Broomsticks And Owls

by **Athena Appleton** » Saturday 31 January 2004 7:15:42pm

makes sense... so, james potter was chaser?

by **Meg Boyd** » Sunday 1 February 2004 4:12:26pm

no one really knows...I think in the movie he was a seeker but i think he was a chaser in the books (i really need to re read these books, my details are leaving me)

by **Athena Appleton** » Sunday 1 February 2004 7:53:41pm

k, so it's safe to assume it's not important what position he played if they changed it in the movies... from an interview I saw with J.K. Rowing and the screenwriter, she pretty much stops him from making changes that affect the plotlines...

by **Broccoli** » Monday 2 February 2004 10:15:39am

Meg Boyd wrote:no one really knows...I think in the movie he was a seeker but i think he was a chaser in the books (i really need to re read these books, my details are leaving me)

JK said in an interview that he was a chaser, but it's not mentioned in the books.

by **Meg Boyd** » Monday 2 February 2004 11:33:25pm

maybe that is why I didn't remember reading it, eh?

by **Aberforth** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 12:01:31pm

Broccoli wrote:
Meg Boyd wrote:no one really knows...I think in the movie he was a seeker but i think he was a chaser in the books (i really need to re read these books, my details are leaving me)

JK said in an interview that he was a chaser, but it's not mentioned in the books.

In OotP when Harry goes into Snape's memories in the pensieve, he sees James playing with the snitch, seeing that he had excellent reflexes. If he was a chaser, why would he be interested in playing with the snitch?

Plus, seeker is the key position as he/she can win the game despite being many goals down, so James' fame and talents on the quidditch pitch would not be so admired if he were a lowly chaser. I mean, there are three of them per team, making 12 in total - why single him out?

by **Aberforth** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 12:03:14pm

Hermione wrote:I don't think Rowling will keep Harry from playing Quidditch. Not only is it his stress reliever, it's also provided him with a means of escape, if I remember correctly. Why would she want to take that away from him? And I don't think that any injury can stop him from playing Quidditch . . . unless it occurs somewhere down under, which I doubt would happen in the books.

Maybe he blasted his buttocks off when stashing his wand in his back pocket - forgetting Moody's lessons on basic wand safety :razz:

by **Athena Appleton** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 5:29:07pm

Aberforth wrote:
In OotP when Harry goes into Snape's memories in the pensieve, he sees James playing with the snitch, seeing that he had excellent reflexes. If he was a chaser, why would he be interested in playing with the snitch?

So? I mean, I know lots of people who toss a ball around whether they actually play sports or not... It could be that when he tried out, he tried out for chaser because that position was open and he wanted to play Quidditch, but the position of Seeker wasn't open. Maybe he plays seeker when it's just him and his buddies (like the Weasleys play among themselves on holiday)... plus, he "nicked" the snitch... he didn't get it to practice... If J.K. Rowling said it in an interview it's about 99.9% chance that it's correct. James was chaser.

:grin:

Hermione wrote:unless it occurs somewhere down under, which I doubt would happen in the books.

Fred and George had some down under discomfort in the fifth book... :grin:

by **Aberforth** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 6:09:33pm

Maybe Harry will get a magic eye like Mody. Could come in handy for detecting death eaters. Maybe all aurors should be fitted with a magic eye.

Make them easy to spot though...

by **Ferrus** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 6:52:19pm

And its not like Tonks and Kingsley have one...

by **Centaur Lord** » Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:54:09pm

Alright, i dont know if anyone has said this already, because the topic has drifted so far....but anyway, i think that the injury might be a MENTAL injury, not a physical one. What about when Harry learns that his father was not the wonderful person that Harry had always thought him to be? This certainly affected him a lot. He kept dwelling on what he had seen in the pensieve, and it haunted him for the rest of the year (and presumably still will). Harry now feels "cold and empty at the thought of him" (cant remember the exact quote), so i think that this may be the injury he has sustained. Am i on the right track, or was this complete rambling?

by **Athena Appleton** » Thursday 26 February 2004 12:03:16am

haha, no, i think that made sense...

was he still feeling upset about his father even after talking to Lupin and Sirius about it?

by **pinky p** » Thursday 26 February 2004 1:21:44am

yes, i think he was. lupin (or sirius, one of the two...) said james was just being a normal teenage boy, it was nothing to fret over, but that bothered harry even more, because he certainly wasn't doing anything of the sort, and he's a teenage boy (though not a normal one...)

anywho... maybe he gets another scar? nah, not likely. jk's original enough not to do the same thing twice

by **Athena Appleton** » Thursday 26 February 2004 4:43:05am

okay, i really couldn't remember...

he doesn't do things like hex people out of boredom, but he does behave like an arrogant 15-year-old...

I don't know, I just really disliked Harry in Order of the Phoenix... he had one baaaaaaaaaad attitude...

by **Nobby** » Thursday 26 February 2004 12:13:31pm

Get used to it athena harrys gonna be more angry in book 6. hes a teenager and has a lot on his plate. of course his attitude is gonna be bad.

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