Ask JK -Backward Brooms .... say what?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "coolbeans3131"
<coolbeans3131 at y...> wrote:
> http://www.nwemail.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=78054
> 
> "The question Victoria High pupils will be posing to millionaire Ms 
> Rowling is: "Do you realise Harry & co sit on their broomsticks 
> backwards and that you can't balance like that?""
> 
> What a freakin waste of a question!  Is there any hope the other 9 
> won't suck too?
> 
> Joj

bboy_mn:

Well, they can ask any question they want, but I have to ask, what the
sam-hill does that question even mean? 

Who's to say they sit on the broomsticks backwards? By what standard
is that determined? I've never in my life seen a witch on a broom that
didn't fit my mental image of how Harry & Co ride their brooms. And,
given that we have nothing but mental images to go by, how do they
know which way Harry faces on his broom. And finally, how would the
direction you face affect your balance in any way? Facing the handle
or facing the sweep, I really don't see the difference.

I whole heartedly agree, what a waste of a question. 

I can't prove it, but I suspect this is a question pushed by a teacher
more than by the students. 

Let's remember too, that these are UK students and that the UK version
of the books don't have any illustrations in them. 

Just a few sad thoughts.

bboy_mn