RP: Hide and Seek Date & Time: 23 May 1998 | Early Morning Post Type: RP Open To: Private Character(s): Ginny Weasley, Charlie Weasley Location: The Burrow's Orchard Summary: Ginny and Charlie take to the sky.
"Is that the best you've got, old man?" Ginny teased Charlie, then grumbled when her own broom listed to the left, being contrary. "Arrgh! Ron makes Prefect in his fifth year and he gets a new broom. I make Prefect and what did I get? I'll tell you what I got! A cloak. A ruddy cloak." Actually, it was an amazing cloak. A new one, with all sorts of charms for growing and temperature adjustment and what-not, and Ginny had thought it brilliant at the time, never having had a new cloak, or one so perfect before, but it wasn't a broom. And right now, while flying one of the rubbish brooms from the shed, all she could think about was how a cloak couldn't compare to a Cleansweep Eleven even if it had been a more practical purchase at the time.
"Oi! I just tuned you last week," she kicked the foot peg and leaned farther forward for speed. She'd spent one afternoon by the pond with Harry polishing brooms, clipping twigs, doing general broom maintenance. There was only so much that could be done for these old things, still, she'd expected this one to fly better than it was. It made the school brooms she flew for Quidditch seem good, and everyone knew school brooms were the worst.