I said there was more to the link between Haileybury and Hogwarts and there is.
When CC Farr founded Haileybury on the shores of lake Temiskaming he named the newspaper The Haileyburian and took the motto 'Sursum Corda.' For some reason the town seems to translate this 'be of good courage.'
Originally the Town's logo was the familiar Hearts and Wings, and Imogen Thomas tells us that the hockey team played in Black and Red for Trevelyan.
The strip for Rowling's imaginary Haileybury Hammers Quidditch Team is not described. The similarity between a winged heart and Golden Snitch is noteworthy.
Now I am aware that by now those who have not read Harry Potter may be utterly lost, so here is an explanation of Quidditch. (You may need to skip the advert.) Keep the similarity between the snitch and the winged heart in mind, and I will post some more on this another day to draw all these strands together.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
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 In it she will make available the full text of her books and also unpublished material.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.
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.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Strawberries
It was Sydney Smith who asked What is real piety? What is true attachment to the church? How are fine feelings best evinced? The answer is plain - by sending strawberries to a clergyman. The joke is enhanced by comparing the remark to James 1:27
My mother has a story about strawberries. Roy Sinker (BF 1922) was Archdeacon of Stow in the diocese of Lincoln when he and his wife came to the clergy wives' meeting which Mother was hosting. She was nursing me and when I yelled for a feed she was ushered away by the Archdeacon's wife, who also took her strawberries away with the remark that they are no good for the baby's milk.
In reparation I almost always had strawberries on my birthday. When I was 18 my parents brought strawberries and cream up to school and we ate them in my study. I am not sure if I will get any strawberries tomorrow, but of course that is not the point - I ought to send some to Mother.
My mother has a story about strawberries. Roy Sinker (BF 1922) was Archdeacon of Stow in the diocese of Lincoln when he and his wife came to the clergy wives' meeting which Mother was hosting. She was nursing me and when I yelled for a feed she was ushered away by the Archdeacon's wife, who also took her strawberries away with the remark that they are no good for the baby's milk.
In reparation I almost always had strawberries on my birthday. When I was 18 my parents brought strawberries and cream up to school and we ate them in my study. I am not sure if I will get any strawberries tomorrow, but of course that is not the point - I ought to send some to Mother.
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