Re: Open questions

David Sueme wrote:
On Nov 6, 5:15 pm, mueckelein <mueckel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

Anybody else have open
questions

Either this was dismissed as obvious before I began reading this
group, or I have missed something obvious...

Can't you devide quidditch scores by ten and get exactly the same
result? 1 for a goal and 15 for the snitch?

I must be missing something here.

For a story-internal explanaion, it may be that the relative values of different features have varied over time. I suspect the inspiration for Quiddich in many respects comes from Rugby, being the typical boarding school game that is quite violent and fairly complicated. The two different flavours (League and Union) allocate different numbers of points to try, conversion, drop goal and penalty. It might be that at some point in its history, the scoring system was rationalised, and although the numbers all came out as multiples of 10, nobody wanted to break with tradition so much as to take the factor of 10 out.

For a story-external version, JKR can't count, as has been demonstrated many times.

Robin
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