Yes, he'll be sullen, no doubt. When he wakes up, that is. It's the sort of thing that's important to a teenager.

I remember Tony, Ari and I certainly never expected to play professionally, but it was still a wrench when I had to resign from the side my final year. But there was no way round it, in the end. Something had to give, after my father's death - and it wasn't going to be resigning as Head Boy or suspending any of the family's interests.

Harry may resent this decision now, but he'll survive. And that, of course, is the point.