Hogwarts

The Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event Harry swims to rescue Ron from the depths of the lake, where he is being held by merpeople. Hermione is rescued by Viktor Krum. Read More

The First Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event The champions take it in turn to try to steal a golden egg from the clutches of a different kind of dragon. Harry summons his broom to help him get the egg from his dragon a Hungarian Horntail, and he completes the task in the shortest amount of time. Before… Read More

The Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event The third task is a maze of 20 foot high hedges on the quidditch pitch, with the Triwizard cup placed in the center. The first to reach it will be the winner of the Triwizard tournament. Hagrid and Professors McGonagall, Moody and Flitwick are dispatched as patrollers around the edge… Read More

Teachers and Curriculum: Would You Want This For Your Child? • Article

Posted November 26, 2001 by Steve VanderArk in Canon discussion / Essays

Academics at Hogwarts are a curious mix of practical experience and rote learning. While the curriculum is dictated to some extent by the Ministry of Magic (GF14), each instructor is given considerable leeway in exactly what they teach and how they go about it. To be perfectly frank, some of the instructors at Hogwarts are very… Read More

Tergeo — "Tergeo" • Incantations Cleans up the target object or person. Read More

End of term feast: Gryffindor wins both the Quidditch Cup and House Cup • Event “Gryffindor house, meanwhile, largely thanks to their spectacular performance in the Quidditch Cup, had won the House Championship for the third year running. This meant that the end-of-term feast took place amid decorations of scarlet and gold, and that the Gryffindor table was the noisiest of the lot, as everybody… Read More

Terry Boot is sorted into Ravenclaw • Event Terry Boot starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Ravenclaw (PS7). Read More

Textbooks • Books and Literature Books used in academic instruction. Read More

Textbooks • Article

Posted November 8, 2001 by Lisa Inman in Canon discussion / Essays

Updates by Michelle Worley The Booklist Every year Hogwarts students receive book lists in the post, telling them which textbooks they will require for the year. First years get the longest list, presumably because some of the books last them the whole seven-year course of their study. Here is a… Read More

Dean Thomas • Character Dean Thomas was a “half-blood” Gryffindor boy from London in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. History He was a classmate of Harry’s and best friends with Seamus Finnigan (GF7). He was a black Londoner (JKR) who grew up as a Muggle, and thus had always been a… Read More

🎙️ Thoughts about Trunks • Article

Posted July 11, 2020 by Selena Gallagher in Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

When Harry finally gets his Hogwarts letter from Hagrid, it contains a list of required school supplies, but makes no mention of how he’s expected to pack it all. Nevertheless, on the 1st September, it’s all safely packed in a ‘huge, heavy trunk.’ This is fortuitous as it appears that… 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

Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon • Hogwarts This sage advice is the translation of the Latin motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: “Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.”… Read More

Timetable • Glossary Schedule. At Hogwarts, each student is given his or her timetable at the beginning of the year, specifying the times of the various classes the student is taking. Read More

Time-Turner • Magical artifacts The Time-Turner is a small silver hourglass worn on a chain around the neck. It is a very powerful and dangerous magical item which literally turns back time for the user, one hour per inversion of the glass, thanks to the Hour-Reversal Charm contained within it (MagSp,… Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin • Event He charms all his teachers with the exception of Albus Dumbledore, the Transfiguration teacher, who is uneasy about him. Read More

Tom Riddle is given an Award for Special Services to the School • Event He receives it for helping “catch” Hagrid and accusing him (falsely) of opening the Chamber of Secrets (CS13, CS17). Read More

Tom Riddle begins his seventh year at Hogwarts and is made Head Boy • Event He is dabbling in the Dark Arts, having already created a Horcrux, and some of his closest friends are already referring to him as Lord Voldemort; outwardly, however, he is a model student (CS17, HBP23). Read More

Tom Riddle finishes his seventh year and applies for a job teaching at Hogwarts • Event Headmaster Armando Dippet turns him down, saying that at eighteen he is too young. He then goes to work for Borgin and Burkes instead. Read More

Tom Riddle learns about the Chamber of Secrets and decides to find and open it • Event He is in his first year at Hogwarts when he learns about the existence of the Chamber. He is determined to find it but doesn’t succeed until five years later, in June of 1943. Read More

Tom Riddle learns to open the Chamber of Secrets and releases the Basilisk • Event He had first heard about the Chamber of Secrets five years before and had spent that time working out there it could be located and how to enter it. When he finally does open it, he uses Parseltongue to control and release the Basilisk within. A Hogwarts student, Myrtle Warren,… Read More

Tom Riddle starts his fifth year at Hogwarts and is made a Prefect • Event Hagrid is starting his third year. Read More

Kenneth Towler • Character Kenneth Towler was a Hogwarts student in the same year as Fred and George Weasley. Read More

Transfiguration Class • Hogwarts academics Transfiguration is magic which changes one object into another. It is possible to change inanimate objects into animate ones and vice versa. Some Transfiguration spells alter a part of something, such as changing a person’s ears from normal into rabbit ears. At Hogwarts, Transfiguration is taught by Professor McGonagall. Fifty… Read More

Transfiguration classroom • Hogwarts castle and grounds This classroom, where McGonagall teaches Transfiguration, was filled with separate desks for each student (CS16). It also had a teacher’s desk (PS8). Its location is unknown, although it is located “miles away” from the third-floor Defence Against the Dark Arts office (OP32). Harry, with Ron and Hermione’s… Read More

Sybill Trelawney • Character Sybill Patricia Trelawney is the Divination professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Cassandra Trelawney, a very gifted, very famous Seer (OP37). She “has cultivated a dramatic manner and enjoys impressing her more gullible students with predictions of doom… Read More

Triwizard Cup • Awards The champion of the Triwizard Tournament wins the Triwizard Cup. When the tournament was held at Hogwarts in 1994-95, the grand finale was a Maze with the Triwizard Cup placed at the center. Read More

Triwizard Maze • Hogwarts grounds Magically constructed and grown over the course of the year on the Quidditch pitch, this maze was the location of the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament. At it’s center, the Triwizard Cup waited for the competitors to reach it. Read More

Triwizard Tournament • Sports and competitions The Triwizard Tournament is a famous contest between three schools: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. History It originated some 700 years ago as a friendly competition between the three schools. Each school took turns hosting the Tournament, which took… Read More

Triwizard Tournament disaster • Event The heads of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang all are injured when, during a Triwizard Tournament event, a cockatrice goes on a rampage. Read More

The Triwizard Tournament is established • Event The tradition begins with the three European Wizarding schools: Beauxbatons Academy, Durmstrang Institute, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It will continue off and on for many centuries. Read More

Trocar • Character J.K. Rowling had notes about a possible vampire teacher at Hogwarts named “Trocar” but the character was discarded fairly early in the writing process. He did not evolve into Snape, in spite of popular fan theories about the Potions Master’s “bat-like” appearance and “unhealthy pallor” (Pm). Read More

Trophy room • Hogwarts castle and grounds Hogwarts has a trophy room where all the old awards, trophies, statues, cups, plates, shields, and medals are kept in crystal display cases. There is also a list of all the head boys and girls. Draco Malfoy sets the trophy room as the meeting place for the midnight duel (… Read More

Tuition Fees • Quote There’s no tuition fee! The Ministry of Magic covers the cost of all magical education. Read More

🎙️ The Twins' O.W.L.s • Article

Posted May 23, 2018 by hpboy13 in Characters / Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

When classes start in Harry’s fifth year, O.W.L.s are all anyone wants to talk about. At lunch on the first day, the Weasley twins offer some sage advice about how “it’s a nightmare of a year, the fifth, if you care about exam results, anyway.” Ron then comments, “Yeah…… Read More