We explaining the joke then?
The story takes place in Britain and the vast majority of the characters barely, if at all, know what Football(aka Soccer) is. Mr. Weasley the muggle “expert” doesn’t know what a rubber duck is for. They’re not gonna know shit about some American muggle sport.
The fact that the wizarding world is able to be this aloof about 99% of the population they live amongst is incredible. In a real world that would be due to a tireless cadre of extremely knowledgable and capable wizards working to keep them separate. Unfortunately the fact that some hack like Voldie could make such a mess of things so easily kinda disproves that. Therefore the wizarding world is the luckiest bunch of idiots ever.
The story takes place in Britain. What the fuck even is a chicago bull?!
This is why I only liked the earlier Harry Potter books, the setting is clearly just not built to be taken seriously… so Goblet of Fire and onward demanding as such just fails.
You hit the nail on the head. It’s sort of like Doctor Who in the sense that it asks of you, “don’t look at any of this stuff too closely, just enjoy the ride.” Unfortunately for Harry Potter the structure of the story eventually required a bit more seriousness and the world can’t provide it very well.
Which is why I think the movies are better than the books.
It’s…it’s a joke
An extremely american centric joke
The “design” of Quidditch is proof Rowling didn’t know anything about sports.
It’s proof she’s a horrible writer, she wants a scene to make Harry look good in front of his classmates… So she invents a sport that conveniently has a role where the focus can be on one person and that one thing this one person does is just magically more important than anything anyone else does… It creates two things, Harry’s image as a Gary Stu and the world’s most pointless fucking sport.
lmao instawin snitch
It’s not instawin, you can catch it and still lose
Can you though? Like the rules as presented in the books are just:
Snitch caught > get 1000pts > game ends
The only other way to get points is in intervals of what? 10? 25 maybe? Let’s assume it’s 25 because I can’t remember. That means you need to be up 40 fucking goals in order to tie if the other team gets the snitch. And that’s assuming your entire team doesn’t die from exhaustion seeing as the game doesn’t end until the snitch is caught lol
I don’t know why I remember that, but i think catching snitch was 150 points
It’s definitely not 1000 because in one of the books a character catches it but the team still loose
100% she wrote that part in just because people kept asking “well, doesn’t the team that catches it always win?” That is also why Neville knocks over a cupboard to destroy all time-travelling devices. I think she is either SUPER insecure or just not a very good writer.
mf show me one game where that happens
