Divination book title

[Catlady (Rita Prince]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, KEN ADAMS <kenadams705 at ...> wrote:
>
> I, like Geoff, have never heard either of these expressions.
> I, like Geoff, live in the English west country, where JKR spent
> much of her childhood and student years. I suspect that she
> hadn't heard these expressions either. So the evidence leads me
> to agree with Geoff that JKR was referring to crystal balls
> rather than unknown idioms on another continent.

While I feel certain that the author of BROKEN BALLS: WHEN FORTUNE TURN FOUL meant Crystal Balls, I also very strongly suspect that Rowling wouldn't have invented that title if she didn't intend for older readers to be reminded that 'balls' is slang for 'testicles'. Like the first reference to Aberforth being prosecuted for practising inappropriate charms on a goat, where references to bestiality are all in the reader's mind.