Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a school of Magic (Harry Potter) that is the main setting of the ''Harry Potter'' fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling. Hogwarts is a boarding school set in a castle by a mountain lake. Although its precise location is not specified in the books, the author has said it is in Scotland.#References Hogwarts is reached by a train called the Hogwarts Express. No apparate (Appearing and Disapparating) is possible on the school grounds, although adults seem to show up by means other than the school train; perhaps they use broomstick or Floo powder, or simply apparate to a nearby location and walk. The school has strong charms around it to repel "Muggles" (non-magic people). Electronic do not work on Hogwarts grounds; there is too much magic in the air. Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is an elderly, white-haired gentleman with a droll (some might say silly) sense of humour and twinkling eyes. He always seems to know what's going on at the school and takes a special interest in Harry. He carries no course load, but formerly taught Transfiguration. Dumbledore is the only wizard whom Lord Voldemort, the villain of the series, fears. This makes the school a safe haven from his clutches. There are 12 school governors who have the power to suspend the headmaster by voting. Lucius Malfoy was a school governor until he was fired after using blackmail to make the other governors agree to suspend Dumbledore. The motto of Hogwarts is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus", which in Latin means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". J. K. Rowling said she wanted a practical motto for Hogwarts, since so many schools have less pragmatism ones such as "Reach for the stars". The Deputy Headmistress is Professor Minerva McGonagall, rather severe in aspect, but respected by the students. She teaches Transfiguration and is head of Gryffindor house. Several professors make up the Hogwarts faculty, each specialising in a single subject (see Hogwarts subjects). Other staff positions include that of school nurse, caretaker, and gamekeeper/groundskeeper. The school grounds feature a Quidditch pitch, the lake, the Forbidden Forest, and at least three greenhouses. Hogwarts is divided into four houses; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. ==Subjects and Grading== ===Subjects=== For a list of subjects, see Hogwarts subjects. ===Grades=== Students who take the O.W.L.s, a set of standardised tests for fifth years, and N.E.W.T.s, a more advanced exam regimen for seventh years, are graded based on the following scale: *O = Outstanding (Perfect) *E = Exceeds Expectations (Fine) *A = Acceptable (last passing grade) *P = Poor (Below average) *D = Dreadful (Flunking) *T = (According to Fred Weasley and George Weasley) "Troll" (Extremely Poor) or ''terrible'' which is the correct name for this grade. In their first four years, however, students need only to pass each of their subjects before advancing to the next level the following year. ==School Year== There is a magic quill at Hogwarts that detects the birth of a magical person and records his or her name. Every year, Minerva McGonagall sends letters to the people on the list turning eleven, inviting them to Hogwarts. If for any reason a letter does not reach its intended recipient, owl will continue delivering letters until the person receives one (as was Harry Potter (character) experience in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''). The letter contains a list of supplies, including spell books and cauldrons. The person who receives this letter is expected to go to Diagon Alley to buy them. Letters to muggle-born wizards are delivered by special messengers, who explain the Wizarding World to them. Term begins on September 1. Students travel to King's Cross station to board the Hogwarts Express, which takes them to Hogwarts. First year students go with the gamekeeper, currently Rubeus Hagrid, to small boats, which magically sail across the Hogwarts Lake. The older students travel up to the castle in carriages pulled by thestrals, magical beasts (Harry Potter) which are visible only to those who have witnessed death. The older students arrive first. When the first years arrive, they are greeted by the deputy headmistress, Minerva McGonagall, who tells them about the Houses. The first years then file into the Great Hall. Upon entering, the Sorting Hat sings a song that describes the four Houses. The Sorting Hat sings a new song each year, and has been known to offer advice in its lyrics in times of trouble. Once the song has finished, the hat is placed on each student's head, and it announces the House for which they are suited. After the Sorting is finished, a start-of-term feast begins. After dinner, the first years are led by a prefect to their common room. The next day, classes begin. Tryouts for House Quidditch teams begin shortly afterwards. Quidditch is a popular wizarding sport, however first years are usually prohibited from joining a Quidditch team. Instead, they receive flying lessons from Madam Hooch. Halloween is celebrated each year with a feast. The Great Hall is always decorated for the occasion. An important event occurs in each novel during Halloween, with the exception of ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. Students may go home for the Christmas holidays. The students who choose to remain do not have any classes and are present at the Christmas feast. The Great Hall is decorated for this occasion with Christmas trees and other decorations. When Christmas holidays end, classes begin again. In Harry Potter's second year, Gilderoy Lockhart organised a Valentine's Day celebration. It was not continued after he left the school. The Easter holidays are not as enjoyable as the Christmas ones, as students are overloaded with homework to prepare them for their exams, which are taken at the end of the year. Students are not allowed to use magic over the summer holidays until they turn seventeen. In the books, the Hogwarts uniform consists of a plain black work robe, a plain black pointed hat, and a winter cloak with silver fastenings. In the films, students typically wear school uniforms similar to those of the public school (UK) of England (called private schools in the United States.) These consist of open-fronted black robes with a house insignia on the chest. Beneath is worn a grey sweater, white collared shirt, and necktie in the colours of their House. Boys wear long, dark trousers, and girls wear dark pleated skirts and knee socks. ==Rooms== This list of rooms is based upon a list created by the Harry Potter Lexicon[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/], a site which has deduced the location of every room but the Transfiguration Classroom. ===Deep Under the Dungeons=== ====The Chamber of Secrets==== The Chamber of Secrets is home to a basilisk, which is intended to be used to purge the school of Muggle-born students. The Chamber is entered through Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. The Chamber has several statues of snakes on either side of the walls, and a giant statue of Salazar Slytherin opposite the door. For information on the history of the Chamber of Secrets, (see #Early History). ===Dungeons=== ====Potions Classroom==== Potions is taught in one of the dungeons under the castle. This dungeon is large enough to accommodate a double class. It is colder here than in the main castle, and the surrounding walls contain many jars of pickled animals, which the students find particularly creepy. Ice cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner. ====Severus Snape's Office==== Severus Snape's Office is adjacent to his classroom. This room is filled with bizarre creatures in jars. Snape has private stores of potion ingredients. ====Slytherin Common Room==== The Slytherin Common Room is in one of the dungeons, and opens when one gives a password to a blank stone wall. It has a low ceiling and greenish torchlight. The common room is located partially under the lake. ====Hufflepuff Common Room==== The Hufflepuff Common Room is a room similar to a cellar, down the same staircase that leads to the kitchens. It should be noted that the Hufflepuff Common Room is not a dungeon, but is more like a cellar [http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/fansite_view.cfm?id=2 ]. ====Kitchens==== The Kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall, and contain tables that are identical to the house tables in the Great Hall and food must simply be placed on the tables and it magically appears on the tables in the Great Hall. The kitchens are staffed by over 100 house-elves including Dobby (first appearence ''The Chamger of Secrets'' and Winky first apperence ''The Goblet of Fire''. To gain access to the Kitchens, one must tickle the pear on the fruit portrait. ===Ground Floor=== ====Entrance Hall==== The Entrance Hall is entered through double oak front doors that face to the west. The Entrance Hall is very large, and has a wide marble staircase opposite the front door, leading to the first floor. Two other staircases lead to the Hufflepuff Common Room and the Kitchens, while the other leads to the Dungeons. ====Great Hall==== The Great Hall contains four House tables, one for each House, and a staff table. The ceiling is enchanted such that it imitates the current weather. ====Staff Room==== The staff room is a long, panelled room, with mismatched dark wooden chairs. There is a wardrobe, which occasionally becomes infested with magical creatures. ====Argus Filch's Office==== Argus Filch, the caretaker, has an office that contains a filing cabinet with records of every student that Filch has punished. The Fred and George Weasley, and possibly Sirius Black and James Potter, have entire drawers to themselves. His office contains well oiled chains, which he hopes to use again. He briefly got his wish when Dolores Umbridge became Headmistress. ===First Floor=== ====Muggle Studies Classroom==== This classroom is never a direct setting during the first five novels, though it is frequently referenced. ====Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom==== This room contains an iron chandelier. When Professor Quirrell was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, the room smelled strongly of garlic, which according to rumour, was intended to protect him from a vampire that he met in Romania, whom he feared a visit from. ====History of Magic Classroom==== This room contains a blackboard, through which Professor Binns, a ghost, enters at the start of class. ====Minerva McGonagall's Office==== Minerva McGonagall's office is up the marble staircase in the Entrance Hall, and down a hallway. ====The Hospital Wing==== The hospital wing contains several beds, and School Nurse Poppy Pomfrey's office. ===Second Floor=== ====Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom==== Moaning Myrtle's bathroom contains the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. It is opened by speaking in Parseltongue, which causes a sink to open a pipe large enough for a man to slide down. After one slides down this pipe, they find themselves in a tunnel, which leads to the Chamber of Secrets. When Lord Voldemort opened the Chamber during the 1940's, a girl named Myrtle was sulking in a stall. When she heard him, she opened the door, saw the basilisk, and died immediately. She is now a ghost called Moaning Myrtle. Her bathroom is now out of order, due to her presence there. ====Entrance to Albus Dumbledore's Office==== Albus Dumbledore's office is opened when the correct password is spoken, usually a type of candy (Sherbert Lemon and Cockroach Cluster have been used in the past), to an ugly stone gargoyle, which then moves aside. Stone steps move like an escalator up to the door of his office. (See #Headmaster's Tower.) ====Defence Against The Dark Arts Professor's Office==== The Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's Office faces south, thus the Lake and Quidditch Pitch are visible out the window. When Gilderoy Lockhart was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, this room was filled with pictures of himself. Under Remus Lupin, it contained creatures that were to be used in class. Alastor Moody, who was actually an imposter, Barty Crouch Jr., filled it with Dark Detectors. Dolores Umbridge had pink frilly doilies. ===Third Floor=== ====Trophy Room==== The Trophy Room is where awards, trophies, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals are kept in a crystal glass display. This room also contains a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. The trophy room is adjacent to an armour gallery. ====Charms Classroom==== This is where Charms is taught, by Professor Flitwick. The Charms Classroom is down the Charms corridor. ===Fourth Floor=== ====Library==== The library contains tens of thousands of books. The restricted section has books containing powerful Dark Magic that is never taught at Hogwarts, and is only used by students studying Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. In order to use this section, a student needs a signed permission slip from a teacher. Irma Pince is the librarian. She guards the books, and has been known to put unusual jinxes in the books, to make sure that they are not mistreated. ===Fifth Floor=== ====Prefect's Bathroom==== The Prefect's Bathroom is hidden in the fifth door to the left of a statue of Boris the Bewildered. The door opens when given the correct password. In ''Goblet of Fire'' this was given as "pine fresh". There is large pool-like tub and hundreds of taps. Moaning Myrtle sometimes comes here to secretly watch prefect take baths. ====Entrance to Gryffindor Tower==== Gryffindor Tower is entered through a portrait of a fat lady in a pink silk dress on the seventh floor. It can only be entered if one knows the correct password, although in ''The Prisoner of Azkaban'', Sirius Black forced entry, and for a short period afterwards, Sir Cadogan guarded Gryffindor tower. The portrait hole door leads into the Gryffindor Common Room. ====Entrance to North Tower==== To enter North Tower, one climbs a ladder on the seventh floor through a trap door. (See #North Tower.) ====Professor Flitwick's Office==== Filius Flitwick's office is on the seventh floor and thirteenth window from the right of the west tower. ====Room of Requirement==== The Room of Requirement can only be found by someone in desperate need. The person has to walk around the corridor three times, passing a portrait of Barnabas the Barmy, which comically depicts his failed attempt to teach Trolls ballet, all the while concentrating on what he needs. When he finds the room, it will have what he wants. Albus Dumbledore found the room filled with chamber pot while on the way to the bathroom. Dobby brings Winky here after nasty bouts of butterbeer-induced drunkenness, and finds it full of antidotes and a "nice elf-sized bed". Argus Filch sometimes finds cleaning supplies here. When Fred and George Weasley needed a place to hide, they found a broom closet. Harry learned of this room from Dobby. He used it for Dumbledore's Army meetings, and found it filled with bookcases of Defence Against the Dark Arts materials. == Towers == ===Astronomy Tower=== Astronomy Classes occur here. See #Astronomy for more information. ===Headmaster's Tower=== Albus Dumbledore's office is inside this tower, and is entered through an ugly stone gargoyle on the second floor. See #Entrance to Dumbledore's Office for more information). Dumbledore's office is a round room with windows, and decorated with portraits of previous Headmasters. There are numerous silver instruments of unknown function, some which seem to be intended for Divination. The Sorting Hat lives in here. When Dolores Umbridge became Headmistress, the office sealed itself until Dumbledore's return. ===North Tower=== North Tower contains Sibyll Trelawney's office and classroom. The round classroom has walls lined with shelves. (See #Entrance to North Tower.) ===Gryffindor Tower=== Gryffindor Tower is where the Gryffindor common room and dormitories are. The common room has a fireplace and armchairs. There are separate dormitories for girls and boys, which are subdivided by year. Girls are permitted to enter the boys' dormitories, but boys cannot visit the girls', because the founders of Hogwarts felt that boys were less trustworthy than girls. As discovered in ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', the stair to the girls' dormitories turns into a slide if a boy attempts to go up them. See also #Entrance to Gryffindor Tower. ===West Tower=== The Owlery is at the top of West Tower. ===Ravenclaw Tower=== Ravenclaw Tower is located at the west side of the castle. This is home to the Ravenclaw common room and dormitories. == The Grounds == ===Hagrid's Hut=== Hagrid lives in a small hut on the grounds, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. ===The Forbidden Forest=== The Forbidden Forest is named such as it is forbidden to students, as it home to a variety of dangerous creatures. Hagrid frequently travels into the forest for various reasons. The following is a list of beings that inhabit the forest. *Centaur *Fluffy_%28Harry_Potter%29#Fluffy *Werewolf, according to Draco Malfoy *An enchanted, flying Ford Anglia *Acromantula Aragog#aragog, and his family *Grawp, (a giant) *Troll *Unicorn *Thestrals ===Greenhouses=== There are at least three greenhouses where Herbology classes occur. See #Herbology. ===The Whomping Willow=== The Whomping Willow is a magical tree on the Hogwarts grounds. The tree is violent, striking at those who dare approach it with its branches. The tree was planted the year a werewolf named Remus Lupin arrived at the school (c. 1971). Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, planted the Whomping Willow to guard a secret passageway to the Shrieking Shack, a building in Hogsmeade. Lupin was smuggled to the house each month at the full moon, where he could transform into his wolf form without risking harm to others. The tree remained at the Hogwarts grounds long after Lupin left the school. In ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'', Harry and his best friend Ron Weasley flew an enchanted Ford Anglia to Hogwarts, and accidentally crashed into the Whomping Willow, damaging it. ===The Lake=== The lake is located on the south side of the castle. A number of magical creatures inhabit the lake, including a giant squid, often seen near the surface, a colony of Mermaid inhabiting the bottom, and a population of grindylows. ===The Quidditch pitch=== The Quidditch pitch is where Quidditch games are held, and where teams practise. There are three golden hoops at each end used for scoring, and stands surrounding it, providing seating for spectators. The referee is often Madam_Hooch#Madam_Hooch, the flying teacher and Quidditch coach, but Severus Snape refereed once in Harry's first year, to protect Harry from further curses by Professor Quirrell. ==History== ===Early History=== Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by two wizards and two witches: Godric_Gryffindor#Gryffindor, Salazar_Slytherin#Slytherin, Rowena_Ravenclaw#Ravenclaw, and Helga_Hufflepuff#Hufflepuff. Shortly after founding Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders. Slytherin wanted to admit only pure-blood students, but the other three founders disagreed. Slytherin left the school, but not before secretly building the Hogwarts#The_Chamber_of_Secrets. When his own true heir, the Heir of Slytherin, returned to the school, he or she would be able to open the Chamber, unleash a horrible Basilisk, and purge the school of all Muggle-born students. ===Middle History=== About three hundred years after the school was founded, the Triwizard Tournament began between the three most prestigious Magic (Harry Potter) schools in Europe: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. This Tournament was considered the best way for wizards of different nationalities to meet and socialize. The Tournament continued for six centuries, until the death toll became too high, and the Tournament was discontinued. ===Recent History=== The existence of the school was threatened twice when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. The first time it was opened was in 1942, when Lord Voldemort, the Heir of Slytherin and the future Lord Voldemort, opened the Chamber in his sixth year. When a girl named Moaning Myrtle was killed, the Ministry of Magic threatened to close the school. As Riddle spent his time away from Hogwarts in a Muggle orphanage, he did not want the school closed, so he framed Hagrid. In 1992, the Chamber was opened by Ginny Weasley, under the influence of a diary written by Riddle. The diary allowed Riddle's memory to possess Ginny, allowing him to act through her to open the Chamber a second time. Lucius Malfoy had secretly planted the diary in her schoolbooks, with the hope that she would be caught and held responsible, thus bringing an end to Arthur Weasley's Muggle Protection Act. However, Harry Potter discovered the truth, destroyed the diary, killed the basilisk that was living in the Chamber. In 1994, the Triwizard Tournament began once more, though with several safety measures in place. However, Barty Crouch Jr., disguised as Alastor Moody, entered Harry Potter's name in the Triwizard Tournament under the name of a fourth school, ensuring that he would be chosen by the Goblet. He used a List_of_spells_in_Harry_Potter#Confundus_Charm to trick the Goblet into forgetting that only three schools could compete in the tournament. Consequently, Harry became a fourth champion, to the great disgust of the representatives for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as many Hogwarts students. Crouch Jr. made sure that Harry won the Tournament, having turned the Triwizard Tournament into a Magic_objects_%28Harry_Potter%29#Portkey, which carried Harry straight into the hands of Lord Voldemort. Harry escaped, but Voldemort succeeded in using Harry's blood in a complex spell, which allowed him to attain a bodily form and defeat certain of Harry's magical protections. Hogwarts was also threatened when the Ministry of Magic began implementing "Educational Decrees" in 1995, as part of a conspiracy to discredit Albus Dumbledore. Dolores Umbridge, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, was the centre of this plan. With the Educational Decrees, she slowly took control of Hogwarts, and eventually replaced Albus Dumbledore as headmistress. After she was attacked by Centaurs in the Hogwarts#The_Forbidden_Forest and Cornelius Fudge was forced to accept that Voldemort had returned, Umbridge was removed from the school. == Heraldry == === Blazon === ''Shield renaissance, Quarterly, I gules lion rampant face to dexter Or, II vert serpent argent, III Or badger rear-regardant sable, IV azure eagle Or, in fesse couped Or scroll with letter H sable, top riband for the name Hogwarts, base riband for the motto "draco dormiens nunquam titillandus". '' == References == * #top ''"Hogwarts ... Logically it had to be set in a secluded place, and pretty soon I settled on Scotland in my mind."'' Fraser, L., ''An interview with J.K.Rowling'', Mammoth, London, 2000. ISBN 0-7497-4394-8. pp 20-21. Additionally, Rowling mentions that a nest of horrific giant spiders has been rumoured to exist in a forest in Scotland . There is an annotation by Harry or Ron that says "confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley". This is thought to refer to their meeting with Aragog in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''. * ==See also== * Hogsmeade * Hogwarts Houses * Portraits in Hogwarts * Beauxbatons Academy of Magic * Durmstrang Institute Fictional schools Hogwarts
There was lots of discussion on Talk:Harry Potter about whether it's in Scotland or not. It is - for more, please see that talk page. For convenience here is one piece of evidence from there: ''"Hogwarts ... Logically it had to be set in a secluded place, and pretty soon I settled on Scotland in my mind."'' Fraser, L., ''An interview with J.K.Rowling'', Mammoth, London, 2000. ISBN 0-7497-4394-8. pp 20-21. User:Nevilley 11:52 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC) :I'd say ''no'' to ''it's in Scotland''. Yes, there are good reasons to think it's in Scotland, but the book never states that: ask yourself why ? Perhaps does Scotland not even exist in the fictional world that the book describes ;-) Even the fact that J.K.Rowlings gets her inspiration from Scotland does not mean that she thinks that the Castle has to be in Scotland. It just has to be in a secluded place, and in order not to perturbate the readers, she makes them think that that secluded place might be Scotland. (Although some readers appear not to think the expected way.) The difference, of course, is slight, and perhaps I'm just being pedantic here, but it feels significant to me. That's akin to the difference between fact and fiction. User:FvdP 19:59 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Having written that, I just read this: ''In one of the Comic Relief books (Fabulous Beasts and Where To Find Them), the author mentions that a nest of horrific giant spiders (I forget the exact name) has been rumoured to exist in a forest in Scotland. There is an annotation by Harry (or Ron) that says "confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley". Presumably this refers to when they meet Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. '' (in Talk:Harry Potter) so yes, maybe is Hogwarts in Scotland after all... User:FvdP 20:05 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) I think if there is a lack of clarity in the articles, it's better to make the ''articles'' clearer, and to add the references there, rather than doing so in the talk pages. Otherwise the same questions will come up again and again. -- User:Oliver Pereira 01:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Good idea User:FvdP :I think the fact that the author says it's in Scotland does a lot to clear up the 'unclarity', doesn't it? -- User:Someone else 01:44 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Except that she says "Scotland in my mind" not "Scotland in the book" ;-) User:FvdP 17:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- The school does not appear on Muggle maps, but it is not "unmappable": Harry gets hold of an enchanted map showing every passge, corridor and room in Hogwarts' grounds and where any person in the grounds is (see Marauder's Map). shows .... --User:Ed Poor 19:43 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) : I've removed "''The school is unplotable (cannot found on a map)''". According to [http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/spells_u.html this page] in "The Harry Potter Lexicon", "Hogwarts also has wards and spells on it to hide its true nature from Muggles, but it is apparently not Unplottable." -- User:Oliver Pereira 01:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- One quick correction that should be made: The mascot of the Ravenclaw house is not the eagle, but the Raven, hence the name. The eagle, especially in American mythology, has been a symbol of courage and morality, not for intelligence. The raven on the other hand has long been a symbol of intelligence in mythology and literature. ---- If anyone wishes to move this page, could they please use the "Move this page" function, to preserve the article history? Thanks. I'm not sure a move is necessary, though. The school is often referred to as just "Hogwarts", and the opening line gives the full name anyway. -- User:Oliver Pereira 16:35, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- If you have an article here on the Chamber of Secrets, you should also have one on the other rooms at Hogwarts. Your description of the school houses are very short. The writer didn't go into a lot of detail. User:12.203.10.240 : Wikipedia is a collaborative project - anyone is free to edit the articles, to add to them, and to improve them in any way that they see fit. There is no single "writer" responsible for any of the articles. Anyone who comes here is free to write in any of the articles. Including you. If you think the article can be improved, just go for it! :) -- User:Oliver Pereira 21:32, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- I moved the stuff about the Chamber of Secrets to the part about the founding of the school. It fits better there. ---- I listed Filius as Flitwick's first name, because the Harry Potter Lexicon said "Warwick Davis, in an interview with Comingsoon.com, indicated that JKR had told him that Flitwick's first name was Filius," and, as it was noted at the Lexicon, this may be second-hand, but it's still canon. ---- The Detention at Hogwarts page has turned out to be copyed from the Harry Potter Lexicon. The link here has been deleted until further notice. This is due to my beilef that the author didn't realize the "no copyrighting policy" and we may want to recreate the link if the author replaces this article with an orginal one. The author of Detentions at Hogwarts page has decided to let the page be deleted. The page has now been deleted. ---- Hi, I'm back! I've noticed my absence has gone completly unoticed. == Too long? == :I like the article pretty much but isn't it too long being one article? Can we split off some sections? -- User:TakuyaMurata ::I don't think it is too long. It's less than 30kb. There isn't really anything substantial enough to split off. We don't want to end up with lots of stub relating to Harry Potter, which is why I think they have been merged in here. User:Angela 07:12, Oct 18, 2003 (UTC) == Image == What's the status on the image heading this article? Has Warner Brothers released it into the public domain? I find this extremely dubious, especially given the watermark present on it. - User:Korath 02:25, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC) ---- Concerning Ravenclaw's mascot: even though the raven is symbolically associated with intelligence rather than the eagle and I would have liked the raven to be Ravenclaw's mascot as it really makes more sense, I still think the eagle is the mascot of Ravenclaw House. Some pieces of proof include: *Chapter Three (''The Letters from No One'') from ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', where Hogwarts' coat of arms on the envelope is described as "a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'" *The Harry Potter Lexicon's entry on Ravenclaw (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/houses/ravenclaw.html), where Ravenclaw's animal is listed as "eagle". The sidebar also features a possible reason for Ravenclaw's mascot not being a raven. *The fact that Gryffindor's mascot is not a griffin or a hippogriff, despite what its name suggests, and *The card "Ravenclaw Eagle" from the Harry Potter Trading Card Game as part of a cycle of cards featuring the mascots of the houses. I hope the proof is sufficient to warrant my editing the article to that effect. User:Sinistro 22:50, 22 May 2004 (UTC) == Uniform == I suspect there to be some movie contamination in the description of the Hogwarts uniform: I don't recall anything except robes being described in the books. --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 13:49, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC) ---- This article is weird. Fiction gets carried so far and the description is so detailed for something fictional. Nicely written however. — User:Stevey7788 (User talk:Stevey7788) 05:19, 11 May 2005 (UTC) == Origin of the name 'Hogwarts' == Rowling has said that she doesn't recall where she got the name 'Hogwarts'. In a couple of interviews (linked to below), she ventured that she may have been exposed to the name on a visit to Kew Gardens, where apparently a type of lily called 'Hogwarts' can be seen. Hence, I would like to delete the following statement from the article: "J.K. Rowling took the name Hogwarts from a fictional Latin play in a Molesworth book by Geoffrey Willans." http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0999-familyeducation-abel.htm http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2001/1001-sydney-renton.htm
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a school of Magic (Harry Potter) that is the main setting of the ''Harry Potter'' fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling. Hogwarts is a boarding school set in a castle by a mountain lake. Although its precise location is not specified in the books, the author has said it is in Scotland.#References Hogwarts is reached by a train called the Hogwarts Express. No apparate (Appearing and Disapparating) is possible on the school grounds, although adults seem to show up by means other than the school train; perhaps they use broomstick or Floo powder, or simply apparate to a nearby location and walk. The school has strong charms around it to repel "Muggles" (non-magic people). Electronic do not work on Hogwarts grounds; there is too much magic in the air. Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is an elderly, white-haired gentleman with a droll (some might say silly) sense of humour and twinkling eyes. He always seems to know what's going on at the school and takes a special interest in Harry. He carries no course load, but formerly taught Transfiguration. Dumbledore is the only wizard whom Lord Voldemort, the villain of the series, fears. This makes the school a safe haven from his clutches. There are 12 school governors who have the power to suspend the headmaster by voting. Lucius Malfoy was a school governor until he was fired after using blackmail to make the other governors agree to suspend Dumbledore. The motto of Hogwarts is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus", which in Latin means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon". J. K. Rowling said she wanted a practical motto for Hogwarts, since so many schools have less pragmatism ones such as "Reach for the stars". The Deputy Headmistress is Professor Minerva McGonagall, rather severe in aspect, but respected by the students. She teaches Transfiguration and is head of Gryffindor house. Several professors make up the Hogwarts faculty, each specialising in a single subject (see Hogwarts subjects). Other staff positions include that of school nurse, caretaker, and gamekeeper/groundskeeper. The school grounds feature a Quidditch pitch, the lake, the Forbidden Forest, and at least three greenhouses. Hogwarts is divided into four houses; Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. ==Subjects and Grading== ===Subjects=== For a list of subjects, see Hogwarts subjects. ===Grades=== Students who take the O.W.L.s, a set of standardised tests for fifth years, and N.E.W.T.s, a more advanced exam regimen for seventh years, are graded based on the following scale: *O = Outstanding (Perfect) *E = Exceeds Expectations (Fine) *A = Acceptable (last passing grade) *P = Poor (Below average) *D = Dreadful (Flunking) *T = (According to Fred Weasley and George Weasley) "Troll" (Extremely Poor) or ''terrible'' which is the correct name for this grade. In their first four years, however, students need only to pass each of their subjects before advancing to the next level the following year. ==School Year== There is a magic quill at Hogwarts that detects the birth of a magical person and records his or her name. Every year, Minerva McGonagall sends letters to the people on the list turning eleven, inviting them to Hogwarts. If for any reason a letter does not reach its intended recipient, owl will continue delivering letters until the person receives one (as was Harry Potter (character) experience in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''). The letter contains a list of supplies, including spell books and cauldrons. The person who receives this letter is expected to go to Diagon Alley to buy them. Letters to muggle-born wizards are delivered by special messengers, who explain the Wizarding World to them. Term begins on September 1. Students travel to King's Cross station to board the Hogwarts Express, which takes them to Hogwarts. First year students go with the gamekeeper, currently Rubeus Hagrid, to small boats, which magically sail across the Hogwarts Lake. The older students travel up to the castle in carriages pulled by thestrals, magical beasts (Harry Potter) which are visible only to those who have witnessed death. The older students arrive first. When the first years arrive, they are greeted by the deputy headmistress, Minerva McGonagall, who tells them about the Houses. The first years then file into the Great Hall. Upon entering, the Sorting Hat sings a song that describes the four Houses. The Sorting Hat sings a new song each year, and has been known to offer advice in its lyrics in times of trouble. Once the song has finished, the hat is placed on each student's head, and it announces the House for which they are suited. After the Sorting is finished, a start-of-term feast begins. After dinner, the first years are led by a prefect to their common room. The next day, classes begin. Tryouts for House Quidditch teams begin shortly afterwards. Quidditch is a popular wizarding sport, however first years are usually prohibited from joining a Quidditch team. Instead, they receive flying lessons from Madam Hooch. Halloween is celebrated each year with a feast. The Great Hall is always decorated for the occasion. An important event occurs in each novel during Halloween, with the exception of ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. Students may go home for the Christmas holidays. The students who choose to remain do not have any classes and are present at the Christmas feast. The Great Hall is decorated for this occasion with Christmas trees and other decorations. When Christmas holidays end, classes begin again. In Harry Potter's second year, Gilderoy Lockhart organised a Valentine's Day celebration. It was not continued after he left the school. The Easter holidays are not as enjoyable as the Christmas ones, as students are overloaded with homework to prepare them for their exams, which are taken at the end of the year. Students are not allowed to use magic over the summer holidays until they turn seventeen. In the books, the Hogwarts uniform consists of a plain black work robe, a plain black pointed hat, and a winter cloak with silver fastenings. In the films, students typically wear school uniforms similar to those of the public school (UK) of England (called private schools in the United States.) These consist of open-fronted black robes with a house insignia on the chest. Beneath is worn a grey sweater, white collared shirt, and necktie in the colours of their House. Boys wear long, dark trousers, and girls wear dark pleated skirts and knee socks. ==Rooms== This list of rooms is based upon a list created by the Harry Potter Lexicon[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/], a site which has deduced the location of every room but the Transfiguration Classroom. ===Deep Under the Dungeons=== ====The Chamber of Secrets==== The Chamber of Secrets is home to a basilisk, which is intended to be used to purge the school of Muggle-born students. The Chamber is entered through Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. The Chamber has several statues of snakes on either side of the walls, and a giant statue of Salazar Slytherin opposite the door. For information on the history of the Chamber of Secrets, (see #Early History). ===Dungeons=== ====Potions Classroom==== Potions is taught in one of the dungeons under the castle. This dungeon is large enough to accommodate a double class. It is colder here than in the main castle, and the surrounding walls contain many jars of pickled animals, which the students find particularly creepy. Ice cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner. ====Severus Snape's Office==== Severus Snape's Office is adjacent to his classroom. This room is filled with bizarre creatures in jars. Snape has private stores of potion ingredients. ====Slytherin Common Room==== The Slytherin Common Room is in one of the dungeons, and opens when one gives a password to a blank stone wall. It has a low ceiling and greenish torchlight. The common room is located partially under the lake. ====Hufflepuff Common Room==== The Hufflepuff Common Room is a room similar to a cellar, down the same staircase that leads to the kitchens. It should be noted that the Hufflepuff Common Room is not a dungeon, but is more like a cellar [http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/fansite_view.cfm?id=2 ]. ====Kitchens==== The Kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall, and contain tables that are identical to the house tables in the Great Hall and food must simply be placed on the tables and it magically appears on the tables in the Great Hall. The kitchens are staffed by over 100 house-elves including Dobby (first appearence ''The Chamger of Secrets'' and Winky first apperence ''The Goblet of Fire''. To gain access to the Kitchens, one must tickle the pear on the fruit portrait. ===Ground Floor=== ====Entrance Hall==== The Entrance Hall is entered through double oak front doors that face to the west. The Entrance Hall is very large, and has a wide marble staircase opposite the front door, leading to the first floor. Two other staircases lead to the Hufflepuff Common Room and the Kitchens, while the other leads to the Dungeons. ====Great Hall==== The Great Hall contains four House tables, one for each House, and a staff table. The ceiling is enchanted such that it imitates the current weather. ====Staff Room==== The staff room is a long, panelled room, with mismatched dark wooden chairs. There is a wardrobe, which occasionally becomes infested with magical creatures. ====Argus Filch's Office==== Argus Filch, the caretaker, has an office that contains a filing cabinet with records of every student that Filch has punished. The Fred and George Weasley, and possibly Sirius Black and James Potter, have entire drawers to themselves. His office contains well oiled chains, which he hopes to use again. He briefly got his wish when Dolores Umbridge became Headmistress. ===First Floor=== ====Muggle Studies Classroom==== This classroom is never a direct setting during the first five novels, though it is frequently referenced. ====Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom==== This room contains an iron chandelier. When Professor Quirrell was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, the room smelled strongly of garlic, which according to rumour, was intended to protect him from a vampire that he met in Romania, whom he feared a visit from. ====History of Magic Classroom==== This room contains a blackboard, through which Professor Binns, a ghost, enters at the start of class. ====Minerva McGonagall's Office==== Minerva McGonagall's office is up the marble staircase in the Entrance Hall, and down a hallway. ====The Hospital Wing==== The hospital wing contains several beds, and School Nurse Poppy Pomfrey's office. ===Second Floor=== ====Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom==== Moaning Myrtle's bathroom contains the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. It is opened by speaking in Parseltongue, which causes a sink to open a pipe large enough for a man to slide down. After one slides down this pipe, they find themselves in a tunnel, which leads to the Chamber of Secrets. When Lord Voldemort opened the Chamber during the 1940's, a girl named Myrtle was sulking in a stall. When she heard him, she opened the door, saw the basilisk, and died immediately. She is now a ghost called Moaning Myrtle. Her bathroom is now out of order, due to her presence there. ====Entrance to Albus Dumbledore's Office==== Albus Dumbledore's office is opened when the correct password is spoken, usually a type of candy (Sherbert Lemon and Cockroach Cluster have been used in the past), to an ugly stone gargoyle, which then moves aside. Stone steps move like an escalator up to the door of his office. (See #Headmaster's Tower.) ====Defence Against The Dark Arts Professor's Office==== The Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's Office faces south, thus the Lake and Quidditch Pitch are visible out the window. When Gilderoy Lockhart was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, this room was filled with pictures of himself. Under Remus Lupin, it contained creatures that were to be used in class. Alastor Moody, who was actually an imposter, Barty Crouch Jr., filled it with Dark Detectors. Dolores Umbridge had pink frilly doilies. ===Third Floor=== ====Trophy Room==== The Trophy Room is where awards, trophies, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals are kept in a crystal glass display. This room also contains a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. The trophy room is adjacent to an armour gallery. ====Charms Classroom==== This is where Charms is taught, by Professor Flitwick. The Charms Classroom is down the Charms corridor. ===Fourth Floor=== ====Library==== The library contains tens of thousands of books. The restricted section has books containing powerful Dark Magic that is never taught at Hogwarts, and is only used by students studying Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. In order to use this section, a student needs a signed permission slip from a teacher. Irma Pince is the librarian. She guards the books, and has been known to put unusual jinxes in the books, to make sure that they are not mistreated. ===Fifth Floor=== ====Prefect's Bathroom==== The Prefect's Bathroom is hidden in the fifth door to the left of a statue of Boris the Bewildered. The door opens when given the correct password. In ''Goblet of Fire'' this was given as "pine fresh". There is large pool-like tub and hundreds of taps. Moaning Myrtle sometimes comes here to secretly watch prefect take baths. ====Entrance to Gryffindor Tower==== Gryffindor Tower is entered through a portrait of a fat lady in a pink silk dress on the seventh floor. It can only be entered if one knows the correct password, although in ''The Prisoner of Azkaban'', Sirius Black forced entry, and for a short period afterwards, Sir Cadogan guarded Gryffindor tower. The portrait hole door leads into the Gryffindor Common Room. ====Entrance to North Tower==== To enter North Tower, one climbs a ladder on the seventh floor through a trap door. (See #North Tower.) ====Professor Flitwick's Office==== Filius Flitwick's office is on the seventh floor and thirteenth window from the right of the west tower. ====Room of Requirement==== The Room of Requirement can only be found by someone in desperate need. The person has to walk around the corridor three times, passing a portrait of Barnabas the Barmy, which comically depicts his failed attempt to teach Trolls ballet, all the while concentrating on what he needs. When he finds the room, it will have what he wants. Albus Dumbledore found the room filled with chamber pot while on the way to the bathroom. Dobby brings Winky here after nasty bouts of butterbeer-induced drunkenness, and finds it full of antidotes and a "nice elf-sized bed". Argus Filch sometimes finds cleaning supplies here. When Fred and George Weasley needed a place to hide, they found a broom closet. Harry learned of this room from Dobby. He used it for Dumbledore's Army meetings, and found it filled with bookcases of Defence Against the Dark Arts materials. == Towers == ===Astronomy Tower=== Astronomy Classes occur here. See #Astronomy for more information. ===Headmaster's Tower=== Albus Dumbledore's office is inside this tower, and is entered through an ugly stone gargoyle on the second floor. See #Entrance to Dumbledore's Office for more information). Dumbledore's office is a round room with windows, and decorated with portraits of previous Headmasters. There are numerous silver instruments of unknown function, some which seem to be intended for Divination. The Sorting Hat lives in here. When Dolores Umbridge became Headmistress, the office sealed itself until Dumbledore's return. ===North Tower=== North Tower contains Sibyll Trelawney's office and classroom. The round classroom has walls lined with shelves. (See #Entrance to North Tower.) ===Gryffindor Tower=== Gryffindor Tower is where the Gryffindor common room and dormitories are. The common room has a fireplace and armchairs. There are separate dormitories for girls and boys, which are subdivided by year. Girls are permitted to enter the boys' dormitories, but boys cannot visit the girls', because the founders of Hogwarts felt that boys were less trustworthy than girls. As discovered in ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', the stair to the girls' dormitories turns into a slide if a boy attempts to go up them. See also #Entrance to Gryffindor Tower. ===West Tower=== The Owlery is at the top of West Tower. ===Ravenclaw Tower=== Ravenclaw Tower is located at the west side of the castle. This is home to the Ravenclaw common room and dormitories. == The Grounds == ===Hagrid's Hut=== Hagrid lives in a small hut on the grounds, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. ===The Forbidden Forest=== The Forbidden Forest is named such as it is forbidden to students, as it home to a variety of dangerous creatures. Hagrid frequently travels into the forest for various reasons. The following is a list of beings that inhabit the forest. *Centaur *Fluffy_%28Harry_Potter%29#Fluffy *Werewolf, according to Draco Malfoy *An enchanted, flying Ford Anglia *Acromantula Aragog#aragog, and his family *Grawp, (a giant) *Troll *Unicorn *Thestrals ===Greenhouses=== There are at least three greenhouses where Herbology classes occur. See #Herbology. ===The Whomping Willow=== The Whomping Willow is a magical tree on the Hogwarts grounds. The tree is violent, striking at those who dare approach it with its branches. The tree was planted the year a werewolf named Remus Lupin arrived at the school (c. 1971). Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, planted the Whomping Willow to guard a secret passageway to the Shrieking Shack, a building in Hogsmeade. Lupin was smuggled to the house each month at the full moon, where he could transform into his wolf form without risking harm to others. The tree remained at the Hogwarts grounds long after Lupin left the school. In ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'', Harry and his best friend Ron Weasley flew an enchanted Ford Anglia to Hogwarts, and accidentally crashed into the Whomping Willow, damaging it. ===The Lake=== The lake is located on the south side of the castle. A number of magical creatures inhabit the lake, including a giant squid, often seen near the surface, a colony of Mermaid inhabiting the bottom, and a population of grindylows. ===The Quidditch pitch=== The Quidditch pitch is where Quidditch games are held, and where teams practise. There are three golden hoops at each end used for scoring, and stands surrounding it, providing seating for spectators. The referee is often Madam_Hooch#Madam_Hooch, the flying teacher and Quidditch coach, but Severus Snape refereed once in Harry's first year, to protect Harry from further curses by Professor Quirrell. ==History== ===Early History=== Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by two wizards and two witches: Godric_Gryffindor#Gryffindor, Salazar_Slytherin#Slytherin, Rowena_Ravenclaw#Ravenclaw, and Helga_Hufflepuff#Hufflepuff. Shortly after founding Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders. Slytherin wanted to admit only pure-blood students, but the other three founders disagreed. Slytherin left the school, but not before secretly building the Hogwarts#The_Chamber_of_Secrets. When his own true heir, the Heir of Slytherin, returned to the school, he or she would be able to open the Chamber, unleash a horrible Basilisk, and purge the school of all Muggle-born students. ===Middle History=== About three hundred years after the school was founded, the Triwizard Tournament began between the three most prestigious Magic (Harry Potter) schools in Europe: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. This Tournament was considered the best way for wizards of different nationalities to meet and socialize. The Tournament continued for six centuries, until the death toll became too high, and the Tournament was discontinued. ===Recent History=== The existence of the school was threatened twice when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. The first time it was opened was in 1942, when Lord Voldemort, the Heir of Slytherin and the future Lord Voldemort, opened the Chamber in his sixth year. When a girl named Moaning Myrtle was killed, the Ministry of Magic threatened to close the school. As Riddle spent his time away from Hogwarts in a Muggle orphanage, he did not want the school closed, so he framed Hagrid. In 1992, the Chamber was opened by Ginny Weasley, under the influence of a diary written by Riddle. The diary allowed Riddle's memory to possess Ginny, allowing him to act through her to open the Chamber a second time. Lucius Malfoy had secretly planted the diary in her schoolbooks, with the hope that she would be caught and held responsible, thus bringing an end to Arthur Weasley's Muggle Protection Act. However, Harry Potter discovered the truth, destroyed the diary, killed the basilisk that was living in the Chamber. In 1994, the Triwizard Tournament began once more, though with several safety measures in place. However, Barty Crouch Jr., disguised as Alastor Moody, entered Harry Potter's name in the Triwizard Tournament under the name of a fourth school, ensuring that he would be chosen by the Goblet. He used a List_of_spells_in_Harry_Potter#Confundus_Charm to trick the Goblet into forgetting that only three schools could compete in the tournament. Consequently, Harry became a fourth champion, to the great disgust of the representatives for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as many Hogwarts students. Crouch Jr. made sure that Harry won the Tournament, having turned the Triwizard Tournament into a Magic_objects_%28Harry_Potter%29#Portkey, which carried Harry straight into the hands of Lord Voldemort. Harry escaped, but Voldemort succeeded in using Harry's blood in a complex spell, which allowed him to attain a bodily form and defeat certain of Harry's magical protections. Hogwarts was also threatened when the Ministry of Magic began implementing "Educational Decrees" in 1995, as part of a conspiracy to discredit Albus Dumbledore. Dolores Umbridge, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, was the centre of this plan. With the Educational Decrees, she slowly took control of Hogwarts, and eventually replaced Albus Dumbledore as headmistress. After she was attacked by Centaurs in the Hogwarts#The_Forbidden_Forest and Cornelius Fudge was forced to accept that Voldemort had returned, Umbridge was removed from the school. == Heraldry == === Blazon === ''Shield renaissance, Quarterly, I gules lion rampant face to dexter Or, II vert serpent argent, III Or badger rear-regardant sable, IV azure eagle Or, in fesse couped Or scroll with letter H sable, top riband for the name Hogwarts, base riband for the motto "draco dormiens nunquam titillandus". '' == References == * #top ''"Hogwarts ... Logically it had to be set in a secluded place, and pretty soon I settled on Scotland in my mind."'' Fraser, L., ''An interview with J.K.Rowling'', Mammoth, London, 2000. ISBN 0-7497-4394-8. pp 20-21. Additionally, Rowling mentions that a nest of horrific giant spiders has been rumoured to exist in a forest in Scotland . There is an annotation by Harry or Ron that says "confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley". This is thought to refer to their meeting with Aragog in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''. * ==See also== * Hogsmeade * Hogwarts Houses * Portraits in Hogwarts * Beauxbatons Academy of Magic * Durmstrang Institute Fictional schools Hogwarts
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There was lots of discussion on Talk:Harry Potter about whether it's in Scotland or not. It is - for more, please see that talk page. For convenience here is one piece of evidence from there: ''"Hogwarts ... Logically it had to be set in a secluded place, and pretty soon I settled on Scotland in my mind."'' Fraser, L., ''An interview with J.K.Rowling'', Mammoth, London, 2000. ISBN 0-7497-4394-8. pp 20-21. User:Nevilley 11:52 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC) :I'd say ''no'' to ''it's in Scotland''. Yes, there are good reasons to think it's in Scotland, but the book never states that: ask yourself why ? Perhaps does Scotland not even exist in the fictional world that the book describes ;-) Even the fact that J.K.Rowlings gets her inspiration from Scotland does not mean that she thinks that the Castle has to be in Scotland. It just has to be in a secluded place, and in order not to perturbate the readers, she makes them think that that secluded place might be Scotland. (Although some readers appear not to think the expected way.) The difference, of course, is slight, and perhaps I'm just being pedantic here, but it feels significant to me. That's akin to the difference between fact and fiction. User:FvdP 19:59 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Having written that, I just read this: ''In one of the Comic Relief books (Fabulous Beasts and Where To Find Them), the author mentions that a nest of horrific giant spiders (I forget the exact name) has been rumoured to exist in a forest in Scotland. There is an annotation by Harry (or Ron) that says "confirmed by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley". Presumably this refers to when they meet Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. '' (in Talk:Harry Potter) so yes, maybe is Hogwarts in Scotland after all... User:FvdP 20:05 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) I think if there is a lack of clarity in the articles, it's better to make the ''articles'' clearer, and to add the references there, rather than doing so in the talk pages. Otherwise the same questions will come up again and again. -- User:Oliver Pereira 01:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Good idea User:FvdP :I think the fact that the author says it's in Scotland does a lot to clear up the 'unclarity', doesn't it? -- User:Someone else 01:44 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ::Except that she says "Scotland in my mind" not "Scotland in the book" ;-) User:FvdP 17:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- The school does not appear on Muggle maps, but it is not "unmappable": Harry gets hold of an enchanted map showing every passge, corridor and room in Hogwarts' grounds and where any person in the grounds is (see Marauder's Map). shows .... --User:Ed Poor 19:43 12 Jun 2003 (UTC) : I've removed "''The school is unplotable (cannot found on a map)''". According to [http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/spells_u.html this page] in "The Harry Potter Lexicon", "Hogwarts also has wards and spells on it to hide its true nature from Muggles, but it is apparently not Unplottable." -- User:Oliver Pereira 01:37 13 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- One quick correction that should be made: The mascot of the Ravenclaw house is not the eagle, but the Raven, hence the name. The eagle, especially in American mythology, has been a symbol of courage and morality, not for intelligence. The raven on the other hand has long been a symbol of intelligence in mythology and literature. ---- If anyone wishes to move this page, could they please use the "Move this page" function, to preserve the article history? Thanks. I'm not sure a move is necessary, though. The school is often referred to as just "Hogwarts", and the opening line gives the full name anyway. -- User:Oliver Pereira 16:35, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- If you have an article here on the Chamber of Secrets, you should also have one on the other rooms at Hogwarts. Your description of the school houses are very short. The writer didn't go into a lot of detail. User:12.203.10.240 : Wikipedia is a collaborative project - anyone is free to edit the articles, to add to them, and to improve them in any way that they see fit. There is no single "writer" responsible for any of the articles. Anyone who comes here is free to write in any of the articles. Including you. If you think the article can be improved, just go for it! :) -- User:Oliver Pereira 21:32, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC) ---- I moved the stuff about the Chamber of Secrets to the part about the founding of the school. It fits better there. ---- I listed Filius as Flitwick's first name, because the Harry Potter Lexicon said "Warwick Davis, in an interview with Comingsoon.com, indicated that JKR had told him that Flitwick's first name was Filius," and, as it was noted at the Lexicon, this may be second-hand, but it's still canon. ---- The Detention at Hogwarts page has turned out to be copyed from the Harry Potter Lexicon. The link here has been deleted until further notice. This is due to my beilef that the author didn't realize the "no copyrighting policy" and we may want to recreate the link if the author replaces this article with an orginal one. The author of Detentions at Hogwarts page has decided to let the page be deleted. The page has now been deleted. ---- Hi, I'm back! I've noticed my absence has gone completly unoticed. == Too long? == :I like the article pretty much but isn't it too long being one article? Can we split off some sections? -- User:TakuyaMurata ::I don't think it is too long. It's less than 30kb. There isn't really anything substantial enough to split off. We don't want to end up with lots of stub relating to Harry Potter, which is why I think they have been merged in here. User:Angela 07:12, Oct 18, 2003 (UTC) == Image == What's the status on the image heading this article? Has Warner Brothers released it into the public domain? I find this extremely dubious, especially given the watermark present on it. - User:Korath 02:25, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC) ---- Concerning Ravenclaw's mascot: even though the raven is symbolically associated with intelligence rather than the eagle and I would have liked the raven to be Ravenclaw's mascot as it really makes more sense, I still think the eagle is the mascot of Ravenclaw House. Some pieces of proof include: *Chapter Three (''The Letters from No One'') from ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', where Hogwarts' coat of arms on the envelope is described as "a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'" *The Harry Potter Lexicon's entry on Ravenclaw (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/houses/ravenclaw.html), where Ravenclaw's animal is listed as "eagle". The sidebar also features a possible reason for Ravenclaw's mascot not being a raven. *The fact that Gryffindor's mascot is not a griffin or a hippogriff, despite what its name suggests, and *The card "Ravenclaw Eagle" from the Harry Potter Trading Card Game as part of a cycle of cards featuring the mascots of the houses. I hope the proof is sufficient to warrant my editing the article to that effect. User:Sinistro 22:50, 22 May 2004 (UTC) == Uniform == I suspect there to be some movie contamination in the description of the Hogwarts uniform: I don't recall anything except robes being described in the books. --User:Phil Boswell | User talk:Phil Boswell 13:49, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC) ---- This article is weird. Fiction gets carried so far and the description is so detailed for something fictional. Nicely written however. — User:Stevey7788 (User talk:Stevey7788) 05:19, 11 May 2005 (UTC) == Origin of the name 'Hogwarts' == Rowling has said that she doesn't recall where she got the name 'Hogwarts'. In a couple of interviews (linked to below), she ventured that she may have been exposed to the name on a visit to Kew Gardens, where apparently a type of lily called 'Hogwarts' can be seen. Hence, I would like to delete the following statement from the article: "J.K. Rowling took the name Hogwarts from a fictional Latin play in a Molesworth book by Geoffrey Willans." http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0999-familyeducation-abel.htm http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2001/1001-sydney-renton.htm
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