First of all, the Mickey Mouse segment, of Fantasia, is a famous piece of music titled : THE SORCEROR'S APPRENTICE " . What would you have the animation be about ; ducks laying eggs, farmers mowing hay, and / or Jesus Christ turning wine into water ?
Mickey uses a broom, because he is on cleanup duty, it's supposed to take place at a time, when there was NO vacuum cleaners. :-)
Witches and " flying " brooms made their way into mythic history, because the prients, of the Inquisition, tortured people ( mostly old women, but not solely old, nor women ), until they confessed to exactly what the set questions, that had been put to them, called for. " Witches " were supposedly able to fly, because some of the people , accused of witchcraft smeared their bodies with " FLYING OINTMENTS ". These were made of aninal fats, herbs, and something or other, that is now thought to have been an hallucinagetic. THEY IMAGINED THINGS, WHEN UNDER THE CHEMICAL STUPOR INDUCED.
What some people , on this thread, might consider to be " witchcraft ", isn't. People use only about 10 % of their brain. Some people's brains ( without whorshipping the devil, being a witch, or anyother such silly thing ! ) have ESP. If anything, THAT COMES FROM GOD !Prcognition, and the like, is also a brain function, which has NOTHING at all to do with " evil " or Satan ! Much of what was once called " witchcraft ", isn't. Many of the supposed " witches " , of yesteryear, were just old, cranky women, someone, that someone else didn't like, wanted their wealth / land , had an old grudge against.
Today, anyone can call themselves a witch, and some people do. Witch is an old word, that translates in " wise ". Throwing salt over one's shoulder, saying " GOD BLESS YOU " , when someone sneezes, and a vast aray of oldwives tales / folklore / superstitions, which Christians still hold to, come from the earliest of pagan times. Does THAT make them " witches " ?
" HARRY POTTER " is fiction.The books and movies are fantasy ! If one were to keep everything away from children ( and themselves ), which contained any refference, whatsoever, to witches, witchcraft, brooms, black cats , etc., they would have to exclude The Bible ; not to mention a panaply of some of the world's best literature. That is a " good " thing ?