Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, shortened
Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of
magic for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in
J.K. Rowling's
Harry Potter series.
[3][4]
Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the
hogwort plant (
Croton capitatus), which she had seen at
Kew Gardens some time before writing the series,
[5][6] although the names "The Hogwarts" and "Hoggwart" appear in the 1954
Nigel Molesworth book
How To Be Topp by
Geoffrey Willans.
[7][8]
Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a 2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's
Loretto School.
According to a director of the Independent Schools Network Rankings, it
was added to the schools listing "for fun" and was then voted on.
[9]
School location and information
A studio model of Hogwarts at Leavesden Studios used in the film adaptations.
J. K. Rowling says she visualises Hogwarts, in its entirety, to be:
[1]
A huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle, with a jumble of towers and battlements. Like the Weasleys' house, it isn't a building that Muggles could build, because it is supported by magic.
In the novels, Hogwarts is somewhere in Scotland.
[10][11] (The film
Prisoner of Azkaban says that
Dufftown is near.) The school has numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a
Muggle
(i.e. a non-magical person) to locate it. Muggles cannot see the
school; rather, they see only ruins and several warnings of danger.
[GF Ch.11] The castle has extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegetable patches, a
loch (called The Black Lake), a large dense forest (called the
Forbidden Forest), several
greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size
Quidditch pitch.
There is also an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school
and those owned by students. Some rooms in the school tend to "move
around", and so do the stairs in the grand staircase.
[12] Witches and wizards cannot
Apparate or
Disapparate
in Hogwarts grounds, except when the Headmaster lifts the enchantment,
whether only in certain areas or for the entire campus, so as to make
the school less vulnerable when it serves the headmaster to allow
Apparition.
[GF Ch.28] Electricity and electronic devices are not found at Hogwarts. In
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
Hermione indicates that due to the high levels of magic, "substitutes
for magic (that) Muggles use" such as computers, radar and electricity
"go haywire" around Hogwarts. Radios however, make an exception. Rowling
explains this by saying that the radios are not powered by electricity
but by magic.
Hogwarts is a
coeducational, secondary
boarding school, taking children from ages eleven to eighteen.
[4]
Education at Hogwarts is not compulsory, with some students being home
schooled as stated in the seventh book. Rowling initially said there are
about one thousand students at Hogwarts.
[13]
She later suggested around six hundred, while acknowledging that this
number was still inconsistent with the small number of people in Harry's
year. She further explained that this had resulted from her creating
only 40 characters for Harry's year.
[14]
The
Headmaster or Headmistress,
assisted by a Deputy Headmaster or Headmistress, undertakes management
of the school. The Head is answerable to the twelve-member Board of
Governors.
Rowling has said that Hogwarts is "a multifaith school".
[15]
Hogwarts is on the shore of a lake, sometimes called the Black Lake. In that lake are
merpeople,
Grindylows, and a
giant squid. The giant squid does not attack humans and sometimes acts as a
lifeguard when students are in the lake.
Admission
Admission to Hogwarts is selective, in that children who show magical ability will automatically gain a place,
[16] and
squibs cannot attend the school as students (though they can work there in other roles, as
Argus Filch does).
[17] A magical quill at Hogwarts detects the birth of magical children and writes their names into a large parchment book,
[18] but there is no
admission test because "you are either magical or you are not."
[16]
Every year, a teacher checks this book and sends a letter to the
children who are turning eleven. Acceptance or refusal of a place at
Hogwarts must be posted by 31 July. The letter also contains a list of
supplies like spell books, uniform, and other things that the student
will need. The prospective student is expected to buy all the necessary
materials, normally from shops in
Diagon Alley, a concealed street near
Charing Cross Road
in London that can be found behind the wizarding pub, The Leaky
Cauldron. Students who cannot afford their supplies can receive
financial aid from the school, as happened with the young orphan
Tom Riddle.
Letters to
Muggle-born
witches and wizards, who may not be aware of their powers and are
unfamiliar with the concealed wizarding world, are delivered in person
by a member of Hogwarts staff, who then explains to the parents or
guardians about magical society, and reassures them regarding this news.
[HP7] They also assist the family in buying supplies and gaining access to Diagon Alley.
Though the school is in
Great Britain, its
catchment area is wider, as Irish students can also attend.
Each student is allowed to bring a cat, toad, rat or owl. Along with
the acceptance letter, first-year students are sent a list of required
equipment which includes a wand, subject books, a standard size 2 pewter
cauldron, a set of brass scales, a set of glass or crystal phials, a
kit of basic potion ingredients (for Potions), and a telescope (for
Astronomy). The Hogwarts uniform consists of plain work robes in black, a
plain black hat, a pair of protective gloves, and a black winter cloak
with silver fastenings. Each uniform must contain the wearer's nametag.
First years are not allowed a
broomstick
of their own, though an exception to this rule is made for Harry in his
first year after he demonstrates an excellent ability as a Seeker in
Quidditch.
Academic years are separated by holidays of about two months in the
summer, and each year is divided into three terms by shorter holidays
around Christmas and Easter.
Arrival
The primary mode of transportation to Hogwarts is the
Hogwarts Express that students take at the start of each school year. Students board the train from
Platform 9¾ at
King's Cross station in London. The train leaves at 11:00 am and arrives at Hogsmeade Station, near Hogwarts, some time after nightfall.
From there, first-year students are accompanied by the Keeper of the
Keys, Game and Grounds (in Harry's case, Hagrid) – or another suitable
teacher if he is absent – to small boats, which magically sail across
the lake and get them near the entrance of Hogwarts. The older students
ride up to the castle in carriages pulled by creatures called
Thestrals
who are invisible to the pupils that have not witnessed death. When the
first-year students initially arrive at the castle, they wait in a
small chamber off the entrance hall until the older students have taken
their seats, and then enter the Great Hall for the Sorting Ceremony to
determine their House assignments. As
Minerva McGonagall said in
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,
| “ |
The
Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your
House will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have
classes with the rest of your House, sleep in your House dormitory, and
spend free time in your House common room. |
” |
After the
Sorting Hat
sings a song, each student in turn is seated upon the stool in front of
the rest of the student body. The Hat is placed on the student's head,
whereupon it examines his or her mind and assigns them to one of the
four Houses based on abilities, personality, and preferences. After the
Sorting Ceremony, the students and teachers enjoy a feast, prepared by
the Hogwarts
house-elves. If Dumbledore is feeling cheerful, he will lead the students in singing the school song.
[19]
Houses
The coat of arms of Hogwarts shows each house's mascot and House
colours. Clockwise from top left: the Gryffindor lion, the Slytherin
serpent, the Ravenclaw eagle, and the Hufflepuff badger.
Hogwarts is divided into four
houses, each bearing the last name of its founder:
Godric Gryffindor,
Salazar Slytherin,
Rowena Ravenclaw and
Helga Hufflepuff.
The houses compete throughout the school year, by earning and losing
points for various events, for the House Cup (correctly answering a
question in class, for example, may earn five or ten points; lateness to
class may cost ten points). Each house also has its own Quidditch team
that competes for the Quidditch Cup. These two competitions breed
rivalries between the houses. Houses at Hogwarts are living and learning
communities for their students. Each house is under the authority of
one of the
Hogwarts staff
members. The Heads of the houses, as they are called, are in charge of
giving their students important information, dealing with matters of
severe punishment, and responding to emergencies in their houses, among
other things. Each year, year level groups of every separate house share
the same dormitory and classes. The dormitory and common room of a
House are, barring rare exceptions, inaccessible to students belonging
to other Houses.
In the early day of Hogwarts, the four founders hand-picked students
for their Houses. When the founders worried how students would be
selected after their deaths, Godric Gryffindor took his hat off and they
each added knowledge to it, allowing the Sorting Hat to choose the
students by judging each student's qualities and placing them in the
most appropriate house. The student's own choices may affect the
decision: the clearest example is the Hat telling Harry that he would do
well in
Slytherin in the first book, but ultimately selecting
Gryffindor after Harry asks it not to put him in Slytherin.
The translators of the books' foreign editions had difficulty
translating the "house" concept; in countries where this system does not
exist, no word could adequately convey the importance of belonging to a
house, the loyalty owed to it, and the pride taken in prizes won by the
house.
[20]
Gryffindor
Gryffindor values courage, bravery, nerve and chivalry. Its
mascot is the lion, and its colours are scarlet and gold. The Head of
this house is the
Transfiguration teacher and Deputy Headmistress,
Minerva McGonagall, and the house
ghost is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, more commonly known as
Nearly Headless Nick. According to Rowling, Gryffindor corresponds roughly to the element of fire. The founder of the house is Godric Gryffindor.
The Gryffindor common room is in one of the castle's highest towers,
and its entrance is on the seventh floor in the east wing of the castle
and is guarded by a painting of
The Fat Lady,
who is garbed in a pink dress. She permits entry only after being given
the correct password, as was distinguished in the third book, when
Sirius Black tried forcing entry into the tower, only to be blocked by
The Fat Lady after he could not give the correct password. In the first
book, Neville Longbottom tends to forget the password and must wait near
the painting until other Gryffindors arrive to open the way.
[21]
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff values hard work, patience, justice, and loyalty.
The house mascot is the badger, and canary yellow and black are its
colours. The Head of this house is the
Herbology teacher
Pomona Sprout, and the house ghost is
The Fat Friar. According to Rowling, Hufflepuff corresponds roughly to the element of
earth. The founder of this house is Helga Hufflepuff.
The Hufflepuff dormitories and common room entrance "is concealed in a
stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen
corridor." To enter, one must tap the barrel two from the bottom in the
middle of the second row in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff'. Unlike any
other house, the Hufflepuff common room has a repelling device that
douses the illegal entrant in vinegar if the wrong lid is tapped or the
rhythm is wrong.
[22]
The Hufflepuff common room is filled with yellow hangings and fat
armchairs and it has little underground tunnels leading to the
dormitories, all of which have perfectly round doors, like barrel tops
(much like a badger
sett).
[23]
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw values intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit.
[HP5][HP7]
The house mascot is an eagle and the house colours are blue and bronze
(blue and grey in the films). The head of this house is the
Charms professor,
Filius Flitwick, and the house ghost is
The Grey Lady. According to Rowling, Ravenclaw corresponds roughly to the element of
air. The founder of this house is Rowena Ravenclaw.
The dormitories are in Ravenclaw Tower, on the west side of Hogwarts.
The common room, which went undescribed in the series until the climax
of
Deathly Hallows, is round and filled with blue hangings and
armchairs, has a domed ceiling painted with stars and features a replica
statue of Rowena wearing her
diadem.
Harry also notes that Ravenclaws "have a spectacular view of the
surrounding mountains". A logical riddle must be solved to gain entry,
whereas the Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms only require a
password (Hufflepuffs need to tap a barrel in the rhythm of "Helga
Hufflepuff"), indicating that it may be easier for those students from
other houses who possess a high degree of intelligence to enter this
common room than others. Professor McGonagall, the head of the
Gryffindor House, solves the riddle accurately.
Slytherin
Slytherin house values ambition, cunning, leadership, and resourcefulness; the Sorting Hat said in
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
that Slytherins will do anything to get their way. The house mascot of
Slytherin is the serpent, and the house colours are green and silver.
Salazar Slytherin founded the house. The Head of House is
Severus Snape until near the end of the sixth book. Then,
Horace Slughorn, the previous Head of House, comes out of retirement re-assuming authority. The ghost of Slytherin house is
The Bloody Baron.
[24]
According to Rowling, Slytherin corresponds roughly to the element of
water. The Slytherin dormitories and common room are reached through a
bare stone wall in the dungeons. The Slytherin common room is a long,
low, dungeon-style room, under the Hogwarts Lake, furnished with green
lamps and carved armchairs. The room is described in the second book as
having a greenish glow.
The Sorting Hat claims that
blood purity
is a factor in selecting Slytherins, although this is not mentioned
until the fifth book. There is no reason to believe, however, that
Muggle-born students are not sorted there, merely that pure-blooded
students are more desirable to that house, as there are several examples
of half-bloods in the house (such as Snape and Voldemort). In
Deathly Hallows, a group of Snatchers claim that "not many Mudbloods" are sorted into Slytherin.
When believing Harry to be dead and thinking that he has final
victory in his grasp, Voldemort proclaims his intention to abolish the
other three houses and force all Hogwarts students into Slytherin. This
design is foiled by his defeat and death, after which Slytherin becomes
more diluted in its blood purity, no longer remaining the pure-blood
bastion it once was. Its dark reputation, however, does linger.
[23]
Terms and holidays
Hogwarts' school year is structured in a similar way to other
non-magical schools and colleges in the UK, with a three-term year
punctuated by holidays at Christmas and Easter and bounded by the long
summer holiday of nine weeks. Term begins every year on 1 September, and
finishes at the end of June the following year. Students have the
option of staying at Hogwarts for the winter and spring holidays. Those
who choose to stay at the castle do not have lessons and attend a feast
on Christmas Day. Students also do not have classes the week of Easter,
but this is much less enjoyable due to the large amount of work that the
teachers assign students at this time in preparation for final exams.
Other than the breaks and weekends, students do not receive holidays.
However, students third year and above may visit Hogsmeade, the local
village, occasionally. There are normally four feasts per year: the
start-of-term feast at the beginning of the school year, end-of-term
feast at the end of the school year, and feasts at
Halloween and Christmas. Feasts are also called to mark special occasions, as in
Goblet of Fire, when there was a feast to celebrate the beginning of the Triwizard Tournament.
Subjects and teachers
Main article:
Hogwarts staff
Being a school of magic, many subjects at Hogwarts differ from the studies of a typical school. Some subjects, such as
History of Magic, derive from non-wizard – or muggle – subjects, but many others, such as
charms and
apparition
classes, are unique to the wizarding world. There are twelve named
teachers (referred to as Professors), each specialising in a single
subject. All professors are overseen by a school head and deputy head.
Transfiguration,
Defence Against the Dark Arts,
Charms,
Potions,
Astronomy,
History of Magic, and
Herbology are compulsory subjects for the first five years, as well as
flying lessons.
At the end of their second year, students are required to add at least
two optional subjects to their syllabus for the start of the third year.
The five choices are
Arithmancy,
Muggle Studies,
Divination,
Study of Ancient Runes and
Care of Magical Creatures. "Very specialised subjects such as
alchemy are sometimes offered in the final two years, if there is sufficient demand."
[25]
Grading and assessment
During their first four years, students need only to pass each
subject before advancing to the next level the following year. If
students fail in their year, they need to repeat it in the following
school year. To qualify as a registered practitioner of magic, students
must study for the compulsory Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L.)
examinations taken at the end of the fifth year. If a student scores
well enough on an O.W.L., he or she may take advanced classes in that
subject for the final two years in preparation for the Nastily
Exhausting Wizarding Tests (N.E.W.T.), an in-depth examination given at
the end of the seventh year. A UK student generally takes only three or
four
A-Level subjects and exams, just as a typical Hogwarts student takes only a few N.E.W.T.-level subjects.
Most O.W.L.s consist of two parts, a written theoretical test and a
practical demonstration of skills before the examiners. The History of
Magic O.W.L. does not have a practical component. Subjects are graded on
the following scale:
Passing Grades
- O = Outstanding
- E = Exceeds Expectations
- A = Acceptable
Failing Grades
- P = Poor
- D = Dreadful
- T = Troll
The O.W.L. roughly corresponds to the
GCSE (formerly the
O-Level), and the N.E.W.T. to the
A-level or
IB
examinations used in the English, Welsh and Northern Ireland secondary
school system. To proceed to a N.E.W.T., a student usually needs to have
achieved at least an E in the O.W.L. of the same subject, although some
professors such as
Professor Snape
insist upon a grade of O. Students who fail in their exams or who do
not achieve high enough grades do not continue with the subject in their
sixth and seventh years.
[HP6]
At the end of their fifth year, students speak briefly with their
head of house to decide which classes to continue in depending on their
O.W.L. scores and their goals after school. The classes they decide to
continue are considerably more advanced. Because they dropped one or
more classes, students in their sixth and seventh year may get several
class sessions off per week. The heavy workload that each class requires
means that students usually spend these times studying and doing
homework. At the end of their seventh and final year, students take the
N.E.W.T. exams, which test what the student has learned over the past
two years. Many professions require high grades in these tests, meaning
that students must work hard to ensure that they pass.
Muggle British high schools do not have graduation ceremonies or
award diplomas. Students may leave when they have reached age 16, though
most stay on long enough to take the tests they need for jobs or
entrance to university. Hogwarts follows this model.
Student life
The day begins at Hogwarts with breakfast in the Great Hall. Students
sit at their own House table and can eat and socialise, or finish
homework. The Headmaster or Headmistress eats with the professors at the
High Table placed at the far end of the hall. During breakfast, owls
bring in the students' post, generally consisting of
The Daily Prophet, letters from parents or friends, or packages from home. A bell signals the start of the first class of the morning at 9 am.
There are two long morning classes with a short break in between them
for students to get to their next class. After lunch, classes resume at
1 pm, and there is a break around afternoon teatime before another
class period. The classes are about one hour in length, with occasional
double periods lasting two hours. Classes end around five o'clock.
First-year students get Friday afternoons off, while sixth- and
seventh-year students have several free periods during the week. In the
evening, students eat their dinner in the Great Hall, after which they
are expected to be in their common rooms. Astronomy classes take place
late at night in the Astronomy Tower.
The four House dormitories have secret entrances, generally known
only to members of that house and require a password to gain entrance.
Inside is the common room, which contains armchairs and sofas for the
pupils and tables for studying and homework. There are fireplaces to
keep the rooms warm, and students either relax here in the evenings or
else complete their homework. There are notice boards in each common
room and at other strategic points throughout the school. The students
sleep in their House dormitories, which branch off from the common
rooms. Each dormitory gets at least two rooms; one for boys and one for
girls (an enchantment prevents boys from entering the girls' area,
although there is no spell to prevent the reverse from occurring). Each
student sleeps in a large four-poster bed with bed covers and heavy
curtains in the House colours, and thick white pillows. There is a
bedside table for each bed, and each dormitory has a jug of water and
goblets on a tray.
On designated weekends, Hogwarts students in their third year or higher, with a signed
permission slip,
are permitted to walk to the nearby wizarding village of Hogsmeade,
where they can relax and enjoy the pubs, restaurants and shops. There
appears to be a good relationship between the school and the village,
and the students get on well with the locals. Favourite places in
Hogsmeade include
Honeydukes Sweetshop,
Zonko's Joke Shop, clothing stores such as
Gladrags Wizardwear, the
Shrieking Shack, rumoured to be the most haunted building in Britain (although this rumour was proven to be false in the third book), the pubs
The Three Broomsticks and
The Hog's Head, and
Madam Puddifoot's coffee shop.
Food
The
house-elves
at Hogwarts amongst other duties provide all food to students and
staff. They cook a wide variety of dishes especially at the feasts. The
various dishes are prepared in the kitchens directly below the Great
Hall; within the kitchen as four long tables directly aligned with the
house tables in the great hall above. At meal times the food is
magically transported up, giving the façade of appearing for the
students. The majority of the food prepared are traditional British
dishes. However the house elves can accommodate to visitors; during the
Triwizard Tournament, foreign dishes such as
bouillabaisse and
blancmange were served. The usual beverages include water, milk, tea, coffee, orange juice, and
Pumpkin juice.
Butterbeer was served during the Yule Ball.
Discipline and Prefecture
Apart from losing points from a house, serious misdeeds at Hogwarts are punishable by detention.
According to the school caretaker,
Argus Filch,
detention meant subjection to various forms of corporal punishment
until recently. Arthur Weasley claimed still to bear physical scars
inflicted by Apollyon Pringle, Filch's predecessor. In present times,
however, detention usually involves assisting staff or faculty with
tedious tasks. Examples of detention include the one imposed on Harry by
Umbridge in
Order of the Phoenix. In this case, Harry was forced
to write, "I must not tell lies" repeatedly using a magical quill which
then carves what is written into the back of the writer's hand.
However, sensible teachers at the school never use this cruel
punishment. In another case, when Snape caught Harry using the
Sectumsempra curse on Malfoy, he was forced to go through over a
thousand boxes of files describing wrongdoers at Hogwarts and their
punishments. Harry was supposed to order them in alphabetical order, and
rewrite the cards whose words were hard to see or otherwise damaged.
The Weasley twins Fred and George had a whole drawer of these cards.
For even more serious offences, students may be suspended or even
expelled from Hogwarts. Harry and Ron are threatened with expulsion
after crashing Ron's car into the Whomping Willow at the start of their
second year, and Harry is expelled before the start of his fifth year
(although the sentence is quickly changed to a disciplinary hearing)
after he is detected using magic in the presence of Muggles, a serious
offence among the wizarding community. Dumbledore argued in Harry's
defence, stating that it was done in self-defence, and that the Ministry
has no authority to expel students – such powers are invested in the
Headmaster and the Board of Governors. Snape has attempted to have Harry
expelled, and he attempted to have Harry's father,
James Potter, expelled when they were at Hogwarts together. The only student known to have been expelled is Hagrid, for the murder of
Myrtle with an
acromantula believed to be the Monster of Slytherin and for opening the Chamber of Secrets – crimes for which Tom Riddle had framed him.
Professors seem to be able to punish students with relative impunity
and can hand out detention, even for unsatisfactory grades. Enforcement
of rules outside of class mainly falls to the caretaker, with the
assistance of the prefects. A student's Head of House usually has the
final say in disciplinary matters. However, during Umbridge's tenure at
Hogwarts, she quickly obtains the power to have the final say in
disciplinary actions, due to an Educational Decree (one of many) passed
by Minister for Magic
Cornelius Fudge.
In the summer before their fifth year, two fifth year students from each House are picked to be
prefects,
which grants them privileges and responsibilities and disciplinary
responsibilities. The leaders of the student body, the Head Boy and Head
Girl, are drawn from the seventh year students. Prefects have the
authority to give detentions for infractions.
Grounds
Hogwarts Castle and its Grounds are home to many secret areas as well as well-known and well-used places.
The hiding place of the Philosopher's Stone
Accessed by entering a trapdoor in the forbidden corridor on the
third floor, and protected by a gauntlet of seven magical challenges set
up by the teachers.
- A giant three-headed dog named Fluffy placed specially to guard the trapdoor by Hagrid.
- Devil's Snare, grown by Professor Sprout.
- A room containing dozens of keys, charmed by Flitwick to sprout
wings and fly near the ceiling. One of these keys will unlock the door
to the next section. However, in the film adaptation, the keys attack
the seeker of the Stone.
- A large chessboard
with an army of large chessmen, transfigured by McGonagall. To continue
to the door on the opposite side, the person in question must beat the
chessmen at a game of wizards' chess where the player must risk his life
if he loses. Ron and Professor Quirrell are the only wizards to win the
game of wizards' chess.
- A room with a large troll
inside. This is Quirrell's challenge. In the book, Quirrell had knocked
out his own troll to get to the last room and thus the trio did not
have to fight it; in the film, it does not appear, but it appears in the
PlayStation One version of the game.
- A series of potions, brewed by Snape. A logical riddle, not magic,
has to be solved. There are two doors, blocked by fire. One potion will
allow the person to exit the way he or she arrived, another will allow
him or her to continue to the next chamber, two are nettle wine, and the
other three are poison. This challenge does not appear in the film, but
does in the video game adaptation.
- The Mirror of Erised can be found in the final chamber, further enchanted by Dumbledore to bestow the Philosopher's Stone upon a seeker only hoping to acquire the stone but not use it for selfish means.
Chamber of Secrets
The Chamber of Secrets as seen in the second film
The Chamber of Secrets, which is deep under the school (most likely under the lake),
[26] was home to an ancient
Basilisk, intended to be used to purge the school of
Muggle-born students.
Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts, built the Chamber before he left the school.
The Chamber is well-hidden and its entrance is in
Moaning Myrtle's
bathroom on the second floor, which leads down into a dark, slimy stone
tunnel. There are many skeletons of small animals littering the floor
and even a gigantic skin shed by the Basilisk. The tunnel leads to a
solid wall, carved with two entwined serpents with emeralds for eyes.
[26] When
Parseltongue
is spoken they open into a long, dim corridor, lined with monumental
statues of snakes, including two towering stone pillars with more carved
serpents that brace the ceiling. A colossal statue of Salazar
Slytherin, looking ancient and monkey-like, is at the centre. The
Basilisk rested inside the statue and emerged from its mouth when the
Heir of Slytherin, Tom Riddle, summoned it.
[27]
In his second year at Hogwarts, Harry uses Parseltongue to open the
chamber and destroys the diary containing the embodied memory of a
16-year-old Tom Riddle from his own days at Hogwarts. It is later
revealed that the diary was a Horcrux. In
Deathly Hallows, Ron
and Hermione enter the Chamber. Ron opens the door (despite not speaking
Parseltongue) by imitating sounds he heard Harry use to open
Slytherin's locket. They find a basilisk fang to use to destroy the
Horcrux made from Helga Hufflepuff's cup.
Moaning Myrtle's
bathroom contains the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. The entrance
is a sink with a snake scratched onto the tap, opened by speaking
Parseltongue. This causes the sink to open into a pipe large enough for a
person to slide down it. At the bottom of this chute is a tunnel
leading to the Chamber of Secrets. When Tom Riddle opened the Chamber,
Myrtle was sulking in a stall. When she heard him, she opened the door,
saw the
Basilisk, and died immediately, becoming a ghost.
[26]
Her bathroom remains operational, but is rarely used by students
because of Myrtle's disagreeable presence and her habit of flooding it
when she is distraught.
Passages
There are usually seven secret passages in and out of the school, and in addition, the series describes the use of twin
vanishing cabinets
to create another. Filch knows of just four of these while the
Marauders (Remus Lupin, Peter Pettrigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter)
and the Weasley twins know of all seven, though where some lead is
unknown. The Room of Requirement may, on occasion, create an eighth
passage out of the school. The only known instance of this occurring is a
passage to the
Hog's Head
bar that formed before the Battle of Hogwarts. Due to the nature of the
Room of Requirement, it is possible that several passages to different
locations could be accessed from the Room. The passages that Filch does
not know about are:
- A passage beneath the Whomping Willow, leading to the Shrieking Shack.
- A passage behind a mirror on the fourth floor, which is caved in. It
leads to Hogsmeade, but where in Hogsmeade it leads to is unknown.
- A passage beneath a one-eyed witch statue by the stairs to the
Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, leading to the cellar of Honeydukes.
Speaking aloud the word 'Dissendium' to the witch allows access to this
passage; the hump on the statue then opens and reveals the hidden
passageway.
- Numerous 'short-cuts' that lead from one part of the castle to
another. These are often concealed in such fashions as a tapestry which
hides a hole in the wall.
A further link between two vanishing cabinets, one in the school and the other in
Borgin and Burkes in
Knockturn Alley presumably worked until
Chamber of Secrets when
Peeves (persuaded by
Nearly Headless Nick) smashed the Hogwarts cabinet. The passage was reopened in
Half-Blood Prince when
Draco Malfoy fixed the cabinet. This passage is not shown on the Marauder's Map as it is not part of the castle itself.
Room of Requirement
On the seventh floor opposite an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas
the Barmy attempting to train trolls for the ballet, the Room of
Requirement appears only when someone is in need of it. To make it
appear, one must walk past its hidden entrance three times while
concentrating on what is needed. The room will then appear, outfitted
with whatever is required. To the Hogwarts
house-elves, it is also known as the Come and Go Room.
Dumbledore was first to mention the room, noting that he discovered it at five-thirty in the morning, filled with
chamber pots when he was trying to find a toilet. However, Dumbledore did not appear to know the Room's secrets.
Dobby later told Harry of the Room in detail and admitted to frequently bringing
Winky
to the room to cure her bouts of Butterbeer-induced drunkenness,
finding it full of antidotes and a "nice elf-sized bed." Filch was said
to find cleaning supplies here when he had run out; when
Fred and George Weasley
needed a place to hide, it would appear as a broom cupboard. Trelawney
also makes a habit of using it to hide her empty sherry bottles after
she is sacked in
Order of the Phoenix. It would seem that when
one wishes to hide something it produces the same room for everyone: the
Room of Hidden Things, which is full of many centuries worth of
abandoned objects, such as broken furniture, books, and in one case a
dead quintaped (for more information see
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), which were presumably forgotten by their owners.
Harry learned of the room's abilities from Dobby, finding it the perfect location for his
Dumbledore's Army
meetings, during which it would be filled with bookcases full of
Defence Against the Dark Arts volumes, many different kinds of Dark
Detectors, and a plethora of floor cushions for practising defensive
spells. When the D.A. was betrayed, the room was left open, and
Pansy Parkinson was able to retrieve the list of members of the organisation. In
Half-Blood Prince Harry used the Room of Hidden Things to stash his copy of
Advanced Potion-Making,
describing it as the size of a large cathedral and packed to
overflowing with items hidden by Hogwarts inhabitants over the years,
such as old potions, clothing, ruined furniture, an old tiara (which
happened to be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes), or books which were "no
doubt banned or graffitied or stolen." He later realised that Draco had
been using the room in that state to hide and repair the
Vanishing Cabinet
to use it to smuggle Death Eaters into Hogwarts. Ironically, while
Harry tries many times to get into the Room of Requirement to see what
Malfoy is doing, the only time he succeeds to get into the room (and he
is not thinking about Malfoy), he gains access to the room where Malfoy
has been working.
In
Deathly Hallows, the students who need a place to hide from
the Carrows, two Death Eater professors, use the room. It is also
revealed that the Room of Requirement's current version can change while
still occupied, though should a completely different version be
required (e.g. the Room of Hidden Things instead of DA Headquarters) the
room must be empty. The Room can also answer to the desire of the
wizard within the room, such as providing Harry with a whistle when he
needed one during a Dumbledore's Army meeting, or creating a passage to
the Hog's Head (as the room cannot produce food). Later,
Ravenclaw's diadem
is found to be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes and has been hidden in the
Room of Hidden Things by Voldemort. Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter the
Room, with Harry knowing that he must look for a place to hide things,
and find the tiara; but they are ambushed by Draco,
Crabbe and Goyle. The diadem is finally destroyed when Crabbe fills this version of the Room with what Hermione believes to have been
Fiendfyre; a destructive magical fire. It is not known if the room continues to function after the events of
Deathly Hallows; Ron expresses concern that it may have been ruined in all of its forms by the cursed fire.
Forbidden Forest
The Forbidden Forest is a large, dark forest in the boundaries of the
school grounds. It is usually referred to simply as "the Forest" and in
the film series as the "Dark Forest". It is strictly forbidden to all
students, except during Care of Magical Creatures lessons and, on rare
occasions, detentions.
Among the plant species within the Forest are trees such as beech,
oak, pine, sycamore, yew and knotgrass and thorn undergrowth. Though the
Forest is vastly dense and wild, there are a few paths and clearings.
Hagrid, who frequently travels into the Forest for various reasons,
mostly makes these trails. The Forest is also home to an assortment of
creatures. The following is an incomplete list of beasts that inhabit
the forest:
[28]
- A herd of at least fifty Centaurs, including Bane, Magorian, Ronan, and Firenze.
- A colony of Acromantula, Aragog and his family.
- Unicorns
- Thestrals
- Trolls
- Bowtruckles
- Fluffy, a three-headed dog who was released into the forest after the events of Philosopher's Stone.[29]
- Grawp, a small giant, lived in the Forest during Order of the Phoenix.
Dumbledore later arranged for him to move up to the mountains
surrounding Hogwarts and live in a big cave, where he is "much happier
than he was in the Forest"
- While not a "creature" or "beast", Arthur Weasley's enchanted Ford Anglia made its home in the forest during the Chamber of Secrets, eventually rescuing Harry and Ron from the acromantula colony.
Hogwarts Express
The
Hogwarts Express is a magical train that carries students non-stop from
Platform 9¾ at
King's Cross station in London to
Hogsmeade
Station, near Hogwarts. Prefects of the school ride in a separate
carriage near the front of the train. The compartments on the train
appear to be lettered; in
Half-Blood Prince, the "Slug Club" meets in compartment C. In
Philosopher's Stone,
Harry meets his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, on his first ride
on the Hogwarts Express. In the books, he has been on the train ten
times: twice each in the first, third, fourth, and fifth books, and once
each in the second (in which he and Ron arrive instead in a
flying car) and the sixth (which ends before Harry leaves Hogwarts).
The steam engine used in the film adaptations is the
GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall, but it was not the first locomotive to be disguised as the Hogwarts Express. To promote the books, the
Southern Railway locomotive
Taw Valley
was repainted and renamed temporarily, but was rejected by Chris
Columbus as looking 'too modern' for the film. Filming locations for the
Hogwarts Express sequences include
Goathland on the
North Yorkshire Moors Railway,
Kings Cross railway station and the route of the Jacobite Express which follows the
West Highland Line from
Fort William to
Mallaig in Scotland, as it crosses the
Glenfinnan Viaduct.
[30]
Several model trains have been made of the Hogwarts Express. An
00 gauge is produced by
Hornby, though this is of a
Castle Class locomotive rather than the
Hall Class used in the films. A
three-rail H0 gauge model is produced by
Märklin, and a two-rail H0/00 was produced in the early 2000s by
Bachmann. Several now-discontinued
L gauge models have been produced by
LEGO.
Lionel has released an
O gauge set in their 2007 catalogue and a
G gauge set for 2008.
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