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

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 152650

On 5/20/06, Magpie <belviso at attglobal.net> wrote:

> Magpie:
> 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."

I don't remember winged boars outside; where is this written?

I'm interested in all the pig allusions because one of my favorite
anagrams of my name is "We Kingly Pigs".  It strikes me as something
Dumbledore might be amused at.

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Peggy Wilkins
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