Broomsticks (was: Question about the Ministry of Magic

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 8187

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Dinah" <betty_belladonna at f...> 
wrote:

> Okay, so we have 
> 1. flying cars, which are a no-no
> 2. flying carpets, which are forbidden, too
> 3. flying motorbike, ditto
> 4. flying broomsticks, which are allowed.
> And last time I looked, those were "Muggle-Artefacts", too.

These broomsticks are not Muggle artifacts; they would be of No Use 
for sweeping: for one thing, they have Twigs instead of Broomstraws. 
JKR is always going on about the twigs, such as the Firebolt having 
each twig individually selected, and Draco asserting that Weasleys 
have to save up twig by twig to buy a broomstick. I suspect they have 
other different from Muggle brooms (Muggle brooms like the ones that 
Filch keeps in what the book calls a "broom closet").