OK, so how about those Brooms Sticks......

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4824

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:
> 
> And speaking as a guy, I can guarantee you that there is NO WAY I'd 
> ride a broomstick unless there were some kind of charm involved to 
> make it comfortable. 

how do you guys ride bicycles? in marathons, no less....



Think about the acceleration too...nothing to 
> hang onto except a slippery broom handle? There has to be some kind 
> of dampening field involved, similar to the one protecting people 
> aboard the starship Enterprise when it goes zooming around the 
galaxy 
> (Trek fans will know what I mean, seriously obessive Trek fans will 
> know the specs and schematics of the system and own the tech 
> manual...guess which kind of fan I am

I want to know why the Starship does not get SEAT belts! And I keep
being met with derision every time I bring it up..but does everyone 
always have to be flung around the bridge? 

Re: Quidditch robes -- robes may mean something different....perhaps
there are ceremonial Quidditch robes that one parades on the field 
with (the ones Ludo Bagman proudly wears at the world Quidditich 
cups), and then there are the similarly colored actual suits for
broomstick riding....JKR may cite "magic", but the robes would
be aerodynamically contraindicated..yes?

Susan