Had I actually made the squad, I would have been in quite a quandary, yes. However, I estimated the likelihood of that to be relatively small. A much greater likelihood was that I might, by trying out, learn something from the experience that might serve to illuminate my work on analysis of Quidditch statistics in some unforeseen manner.

Learning and research is not always done with the mind alone, Padma; sometimes it behooves those of us in Ravenclaw to remind ourselves that there is wisdom in the learning of the body which can complement the explorations of the mind in ways that bring both to much more rewarding efflorescence.