Quidditch

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191446



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dorothy" <wendydhudson at ...> wrote:
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> Please forgive me if this question has been answered before, but with regard to Quidditch, I think Rowling created a great game; however, in the books, why does a captain only choose 6 players.  What about substitutes?

Pippin:
JKR makes it plain to us that substitutes are allowed and Wood knows it. So the question is, why do the Gryffindor captains not use them. I think it's the Gryffindor tendency to consider themselves both indestructible and indispensable. Nobody wants to think they are going to get hurt, or that anyone else could play their position well enough to win.

It's only common sense to appoint substitutes, but wizard kids aren't known for common sense.

Pippin