"Are you a wizard, or what?"
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- Harry Potter: "Why are you going to London?"
- Vernon Dursley: "Taking Dudley to the hospital. Got to have that ruddy tail removed before he goes to Smeltings."
- — Harry Potter and Vernon Dursley[src]
This Muggle private hospital,[2] located in London, England, is where the Dursleys took their son Dudley to remove his tail after Rubeus Hagrid attempted to transform him into a pig, on 1 September 1991.[1] The hospital had a very discreet staff, and the Dursleys explained the tail as a wart that had gone out of control.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Dursley family drives to the hospital because Dudley was feeling sick, but it was actually the after-effects of a Dementor attack, rather than driving to a false garden award, like in the book.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 6 (The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About the Books: transcript of J.K. Rowling's live interview on Scholastic.com," Scholastic.com, 16 October 2000