Brooms are able to fly due to charms placed on them; the skill and power of the witch or wizard imbuing the broomstick with its flying powers is going to vary. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top This broomstick also boasts an unbreakable Every Firebolt includes a golden registration number.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. So, why were there speed differences between brooms, when presumably broomsticks were driven by the same magic?The charms placed on a medeival [broomstick] are similarly basic: It will only move forwards at one speed; it will go up, down, and stop. I guess both are really good overall, but there might be other brooms winning speeding contests at the wizarding X Games. The Nimbus 2001 was the broom of choice for the Slytherin Quidditch team. Capable of previously unseen speed and control. (Prisoner of Azkabhan). By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader.
As Wizarding families in those days made their own brooms there was enormous variation in the speed, comfort, and handling of the transport available to them. site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under Anybody can answer "The top of the Nimbus Racing Broom Company's range. In the late twentieth century, the Nimbus Racing Broom Company dominated its competition. This is already explained in @slytherincess answer. They made the Nimbus 2001 faster than the previous model, and it remained the most agile on the market until the Firebolt’s premiere in 1993. Science Fiction & Fantasy Meta for example, if I were driving a Lamborghini, it's performance wouldn't change, but obviously I wouldn't be as good as a professional driver or stunt person. By the twelfth century, however, wizards had learned to barter services, so that a skilled maker of brooms could exchange them for the potions his neighbour might make better than himself. Well, the Firebolt had an acceleration of 0-150 miles per hour in under 10 seconds. Normally, first-years at Hogwarts are not allowed brooms of their own, although they can and do take flying lessons from Madam Hooch using the old and much-beaten school brooms. The Nimbus Two Thousand and Two Thousand and One models outsold all other top-class brooms combined by a factor of three to one. The Nimbus 2001 might have been the fastest-moving broomstick, but from the books you can tell that a Firebolt is far better for quidditch (Harry could "turn at the slightest touch", etc.). Some broom-makers will have stronger or more specialized magic than others, I'm guessing. —Description "This state-of-the-art racing broom sports a streamlined superfine handle of ash, treated with a diamond-hard polish and hand-numbered with its own registration number. Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled Each individually selected birch twig in the broomtail has been honed to aerodynamic perfection, giving the Firebolt unsurpassable balance and pinpoint precision. Brooms are just what they sound like: magical brooms that allow the witch or wizard to fly. Anybody can ask a question Three things to add:Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!
Thus, you will see a difference between the different brands of brooms. 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. *Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, Fandom will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Start here for a quick overview of the site Nothing like the Nimbus 1000 had ever been seen before. (and the same with Hermione/Neville - the broom may be the fastest, it doesn't mean they can/want to push it to its limits)