In Harry's second year, the entire Slytherin Quidditch team are given Nimbus 2001 brooms by Lucius Malfoy, apparently in gratitude for their having put Draco Malfoy on the house Quidditch team as Seeker. And if you make a broom and it turns out even halfway worth sharing, I’d love to see pics. Happy broom making! If you haven’t chosen bristles yet, I would highly recommend either thinner or greener branches, or dying broom straw to the right color. And maybe some industrial-strength glue. Or a fixing charm, yeah? The Firebolt is mentioned in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery during the first Flying Class. This is anachronistic, as the game is set during the 1980s.

As a reminder, players can uninstall the Nimbus 2000 mod in Hogwarts Legacy anytime. If you no longer want to use the Nimbus 2000 3D model instead of the Yew Weaver Broom, access the game files again and remove the following files: z_nimbus2000_P.pak, z_nimbus2000_P.ucas, z_nimbus2000_P.utoc from the ~mods folder (\Steam\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy\Phoenix\Content\Paks~mods). Since no spell was devised by wizards to enable them to fly [1] (with the exception of Lord Voldemort in 1997, [4] and Severus Snape a year later) [5] they had to come up with another way to do so. Animagi who transformed into winged creatures, like birds, enjoyed the sensation, but they were rare. [1] In the main, I used the pictures from the Diagon Alley shop window, the table-top unwrapping of the new broom and those of Ron Weasley holding the broken broom (this shows the laminated construction particularly well). Organised by Bloomsbury Publishing for the 2021 Harry Potter Book Night, [8] when the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child read aloud Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 ( Diagon Alley) together, Robin Cadet, the actor portraying Craig Bowker Junior in the Hamburg production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, also portrayed one of the boys admiring the Nimbus 2000 during Harry Potter's first trip to Diagon Alley. His lines were "Look, the new Nimbus 2000 – fastest ever – " [9] You shouldn't forget the physics involved: aerodynamics, the density and lightness of the wood used, etc. This is also on the part of the maker. Maybe some of them have studied some basics of (muggle) physics and used this knowledge to improve their art.Start by aligning the seat on the base using the guide lines on the bottom of the seat board from Step #2 and confirm that: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, it is mentioned that Ravenclaw's Quidditch team are all mounted on Cleansweep Sevens – with the possible exception of their Seeker, Cho Chang, who is mentioned in the next chapter as having a Comet Two Sixty. On looking at the various stills from the film it became obvious that there were at least 4 different brooms used in shooting, each a little different to the others. So hopefully without compromising the overall design I’ve blended some of the minor differences in detail from 3 of the original brooms into my final design.

Quodpot, similar to Quidditch but played in the United States of America as early as the 18th century. [11] Repeat the previous step for the right side of the horizontal stabilizer, with the other end of the chain, and the right post/branch/etc. from which you will be handing the broom.

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Cleansweep: One of the more utilitarian brands, the Cleansweep line are generally not the top of the speed list but are decent brooms all the same. Under the same logic of "brooms driven by the same magic should have the same speed" we could say that all wizards should be able to perform the same spells at the same stage of their education (or worse: same effects for the same spells, all the time). Does it sound reasonable? Not to me. Harry Potter received one from Minerva McGonagall when he joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the new Seeker. [3] He owned it for two years until the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch match in November 1993.

The center line of the seat board is lined up with the center of both the handle and the tail shaft. On the other hand, they surely have a budget for outfitting the teams; it's possible she just blew the budget for the next year or so on what she considered a good investment, when she got it for him. My favorite method is definitely the decal, for two reasons. One, it’s really hard to get detail work right – whether it’s with a stencil or hand carving – and using a machine cut decal means you can get it just right. And two, it’s way easier. For sure. A second, (much shorter) length of rope loops through the hole in the nose of the handle, and both ends are connected to a carabiner in the middle of the chain suspended above the broom. In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ron Weasley is seen using a similar bipod to stabilise his stance while playing Keeper. This may be the intended function of the Firebolt's bipod.

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Toy brooms: mentioned in passing in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, these brooms are apparently designed to fly only high enough to lift the children's toes out of the grass. We see, in a letter sent to Sirius by Harry's mother, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, that Harry had received one of these brooms from Sirius and was already flying it around the house at about age one. On the other hand, the performance of a broom cannot depend exclusively on the magic imprinted on it by the maker. Neville or Hermione, for example, would not fly really well even on a Firebolt, so I guess it depends on the rider as well. Remember that something similar happens with wands, where a wand will not necessarily convey the same magic for two different witches or wizards, with the consequence of different results in spell-casting.

Surprising as it may sound, it looks like the School provided it. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Wood suggests a Nimbus as a possible choice for Harry to McGonagall, and she agrees, saying that she needs to go talk to the headmaster to see if an exception can be made. Use a 5/8" spade bit to drill holes in the nose of the handle and horizontal stabilizer, as shown in the first picture. Carving the logo into the handle and painting it with gold paint ( I made a Nimbus 2000 for a birthday present on imgur) In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it was mentioned that Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies. Slide the horizontal stabilizer into the notches and then slide the modified end of the tail shaft in between the side panels so it rests on top of the horizontal stabilizer. Adjust the tail shaft to angle down slightly, about 10-15 degrees, and clamp the base together as shown in the second picture.Some brooms are faster than others more or less for the same reason some wizards achieve better results than others when casting the same spells: they "have more" magic. This is already explained in @slytherincess answer. Three things to add: Firebolt: In Harry's third year, his Nimbus 2000 is destroyed by the Whomping Willow. It is replaced by a Firebolt, which is a world-class broom; in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is mentioned that the Irish National Quidditch team are all mounted on Firebolts. It is mentioned in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that the Firebolt is capable of 0-150 mph (0-240Kph) acceleration in 10 seconds, which, for those interested in the physics, is approximately 0.7G. Additionally, as 150 mph is near terminal velocity for a falling human, the wind force on the rider at the broom's top speed could be about the same as his body weight. This may have something to do with the appearance of footrests on the brooms in the Harry Potter movies.