'It's going to be pretty monumental': Harry Potter eyes Wallabies spot for Lions series | Jack Snape

The late-blooming winger knows there is a lot riding on being named in Australia's squad to face Fiji with the British & Irish Lions on the horizon

No, Harry Potter – the Australian rugby union winger – hasn't read the books. And the 27-year-old is unlikely to get to them anytime soon, given his focus on securing a precious place in the Wallabies' team for the coming tour of the British and Irish Lions.

"It's a massive, once-in-every-12-years event," he says in the days before the first Wallabies squad of the year is named on Thursday. "It's going to be pretty monumental."