Muggleborns choosing WW

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 118286


Ffred wondered:
>You can't just conjure
> >up a flying broom, someone still has the tedious-sounding job of 
picking
> >out the right sticks and twigs and putting them together properly, 
as
> >well as adding the appropriate charms to guarantee it flies, is
> >balanced and will brake when needed. An assembly line job to 
create a
> >magical product.
> 
> Maybe a broom maker takes enormous pride in putting together the 
right
> sticks and twigs and it's a closely guarded craft secret, of 
course... This
> once again isn't something which canon tells us. _Are_ broomsticks 
made on
> an assembly line by miserable workers each of whom has the task of
> installing one particular twig, or are they made individually by 
time served
> craftswizards in a workshop, each signed by the person who produced 
them?
> (Coinage has the individual mark of the producer, but that's made 
by goblins
> so it would be risky to extend that analogy).


Ginger chimes in:
It's not exactly stated, but QA seems to imply that broom making 
started out as an individual job, but then moved to assembly style.

Pp. 48 & 49 tell of the different kinds of brooms, mentioning 
specifically that the Silver Arrow, like the Moontrimmer or Oakshaft, 
was the work of a single wizard and demand outstripped supply.

In the next paragraph, JKR says "A breakthrough occurred" when the 
Ollerton brothers started the Cleansweep Broom Company, which 
produced brooms "in numbers never seen before".  This would seem to 
indicate mass production.  

For what it's worth, Ginger