Allright, anyone whos already tested out:

[alt_padma]

HOW do you bank left without going too sharp (or loosing altitude)? My broom keeps going wonky no matter what I try.

Just the left.

At this rate I'll never test out and I really would like that extra period to work on Transfiguration, while its fresh.

Plus it's COLD in the air right now, even through the silk!

Comments

[alt_draco]

You're using a school broom, I expect?

[alt_padma]

Yes, but it doesnt seem to matter whether its one of the Cleansweeps or even the Shooting Star in the cupboard, so Madam Hooch says its not the broom.

[alt_draco]

Well its definitely the broom, but it doesn't matter which you use because all the school ones will be the same. They've all been flown by hundreds of different people which is what makes them bad if you really know how to fly. Because everyone has their own way of flying and when you have your own broom it learns how to adapt to your own movements. The school brooms can be really sensitive because they've never adapted to one person. Your probably trying to hard, and then being a Ravenclaw you just try harder and make it worse.

[alt_padma]

Well, I dont have my own broom. I dont really like heights (the Astronomy tower's ok because we're looking up, not down).

So you think I should just not try so hard?

(oh, and did you hear about Summers? Someone hexed him right after Charms. His lips were all swelled up and I guess he had trouble eating lunch.)

[alt_draco]

Go a little easier and see what happens.

I didn't just hear about Summers, I actually heard him - he had the most hilarious lisp. Fairly sure he was drooling, too.