[HPforGrownups] Re: Can Muggles do Magic?

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 41391



  Corinth wrote: 

  > >  Brooms don't keep flying once their rider
  > >dismounts (mentally picturing wizards chasing runaway brooms, much
  > >like those humorous skiing incidents when you see a single ski sliding
  > >down the mountain). 

  And Ksnidget responded:

  > When Harry falls off his broom from the dementors his
  > broom keeps on flying and ends up tangled in the 
  > Whomping Willow where it gets crushed.
  > 
  > I do not know if this is a different situation from a willing dismount,
  > but is comparable to the run away ski situation.
  > 
  > Ksnidget <who wonders what enchanment always make a loose
  > water ski wander off towards the nearest aligator in waterways
  > that contain them..."That log, by my ski, it winked at me">

  Corinth:
  "Well, yes, I suppose the ski example wasn't the best comparison.  I
  always got the impression that Harry's broom more or less fell into
  the Whomping Willow, not directly down, but continuing its path like
  any moving projectile, wizard made or muggle made, would.  It didn't
  fly on its own.  It fell, with style :) "

  I don't have my books with me but doesn't Harry's broom get blown into the Whomping Willow by the wind? If so, then this *is* the same as the ski exampls :)

  Rosie


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