We already know from JKR herself saying that magic is completely separate from the laws of physics. She has created a different universe, it is foolish of us to assume that everything in it works the same as in reality.

 

Harry Potter's world becomes boring if you detatch it from ours.

 

If the players only wear goggles, you'd think that bugs would be a problem.

 

Maybe wizard bugs are tasty?

 

Well we already know magical frogs taste like chocolate.

 

A broom is probably controlled with a combination of hand grips, legs and magical imprint. What is tiring about Quidditch is staying on the damn broom as you fly through the air at speeds of 100 mph. Think it like horseback riding for a second, or skiing as someone mentioned above.

In both cases, at the first glance, you just stay on the horse, respectively skis and do nothing. For anyone who has done any of those, you know it is not the case.

There seems to be a lot of badmouthing the Seeker position, with much undue praise being sung to chasers. In fact, I have even seen stories when Harry is made a chaser because being a seeker is thought by the author to be "so uncool".

The chasers, of which there are three (much less individual glory), score goals worth 10 points each.

The seeker catches a tiny, nearly invisible ball, which flies incredibly fast, has a tendency to appear at the most inopportune of times and has a perverse desire to hurt the seeker as it follows it. Said ball is also worth 150 points.

The seeker deserves all the glory he is supposed to get. I don't deny the contribution of the other members of the team, but it is the seeker which wins matches in essence. Is badmouthing seekers a fashion because he is not a team player and people like the nice, common equality that a chaser brings?

 

I've got no problem with the second method. I've got a problem with people believing the second is the only way to do it, or only using that method for some other reason. Because people solely using that approach is a short step from believing the whole shebang is real, and before you know it, you're MuggleNet.

True story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine.

Maybe I'm just being an overly-pedantic twat (yes, yes, can we skip the bit where you all quote that line and call me what I just called myself?) but I'd feel a hell of a lot better if people discussed possible explanations instead of the One True Explanation.

Now let us end this metadiscussion and instead ponder whether a female riding a broom around really fast (à la the three hot older chick chasers of Gryffindor) would qualify as a Kegel exercise.

 

Unless your chasers suck and you're down over 150 points by the time you catch it.

 

Because as a sport, this blows. If football was based around this system nobody would watch it, what a boring fucking game, the inclusion of a seeker makes the rest of the game almost totally pointless. Why not just have the two seekers fly around and catch the snitch and let everyone else go off and do something worthwhile?

It wouldn't be as bad if it were worth say 25 points or perhaps 50 at a push, but when you've got to score 15 times to negate the impact of the snitch everything a keeper or chasers do becomes worthless.

Unless you're Irish.

 

At which point the seeker becomes worthless, and the balance is off in the opposite direction.

I reckon the way to fix it would be to make the seeker get no points for catching the Snitch - it just ends the game. Makes it far more tactical, and keeps a balance.

 

I think one point might make the game amazing.

Imagine your chasers going crazy, play thrown between either end like some crazy seasaw and then the seeker has to judge exactly when to catch the snitch to win his team the game. Haha.

 

Huh, Taure got banned? Shame. What happened?

Anyway, like everyone's said, air resistance hurts like a bitch. I imagine players could develop forearm strength from chucking the Quaffle around or beating off Bludgers. Seekers, well, they probably get more resiliant from taking every form of painful abuse the other team can chuck at em.

On a somewhat related note, where did the goggles that Harry wears in the movies originate from? Were they ever mentioned in canon? They make sense from a real world perspective, but they seemed so alien when I first saw them that it took me awhile to finally realize, damn, that squinty git I'm watching barrel around is Harry.

 

Its apparently only temporary, till he gets sober.
Yeah the point of the fact is, Quiditch isn't just sitting your ass on a broom even if the broom is still doing most the work of moving.

 

Add to that all of the different feints, brakes, flips - all of which would require gymnast-level core strength.

And, y'know, hanging on for dear life on the off chance your cursed broom tries to shake you off.

 

And yet scrawny cupboard boy manages to do it?

At least for a while. Don't forget the beaters too. In canon it's mentioned the bats are quite heavy, and if you're slugging psychopathic balls across a god-knows-how-big field you'll be getting tired pretty quick