Another Flint?

[DinaYS at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23023

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tandy, Heidi" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Haggridd [mailto:jkusalavagemd at y...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:54 PM
> > To: HPforGrownups at y...
> > Subject: [HPforGrownups] Another Flint!
> > 
> > 
> > Real-To:  "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...>
> > 
> > I think I have found a Flint in the very beginning of PS/SS.  
When 
> > Hagrid goes to Harry on the rock in the sea, he tells Harry that 
he 
> > flew there, but there was no broomstick.  In QTTA, it says that 
> > wizards and witches cannot fly by themselves.  Hagrid and 
> > harry had to 
> > take the boat back.  Isn't this another Flint?
> > 
> 
> Not if he flew by Charmed!"Umbrella"...
> 
> 
> (and to make this more than a 1-liner...)
> We've seen that things can be charmed to be other than what we 
muggles think
> they are. If one can charm a car to fly, why not charm an umbrella 
to fly in
> the same way? 
> QTTA also says that wizards & witches could've charmed other things 
to fly,
> but the ease of hiding a broomstick made that the most reasonable 
thing to
> use. 
> 
> heidi tandy
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I always got the impression that Hagrid had put the peices of his 
wand in the unbrella, he tends to grip it whenever anyone mentions 
his expultion or his wand, he also taps the brick to get into Diagon 
ally with his umbrella.

-Dina