Has any team caught Snitch and lost?

In the 4th book (unfortunately, not in the 4th movie), Victor Krum caught the Snitch which ended the game, but his team lost.
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Can a team catch the snitch and still lose?

A team can catch the snitch and lose the game yet still when the cup if their points for the season are higher than the opponents.
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How many snitches has Harry caught?

Harry caught the snitch 7 times . People have suggested that he caught it more times because of the Quidditch at the Burrow .
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Does the snitch always get caught?

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150 points are gained by catching the Golden Snitch, which can only be caught by the Seeker. The game ends when the Golden Snitch is caught. The winning team is the one has the most points at the end of the game.
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Who caught the snitch?

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In Harry Potter's very first match, which was against Slytherin, he caught the Snitch in his mouth during the 1991–1992 school year. Upon his death, Albus Dumbledore left Harry the first golden snitch he had caught.
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Did Draco ever catch the Snitch?

After Johnson scored to make it 80-20, Malfoy plummeted towards the Snitch. Harry pursued him and took both hands off his broom to reach out and capture the Snitch, winning the Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor.
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What if no one catches the snitch?

Every goal is worth 10 points and the team whose Seeker captures the Golden Snitch earns an additional 150 points. This means if a team is more than 15 goals ahead, it can still win even if their Seeker fails to catch the Snitch.
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What snitch looks like?

With a golden finish, the Snitch might even be mistaken for a walnut at first glance, but the Quidditch ball also features a pair of fast-twitching wings. The Golden Snitch is essential to understanding the rules of playing Quidditch.
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Is the Golden Snitch a Horcrux?

Once rendered defunct as a Horcrux, the stone was placed inside a Golden Snitch and left to Harry Potter in Dumbledore's will. Its magic was last used to recall Lily, James, Sirius and Lupin as Harry prepared to face death. Voldemort himself never learned the significance of the stone.
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How did Harry know how do you open the snitch?

But at the end of the final book when Potter is walking to his death match with Lord Voldemort, he's finally able to open the snitch by whispering "I am about to die." Inside, he finds the resurrection stone, the stone that was part of the Tale of Three Brothers.
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Who betrayed Harry Potter?

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He basically made it his entire career to screw over the poor kid along with his entire family. Wormtail was the one who told Lord Voldemort where the Potter's were staying so if it wasn't for his actions, Harry wouldn't have grown up as an orphan.
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Did Harry swallow the snitch?

Though he managed to stay on his broom through a combination of his own skill, Severus Snape casting a counter-jinx, and a distraction provided by Hermione Granger, Harry was still swung wildly through the air in the ordeal. As a result of this, Harry accidentally "caught" the Golden Snitch in his mouth.
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Who defends against bludgers Quidditch?

It is the Beaters' job to defend their teammates from the Bludgers; they carry short wooden clubs, which they use to knock the Bludgers away from their teammates and/or toward the opposing team.
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Is Quidditch a real sport?

Quidditch is more widely known as the sport played by fictional character Harry Potter, but the sport has evolved into the real world and now its official league announced a huge shift away from its creator.
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How long was the longest Quidditch match?

The longest Quidditch match lasted about three months

Because a Quidditch match can only end when the Seeker catches the Snitch, Oliver Wood once told us that the longest Quidditch match on record was about three months. They had to keep bringing on subs so the players could get a bit of rest!
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Is Quidditch flawed?

But here's my problem with the Potterphiles and their mugglized game: Quidditch is perhaps the most flawed, poorly constructed sport ever created. There are bludger-sized holes in the framework of the game that make it uninteresting, static, and altogether awful.
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Why is Dumbledore's hand Black?

After Dumbledore returned to Hogwarts, he used Godric Gryffindor's Sword to crack the Resurrection Stone so as to destroy it as a Horcrux. While the act did destroy the ring as one of Riddle's Horcruxes, it did not stop the fatal curse. The curse gave Dumbledore's hand a withered black look, as though it had died.
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What is inside a bludger?

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A Bludger is a round, jet black ball, made of iron, and is used in the wizarding sport of Quidditch. It is ten inches in diameter.
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Why does Dumbledore wear the ring?

The temptation of being able to use the Stone was too much for Dumbledore to resist. He put on the ring because he thought the stone would give him a chance to see his dead mother and sister again (DH33,DH35).
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What was inside the snitch?

The first Snitch Harry caught returned in a vital way

It turned out that the Snitch actually contained another of the Deathly Hallows: the Resurrection Stone. We also learnt that Snitches contained 'flesh memory', meaning they only react to the person who first touched them.
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Why does Quidditch make sense?

“It makes total sense. There's glamour in chasing an elusive lucky break, but teamwork and persistence can still win the day. Everyone's vulnerable to blows of fate and obstructive people, and success means rising above them. Quidditch is the human condition.
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Does Quidditch have a time limit?

There is no set time limit to the game because of this, but the Golden Snitch is usually caught within an hour, although this can depend upon the fitness and experience of participants.
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Can beaters score in Quidditch?

Beaters have probably existed in the game of Quidditch since the introduction of the Bludger. Beaters are not meant to be goal scorers, and there is no indication that any Beater has ever handled the Quaffle during gameplay.
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