Leaky Caulrons

[jelly92784]

No: HPFGUIDX 132290

A week or so ago someone posted about Hagrid introducing The Leaky 
Cauldron to Harry as a famous place.  I am currently rereading 
Goblet of Fire and I noticed a couple references to leaky cauldrons 
that I thought were interesting.  The first was Percy's cauldron 
bottom report for the ministry.  He's writing about how bottoms of 
international products have become too thin.  Ooh, and looking it up 
to give you guys exact wording I noticed something else, too! 
Another of Ron's potentially fortune telling jokes.  So here's what 
it says...

Harry asks Percy what he's working on:

"A report for the Department of International Magical Cooperation," 
said Percy smugly.  "We're trying to standardize cauldron 
thickness.  Some of these foreign imports are just a shade too thin--
- leakages have been increasing at a rate of almost three percent a 
year---"
"That'll change the world, that will," said Ron.  "Front page of the 
Daily Prophet, I expect, cauldron leaks."
Percy went slightly pink.
"You might sneer, Ron" he said heatedly, "but unless some sort of 
international law is imposed we might well find the market flooded 
with flimsy, shallow-bottomed products that seriously endanger---"
"Yeah, yeah, all right," said Ron... (pg 56 of the American 
hardcover)

I didn't think about this passage much until I got to the next one.  
At the camp site for the Quidditch World Cup, Ludo Bagman and Arthur 
Weasley are talking about Bertha Jorkins' disappearance.  Ludo tells 
Arthur: 

"...she'll turn up.  Poor old Bertha... memory like a leaky cauldron 
and no sense of direction." (Pg 89 of the American hardcover)

When I read this part I thought back to Percy's report and then 
remembered the post about The Leaky Cauldron in London as a famous 
place.

I'm not sure exactly what the connection might be but it seems that 
there's something going on here with cauldrons.  Will a leaky 
cauldron somehow play a part in the story and make the front page of 
the Daily Prophet?  Or was there a leaky cauldron involved the last 
time you-know-who had power?  Is this maybe where the name for the 
pub came from?  Are there any other references to leaky cauldrons?  
I'll definitely keep an eye out for them as I continue reading.

What do you guys think?

Janelle