Chicken or Egg/Bucking Broomsticks/Wizard chess

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89705

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> wrote:
> Sylvia:
> I'm sure all of these points have been brought up before, but I am 
> currently re-reading from the beginning (how many times will I need 
> to do that before Book 6:  Estimate.) and keep discovering things to 
> ponder.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 2.  In the Quidditch chapter(Chapter 11 Page 140 UK edition PS/SS) I 
> was struck by Hagrid's words: "Can't nothing interfere with a 
> brookstick, except powerful Dark Magic."  Notice he said "any" 
> brookstick, not just the Nimbus Two Thousand. So any broomstick 
> wouldn't buck unless there was a powerful hex placed on it.Would this 
> account for Snape's problem with the brookstick on OOp (Chapter 
> 26 "Seen and Unforeseen"?) rather than Snape's incompetance.
> 
> Taryn:
> But remember, there are people we've come across who just don't have
that natural ability on a broomstick. The reason it was obvious that
there was something seriously wrong with Harry's was because he IS a
natural and he's NEVER had trouble with a broomstick before. Snape, on
the other hand, might just be a really bad flyer.
> 
>
Carol:
If that were the case, he could never have acted as quidditch referee.

Carol