use of brooms

[Aesha Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 94633

Weirdsister's post:

>Does flying a broomstick involve the use of magic?  
>
>Underage wizards are able to fly during school holidays without reprimand from the Improper Use of >Magic Office.  Ron and his brothers practice quidditch, the little children flew mini-brooms during the >Quidditch World Cup, and Harry escaped from Privet Dr on his broom in OotP.  If flying a broom >does not involve magic, and the broom is merely a mode of transport like a portkey or floo powder, >can muggles fly?  What if a muggle picked up a portkey or tried to use floo powder?

    Now Aesha:

I think that the brooms that wizards use are charmed flying objects; it's not because you're magical that you can fly on them. So yes, I think that if a muggle were to come across one it might move a bit- I don't know if it'd do a lot, because they don't erally know how to use it. They'd have to mount it, be able to get it off the ground, etc. Same as with a portkey- I think Mrs. Figg or the Grangers could use one, if they happened to come across one- and picked it up or were holding it at *exactly* the right moment it went off. I mean, it's not that much different from charmed objects that are used for muggle baiting, or somehow find their way out of the wizarding world, right?

Mandy said:

>I expect poor Remus has to live a celibate life to  avoid the result and what ever the result it can't be >pretty.

Hmmm, well, I've never been interested in slash, but now for some reason I loooove the Sirius/Lupin theory. So maybe our boy Remus is okay. :)

Aesha


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