[HPforGrownups] Re: Can Muggles do Magic?

[Betty Landers]

No: HPFGUIDX 41392

There's also the example of what happens to the broom after Neville falls off it at the first flying lesson.  It keeps drifting toward the forbidden forest after he's fallen off.  I'm not sure brooms fly after their owners fall off, but perhaps they are subject to the law of inertia?  It doesn't say for certain, but perhaps Neville was facing the forbidden forest when he fell and the broom just kept going in that direction.
Betty
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From: "rosie" <crana at ntlworld.com>
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Can Muggles do Magic?


> 
> 
>   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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