[HPforGrownups] Re: Hog's Head/Three Broomsticks (was: Today's HP Page-A-Day Calender page)

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 10712



Amy wrote:

> > Mike Schubert wrote:
>
> > > Now, the answer it gives is "Hog's Head". But didn't he get it at
> the
> > > Three Broomsticks, in Hogsmeade? I just checked SS and all I could
> > > find was something along the lines of "I was in the town at the
> pub."
> > > What the heck? Is it a mistake on the Page-A-Day people's part, or
> > > mine?
>
> I hate to type these words, but the WB cronies are correct.
> Somewhere in SS it says the Hog's Head.  I think it's at the end,
> right after exams when Harry jumps up and goes to ask him about the
> stranger he spoke to in the pub--during the conversation where they
> learn he's been telling total strangers how to get past Fluffy.  I'm
> at work (you can tell from the vast amount of non-HP stuff I'm
> getting done, can't you?) so I can't check the reference.

I checked. Here's what Hagrid says:
"It's not that unusual, yeh get a lot o' funny folk in the Hog's Head --
that's the pub down in the village. Mighta bin a dragon dealer, mightn'
he? I never saw his face, he kept his hood up."