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Topp spot

The Times
The Times

Sir, In Geoffrey Willans’s How to be Topp, published in 1954, the headmaster of Porridge Court, whose football team is playing away to St Custard’s, is called Hoggwart. Nigel Molesworth records his arrival in a gold-plated Rolls-Royce.

I wonder if he later founded the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry that has since preoccupied J. K. Rowling?

IAN THORNE

Newark, Notts