[HPforGrownups] Re: The trouble with Quidditch

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 168890

From: Janette <jnferr at gmail.com>
>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.  

Bart: 
Having posted a couple of LONG posts today, I'm trying to keep the rest of my posting down, but there is nothing in canon to imply that the school has an easier to catch snitch, that the game has been played for hundreds of years, so there will be more statistical anomolies than if the game was relatively recent (such as games lasting for weeks).

As far as the different snitches, there is nothing in canon, and, based on Harry's observations of the World Match, one would have thought that he'd have noted something like that.

As far as bad seekers go, well, seeing that, for all intents and purposes, your most important player is the seeker, wtih the beaters a distant second, if a team has a bad seeker, then they have no team.

I also thought that 6 Quidditch games a year was a kind of low number, but not to the level of illogical.