Quidditch

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191451



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nathaniel" <natti_shafer 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.

Geoff:
I think there is an element of confusion here. It has been pointed out that Rule 
5 states that "in the case of injury, no substitution.... will take place. The team 
will play on without the injured player."

This is applicable during the progress of a match. There is nothing to stop a team 
selecting a replacement - temporary for a player injured during a match, or being 
permanently replaced for poor play - in succeeding matches. It is not necessary 
for a formal reserve to be named. Any captain worth his or her salt would probably 
have a name up their sleeve for such an occasion. The interesting question comes 
to my mind, whom did Harry replace as the Seeker when he first played?

Finally, am I suffering from memory failure or not reading my PS properly, but surely 
Harry did not miss a match in First Year?