CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw

[pippin_999]

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> Geoff:
> I think that you are visualising a situation which is unlikely to arise in
> normal circumstances.
> 
> Let's consider a real life one. you are in a car accident and are injured.
> You might spend time afterwards thinking: "Why didn't I swerve?"; "Why 
> didn't I jump out?";|"Why didn't I brake hard?".
> 
> In the cold light of hindsight, this might look feasible. But in the moment
> before the crash, assuming you had time to see it coming, your logical
> thinking might well seize up.

Pippin:
It might, which is why stunt drivers and racing drivers train for those situations and have cars and gear that are designed to protect them. Presumably, if Quidditch players frequently fall from their brooms, they are trained to save themselves,  or they'd be dying fairly often. 

While it's a foul to deliberately collide with another player, it's not a foul to deliberately send a bludger at one, and the bludger's job, according to Wood, is "trying to knock players off their brooms." (PS/SS ch 10). We are  told that people rarely died playing Quidditch (PS/SS ch11), though injuries are frequent.  Harry hadn't played Cho before because she'd been out with injuries. 

Pippin