Dudley the pig

[amberhillcrest]

No: HPFGUIDX 46297

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jastrangfeld" <msbonsai at m...> wrote:
> Ok, so Hagrid meant to turn Dudley into a pig, but he said the spell 
> didn't work properly (according to Hagrid anyway) when Dudley only 
> grew a pig's tail.  Now, Dudley was a bit *piggy* as it was, but the 
> Dursley's only had his tail removed by the muggles.  I am thinking 
> that maybe that spell didn't go quite as bad as Hagrid thought it 
> did, and that Dudley is slowly turning into a big fat pig :o)  What 
> are the odds that he'll start growing sow's ears . . . ?
> 
> Julie ;o)


The spell does not work, but Hagrid assumes that Dudley was already so porcine that there wasn't much left to do to make him more pig-like.  I like your theory that the spell did work.  JKR has been critisized for making Dudley increasingly more and more overweight as the years go by but perhaps it is not characterization but rather magic.  I'm going to have to agree with you- I think that the spell worked better than we have been led to believe.      

-Maureen Amber