Why does just having that Triwizard Tournament mean nobody gets to play Quidditch for the whole year?
Boy, I wish I knew the answer to this one. No one got to play for the whole year. And no, it’s not just that they play and we just don’t hear about it. According to the book, Harry wishes at one point that he had Quidditch to take his mind off his worries. So no Quidditch, all year. I do have one suggestion, but it’s pretty pathetic. Their Quidditch field is out of operation for the fall because they are using it to store dragons on and it’s knocked out again in the spring for growing the maze (and that, according to the book, takes months.) You don’t play Quidditch much in the winter, the weather is too bad. But think about it…no Quidditch for an entire school year. What about people like Harry for whom Quidditch is an all-consuming passion? What about the folks who look to start a career as a Quiddich player, like Oliver Wood did? Is it fair to just drop the sports program, the sport which everyone in the wizarding world is mad about, so that a couple of students can compete in a t
