# Fictional worlds that survive close scrutiny

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**Created:** [February 7, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-worlds-that-survive-close-scrutiny/680718 "2014-02-07T01:56:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-worlds-that-survive-close-scrutiny/680718/51 "2014-02-17T22:07:47Z")

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Well, Lamia is in a bit of a bind: if she posts that she doesn’t really want to discuss it, _she’s providing another post_. Anyway Lamia’s claims are pretty clear: a person who finds all spectator sports to be idiotic won’t be _particularly_ squicked by the wildly imbalanced Quidditch rules. Those with a passing familiarity of sports (like myself) will raise an eyebrow though. Normal American men who regularly view spectator sports (unlike myself) may have stronger opinions.

I couldn’t figure out what Rowling was up to, but the other thread presents an hypothesis:

> [@harry potter stuff that bothers you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-stuff-that-bothers-you/680466/32):
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> Re Quidditch in general: I’ve always had the feeling that Rowling is a non-sports-fan, in fact a disliker of sports – and has had fun inventing, in Quidditch, a completely insane, wildly complicated, and overall impractical sport; which nonetheless has large numbers of fanatical devotees, and “learned scholars” about its intricacies.

At any rate for myself the 150 point award to the Snitch took me out of the story momentarily and I furthermore found the 30 page expositions on the game to be boring. I was surprised frankly, as Rowling was an otherwise adept writer. At any rate, methinks this discussion belongs in the Rowling thread: this is a jarring consideration IMHO (though hardly fatal), not requiring particularly close scrutiny.  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17074038#post17074038](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17074038#post17074038)

ETA: Ninja’d by Lemur866

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