The bucking broomstick (Was: Snape's house)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 94545



 
> Carol:
 At least as an adult he has no trouble controlling his
> broom when he referees the Quidditch game in SS/PS. As we know from
> Harry's remarks, a good broom won't throw off its rider, so either
> this is not a good broom or it has a hex or jinx on it.  IMO
> it's not fear of flying or incompetence but stubborn unwillingness 
to let the (jinxed or faulty) broom control him (which the girl in 
the memory finds funny). 
  
 
> Carol, who wishes she knew who the girl was

Potioncat: 
OK, who wants to start a Snape ship?
I'd vote on a young Hooch who continues to use her maiden name.  
After all, Hooch and brews just go together.

I think you have a good point, just because he had trouble that 
time, doesn't mean he never overcame it.  And we cannot take Sirius' 
comments about Snape's jealousy as fact.
Potioncat (who has a Mary Sue to nominate for cruise director.)