Hog's Head (was: Re: HBP prediction contest)

[eloise_herisson]

No: HPFGUIDX 130292

Dungrollin:
> PS Does anyone else wonder if the Hog's Head was shortened from The 
> Hogwarts Headmaster? More importantly, can anyone pin a theory to 
> it? Could the pub, perhaps, date from the time of the founders?

Eloise:
It's just a nice coincidence. A hogshead is an old English measure of 
capacity. The precise capacity ahs varied a bit over the years and 
interestingly, it also varied according to what was being measured.

http://www.sizes.com/units/hogshead.htm

The Hog's Head, or Hogshead isn't an uncommon pub name in RL. And what 
else would you call a pub in Hogsmeade? (Aside from the Three 
Broomsticks, that is. ;-) )

~Eloise