AT the other Hogwarts, the one in Tetbury, 25 hedgehogs are waking up after a very long lie in.

Mary Hinton and other volunteers run the Hogwarts hedgehog hospital, in Southfield, Tetbury, looking after injured hedgehogs.

The team nurture the hedgehogs back to health, tending wounds, feeding and mucking them out.

“I’ve always been animal mad but it was in 2010, coming back through Tetbury when I saw a hedgehog on the road.” she said.

“I thought ‘a cars going to have that’ so I took it home and housed it in my porch – which it totally trashed!”

But it didn’t matter, Mary had the bug and after a crash course in hedgehog care she opened Hogwarts, the hedgehog rehabilitation centre, in her garage.

The motto at Hogwarts is to rescue, rehabilitate and release.

Mary, 52, covers Tetbury and surrounding area, rushing out to scoop up hedgehogs who are in danger.

These hedgehog centres are important as numbers have plummeted in recent years - for every one hedgehog in Britain today there were 54 in the 50s.

But the good news is, where centres likes Mary’s are operating, hedgehog numbers are increasing.

“People can do really simple things to help hedgehogs, just checking areas before strimming, or burning garden waste can make a huge difference,” she said.

“Slowly, centres like ours are really making a difference.”

For more information on protecting hedgehogs, visit www.helpahedgehog.org.