!

DA Jones 

 
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