broomstick without anyone

[kausarqadir]

after Neville's fall from the broomstick.
his broomstick was still rising higher and higher and started to drift lazily towards the Forbidden Forest and out of sight.

i didnt know that it can go like this.

[Sirius Potter Fan]

I guess that they can go or drift a little ways... In POA Harry's nimbus continues out of the Quidditch pitch after he falls from it, and ends up in the whomping willow... I also believe that they can hover alone just off the ground. I seem to recal reading that somewhere, but not shure which book.

[Hermione]

With the summoning charm, Harry's broom stick soared towards him, but I don't know if that was the charm or the broomstick.

So how can they just be stored in a shed or something, without flying away? Or is it just when someone has been riding/steering them, and they think they are still there?

Hmm interesting.

[Boing]

I think it is just after someone has "started" them with the charm. Then they can go a little way - I think of it as taking off a parking/emergency brake in a car . . . it can start moving on its own.

[Hermione]

I think it is just after someone has "started" them with the charm. Then they can go a little way - I think of it as taking off a parking/emergency brake in a car . . . it can start moving on its own.
Makes sense, but then how are they able roll over and stuff?

[Alz]

I think it is a case of momentum and inertia - Neville badly controlled the broom and as such it went off at such a pace he lost control and let go - the broom just continued to glide in the path it was set off on.
I think that the brooms require the wizard/witch to move them - otherwise I would see them gently gliding above the ground rather than laying on the ground when they first go to practice ;)

[Hermione]

I'm sure Quidditch Through the Ages probably has something about this. I remember reading it and it had all sorts of broom stick facts

[Sirius Potter Fan]

I'm sure Quidditch Through the Ages probably has something about this. I remember reading it and it had all sorts of broom stick facts

hmm...sounds like Hermionie :p

[kausarqadir]

I'm sure Quidditch Through the Ages probably has something about this. I remember reading it and it had all sorts of broom stick facts

Meri can you find it out and post it here for us?
pls.......... :D

[Sirius Potter Fan]

I looked through my quidditch book, and it doesn't mention anything about them being made to go, or float without their riders. But it just seems logical that that would have been so. With so many brooms being used for quidditch, there were certainly loads of witches and wizards falling off, and not only injuring themselves, but their brooms would then plumet to the ground as well and be destroyed! so likely, after loosing several brooms, someone would have thought to put some type of charm to enable a broom without a rider to slowly make its way down. (too bad that Harry's Nimbus 2000 didn't have eyes to know to avoid the whomping willow on it's way down :p )

[kathy61]

With the summoning charm, Harry's broom stick soared towards him, but I don't know if that was the charm or the broomstick.

So how can they just be stored in a shed or something, without flying away? Or is it just when someone has been riding/steering them, and they think they are still there?

Hmm interesting.
In The order of the Phoenix , Harry's , Fred's & George's brooms were all locked up (by Umbridge). When Fred & George decided they'd had enough , they summoned their brooms . The brooms broke free (out of Umbridge's class room) & went to them . They weren't even in the same room . Also when they were learning to ride , they were told to command their broom to rise & then kick off . That's when Neville had his first ride , I believe .[

[Clarice]

Maybe Neville's broom wasnt truly Nevilles, like his wand wasnt picked for him, was it his dads? and brooms only do as their true owner / rider wishes??? Perhaps the brooms owned by Hogwarts are under a spell (by their owner) to enable others to ride them.

[Sirius Potter Fan]

Maybe Neville's broom wasnt truly Nevilles, like his wand wasnt picked for him, was it his dads? and brooms only do as their true owner / rider wishes??? Perhaps the brooms owned by Hogwarts are under a spell (by their owner) to enable others to ride them.

we know that the broom wasn't Neville's, it was a school broom. First years weren't allowed their own brooms. The exception was made for Harry to be the seeker. But Ron was able to ride Harry's firebolt. I kinda doubt that ownership has anything to do with it.