Professor Raz doesn't let us set a toe outside the castle without his being there, so out lives have yet to be threatened by anything much. Why, were you worried about us?

Harry got a Firebolt. They're supposed to be the best brooms ever made and the company has only manufactured a very limited number of them, mostly for star quidditchers. But Harry can't even use it, everyone's convinced it's been blighted with deadly jinxes and hexes. Which is possible, really, because who would send Harry a Firebolt and then not take credit for it?