• Hogwarts castle and grounds The office of the Headmaster or Headmistress is located high in a tower overlooking the grounds and providing a vista of the mountains beyond. Access to the office is by means of a magically moving spiral staircase on the seventh floor (HBP), although perhaps this entrance moves around since… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors • Wizarding places The headmaster/mistress of Hogwarts has an office in one of the towers of the castle. The entrance to this office at Hogwarts is behind a statue of a gargoyle on the seventh floor, although it seems to move around since this entrance was found on the second floor on… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds The Hogwarts broomshed is where the school brooms for Hogwarts are stored. It also seems to be where at least some of the brooms that personally belong to individual students are kept. We know that Harry keeps his Nimbus 2000 there (PS13), although later his… Read More
• Atlas of the Wizarding World • Hogwarts castle and grounds These floor plans of every level of Hogwarts castle, researched and created by Harper Robinson, take the the tiniest of details from the books into account — read Harper’s notes below and be amazed — as well as the standard structure and architecture of castles over the centuries. While not canon,… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors The corridors of Hogwarts have seen plenty of weird and wonderful things in the past thousand years. They are inhabited not just by hundreds of students but also by statues, paintings, tapestries, and suits of armor. The use of magic is forbidden in the corridors, not that this has stopped… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Wizarding places Hogwarts castle is located atop a cliff overlooking a lake. The lake is to the south of the castle (PA6) and the front doors face north (see commentary below). There is a small underground inlet, it’s entrance covered with hanging ivy, that leads to a stony beach below the… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors The Hogwarts kitchens are situated exactly beneath the Great Hall, with four wooden tables matching the tables above. It is a huge, high-ceilinged room, with a stone-flagged floor, pots and pans on the stone walls, and a great brick fireplace (GF21, GF28). Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds One of the upper levels of Hogwarts castle. A boys’ bathroom is located on this floor (HBP24). There is also a trophy room on this floor (GF25). Hogwarts: Grounds | Dungeons | Ground floor | First | Second | Third |… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds Hogwarts castle features several towers, including: Gryffindor Tower Astronomy Tower – the tallest tower Ravenclaw Tower West Tower – Owlery North Tower – Divination Dumbledore’s Office Tower Hogwarts: Grounds | Dungeons | Ground floor | First | Second |… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Hospitals The hospital wing is where Hogwarts residents go to have their medical needs met, anything from basic first aid after rough Quidditch matches to treatment for serious medical conditions like petrification from a Basilisk. The hospital wing is the domain of the school matron (U.S.: nurse), Madam Pomfrey. It is located on… Read More
• Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors The Hufflepuff common room is round and has a low ceiling, somewhat like a badger’s home. There are little round windows at at ground level. Amenities As we have seen in the other common rooms, it is decorated in House colours, which in this case means that there are lots… Read More