Or we could go the other direction and assume that if non-verbal spells were so widely used Harry would be used to seeing people do magic without speaking. If they're faster it would make sense-you just think of what you want and it's there. But that doesn't seem to be the way it works. We never really see it even be faster, just sneakier.
Really, if we had to suffer through all this, couldn't the games have been made into a tool of economical characterization for bit characters, so that they'd seem a bit more memorable and individual? So, that we'd, you know, care when they or their family members are killed?
I think Hannah has been vaguely positive about Harry in the past, so that's supposed to earn us her sympathy!
But yeah, the Quidditch thing is so something that JKR put in without being quite as enthusiastic as she needed to be for a convincing sport. If it's the only sport kids should play it--she has the kids somehow play it with four people earlier in the book. But really the only times people play are at school in official games. It becomes synonymous with flying as opposed to playing an actual game, so Ginny is awesome because she took her brother's brooms out of the shed. Only why would that teach her to play Quidditch? That's like saying she's a great baseball player because she ran around the block a lot or even pitched balls in her back yard.
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Date: 2008-10-10 08:56 pm (UTC)Really, if we had to suffer through all this, couldn't the games have been made into a tool of economical characterization for bit characters, so that they'd seem a bit more memorable and individual? So, that we'd, you know, care when they or their family members are killed?
I think Hannah has been vaguely positive about Harry in the past, so that's supposed to earn us her sympathy!
But yeah, the Quidditch thing is so something that JKR put in without being quite as enthusiastic as she needed to be for a convincing sport. If it's the only sport kids should play it--she has the kids somehow play it with four people earlier in the book. But really the only times people play are at school in official games. It becomes synonymous with flying as opposed to playing an actual game, so Ginny is awesome because she took her brother's brooms out of the shed. Only why would that teach her to play Quidditch? That's like saying she's a great baseball player because she ran around the block a lot or even pitched balls in her back yard.