The trouble with Quidditch

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 168882

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>
> In order for the book to work, for all intents and purposes, the
warriors had to be insanely brave. 
> 
> The basic problem in Quidditch is that there are just too damned
many points for catching the Golden Snitch. 
>

Ken:

The performance of real men on the battlefield is something that is
not easily programmed into computers. Soldiers need to set their
sanity aside to do the things that they need to do. And they will do
it. Tolkien fought in a war that was as bad as the one he describes in
LOTR. You can trust him when it comes to battlefield scenes, he looked
the elephant in the eye.

I agree exactly about Quidditch scoring. I honestly had the exact same
thought independently this morning in the shower. Krum's decision to
catch the snitch when Bulgaria was only 160 points down makes no sense
under the scoring rules. Maybe it wasn't likely they would gain back
enough ground to win with the snitch but it was sure worth waiting a
while to be sure of that.

> Bart:
> 
> My best guess: JKR wanted to make the Seeker the most important
player on the team, and didn't bother to do the math to see that he
was the ONLY important player on the team. 
> 

Ken:

Uh, you're kidding, right? Rowling do math????

Ken