General-Purpose and Custom Models

Each upgrade only improved stability a little, burst speed a little, or maximum speed a little...

Behind this steady ability to update lay something anyone could understand with a little thought: the results had been deliberately controlled.

On one hand, Nimbus Racing Broom Company definitely employed masters in alchemy to develop better Broomsticks. But research was difficult to predict. Sometimes there could be several breakthroughs in a single year; sometimes several years would be squandered without progress.

Researchers could accept such extreme instability, but a qualified business could not.

So it was perfectly reasonable for Manus to produce Broomstick blueprints superior to the most advanced Nimbus Series Broomsticks currently on the market... like hell it was!

It was true that Nimbus Racing Broom Company had not released its very best Broomsticks, but that did not mean the Broomsticks it currently offered were not outstanding. No company on the market could still hold a candle to Nimbus Racing Broom Company's latest products.

Otherwise, even without planning for the future, a company could make a fortune simply by releasing a product that completely crushed Nimbus Racing Broom Company's latest Broomstick. Quidditch Teams across the world would pay for it.

Why did other companies not do that?

Was it because they did not want to?

It was because they could not!

In the field of Broomsticks, Nimbus Racing Broom Company stood generations ahead of every other company.

And yet, that gap had now been closed by a second-year Hogwarts student?

But when they thought carefully about that Training Golden Snitch Manus had produced before, it somehow did not seem so impossible to understand.

Right?

In a dreamlike daze, the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team staggered away as though drunk. George was still shouting excitedly that he would play one more year before leaving the team.