Muddy quidditch? (Was: Everyday Magic)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91349

Arya wrote:
why would playing Quidditch make you get muddy?  Isn't mud unique to 
the *ground*?  Er--aren't they on *brooms*--which, correct me ifI'm 
wrong, put you in the AIR!?!?!?
 
Berit replied: 
Of course the Quidditch itself takes place up in the air, but canon 
suggests the players now and then fly back to the ground for a little 
pep-talk with their captain. Also, it's not too hard to imagine that 
one or two players during the course of training might fall off their 
brooms as they are attempting a particular difficult move... it 
happens :-) Thirdly, the Quidditch players always get off their 
brooms on the Quidditch pitch and *walk* back to the castle, they 
don't fly back. So it's just not possible to *play* Quidditch without 
getting in contact with the ground one way or the other :-)
 
Carol:
Good responses, Berit. Also, the quaffle or more likely, the bludgers,
could hit the muddy ground and then hit the players, who would be
muddied by the ball even if they didn't fall off their brooms.

Carol, who is picturing them wiping their muddy hands on their robes
as the ball is passed to someone else