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Harry Potter and Hob
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
My husband and I are huge Harry Potter fans.
Recently we drove down to New York to visit my two nephews (reading The Goblet of Fire aloud in the car, I might add).
At their house, my husband showed me a library book that was laying around. It was called "The Book of Hob Stories" by a British author named William Mayne.
The thing that caught his eye (and mine) was the title of a chapter, “Hob and the Hinky Punk.”
At first I thought that maybe a hinky punk is a fictional character British children know about and J.K. Rowling used this in her books. But then I read this short children’s book from start to finish.
And I found some amazing similarities between this book and the Harry Potter characters.
Kind of cool!
Recently we drove down to New York to visit my two nephews (reading The Goblet of Fire aloud in the car, I might add).
At their house, my husband showed me a library book that was laying around. It was called "The Book of Hob Stories" by a British author named William Mayne.
The thing that caught his eye (and mine) was the title of a chapter, “Hob and the Hinky Punk.”
At first I thought that maybe a hinky punk is a fictional character British children know about and J.K. Rowling used this in her books. But then I read this short children’s book from start to finish.
And I found some amazing similarities between this book and the Harry Potter characters.
- In another chapter, Hob encounters a creature called a boggart.
- Hob himself is a type of a spirit that lives in the cupboard under the stairs.
- Hob maintains the house by night (ridding it of such creatures as hinky punks, boggarts, and baby black holes). He is hardly ever seen. But if someone gives him the gift of clothes of any kind, he must leave.
Kind of cool!