[HPforGrownups] Wordplay/ What's fun about the HPs?

[Ffred Clegg]

No: HPFGUIDX 152606

> Magpie wrote:
> Oh, I don't think there is a connection to the school.  It just sounds
> funny, is my guess, for the hog connection, which is also connected to
> Hogsmeade.  The area may have originally been associated with pigs.  As an
> aside, Swineherds were often associated with madness and therefore sort of
> Shamanistic visions.  Merlin in some legends was mad for a time, and I 
> think
> also tended pigs.  Then of course there's the winged boars outside the
> school suggesting "when pigs fly."

And wizarding folk do still swear by Merlin.

I wonder if there's a hint there that Hogwarts isn't located in the 
Highlands, but somewhere in South Western Scotland, near one of Merlin's old 
haunts.

Any railway buffs out there who could say if there's a disused line going 
through anywhere suitable as a route for the Hogwarts Express?

hwyl

Ffred