"Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot……" — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of… - Joanne Kathleen Rowling

"Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole."

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