that metaphor is stupid. it’s not in the parking lot. it’s like an additional goal on the field the teams must guard and can score, but also a bit like a homerun. i don’t say it’s a good idea, but it’s not as stupid as OP makes it seem.
Well the stands themselves are like 30 meters high, and the seekers zip below them as well. Maybe a hundred meters into the air seekers.
If the score you got the from the snitch wasn’t so massive it’d be much smarter. Like 5 goals ahead.
But one of the silliest things in the books is Viktor Krum catching the snitch while it means they lose the game instead of trying to buy his team time to score.
Imagine like proplayers in MoBas throwing the game to pull of a nice ulti or something just for flashiness. You’d get kicked off your team. They always try to the end, no matter how desperate.
But also the part about it technically being possible to play a match for weeks? That’s from real life. Cricket matches can technically last forever I think. Oh. Could. Not used any longer but they’re called “timeless tests” and one match lasted ten days.
So I think Rowling also wanted to shower how silly a sport can seem to an outsider instead of wanting to actually make a logical game which made a ton of sense.
Same with the money system. Sounded weird and silly?
Well…
Until 1971, British money was divided up into pounds, shillings and pence. One pound was divided into 20 shillings. One shilling was divided into 12 pennies. One penny was divided into two halfpennies, or four farthings.
that metaphor is stupid. it’s not in the parking lot. it’s like an additional goal on the field the teams must guard and can score, but also a bit like a homerun. i don’t say it’s a good idea, but it’s not as stupid as OP makes it seem.
2 miles up might as well be in the parking lot
Well the stands themselves are like 30 meters high, and the seekers zip below them as well. Maybe a hundred meters into the air seekers.
If the score you got the from the snitch wasn’t so massive it’d be much smarter. Like 5 goals ahead.
But one of the silliest things in the books is Viktor Krum catching the snitch while it means they lose the game instead of trying to buy his team time to score.
Imagine like proplayers in MoBas throwing the game to pull of a nice ulti or something just for flashiness. You’d get kicked off your team. They always try to the end, no matter how desperate.
But also the part about it technically being possible to play a match for weeks? That’s from real life. Cricket matches can technically last forever I think. Oh. Could. Not used any longer but they’re called “timeless tests” and one match lasted ten days.
So I think Rowling also wanted to shower how silly a sport can seem to an outsider instead of wanting to actually make a logical game which made a ton of sense.
Same with the money system. Sounded weird and silly?
Well…