Quidditch Points System is Stupid

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It has always annoyed me.

What is the point of having a great team that outplays the other team for the majority of the match via brilliant formations, amazing goals and unbreakable defence if the other less talented team can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by a lucky catch of the snitch.

i mean, what is the point of the chasers, beaters and goalie?

YANBU- Yes it’s mad and that always bothered me too
YABU- it’s a fictional sport in a make-believe world, you absolute pedantic numpty

Goblet started with the world cup.

I could never work out School Quidditch. A massive pitch for 28 pupils playing 6 games.

Or was there year teams as well, or fun league, or 2nd and 3rd teams....

Yes, but JKR needed to do that for plot purposes, establishing Ireland as world champions but distinguishing Krum, who had to be from a country that sent its wizards to Durmstrang (as Irish witches and wizards apparently attend Hogwarts, so Krum couldn’t be Irish). I can’t think of a single other time it happens that catching the Snitch doesn’t determine the victor?

When you start unpicking the wold of HP it all collapses pretty immediately. Two of my biggest gripes are you have a civilisation of wizards who can teleport at will yet choose one of the slowest birds to deliver their mail. Also we can’t be certain who is a death eater and who isn’t, death eaters let’s all get matching tattoos smh

I think you’re misinterpreting the post. Saying the books are full of inconsistencies and plot holes in no way detracts from also enjoying them, and the reason she’s so often demonised at the moment has absolutely nothing to do with her books, or only to do with the fact that they’ve brought her sufficient money and reputation that she can express an opinion on biology in a way that would get a less powerful person cancelled.

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Absolutely. (Do you suppose there was a vogue for magical dark magic tattoo removal among the less committed Death Eaters after Voldemort’s first demise?)

I wasn't referring to that. I was referring to a children's book falling apart when read by adults as adults view the world differently to children

PS is meant for young children and it shows. A lot of stuff doesn't make sense when you look at it as an adult as it is simplified. (Like why would they all travel to London to go to a school in the Highlands? Why Boarding not Floo powder? The number of pupils. The timetable. Etc etc.

I skipped the Quidditch scenes, just I have always skipped any description of a sporting match or a battle in any book I have ever read.

Totally understand this OP and it’s always bugged me.

Yes, though with a little thought, it could make sense AND have dramatic moments.

Like if the snitch was 50 points and the game lasted an hour, you could have:

• catching the snitch in 5m by accident (as happened) but still having the hour to play OR the game ends there
• Catching the snitch in the dying seconds to win
• delaying to catch the snitch because you're always 60pt behind, then catching it last minute even though you'll still lose

Well given that a cricket match can last three days and still end in a draw, I don't think stupid rules only happen in fiction.

They speak about this as a possibility early on in the books. The movies less so

Yeah it bugs me a little too. I sometimes speed read through the quidditch parts because they bore me a little. I suppose it’s one saving grace that the team that catches the snitch isn’t necessarily the winner. I mean, they usually are because they win 150 points but it’s not a given if the other team have scored enough goals.

In fairness, there’s a long tradition of Incredibly Boring Accounts of Matches in school stories. Enid Blyton is full of Darrell spraining her ankle and still scoring the winning goal etc.

When I used to read the HP books to DS at bedtime, I used to say ‘And then there was a quidditch match. Afterwards, in the Gryffindor common room…’

Can you imagine the fury if all the effort for the Quidditch World Cup was spent on matches that all lasted a few minutes because the snitch was caught quickly every time?

Maybe the snitch could be in play at random for 10m at a time, and the Seeker defaults to Chaser the rest of the time.

It could mean an interesting tactical choice of an excellent chaser who scored enough goals that the snitch didn't matter.

Yeah, especially if you got a cheaper ticket that meant you’d had to Apparate in weeks before the first match, and hang about on a campsite with a puzzled Muggle in charge. Then you get ten minutes of play and go home again.

Owls are a just cultural thing perhaps? I think when you have it all you need to start making up random traditions to make things more difficult.

Death Eaters are quite thick is my answer to the second point.

Yes other countries use other means of communication.

I’m sure I read that she wrote it that way to annoy her then-boyfriend as they’d had a fall out! If you google ‘jkr quidditch annoy’ there’s a few articles about it. I like the pettiness to be honest and as a child never really cared that it wasn’t fair. As PP said, doesn’t seem any more ridiculous that cricket!