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This article is about the type of animal. You may be looking for the owl nicknamed "Pig", or the shop located in Hogsmeade named after a hog.

"The most commonly cited signs [of pure-blood status] were...dislike or fear of pigs and those who tend them (the pig is often considered a particularly non-magical animal and is notoriously difficult to charm)..."
— A description of 18th century works about blood purity[src]

A pig, also known as a swine, is a type of animal in the biological family Suidae.[4]

The pig was considered to be a difficult animal to charm and thus incredibly non-magical. It was for this reason that certain 18th century works considered dislike or fear of pigs to be a sign of pure-blood status.[3]

History[]

In Ancient Greece, a witch named Circe turned lost sailors into pigs. For this she had her own Wizard Card.[2]

Historically, an inflated pig's bladder was used as the ball in the broomstick game of Swivenhodge.[5]

In 1927, Newton Scamander kept a six-legged panda pig in his home's basement, which presumably was a hybrid between a pig and a panda.[6]

Hogwarts gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid was known to have kept pigs during the 1991–1992 and 1992–1993 school years at Hogwarts.[1][2]

In 1991, he used a spell to give Dudley Dursley a pig's tail. Hagrid said that the spell was supposed to have transfigured Dudley into a pig entirely, but he speculated that that Dudley was already so much like a pig, there wasn't much left to do.[7]

Shortly after the start of the 1991–1992 school year, Minerva McGonagall transfigured a desk into a pig and back again in front of her first year Transfiguration class as both a demonstration of her power and of the type of magic they would eventually be able to do after many years if they applied themselves.[8]

At some point afterwards in the same school year, but before Hallowe'en, the password for Gryffindor Tower was "pig snout".[9]

The Weasleys were also known to have kept a few pigs.[10]

In 1995, while discussing a 10 year old boy that Dudley Dursley beat up, Dudley stated that the boy deserved it, as he had cheeked him. Harry asked if the boy had stated that Dudley looked like a pig that had been taught to walk on its hind legs, telling him "That's not cheek, Dudley. That's true."[11]

During the 1995–1996 school year, Severus Snape called James Potter a swine.[12]

"Pig" was also the nickname of Ron Weasley's owl, Pigwidgeon.[13]

The meat of the pig (pork) was used to make a number of foods that were popular in both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, including bacon, pork chops and ham.

The nogtail was a demon that resembled a stunted piglet. This beast would sneak into a pigsty, and suckle on an ordinary sow alongside her own young, blighting the farm.[14]

Behind the scenes[]

  • The phrase "when pigs fly" was commonly used to refer to something that would never happen. As pigs were difficult to charm, this saying could have also been applicable to wizardkind to some degree.
  • Pigs being notoriously un-magical almost made them the opposite of owls, who had a particularly strong affinity for the magical world.

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - PC version
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - PC version
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Pure-Blood" at Wizarding World
  4. ↑ WP favicon Pig on Wikipedia
  5. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 2 (Ancient Broom Games)
  6. ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  7. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 4 (The Keeper of the Keys)
  8. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)
  9. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel)
  10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
  11. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 1 (Dudley Demented)
  12. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
  13. ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 4 (Back to The Burrow)
  14. ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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