Comments on: The Quidditch Final

By: HentaiTenshi

HentaiTenshi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:50:56 +0000

I gotta say, when I got to the end I wasn’t expecting an actual pic of Voldy like that. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Thanks for cheering me up! Lol. I agree with elizabethauthor though. He’d just be HappyFunSmiles! Lord Voldemort while he conducted his evil business. Haaa, can you imagine?

By: hpfan

hpfan — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:13:37 +0000

There is also the fact that Buckbeak rode the Knight Bus to London. How did he fit?

By: Billie

Billie — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:23:04 +0000

There’s a great throwaway line in Hagrid’s letter at the beginning of this chapter: “Beaky has enjoyed London.” What on earth did Hagrid and Buckbeak do in London that Buckbeak enjoyed so much? Did they go to the zoo? To a park? To Diagon Alley? Imagine the sensation the two of them would have caused anywhere they went! Is there anywhere in London besides Diagon Alley Buckbeak could go without violating the statute of secrecy?

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:38:39 +0000

elizabethauthor, I completely agree with you. We see Harry beat the Slytherins while using an “inferior” broom in CoS. Therefore, rider skill counts just as much as, if not more than, the broom quality!

And I agree with the others. Malfoy is a good flyer, and a competent seeker. In CoS he just pays too much attention to taunting Harry rather than the game, which I’m sure Flint came down hard on him for. And other times he comes very close to beating Harry. But take Harry’s broom and add in his obviously superior skill, Malfoy just can’t come close to beating Harry. It almost makes me feel bad for him. Almost ;)

Something funny I picked up on while reading this chapter: on pg. 308, in my copy of PoA at least, the passage at the top says, “A minute later, Katie had put another penalty pas the Slytherin Seeker.” Wouldn’t she need to be putting it past the *Keeper*? Just an editing mistake, obviously, but I thought it was rather humorous n_n

By: Quachett

Quachett — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:51:30 +0000

Draco was probably a good player, it seems slytherin kept winning theier matches and only gryfindor was the team that ever beat them, remember in thier first flying lesson tht harry pointed out tht Draco could actually fly, i think he only seems incompitent against harry but compitant otherwise. I dont see why he would continue sneering if he really was the worst play among all players, he had to have some level of compitance tht makes him believe he is the best.

By: Roya

Roya — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:58:31 +0000

Yeah, I agree with elizabethauthor. A cheering charm would only make Snape or Voldemort happier about causing harm to Harry and his friends. I don’t think it would make their moral compass any straighter.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:10:13 +0000

I don’t quite think Draco is an Absymal player at quidditch, which other seeker is even able to keep up with Harry when he goes for the snitch never mind be hand to hand for (which happens with him and Draco in one book, in which Draco’s nails scrape against the back of his hand) and in the first he’s quick enough to fofge Harry’s javilin shot during the flying lesson, certainly not Cho who doesn’t get that close. Harry is just an exceptional player, as shown by the comment about Harry training for the ballet when being chased by the bludger in second year, I certainly think that from that comment Draco actually in someway admits that Harry is simply that effortlessly graceful in the air. And even McGonagall admits that Harry is better than Charlie, who could have gone professional. Draco can’t be bad if he can keep up by my logic.

By: Erica4hope

Erica4hope — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:48:00 +0000

I found it ironic that the charm hermione missed was one she really needed at the time. She really needed some cheer that day.

By: elizabethauthor

elizabethauthor — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:55:53 +0000

I think Draco is a decent player at the very least, but I don’t think the fact that Harry’s broom was faster was the only reason he won. If broom speed over rode skill too much then surely there would be a rule that both teams and all players must have the same broom. A good broom is certainly an advantage, and a bad broom a handycap, but the skill of the player using the broom is more important. A faster car doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll win the race if the other person is a better driver. (Unless it’s a major difference in speed capability.)

By: X

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:15:01 +0000

Draco could very well be a good player. If you think about it, it was only the fact that Harry’s broom was faster that let him get the snitch, in this match anyway.
Also, “vansysnape” raises a very goodpoint about the fact that in first year Draco could actually fly.
I mean you see in DH that Hermione has never really learnt to fly with any confidence so the ability to fly is not something that everyone posseses.
Plus he wouldntve been kept on the team, you would asume, for all those years if he was absaluty awful..