[HPforGrownups] Re: The trouble with Quidditch

[simon harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 168982

> Bart:
> That was really my major point, and why I couldn't come up with a
> playable Quidditch game (once again, if the Snitch scored 50 instead
> of 150 points, the games would be played more or less the way JKR
> describes it). 

Shaun:

Something that may have been missed in considering the scoring of Quidditch, and whether or not 150 points is appropriate for the Snitch or not is that the vast majority of Quidditch games we have seen are school games. The scoring patterns that are seen in school games may have very little to do with the scoring patterns seen in competitive Quidditch.

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Perhaps it is similar in Quidditch - perhaps the scores in an adult level game, a competition level game are quite different from those seen in house games at Hogwarts. Maybe in those games, 150 points for the Snitch makes a lot more sense.

We can't tell - as far as I know, we know only one score from top class Quidditch, and that's not a lot to go on. But we see a match that seems to be a lot faster scoring that the Hogwarts matches - goals may be a lot more common at higher levels than schools. And what of the Quidditch matches we hear off that went on for weeks before the snitch was caught - how many goals were scored in those matches, so how much effect did the snitch have when it was finally caught?


Simon:
The 150 points was based on the prize money in one of the first games of Quidditch. IMO I think JK picked this vale to help the plot along not to help the game of Quidditch along in the real world.