I thought this was exactly the point, they make fun of the muggles but it's their society which is completely bonkers
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Just let Dumbledore divide the points between the teams like for the house cup. Totally fair.
The house points are supposed to be displayed by large hourglasses with rubies, emeralds, etc. falling down or floating up. One billion making their way through the hourglass over the course of months? decades? would be hilarious.
for a few days.
The House Cup was always much dumber than Quidditch imo
I appreciated that after a few years they all stopped caring in the least about the house cup, and it went to other houses as well. It was hacky.
I think the movies in particular do a poor job showing how hard the snitch is supposed to be to catch. Games literally went on for days according to the books because the seekers weren't pro-level generational talents like Harry.
Doesn't that kinda enforce the point that the rule/function is stupid?
No because they need a way to end the game
Time limit is a solution, but it's not the only one. Time limit would change the game so much.
Do you want basketball on broomsticks or Quidditch?
In Quidditch, you can have a strategy of never scoring a goal but just playing keep away until your team catches the snitch. It's risky but could be a strategy.
Time limit would be the better team scoring a couple goals and playing keepaway.
You could add shot clocks...
I think she was always shooting for 'surreal'. She was pretty successful at it in many WW aspects, but it seems she missed the mark on a few subjects, especially sports and competition.
Imagine if he could actually see!
Wasn't there also at least one famus game that went on for a few years.
But then how could we show Harry Potter as the chosen one?
If he sealed the goal ring with his massive... wand?
At least "cylinder stuck in ring" would be much easier to solve for Mme Pomfrey.
Just don't let Gilderoy Lockhart fix it.
"Help! I'm stuck in the goal ring!"
Maybe the more points you have the easier it gets the see and/or catch the snitch.
Can someone please tell me which spell I need to cast to be able to see these "failed to load media 😢" posts ?!
Ctrl-Shift-R does it for me on desktop.
So, I was on Voyager and decided to try the other open source Lemmy apps. Namely : Eternity, Interstellar, Jerboa, Raccoon, and Thunder.
And it turns out, all of them can show me this post except Voyager !
Wtf ?! Why have I been suffering on the one shitty app that can't handle dank memes ?!
Hi, I’m the voyager dev. Are you on android or iOS, and what version? Also are you browsing with the exact same account on each app? It should be working fine :/
Is it something to do with webp?
Interesting, they work for me on Voyager most of the time, on lemm.ee. This post certainly shows. Were you using the native app, pwa, or just website? What operating system?
I'm not the developer of Voyager, but I love it and would love to help the developer fix bugs if we can track down what's happening
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It might be because I was young when I read Harry Potter, but the whole series was magical for me exactly because of stuff like this.
Just ending the game would have been a good way to implement the snitch, tbh. It would have more strategy, more reasons to block the other seeker when you're behind. If there really had to be extra points, it should have been worth 10 points or something.
Yeah that's the reason quidditch is a dumb fucking sport. You can be wiping the floor with the other team, but if their guy gets lucky and catches the parking lot frog, it's all for nothing. They've won despite having played an objectively much worse game.
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