Wizard's Quidditch Should be Banned

Thank you for a competent rebuttal. 1. Brilliance of the Game.The Idea of quiddiitch is that there are 4 different kinds of players with different ideal builds and tactics, yet no-one is more important than the other theoretically. The snitch is designed to be hard to catch, so the seekers need to be quick, agile and sharp-eyed. The quaffle needs to be thrown into the hoops, so the chasers must be good at throwing and passing; they also need to work together to get the quaffle into the hoops. The keeper has to guard not one but three hoops, so he needs to be extremely aware as to where the quaffle is. The beaters need to be strong and able to whack the bludgers hard enough to deter a chaser. While the snitch does get a lot of points and wins the game they are very fast and small so that gives the chasers and keepers responsibility as well. Football (Soccer) on the other hand has two different people, defenders and attackers and people can easuly swithch between the two while in quidditch there much more diversity. According to acedemic D. Bruno Starrs, the game is also unique because it can encompass different size/builds and genders into one team. 2. It's just so popularPro has brought up valid points, but no-one in the wizarding world seems to care. They know about the snitch and broken bones yet they love it anyway. It has been said repeatedly throughout Harry's biography that quidditch is the greatest sport in the world. It has been played for a millenium and has been incorporated by wizarding schools despite the dangers it can bring to players. Apart from the danger argument, no argument says that we should ban the sport; just because you think the game is flawed, doesn't mean we should remove the fun that people are having with the sport.Rebuttals:The Stupid, stupid Snitch"There are only two cases in which the seeker caught the Snitch but still lost," yes but for this to be correct you first have to assume that every single quidditch game was reported in Harry's biography which of course is not true. "However fast the Snitch may be, I doubt the opponent can score 16 quaffle goals before the seeker catches the Snitch." Well, in Harry's biography it rarely happens, but consider that the people have brooms of different speeds and it isn't said that the snitch is regularly updated to be faster relative to brooms. Meanwhile, in the Bulgaro-Irish match, all the players have firebolts, the current fastest broom, and in that fight, Bulgaria got the snitch but Ireland won."There are "Rare occasions in which the game lasts months", [3] and that may seem exciting, since the players are trying to catch up so that when they catch the Snitch, they win, but these "Rare occasions" get very boring." Ok, that might get boring but how do you know. Have you attended a month-long match? Before the 1994 Bulgaro-Irish match, Authur Weasley said that some matches last months and Harry responds with "Wow, hope that happens this time." Now that doesn't say whether he wouldn't get bored but it still something.The Goal isn't even to win! "The goal of Quidditch is actually to gain the most points at the end of the year." While that's true for hogwarts, official competitions do not do this. So if we changed it to how competitions did it then this wouldn't be a problem, so why ban the sport?Maybe if this debate was, 'Quidditch is a stupid/flawed sport.' Then your argument would be relevant.No one follows the rulesFirst, it should be, no Slytherin follows the rules and that's just kind of expected. Out of the list of some of the fouls mentioned in Harry's biography, only five of them were ever commited at his time in school. Of the 700 total fouls, "most are now impossible to commit as there is a ban on using wands against an opponent (imposed in 1538)," So there isn't really anything to worry about when it comes to those fouls but what you're suggesting here is that we should not allow anyone to play quidditch becuase of those unruly slytherins.DEATH BY QUIDDITCH"As seen in the football death thing in my opponent's source, only ONE CHILDREN is recorded to have died." Then show me the source that any child in recent history has died due to quidditch. "Plus, the movies/books are unrealistic. Harry/Anyone else seriously shouldn't have survived falls from their broomsticks. People can't even survive 7-story falls [4], no way they can survive a 100-feet fall." I know they are unrealistic, because it's fantasy world set in our own. Dragons, Giants and flying brooms are also unrealistic. So for them surviving long falls, I only have to say this: Poetic License.DANGEROUS WORLD"Plus, you only learn DatDA during your fifth year. Harry and the other studnets are in danger for 4/7 of their years, yeah, that's totally not dangerous. [3]" Sorry but I am confused. Students learn DADA from first year not fifth year, could you clarify what you mean in this statement.MAGICAL HEALING PROPERTIES"Nobody would play Quidditch with such risks (with the possible exception of Gryffendor), but especially, nobody would play against Slytherien (again, with the exception of Gryffendor), since Slytheriens break so many rules so many times." Well that's where your wrong, hufflepuffs and ravenclaws have definitly being playing quidditch at hogwarts. In fact, hufflepuff beat Griffondor twice in Harry's time at school."Even the muggles are smart enough to know that--in their "quidditch" they even made it only 30 points"Do not let the death-eaters hear you say that.http://en.wikipedia.org...;http://en.wikipedia.org...Harry Potters Biography:Volume 3Volume 4Volume 6