Ron's Summer Job and broom models

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No: HPFGUIDX 7711

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
When Charlie got them the 
> job, Ron thought it was the best possible summer job, but now he is 
> not so sure. The owner of Ron's beloved Chudley Cannons decided to 
> cash in on the ever-increasing need for childcare by starting a 
> summer Quidditch day camp for primary school children (presumably 
> they already run summer Quidditch Camps for secondary school 
students 
> who are serious about Quidditch, but that is quite separate). 
> 
> 
> Ron, now 15, has the job of shepherding eight 10- and 11- year-olds 
> who are at the Basic Quidditch level. He has to escort them to all 
> their classes, lunch, and naptime, while making sure that they 
> don't kill themselves or someone else or destroy too much property.
> He gets to wear a Camp Cannons uniform and fly a decent broom with 
a 
> 'property of Chudley Cannons' label, but he also gets to wonder 
> whether he himself was really such a pain only three years ago.
> What Ron and Ginny both like best about the job is the pay: ten 
> Galleons a week each for eight weeks. They'll be going back to 
> Hogwarts with money in their pockets. Ron keeps reminding himself 
> that that is enough for each of them to buy a decent used Comet 260 
> or for both of them to club together to buy a new Comet 260 or a 
> decent used Nimbus 2000 or Cleansweep Seven. Or, his mental voice 
> reminds him in his own tone of sarcasm, to put a down payment on a 
> new Nimbus 2001 or Cleansweep Eight, but they wouldn't be able to 
> make even one monthly payment....  I doubt that Ron has even asked 
> Ginny whether a racing broomstick is what she wants to do with her 
> money.

Perfect; I'd love to see this done as a fanfic, rather than just a 
treatment!
As for the type of broom he wants; I always thought that the Nimbus 
2000 would've had an awfully short production run, unless it was kept 
around as a cheaper model after the 2001 came out, maybe even with a 
reduction in price (they do this with computers all the time; the low 
end model is last year's middle-of-the-line or the top model of three 
years ago)