My father, otherwise a fan, hates Quidditch, and with some justification.
It's a sport that is entirely designed to allow Harry Potter (who is the Michael Jordan of Quiddich without any of the practice) to win a game entirely by himself. And if we look at his sporting record, we see that, indeed, Gryffindor wins all the games in which Harry plays the entire match, and loses all of those where he is absent or somehow knocked out of the game.
The other 6 people on the team apart from the Seeker are for all intents and purposes window dressing. The entire game is essentially just Harry Potter and the Snitch. If we were to compare this to baseball, it's as if the regular game had an additional rule where if the designated hitter hits a home run, it it is worth 15 runs. And also the game immediately ends. And he is expected to hit one home run every single game.
"But the other people are important," you say. "The Beaters are needed to chase of the Bludgers, and three Chasers and the Keeper are need to spend the entire game focusing on the worthless ball."
The entire purpose of the Bludgers seem to be to provide a function for the Beaters, kind of like Keynes's public works projects employing workers to dig holes and fill them in. The Chasers seem like folks from a plausible broomstick rugby game who accidentally end up sharing the same field as the "chase the golden ball" guy, and to much the same effect.
A more accurate name for the sport would be "Harry-wins-it-all," though I recognize that it lacks some of the poetry.
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