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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (19 children)

I'm more concerned about how other roles in Quidditch are basically fighting for like 30 minutes while having no practical impact to the result of the game

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It's been a while since I read them, but iirc, catching the snitch ends the games and gives a shitload of points to the catcher's team, but it doesn't automatically win the game if the opposing team is more points ahead than the team that gets the snitch. I think i' the books there are a few matches in which Harry can't catch the snitch but needs to keep the other team's catcher from catching it. Tho the amount of points the snitch gives is too high for it to occur often.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The quidditch world cup in book 4 happened this way. The Irish won by points but they did not catch the snitch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And there was a point in... 3, I think, where Harry was instructed to delay catching the snitch until they were at least 50 points up because they wouldn't have enough league points or something to progress if he didn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In the 1st movie, Oliver woods mistakenly said that if Harry catches the snitch they win I think that's where all the confusion comes from.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean in the books the matches typically score somewhere of 5-10 goals per team until Harry catches the snitch. So it is pretty much the catcher of the snitch gets to win the game.

Maybe we can give the benefit of the doubt that snitches used to be harder to catch before brooms became crazy fast and agile like the Nimbus and Firebolt series. It is mentioned that there were matches lasting for days, but in the book conveniently the matches never seem to last more than two hours or so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe the snitch was nerfed for school matches?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Could be, we know from 7 that they're bespoke for every match for catch dispute reasons, the artisans could probably tweak them to match a school league. That said, I don't believe Rowling put this much thought into it.

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