Lily and Tuney and Sev, Oh My

[Adan]

No: HPFGUIDX 176463

> Potioncat:
> > Has anyone's thoughts drifted back into earlier books? Want to 
bet
> > the girl who laughed at the boy on the bucking broomstick was 
Lily?
> > (Could be Tuney, I suppose.)
> 
> Jen:  "JKR, please don't make me buy that Lily was the girl 
laughing 
> at Sev on his bucking broomstick, that Harry didn't recognize his 
own 
> mum.  There's so much I buy already, the maths, the wisdom *cough* 
of 
> the Secret Keeper ...oh, you say it is Lily?  Right, okay, yes 
that 
> makes sense.  Of course Harry doesn't recognize his mum because he 
> never saw a picture of her as a girl...oh, well except he so did 
> because old school chums sent Hagrid photos from their time at 
> Hogwarts, remember?  I'll ignore that part, right..."  (Jen ends 
> imaginary conversation with JKR.)
> 
> Seriously, I don't think it was Lily.  The broomstick had a hex or 
> jinx on it if it was bucking, right?  Some random girl in flying 
> class is laughing because the Marauders jinxed Snape's broom - 
> Florence, perhaps. <g>  

Adan:  It doesn't have to have been hexed, does it?  Maybe that 
broom was just rebellious.  Or the person on the broom just didn't 
quite have to hang of it yet and the broom got away from him.  It 
happened to Neville, too.  Maybe it was the same broom.  Hogwarts 
doesn't seem to update equipment too often I don't think.

Adan, who'd probably have to have training wheels on her broom