[HPforGrownups] Book 1: Learning to Fly

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 83302

> I don't know if this was every brought up, but a friend of mine
> brought this up and I don't remember reading about it (on this site).
> Is there a possibility that Neville's broom was hexed when he was
> learning to fly?  There is some real similarity with the way
> Neville's broom reacted and the way Harry broom reacted during the Q
> game.
> Sounds interesting to me, but I don't know how it could be.
> What do you all think?
> Thanks!
> Stephanie
>

Hmmm...

Could be that Quirrel tried to figure out which broom was most likely to be
used by Potter in the flying class, and hexed it.  When that didn't work, he
determined that he would have to actually see the broom Harry was on to make
sure he got the right one.  So he hit the broom Harry was on during the
Quidditch match to try and avoid suspicion by being "lost in the crowd."

(Madame Hooch may tend to have a "seating chart" of where to line up by your
brooms, and Quirrel tried to exploit that... But for some reason or another,
the places got switched around from the alphabetical by something as simple
as people gravitating towards friends they had already made.)


It's a thought...

Iggy McSnurd