Hoggy, Hoggy Hogwarts
“Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they’re bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we’ve forgot,
just do your best, we’ll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot.”
At this point, if I had to decide whether to send my sons to Hogwarts as opposed to Roke, I would have to ask, first, which allows for the better education in the mystical arts? Second, who has the better School Song?
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk’s flight
on the empty sky.’
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
