broomstick
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"Ronnie is a genius. He could play with a broomstick and play pretty well," said Davis.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
It’s friendly magic, the sort that lets you ride around on a broomstick instead of the kind that splits your soul into a bunch of little pieces.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
He compares the ride to riding a magic carpet or gliding around on a broomstick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2024
He was used to a broomstick; but he wasn’t sure a hippogriff would be quite the same.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
“Those guys are enormous and they’re fast. Again, we can practice with guys that have broomsticks attached to their hands. This is going to be new for us in some ways.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Rowling in her hugely popular Harry Potter series — which features witches and wizards flying on broomsticks trying to score goals — is rebranding.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
Rogozin also added: “Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don’t know what,” according to Reuters.
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the shabby wallpaper with posters of the same seven witches and wizards, all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving energetically.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
