Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, โWitch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless โ discuss.
J. K. RowlingThe presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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.
J. K. Rowling