"There you go!" James said. Boy, he hadn't realized how rough the school brooms really were. He was suddenly very grateful to Ella for loaning him her old broom until he could convince his parents to let him get his own--even her secondhand broom had been better. But then again her parents were professionals, so he supposed it made sense. Still. "Would your parents be willing to buy you your own broom, do you think?"

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