James Potter's quidditch position
Mark Townsend
noticed that most people seem to think that James Potter was a chaser or was
in some other house than Gryffindor...
I've yet to find a reference to his quidditch position in the books, but on
the DVD of the Philosopher's stone and look at the Quidditch shield that
Hermione shows to Ron and Harry... It clearly shows that James was on the
Gryffindor team and played as the seeker. You also see the names of two
other team-members although not their positions. All three are marked with
dates but I don't know if this signifies the years they came to Hogwarts or
the years in which Gryffindor won the cup or whatever. James' plaque is
marked 1970. Then there's R.J.H. King - 1959 and M.G. McGonagall - 1971.
Mark
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Dragon Friend
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> I've been hanging around this news-group for a few weeks now and I've
> noticed that most people seem to think that James Potter was a chaser
> or was in some other house than Gryffindor...
>
> I've yet to find a reference to his quidditch position in the books,
> but on the DVD of the Philosopher's stone and look at the Quidditch
> shield that Hermione shows to Ron and Harry... It clearly shows that
> James was on the Gryffindor team and played as the seeker. You also
> see the names of two other team-members although not their positions.
> All three are marked with dates but I don't know if this signifies
> the years they came to Hogwarts or the years in which Gryffindor won
> the cup or whatever. James' plaque is marked 1970. Then there's
> R.J.H. King - 1959 and M.G. McGonagall - 1971.
>
> Mark
Mark, you should have also noticed that the information as to James'
Quidditch position came from an interview that JK Rowling gave where she was
asked the question. If she doesn't know what position her character played
then no one does ;-)
The movies by the way are not 'canon' only the books are and possibly
anything that JK Rowling reveals in interviews ;-)
If you haven't already been welcomed officially then please allow me to say
hi & welcome to you, you know where everything is :-)
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Earwax
<mark.to...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>I've been hanging around this news-group for a few weeks now and I've
>noticed that most people seem to think that James Potter was a chaser
JKR stated James played Chaser in an interview. But the actual
position must not be important to the story if she let them change it
in the movie.
>or was
>in some other house than Gryffindor...
No, no, no! that's only a radical fringe group that thinks he wasn't
in Gryffindor.
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Mark Townsend
> Quidditch position came from an interview that JK Rowling gave where she
was
> asked the question. If she doesn't know what position her character
played
> then no one does ;-)
>
> The movies by the way are not 'canon' only the books are and possibly
> anything that JK Rowling reveals in interviews ;-)
>
> If you haven't already been welcomed officially then please allow me to
say
> hi & welcome to you, you know where everything is :-)
Thanks Dragon, it's nice to be here... Can't wait for June 21st!
I realise the whole 'Cannon' thing (In fact, moving Harry's Birthday so it
was September the 1st really upset me about the films) but I know J.K. has
been very involved with the films, so I'm assuming she would have corrected
it if it was wrong. Has everyone seen the interview or are we taking
someone's word and they might be mistaken?
Or did James start off as a Chaser and then switch to Seeker when the old
seeker left and they couldn't find a better one than him? Maybe they found a
good chaser and promoted him.
I'm not trying to create trouble, I just like my facts clear.
Oh, and by the way, do you thing the 'M. McGonagall' that was on the
Quidditch shield was any relation to our Professor Minerva?