Entry 9 – a "treadmill"
This is for muggles who want to go outside but don't want to go outside. Instead, they stand on a small piece of rubber, and walk as it moves underneath them…creating the illusion of walking. Muggles use these for running, skipping (though this is unadvisable without safety gear and training) and just walking. If I had a treadmill I would place it by the window looking out over Ottery St. Catchpole and imagine walking there. Or I could just walk there.
Molly found Ron eating the rubber-moving-floor. George planted a stink bomb in the toilet so that when you flushed it the water turned very pungent…and so she was in a bit of a bad mood and told me to get it out of the house. It runs on ecletricity anyway so I probably couldn't get it moving. I did have to do quite a bit of research into muggle past-times to discover the use of a treadmill however, as I couldn't work it out for myself. They have places where many people go to do exercise without playing Quidditch, called Jim's. I wonder who Jim is? Maybe he invented the treadmill. He's probably a very healthy man!