Buildings

Ted Tonks house • Houses and addresses The home of Ted and Andromeda Black Tonks, this house was the safe location to which Harry and Hagrid flew while moving Harry permanently out of number four, Privet Drive, crashing into the back garden (DH4). The house’s protective charms were apparently enough to keep out even Voldemort. We… Read More

Over a Thousand Years Ago: Britain at the Founding of Hogwarts • Article

Posted October 14, 2002 by ED Blanning in Canon discussion

Both the Sorting Hat and Professor Binns say that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago. Given our assumed timeline that places the books in the early to mid-1990s, that means that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came into existence sometime in the 900s. The four founders, Rowena… Read More

Towers • Architecture A tower is an architectural feature of a building which is built upward to rise above the main building. A tower can also be free-standing. Hogwarts castle has a number of towers. Xenophilius Lovegood lived in a tower which looked a lot like a rook in chess. Read More

Tumbledown cottage in Yorkshire • Creatures' homes, lairs, and territories This semi-derelict hovel in Yorkshire was where Remus Lupin was living when Albus Dumbledore came to call during the summer of 1993. The Headmaster offered Lupin the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, adding that there would be a limitless supply of Wolfsbane Potion, available thanks to Snape… Read More

Mallory Twiddle • Character Mallory Twiddle wrote a letter to the Daily Prophet, complaining that Gringotts was using Sphinxes to guard its high security vaults (DP1)… Read More

Twilfitt and Tatting's • Businesses, merchants, and shops An upscale clothing shop located in Diagon Alley. After encountering Harry, Ron, and ‘mudblood’ Hermione in Madam Malkin’s, Narcissa and Draco Malfoy took their business to Twilfitt and Tattings instead (HBP6, Pm). Read More