Haileybury and Hogwarts

JK Rowling is to launch a new Harry Potter Website, Pottermore. In it she will make available the full text of her books and also unpublished material. There is a Haileybury link.

Aficionados of the oeuvre may remember that alongside the main novels Rowling published two small books in aid of comic relief in 2001. One of these was called 'Quidditch Through the Ages' and is supposed to be a book from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry library all about Quidditch, the game Rowling's characters play.

For those who are unfamiliar with the books, Quidditch is a cross between lacrosse, rugby and hockey and is played while flying on a broomstick.

The Haileybury link comes in the list of international teams. On page 43, there is a mention of the Haileybury Hammers, a Quidditch team from Canada, clearly from the town founded by Charles Cobbold Farr (Tr 1864) in Ontario.

There is more to this - for another post.