[HPforGrownups] Re: The trouble with Quidditch

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168991

>
> 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.
>
> Bart:
> No, the prize money was based on the 150 points. Don't confuse WW
> chronology with JKR chronology. Besides, if 150 points WERE written in
> stone, all you have to do is raise the point total of the goals. I'll
> bet you a galleon and 23 sickles that the WW isn't as obsessed with base
> 10 as the real world; just make the goals 30 points each and everything
> works.


montims:

OK - I've found my copy of Quidditch Through the Ages, and  it mentions
(page 12) Barberus Bragge bringing a caged Snidget to a match in 1269, and
saying that he would award 150 Galleons to the player who caught it during
the course of the game.  On the next page it says "Chief Bragge's idea had
forever changed the nature of Quidditch.  Golden Snidgets were soon being
released during all Quidditch games... When the bird was killed, the game
was over and the Hunter's team was awarded an extra 150 points, in memory of
the 150 Galleons promised by Chief Bragge" (page 14)

It also mentions, on page 26: "Given their immense importance in the overall
outcome of the match, for the capture of the Snitch so often snatches
victory from the jaws of defeat, Seekers are most likely to be fouled by
members of the opposition."


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