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A Missing Tortoise, Fifty-Seven Urine Samples and Oxford’s Ancient College Feud
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A Missing Tortoise, Fifty-Seven Urine Samples and Oxford’s Ancient College Feud

Jul 30, 2026 36 min read

Seven years after my first visit, I returned to discover what Oxford keeps behind its gates Had apparition been allowed inside Hogwarts, I could have travelled directly from the Gloucester Cathedral cloister where Mrs Norris was found petrified to the hospital wing in Oxford’s Divinity School. Unfortunately, it was not. So I had to take a train.