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The sport is fun in the book, but the "muggle" version is not to appealing to me. |
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The whole series is illogical. Why do wizards still use such primitive technologies if they can do
magic?
And it does seem odd that a dude would end the game knowing his team would lose if he did. But keep
in mind, he's a bulgarian. Maybe bulgarians are just weird that way. |
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Yeah, but it is fun to read about. |
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I agree. It's so dangerous! People have died playing it (in this fictional world) and there are
games recorded lasting somewhere in the region of 4 days. It's ridiculous and flawed on so many
levels. |
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Obviously is. It would be chaos. But hey it's a book of fiction. Like the bible. |
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Okay, so there are 7 players each assigned to do a specific job. There is a keeper, then 5 of them
work together to get the quaffle through any of the 3 hoops, resulting in a 10 point award. Sounds
fair enough, until you hear about the seeker and the snitch. Catching this small golden ball results
in a whopping 150 points which ends the game. Why, for the love of God, doesn't every player on the
team channel all of their efforts into catching the snitch (or at least "bludger" the hell out of
the opponents seeker if only the seeker is allowed to catch the snitch)!? And also, JK Rowling
totally underestimates the competitiveness of men if she thinks they would ever catch the snitch
knowing that they won't win the game. This game is completely illogical and seriously flawed. |
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No. It isn't the most illogical sport to be devised. Okay, perhaps 150 points is a little too much,
but, the Snitch is supposed to be incredibly difficult to catch. The Beaters on each team do all
they can to disrupt the seeker from catching the Snitch, so it's not as if it's easy. Only the
Seeker is allowed to catch the Snitch and the Beaters can be pretty rough!
If you've read the books, which I'm assuming you have, the game only ends when the Seeker catches
the Snitch, which means some matches have go on for days. You say that JK Rowling underestimates the
competitiveness of men but in one of the books (Goblet of Fire I believe) a character does catch the
Snitch knowing that his team will lose the game. He does this to end the match as he sees no chance
of winning due to the other team having a tremendous amount of points.
As for her being a woman, I think she writes the sport quite well! If you read the matches in the
books, they are very well written and entertaining. I'm pretty sure you'd find it competitive if you
were on a broomstick having Bludgers thrown left, right and centre at you!
Seriously though, it's better just to enjoy the story than analyse parts such as Quidditch. I never
thought about the rules too much, I just enjoyed it for how it was written. |
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06 May 2008 17:58
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