[HPforGrownups] Re: Madam Hooch & Flying Lessons

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 38755


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From: "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at wicca.net>

SNIP

> Incidentally, that scene in the movie irritated me very much.
There
> she was, running after Neville being flown away with, looking
aghast
> when he got stuck on top of a statue and then fell from it...
"Madam
> Hooch! Are you a witch or aren't you?!" WHY didn't she just
pull her
> wand and put some levitation charm (Nevillium Leviosa?) on
Neville
> and steer him down as gently as an autumn leaf drifting on the
breeze?

Perhaps that's why she's a flying teacher and not a Charms
teacher? *smirk*  My Driver's Ed teacher certainly couldn't do
anything much else than teach driving... It might be a case of
she's a witch who is not particularly skilled at Charms...
Although, you'd think that with a class that has so much
potential for significant injury, they'd have hired a teacher who
can do rescues on and off a broom (and why didn't she hop on her
own broom for that matter and zoom up to grab him? It certainly
took long enough for his robes to tear and let him start falling
again!)

Bernadette

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival."
-- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963).