ONE THOUSAND POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR!

I'm sure this has been addressed a thousand times on the internet by now, but I am more comfortable being unoriginal than traversing the dregs of the internet that are Harry Potter discussion boards.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a game of quidditch is only over once the golden snitch is caught, and the golden snitch rewards a completely unbalanced amount of points, why would anyone bother with the other six players?

In most games, there are rules that say you must have a certain number of players, and some of those players have specific advantages or rules pertaining to them. However, there doesn't seem to be any reason to just split the quidditch team into the correct seven required players, and then ignore whatever their standard objective is in order to exploit a loophole in the rules.

I'm reminded of the thankfully short lived game show on Nickelodeon called Make The Grade. Just your standard uninteresting game show whose flimsy gimmick wasn't enough to make it stand out. The largest problem with the game was that the final round gave so many points, that the entire first round was completely meaningless.

Several times the child they plucked out of the line at Universal would not fully understand how to play the game until the second round. Leaving the score 0 - 55, or something equally unbalanced. By the time the second round arrived, and the points became worth far more. All the child had to do was become slightly more lucid, and it was like that first round never existed.

If I were given a quidditch team to manage tomorrow, I'd assign the seven appropriate titles to correspond with the rules, but for all intents and purposes, there would be three keepers, and four seekers.

There is no point in having team members worrying about ten point goals if the golden snitch gets you one hundred and fifty points. So while the three keepers keep the other team from getting anywhere near one hundred and fifty points, we have our other four players out looking for the snitch.

If one of the three who is not the assigned seeker is the one to catch it, he simply has to deliver to the official seeker, ending the game.

So...yeah. Someone give me a quidditch team.

I hope the age demographic for both of the games mentioned here hasn't escaped anyone.