Hooch: Stick your right hand over the broom and say, up! Class: Up! Harry: Wow. Draco: Up! Hooch: With feeling! Hermione: Up. Up. Up. Up. Ron: Up!! Ooh! Shut up, Harry. Harry’s broom jumped into his hand at once, but it was one of the few that did. Hermione Granger’s had simply rolled over on the ground and Neville’s hadn’t moved at all. Perhaps brooms, like horses, could tell when you were afraid, thought Harry; there was a quaver in Neville’s voice that said only too clearly that he wanted to keep his feet on the ground. quaver - a shaking sound in somebody's voice If somebody's voice quavers, it is unsteady, usually because the person is nervous or afraid: ‘I'm not safe here, am I?' she asked in a quavering voice.