Magic in the Bible / Broomsticks

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rain Tor <polterchair at y...> wrote:
> I also read an article in the news about British
> Witches ("real" ones)who have decided to curse the
> Harry Potter movie because, they think JK has the
> whole broomstick-riding thing backwards, literally. 
> Apparantly the surviving depictions of witches on
> broomsticks that date to the 16th century, place the
> Broom part, up front. Indeed, perhaps the
> reorientation of the broomstick, so that the rider
> faced the stick end, in the witch archetype was only a
> recent development. 
> 
> (one that had to interpolate the discovery of
> aerodynamics and principles of propulsion, I presume) 
 
> --- prefectmarcus at y... wrote:

I shudder to think about a wizard riding a broomstick through 
turbulence before the cushioning charms were invented.  Urrgh...

J.