Chapter 1 Of Quiditch Through The Ages
written by Matilda
This is chapter one of quiditch through the ages, as a little teaser to see if you want to buy it. NO CREDIT TO ME. THIS IS NOT MY BOOK ALL CREDIT TO JK ROWLING.
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Chapter 1 The Evouloution Of A Flying BroomStick
Chapter 1
No Spell Yet Devised Enables Wizards To Fly Unaided In Human Form. Those Few Animagi Who Transform Into Winged Creatures May Enjoy Flight, But Those Are Rairity. The Witch Or Wizard Who Finds Him Or Herself Transfigured Into A Bat May Take To Air, But, Having A Bats Brain, They Are Sure To Forget Where They Wanted To Go The Moment They Take Flight. Levitation Is CommonPlace, But Our Ancestors Where Not Content With Hovering Five Feet From The Ground. They Wanted More. They Wanted To Fly Like Birds, But Without The Inconvenience Of Growing Feathers.
We Are So Accustomed These Days To The Fact That Every Wizarding Household In Briatain Owns At least One Flying Broom Stick That We Rarely Stop To Ask Ourselves Why. Why Should The Humble Broom Become The One Object Legally Allowed As Means Of Wizarding Transport? Why Did We In The West Not Adopt The Carpet So Beloved By Our Eastern Brethren? Why Didnt We Choose To Produce Flying Barrels, Flying Arm Chairs, Flying Bathtubs-Why Brooms?
Shrewd Enough To See That Their Muggle Neighbours Would Seek To Exploit Their Powers If They Knew Their Full Extent, Witches And Wizards Kept Themselves To Themselves Long Before The International Statue Of Wizarding Secrecy Came Into Effect. If They Where To Keep Means Of Flight In Their Houses, It Would Necessarily Be Something Discreet, Something Easy To Hide. The Broomstick Was Ideal For This Purpose; It Would Need No Explanition, No Exscuse If Found By Muggles, It Was Easily Portable And Inexpensive. Nevertheless, The First Brooms Bewitched For Flying Purposes Had Their Drawbacks
Records Show That Witches And Wizards In Europe Were Using Flying Broomsticks As Early As AD 962. A German illuminated Manuscript Of This Period Shows That Three Warlocks Dismounting From Their Brooms With Looks Of Exquisite Discomfort On Their Faces. Guthrie Lochrin, A Scottish Wizard Writing In 1107, Spoke Of "Spilinter Filled Buttocks And Bulging Piles" He Suffered From A Short Broom Ride From Montrose To Arbroath.
A Medevil Broom Stick On Display In The Museum Of Quiditch In London Gives Us An Insight Into Lochrin's Discomfort. A Thick Knotty Handle Of Unvarnished Ash, With Hazel Twigs Bound Crudely To One End, It Is Neither Comfortable Or Aerodynamic. The Charms Placed Upon It Are Similarly Basic: It Will Only Move Foward At One Speed; It Will Go Up, Down And Stop.
As Wizarding Families In Those Days Made Their Own Broom, There Was An Enormous Variation Of Speed, Comfort And Handling Of Transport Avaliable To Them. By Twelve Century, However, Wizards Had Learnt To Barter Services, So That A Skilled Maker Of Brooms Could Exchange Them For A Potion His Neighbours Could Make Better Then Himself. Once Broomsticks Became More Comfortable, They Were Flown For Pleasure Then Rather Then Merely Used As Means To Get From Point A To Point B.
We Are So Accustomed These Days To The Fact That Every Wizarding Household In Briatain Owns At least One Flying Broom Stick That We Rarely Stop To Ask Ourselves Why. Why Should The Humble Broom Become The One Object Legally Allowed As Means Of Wizarding Transport? Why Did We In The West Not Adopt The Carpet So Beloved By Our Eastern Brethren? Why Didnt We Choose To Produce Flying Barrels, Flying Arm Chairs, Flying Bathtubs-Why Brooms?
Shrewd Enough To See That Their Muggle Neighbours Would Seek To Exploit Their Powers If They Knew Their Full Extent, Witches And Wizards Kept Themselves To Themselves Long Before The International Statue Of Wizarding Secrecy Came Into Effect. If They Where To Keep Means Of Flight In Their Houses, It Would Necessarily Be Something Discreet, Something Easy To Hide. The Broomstick Was Ideal For This Purpose; It Would Need No Explanition, No Exscuse If Found By Muggles, It Was Easily Portable And Inexpensive. Nevertheless, The First Brooms Bewitched For Flying Purposes Had Their Drawbacks
Records Show That Witches And Wizards In Europe Were Using Flying Broomsticks As Early As AD 962. A German illuminated Manuscript Of This Period Shows That Three Warlocks Dismounting From Their Brooms With Looks Of Exquisite Discomfort On Their Faces. Guthrie Lochrin, A Scottish Wizard Writing In 1107, Spoke Of "Spilinter Filled Buttocks And Bulging Piles" He Suffered From A Short Broom Ride From Montrose To Arbroath.
A Medevil Broom Stick On Display In The Museum Of Quiditch In London Gives Us An Insight Into Lochrin's Discomfort. A Thick Knotty Handle Of Unvarnished Ash, With Hazel Twigs Bound Crudely To One End, It Is Neither Comfortable Or Aerodynamic. The Charms Placed Upon It Are Similarly Basic: It Will Only Move Foward At One Speed; It Will Go Up, Down And Stop.
As Wizarding Families In Those Days Made Their Own Broom, There Was An Enormous Variation Of Speed, Comfort And Handling Of Transport Avaliable To Them. By Twelve Century, However, Wizards Had Learnt To Barter Services, So That A Skilled Maker Of Brooms Could Exchange Them For A Potion His Neighbours Could Make Better Then Himself. Once Broomsticks Became More Comfortable, They Were Flown For Pleasure Then Rather Then Merely Used As Means To Get From Point A To Point B.
