The Burrow (silly questions!)

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 24931

Steve wrote:

> They also own an orchard, 
> and it is in the orchard that they have a small paddock, where the 
> boys practice Quidditch (flying low so that the neighbors don't see 
> them and not using real Quidditch balls, which might escape and 
> frighten the Muggles in town).

I read CoS before PS/SS, and the first-chapter description of 
Quidditch didn't tell me much, so that when I got to the bit about 
using apples because the balls might escape, I was highly amused and 
intrigued.  I think it was a funnier way to encounter Quidditch than 
if I'd read them in order.

> the fact that a garden has gnomes is pretty 
> much a dead giveaway that it's a Wizard's garden. That's why they 
go 
> to the trouble to de-Gnome gardens.

. . . by hurling them into the next-door neighbor's garden . . .

I think it's a good thing if the Weasleys don't have a neighbor too 
close by.

Amy Z
who lives right across the road from a perfect field for Quidditch, 
very secluded--y'all come on over and play sometime