Water and broom travel

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 44683

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Bill Hack" <viper3082002 at y...> wrote:

> all?) I wonder if, bases on the Canon, or lack there of, if running 
> water serves as an insulator to whatever power keeps a broom or 
> Axminster carpet, in the air. You could coast across a stream on a 
> broom, with only a small loss of altitude, but an ocean might just
> be too big.

I really doubt it. I really think they were reluctant to cross oceans 
on broomsticks simply because of having no place to land IN CASE 
something went wrong (doesn't QTTA say something about broomsticks 
not having been repliable enough?) or the broomstick ran out of 
power. That it was just as likely that the something would go wrong 
flying the same distance over dry land, but there would be someplace 
to land. I suppose if they were careful to bring Gillyweed when 
attempting transatlantic broom flight ... do we know of any warmth 
spells in canon?