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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the main setting of the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. This list of the rooms in Hogwarts Castle is based upon a list created by the Harry Potter Lexicon, a site whose contributors have deduced the location of every room^[1]except the Transfiguration Classroom. It should be noted that some rooms in the school tend to "move around," which Rowling says can be attributed either to the magic of the school or to her own imperfect memory.

Chamber of Secrets

The Chamber of Secrets, which is deep under the dungeons (probably under the lake), was home to an ancient Basilisk, intended to be used to purge the school of Muggle-born students. The Chamber was built by Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts, before he left the school.^[CS Ch.9] Since the spring of 1993, the Chamber has presumably been empty.

The Chamber is well hidden and the entrance is in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom on the second floor, which leads down into a dark, slimy stone tunnel.^[CS Ch.16] 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.^[CS Ch.16] WhenParseltongue is spoken they open into a very long, dim corridor, lined with monumental statues of snakes, including two towering stone pillars with more carved serpents that brace the ceiling.^[CS Ch.17] 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.^[CS Ch.17] {{endspoiler}}

Dungeons

Potions Classroom

Potions is taught by Severus Snape 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.^[PS Ch.8] Ice cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner.

Snape's Office

Severus Snape's office is located in the dungeons, adjacent to the Potions classroom. It has shadowy walls and behind his desk, are shelves lined with large, glass jars filled with bits of creatures and plants floating in different coloured potions.^[CS Ch.5]His office is dimly lit, despite the fireplace, and in one corner there is a cupboard containing Snape's private stores of potion ingredients, including Bicorn horn, Boomslang skin and Gillyweed.^{[OotP Ch.24]} In book six, he declines an offer for an office nearer to his new Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, preferring to remain in the dungeons.

Slytherin Dormitories

The Slytherin dormitories and common room are actually located under the lake. Access is gained by going through the door to the left of the main staircase in the Entrance Hall and down the stone steps that lead into a labyrinth of corridors. When given the correct password, a bare stone wall down one of the passages opens into the Slytherin common room. The common room is long and low with a rough stone ceiling and walls. It is lit by green-tinted lamps hanging by chains and carved chairs stand around a fire burning under an elaborate mantelpiece.

Cellar

Hufflepuff Dormitories

The Hufflepuff dormitories and common room are in the cellar, adjacent to the kitchens. They are located through the door to the right of the main staircase in the Entrance Hall, down a flight of stone steps and along a broad, stone corridor lit with torches and decorated cheerfully.

Kitchens

The kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall in an enormous, high-ceilinged room. It has stone walls, heaps of brass pots and pans, and a large brick fireplace at one end. The kitchens contain four long wooden tables positioned exactly the same way as the tables above. Food must simply be placed on these tables in the kitchens in order to be sent up through the ceiling to their counterparts upstairs.^[GF Ch.21] The kitchens are staffed by over a hundred house-elves, including Dobby,Winky and, as of book six, Kreacher. To gain access to the kitchens, one must go down the corridor to the right of the main staircase in the Entrance Hall, find the painting of a bowl offruit and tickle the pear, which then giggles and becomes a door handle.^[GF Ch.21]

Harry appears to have known and then forgotten about the location of the kitchens in his first three years at the school. In thePhilosopher's Stone, he recalls that there is a suit of armour near to the kitchens, noting that he must be 'five floors up from there' (he appears to be on the same level as the library: he has run from there, and does not mention using any staircases). ByThe Goblet of Fire, however, he does not know where the kitchens are (he has to be told about them by Fred and George Weasley, and does not realise where Hermione is taking him when they visit the kitchens). One could argue that what Harry had initially believe to be the kitchens by the library was not, that there is a common kitchen for student use, or (most likely) that Rowling had forgotten the first instance whe she wrote the scene in Goblet of Fire.

Ground Floor

Entrance Hall

The Entrance Hall is entered up a flight of stone steps and through huge double oak front doors that face west.^[PoA Ch.21] The Hall is lit by torches and is quite imposing, with a ceiling so high it is barely visible and a paved flagstone floor. A wide marble staircase opposite the front doors leads to the first floor. On either side of this staircase there are two doors. One leads to the Hufflepuff common room and the kitchens, while the other leads to the dungeons. There is also a door on the left side of the Hall that leads to an antechamber where the first year students wait before the Sorting, as well as a broom cupboard off the Hall. The Hall is also home to the four House hourglasses where the House points are displayed for all to see.

Great Hall

The Great Hall is entered by double doors to the right of the Entrance Hall. The Great Hall is a vast chamber that contains four long tables for each of the four Houses. Closest to the doors is the Slytherin table, followed by Ravenclaw, then Hufflepuff and finally the Gryffindor table next to the far wall. On a raised platform at the front of the room is the High Table where the staff dine. The ceiling is enchanted so that it mirrors the sky as it currently appears outside. There are also high mullioned windows around the room that show the grounds outside. Behind the High Table, there is a smaller antechamber with a fireplace and many portraits, where the champions of the Triwizard Tournament gathered for the first time.

Staff Room

Located off the Entrance Hall, the staff room is a long panelled room, with mismatched dark wooden chairs. There are two stonegargoyles on either side of the door and they challenge any student who knocks on the door. Within the staff room is a large wardrobe, which on one occasion in the third book, became infested with a boggart.

Filch's Office

Argus Filch, the caretaker, has an office off the Entrance Hall that has a single oil lamp hanging from the ceiling and a vague smell of fried fish. His office contains filing cabinets with records of every student that Filch has ever punished (Fred and George Weasley have an entire drawer to themselves), as well as a cabinet marked "Confiscated and Highly Dangerous". His office contains well-oiled and polished chains and manacles, which he hopes to use on the students again one day. This is also where Fred and George Weasley found the Marauder's Map, which had been confiscated many years before.

Classroom Eleven

When Firenze the centaur was appointed the new Divination teacher after Sybill Trelawney was sacked in book five, he was given a classroom on the ground floor, as he was unable to climb up the ladder to the normal classroom on the seventh floor. Albus Dumbledore made classroom eleven look like the middle of a forest clearing, full of trees and plantlife. Since Firenze stayed on as Divination teacher even after Trelawney was rehired, it is presumed that the room has not changed. The book states that this is one of a group of unused classrooms in one area, so one can only assume that there are several more classrooms on the ground floor.

First Floor

History of Magic Classroom

The History of Magic classroom contains a chalkboard, through which Professor Binns, a ghost, enters and exits at the start and end of class. There is also a window with thick glass and a narrow ledge that looks across the school lake.

Hospital Wing

The hospital wing contains many beds with white sheets, optional privacy screens and bedpans. It also contains the office ofPoppy Pomfrey, the nurse. In the third film, 'Prisoner Of Azkaban' the Clock Tower is located along the corridor outside the hospital. It chimes the hours with a big bell. It plays an important in the film as time is a big topic.

McGonagall's Office

Minerva McGonagall's office is up the marble staircase in the Entrance Hall, and along a hallway. Her office has a fireplace, sometimes connected to the Floo Network, and at least one window that overlooks the Quidditch pitch.

Muggle Studies Classroom

The Muggle Studies classroom is never directly shown during the first six novels, though it is occasionally referenced.

Second Floor

Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's Office

This is the office of the current Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Although it is mentioned in the first book (during which time it is used by Professor Quirrell), the reader does not then see it. It is seen during the tenure of the five successive occupants. When Gilderoy Lockhart used it, it was full of portraits of himself. When Remus Lupin used it, it contained a variety of interesting Dark creatures used during his lessons. When the fake Alastor Moody occupied it, it was full of Dark Detectors, and when Dolores Umbridge used it, all the surfaces were draped with flowery and lacy covers and cloths, and on one of the walls were many ornamental plates decorated withtechnicolor kittens. In the next to last instalment, Severus Snape who was formerly the Potions Master, became the new professor for Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike previous Defence Against the Dark Arts professors, Snape preferred to stay in his office in the dungeons, while the new Potions professor, Horace Slughorn, occupied the D.A.D.A. office.

Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom

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 in Parseltongue. This causes the sink to open into a pipe large enough for a person to slide down. At the bottom of this chute is a tunnel leading to the Chamber of Secrets. When Tom Riddle opened the Chamber in 1943, Myrtle was sulking in a stall. When she heard him, she opened the door, saw the Basilisk and died immediately, becoming a ghost.^[CS Ch.16] Her bathroom remains operational, but is rarely used by students because of Myrtle's disagreeable presence.

Third Floor

Trophy Room

The trophy room is where awards, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals are kept in a crystal glass display case. This room also contains a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. The trophy room is adjacent to an armour gallery. Tom Riddle's Award for Services to the School is among the awards here (or was, in book two: Riddle was given the Award for discovering Hagrid's pet acromantula and for condemning it as the Monster of the Chamber; since it later became clear that the acromantula was not the monster, and that Riddle himself had opened the Chamber, it may now have been removed. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley both won Special Awards for Service to the School; their awards will be on display here as well. Peeves especially enjoys bouncing around the trophy room.

Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom

This is where Defence Against the Dark Arts is taught. It is four floors below the Gryffindor common room on the seventh floor, and is where Professors Quirrell, Lockhart, Lupin, Moody (impersonated by Barty Crouch Jr.), Umbridge, and Snape had worked.

Charms Classroom

This is where Charms is taught, by Professor Flitwick. The Charms Classroom is down the Charms corridor and has a window overlooking the front drive.

Third Floor Corridor

In book one, this corridor is forbidden to students. Fluffywas kept stationed within the corridor, guarding a trapdoor in the floor. The trapdoor allowed a person to drop down to below the school, into the chambers used to hide the Philosopher's stone. The corridor has not been mentioned since (although Fluffy now roams the Forbidden Forest) - this could mean that the corridor is no longer out-of-bounds, or that it is still kept locked up.

Fourth Floor

Library

The library contains tens of thousands of books on thousands of shelves. The different sections include an Invisibility Section, a section on dragons and the Restricted Section at the very back, barred by a rope. Students need a signed note of permission from a teacher to peruse the Restricted Section, as it holds books about powerful Dark subject matter that is never taught at Hogwarts, and is only used by older students studying advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. Books in the Hogwarts library may be put on hold and the student's name added to a waiting list. Chocolate and presumably all other food and drinks are forbidden in the library, which closes at eight p.m.

Irma Pince is the librarian. She guards the books fiercely, and has been known to put unusual jinxes on the books, to make sure that they are not mistreated.

Fifth Floor

Prefect's Bathroom

The prefects' bathroom is hidden behind the fourth door to the left of the statue of Boris the Bewildered. Despite the name, this bathroom can also be used by Quidditch captains. The door opens when told the correct password. At one point in book four the password was "pine fresh." Inside, the room is made entirely of white marble and is softly lit by a candle-filled chandelier. The bathtub is rectangular and about the size and depth of a swimming pool, complete with a diving board and hundreds of taps each with a differently coloured jewel set into the handle. From these taps gush not only water, but also magical bubble bath, including pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs, extremely thick ice-white foam and heavily perfumed purple clouds that hover over the surface of the water. One tap even sends a jet that bounces across the water in large arcs. Moaning Myrtle sometimes comes here to secretly watch the prefects take baths. There is a pile of fluffy white towels in the corner and a painting of a flirty blonde mermaid.

Sixth Floor

Boys' Washroom

There is a boys' washroom on this floor, as mentioned in book six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry Potter once duelled Draco Malfoy here.

Seventh Floor

Entrance to Gryffindor Tower

Gryffindor Tower is entered through the portrait of the Fat Lady who wears a pink silk dress on the seventh floor. It can only be entered if one knows the correct password. When the correct password is given, the portrait swings forward to reveal a hole which leads into the Gryffindor common room. In book three, Sirius Black was denied entry, and slashed the Fat Lady's portrait. For a short period afterwards, Sir Cadogan, a portrait of an eccentric knight, guarded Gryffindor Tower.

Entrance to North Tower

To enter the North Tower, it is necessary to climb a ladder on the seventh floor through a trapdoor in the ceiling.

Flitwick's Office

Filius Flitwick's office is on the seventh floor and is the thirteenth window from the right of the West Tower. In the third book, Sirius Black was held there.

Entrance to Headmaster/Headmistress' Office

The entrance to the headmaster or headmistress' office is located behind the statue of a stone gargoyle. When given the correct password, the gargoyle leaps aside and the wall behind it splits in two, revealing a stone spiral staircase that moves like anescalator. The office itself is presumably located one floor up as the staircase moves upwards to a highly polished oak door with a brass knocker shaped like a griffin. Over the different books the password has been such things like "Fizzing Wizzbees" or "Sherbert Lemon".

Room of Requirement

{{spoiler}} Located 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 Hogwartshouse-elves it is also known as the Come and Go Room.

Albus Dumbledore was first to mention the room, noting that he discovered it at five-thirty in the morning of a Yule Ball, filled with chamber pots, when he was attempting to locate a bathroom. Dobby later 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". Argus Filch was said to find cleaning supplies here when he had run out, and when Fred and George Weasley needed a place to hide, it would appear in the form of a broom cupboard. Sybill Trelawney also makes a habit of using it to hide her empty sherry bottles after she is sacked in book five. It would seem that when one wishes to hide something it produces the same room for everyone (which is full of many years worth of abandoned objects, such as broken furniture or books or possessions 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 practicing defensive spells. Inbook six Harry used the room to stash his copy of Advanced Potion-Making, finding it 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, or books which were "no doubt banned or graffitied or stolen". He later realised that Draco Malfoy had been using the room in that same state to hide and repair the Vanishing Cabinet in order to use it to smuggle Death Eaters into Hogwarts.

Towers

Astronomy Tower

Astronomy classes occur here, since this is the tallest tower and therefore has the best view of the night sky. The Astronomy Tower faces west and is located above the main entrance of Hogwarts.This is also the site of Albus Dumbledore's death at the hands of Severus Snape.

Headmaster's Tower

The headmaster or headmistress' office and residence is inside this tower, and is entered via a staircase guarded by a stone gargoyle on the seventh floor. The office is a large and beautiful round room with windows that have a view of the Quidditchpitch and the mountains surrounding Hogwarts. It is decorated with portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses, includingDilys Derwent, Armando Dippet, Phineas Nigellus Black, Professor Everard and Fortescue. The desk is enormous and claw-footed with a highly polished surface and a high-backed chair. On the wall behind the headmaster's desk is a shelf that holds the Sorting Hat and beside the Hat, Godric Gryffindor's sword is contained in a glass case.

The office can seal itself so that none but the rightful headmaster or headmistress is allowed to enter, as Dolores Umbridgefound out after she was made Headmistress. During Albus Dumbledore's tenure as Headmaster, the office contained a number of spindly-legged tables with numerous silver instruments of unknown function, at least one of which appears to have something to do with tracing or monitoring visions or dreams. Following Dumbledore's death in book six, his portrait appeared, but was asleep, and had not woken by the book's end. {{endspoiler}}

North Tower

The North Tower contains Sybill Trelawney's residence and one of two Divination classrooms. This classroom is at the base of the North Tower and is a round room with walls lined with shelves (they hold teacups, crystal balls and decks of cards), small round tables, armchairs and pouffes. The classroom also has an oppressive fire with a copper kettle that gives off heavy fumes.

Gryffindor Tower

Gryffindor Tower is where the Gryffindor common room and dormitories are located. The common room has windows, a fireplace, tables and squashy 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 Hogwarts founders felt that boys were less trustworthy than girls. As seen in book five, the stairs to the girls' dormitories turn into a slide if a boy attempts to go up them. There are a total of fourteen dormitories and each is a round, windowed room that includes four poster beds and several bedside tables.

West Tower

The Owlery is at the top of the West Tower. The Owlery is a circular stone room that holds hundreds and hundreds of different kinds of owls, including both the school owls and owls that students have brought as pets, all nestled on perches that rise right to the top of the tower. None of the windows in the Owlery have glass and so it is rather cold and drafty. The floor is covered in straw, droppings, and the "regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles".

Ravenclaw Tower

Ravenclaw Tower is located at the west side of the castle. As its name suggests, this is home to the Ravenclaw common room and dormitories.

Unknown rooms

Transfiguration Classroom

Professor McGonagall's office is located on the first floor, but her Transfiguration classroom could be anywhere in the main building (though probably not the second floor, since it is known that the classroom is "miles" from the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office).

Arithmancy Classroom

This classroom is where Arithmancy is taught by Professor Vector.

Ancient Runes Classroom

This is where Ancient Runes is taught.

Grounds

Hogwarts Castle is surrounded by mountains and is perched high atop a cliff overlooking a great black lake. When entering from the lake, a curtain of ivy hides a wide opening in the cliff face. A dark tunnel leads right under the castle into an underground harbour with a rocky beach and from there, a passageway in the rock leads to the front doors. The entrance on the road from Hogsmeade to around the lake is through a pair of wrought iron gates in the walls enclosing the grounds. On either side of the gates are two tall stone pillars, each topped with a winged boar. The Hogwarts grounds are extensive with sloping lawns, including flowerbeds, vegetable patches and a Quidditch pitch, as well as the vast Forbidden Forest.

Lake

The lake is located on the south side of the castle, which stands on a cliff overlooking the water. It is about half a mile in diameter and the Hogwarts plumbing network drains into it. A number of magical creatures inhabit the lake, including a giant squid, often seen near the surface, a colony of merpeople inhabiting the bottom, and a population of grindylows. It was also the temporary home of the Durmstrang ship during the Triwizard Tournament in which it also served as the setting for the Second Task.

Hagrid's Hut

Rubeus Hagrid is the gamekeeper, Keeper of the Keys and the Grounds, Professor of Care of Magical Creatures and the only teacher not to live in the castle. He lives in a small wooden hut on the grounds, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, with his boarhound, Fang, who, belying his appearance, is a coward. He has a pumpkin patch behind his hut, with a fence around it. classes are usually taught around here.

Forbidden Forest

The Forbidden Forest is a large, dark forest to the east of Hogwarts Castle. It is usually referred to simply as "the Forest". It is strictly forbidden to all students, except during Care of Magical Creatureslessons and, on rare occasions, detentions.

Among the plant species within the Forest are trees such as beech, oak, pine, sycamore andyew, as well as undergrowth including knotgrass and thorns. Though the Forest is vastly dense and wild, there are a few paths and clearings. These are mostly made by Rubeus Hagrid, who frequently travels into the Forest for various reasons. The Forest is also home to an assortment of creatures. The following is an (incomplete) list of beasts that inhabit the forest:

• A herd of at least 50 centaurs, including Bane, Magorian, Ronan and formerly Firenze.
• Werewolves, according to Draco Malfoy and Argus Filch.
• A colony of Acromantulas, the late Aragog and his family.
• Trolls, according to Tom Riddle.
• Unicorns
• Thestrals
• Bowtruckles
• Fluffy, a three-headed dog who was released into the forest after the events of book one. [2]
• Though not technically a beast, there is a much damaged turquoise Ford Anglia, formerly owned by Arthur Weasley that had been bewitched with the ability to fly, but took on a mind of its own after Harry and Ron Weasley crashed it into the Whomping Willow. It fled into the Forest, never to be seen again except on one occasion in which it helped Ron and Harry escape from a hungry bunch of giant spiders.
• Grawp, a "small" giant, lived in the Forest during book five. Albus 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".

Greenhouses

There are at least four greenhouses where Herbology classes are held by Professor Sprout. To get to the Herbology greenhouses, students frequently walk across the vegetable patches in the grounds. Among many others, the greenhouses have housed honking daffodils, leaping toadstools,umbrella-sized flowers, Snargaluffs, Abyssinian Shrivelfigs, Mandrakes, Puffapods, Bouncing Bulbs, Bubotubers, Screechsnaps, Fanged Geraniums, Flutterby Bushes and a Venomous Tentacula. The first year students are only taught in the first greenhouse, however second year students are occasionally taught in the second and third greenhouse.

Whomping Willow

The Whomping Willow is a very valuable magical tree on the Hogwarts grounds. The tree is extremely violent, striking viciously with its branches at anything that comes within reach.

Headmaster Albus Dumbledore planted the Willow to guard a secret passageway to the Shrieking Shack, a building inHogsmeade. Lupin was smuggled to the passageway each month at the full moon, where he could transform in the Shack into his werewolf form, without risking harm to others. In book two, Harry and his best friend Ron Weasley flew an enchanted Ford Anglia to Hogwarts, and accidentally crashed into the Whomping Willow, causing minor damage to the tree but more significant harm to the car. In book three, Sirius Black, having transformed himself into a dog, dragged Ron Weasley into the secret passageway beneath the tree.

Quidditch pitch

The Quidditch pitch is where Quidditch games are held, and where teams practice. There are three golden hoops, about 50 feet high, at each end used for scoring, and stands surrounding it, providing seating for spectators. It houses the locker rooms for the four House teams and the offices of the four team captains. The referee is often Madam Hooch, the flying teacher and Quidditch coach, but Severus Snape refereed once in Harry's first year. In book four it was the site of the Triwizard Tournament's Third Task.

Locker rooms

There are locker rooms off the grounds of the Quidditch pitch where team members change for practices and games. WhenOliver Wood isn't present at one point after a Gryffindor team loss in book three, Fred and George Weasleyjoke that he's still trying to drown himself in the locker room showers.

White Tomb

The White Tomb is where Albus Dumbledore is buried. It lies beside the lake, in a serene and calm inlet on a hill. It is the only location in the whole of the Hogwarts grounds where a former Headteacher is buried, giving Dumbledore a unique distinction.

See also

Hogwarts Castle in the films

Hogwarts Castle in the games

External link

• The Harry Potter Lexicon -- Inside Hogwarts Castle