[HPforGrownups] Re: The trouble with Quidditch

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168885

>
> Ken:


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.


montims:
I am not a games player, and certainly not a mathematician, but isn't this
balanced out by the difficulty of catching the snitch?  I believe some games
have gone on for weeks...

Harry is a very good seeker, but we have also seen seekers who don't
concentrate or just plain don't see the snitch near them.

I am sure that snitches for school quidditch games are slower and more
easily caught, but in the World Cup, where the pace was much faster, we saw
a phenomenal seeker in Krum.  Still, if he hadn't caught the snitch when he
did, Ireland would probably have gone on stacking up the points, and it
wouldn't have mattered who caught the snitch in the end... I guess what I'm
trying to say is that it doesn't seem like too much of a flaw to me...


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