A few random puzzles

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28010

Here are a few things that came to mind:

1.  In PS/SS, Vernon insults Dumbledore, and Hagrid tries to turn 
Dudley into a pig, giving him a pig tail that has to be surgically 
removed.  But why?  If Vernon is the problem, why hex an innocent 
boy?  

2.  In PS/SS, Hagrid tells Harry about Gringotts.  He says it is 
guarded by "spells -- enchantments", with dragons guarding the high-
security vaults.  As Bill is a curse-breaker and Charlie is a dragon 
specialist, are the Weasleys going to break into Gringotts in a 
future book?

3.  In the Pensieve, Bertha Jorkins appears and delivers the famous 
lines that have us all so baffled:  "He put a hex on me, Professor 
Dumbledore, and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said I'd seen him 
kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last Thursday . . . "  "But 
why, Bertha," said Dumbledore sadly, looking up at the now silently 
revolving girl, "why did you have to follow him in the first place."

For this Bertha Jorkins stuff to be important to make it into the 
Pensieve and for Dumbledore to still be sad about it, the "kissing" 
has to be more than garden-variety kissing.  So I wonder if Bertha 
saw Snape, who is half-dementor, administering the Kiss to someone.  
Or maybe he is a vampire, and what Bertha mistakes for a kiss is 
really a bite.

Really, I apologize for bringing up point three again, and I know it 
has been done to death, but who knows?  Maybe we'll figure it out if 
we give it just one more try?

Cindy