The Hogwarts Factor

Quigley: The Hogwarts Factor

Over the past dozen years, when  people ask me what my 100+ year old high school looked like, I tell them that it looked a lot like the fictional Hogwarts where Harry Potter went to Wizard School. Judge for yourself.

Both schools had spirits. Hogwart’s were spooky.   Quigley’s were holy.  

Both schools emphasized Latin --Quigley for prayer; Hogwarts for casting spells.  

Both schools sat on hard wooden benches to eat meals.

Harry  Potter and his classmates got around on flying brooms; whereas Quigley students got around on the “Elevated CTA trains.” 

Both schools had basement pools.  Quigley’s was for exercise; Hogwarts’ was more for exorcisms. 

Harry and his classmates left home for school on a train as did many of us who lived in the burbs.  

Both schools had stairways that descended into oblivion.  

Of course, the only member of the Quigley faculty who actually waved a wand around was the late Monsignor Mroczkowski.  He used his to prompt the meter for Gregorian chanting when not rapping inattentive students on the knuckles, or pointing on the blackboard to the difference between a porrectus flexus and a pes subipunctus.  

With his red buttons and wand in hand, the Monsignor sort of looked like he might have been a Harry Potter character like Severus Snape.

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Both Quigley and Hogwarts created close bonds among classmates

Both schools were magical!