You know, I donโt get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,โ said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. โThey really know their stuff. . . .โ โOh, they only know flashy stuff thatโs no real use to anyone,โ said Hermione disparagingly. โNo real use?โ said Ron in a strained voice. โHermione, theyโve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . .
J. K. RowlingThat old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.
J. K. RowlingChildren being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.
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