A few random puzzles

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117620


My timeturner must have slipped, because I found myself reading this 
very old post.  It didn't generate much discussion at the time, but 
I was taken with it for some reason. So here it is with my comments 
as well. I think GoF had come out? (Forgot to check on that date) 
but OoP had not. (not being good at dates and math, I could be 
wrong.)

>>>In Oct 2001 Cindy wrote
> 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?

Potioncat:
In the medium which not be named, Dudley is stealing Harry's cake, 
but in canon, he's not doing anything.  Did Hagrid just hex him 
because he exists?  Are we seeing a long standing trend of bullying 
by Gryffindors?  No, really, what is going on here?  
> 
>>>Cindy
> 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?

Potioncat:
Well, Percy seems to have taken a bad turn, could be possible.  But 
maybe there will be something going on that will require these two 
to team up?
 
>>>Cindy
> 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?


Potioncat:
I don't think it was the kiss so much, but this idea would turn HP 
into a bodice ripper. Let's all pause to consider that....


Any way, IMHO the important thing was that Bertha was getting into 
trouble for poking her nose where it didn't belong...foreshadowing 
Harry's dive into Snape's borrowed Pensieve.

Potioncat, hoping you enjoyed this little trip through time and 
wondering if Cindy is still with us?