Quidditch

[Nathaniel]

No: HPFGUIDX 191450



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
> 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.

Nathaniel:
It's particularly curious because Alicia Spinnet was a reserve the year before Harry arrived. In PS11, Lee Jordan says during his commentary that last year she was "only a reserve." Why did Wood discontinue using a reserve? As Pippin suggests, maybe Gryffindor are too over-confident to use them, but after Harry misses the last match in year 1, Wood really should have re-thought this policy during the remaining years of his captaincy.