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

[suehpfan]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Mary Ann" <macloudt at y...> 
wrote:
> Heidi wrote:
> 
> > > <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?
> 
> > It's especially stupid as there's a diagram in qtta showing the 
> > cushioning charm on a broom, which I think explains the balance 
> issue. 
> > And I assume the backwards thing relates to that witch who got 
> some 
> > publicity a few years back saying they were riding them backwards.
> > 
> > WhatEVER. Sigh.
> 
> Ah, so I *do* remember a witch saying just such a thing. <vbg>  I 
> can remember watching a program which mentioned this fact and had 
an 
> interview with probably the same witch Heidi mentioned, and it also 
> showed a carving on the side of a very old church pew (of all 
> places) of a witch riding her broomstick bristles-forward.
> 
> That being said, it's *fantasy*, for crying out loud!  If someone 
is 
> all wound up about the folk in the Wizarding World riding their 
> brooms in an unaerodynamical fashion then perhaps it's time for 
that 
> person to have a brandy and a lie-down.
> 
> Mary Ann
> (who could do with a brandy and a lie-down herself, albeit for 
> different reasons)

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one completely disgusted with this 
question.  It seems almost belittling to me, could they possibly be 
wasting the question on purpose?

Sue, who realizes it has been way too long since she was in high 
school to judge.