Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a school of magic belonging to the universe of the Harry Potter book saga.

Hogwarts is a school where young wizards attend to develop their magical abilities. The building, located in the hills of Scotland, is seen as an old ruined building with a sign reading 'beware, dangerous ruins', by people unaware of magical powers (more commonly known as muggles). It has seven floors, several towers, stairs that change position at will and extensive grounds that contain a lake, a forest, called The Forbidden Forest, and several greenhouses for botanical purposes. In addition to its many classrooms where classes on potions, transformations, Defense Against the Dark Arts, History of Magic and other subjects are taught by qualified assistants, the castle has places for different purposes. Examples are the Great Hall (where huge banquets are held on special days and which has a magical ceiling which seems to be the sky and presents the weather of the moment), the common rooms, a large library, the mysterious Room of Requirement or the legendary Chamber of Secrets, where the famous wizard Harry Potter defeated the dark wizard Lord Voldemort for the second time and killed a basilisk using the sword of Gryffindor, while still in his second year. Many hidden passages, stairs and moving portrait paintings with a life of their own make a tour of the castle worrisome for the most confused students, and exciting for the most curious.

For more than a thousand years, the students were distributed upon their arrival, in the different houses, by the verdict of the Sorting Hat, with the last names of the four founders of the school: Gryffindor, where the brave of heart go; Hufflepuff, where hard-working, honest students, lovers of animals and nature attend; Ravenclaw, where the smart and wise belong; and Slytherin, where they are bold and ambitious. During Harry's schooling, Albus Dumbledore is the Headmaster and the main Heads of House are Professors McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick and Snape (later replaced by Slughorn).

The education of a student is carried out in seven years, beginning his studies, at least, at the age of eleven and leaving school, at least, at the age of seventeen. The action of the Harry Potter saga takes place mainly within the institution, each novel being the equivalent of one school year.

According to the novel and films, the school is not under the power of the Ministry of Magic (controversial in the fifth book), a government body that regulates all aspects of life in the magical community of the territory. However, Hogwarts is not the only school of its kind, there are other exponents such as the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France and the Durmstrang Institute of Magic in northern Europe.

The school appears in all the novels of the series, being the main setting of the same. In the last novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the three protagonists stay away from Hogwarts for most of the book, returning for the fight that climaxes the Second War.

History

Great Dining Film Set

Inside Story

More than a thousand years ago wizards suffered misunderstanding and fear from Muggles. Four exceptionally talented sorcerers decided to found a school of magic, around the year 992, to offer a refuge to persecuted warlocks and to pass on their knowledge. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin therefore created the school in a castle and then went in search of people with the necessary skills to teach magic to future students. The school motto is: Draco dormiens Nunquam Titillandus ("Never tickle a sleeping dragon").

In the story, the name Hogwarts comes from the inspiration of Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the founders of the school, after a dream she had where a warty pig led her to the cliff where the castle would be built, but it was Helga Hufflepuff who would gather people to build the whole building. Actually, her name in English Hogwarts is the name of a variety of lily especially appreciated by J. K. Rowling, the author of the novels, although this name came to her instinctively. In English, hog means "pig" and warts means "wart".

The main opinions of the four founders on the choice of students and the subjects to teach began to differ very quickly, mainly between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, appearing the first tensions. The college was then divided into four separate houses. In order to choose as fairly as possible to which house each student would be sent, Godric Gryffindor decided to enchant his hat, renamed the "sorting hat", and each of the founders donated a part of their mind and personality to help the hat to hand out to students at the beginning of their first year during the selection ceremony.

However, tensions escalated. Salazar Slytherin flatly refused to admit Muggle-borns to the school, deeming them unworthy to study magic. Gryffindor strongly opposed this decision, and Salazar Slytherin left the school after building the House of Wizards. Secrets, located in the depths of the school. His heir, who in the future will be the only one who can enter it speaking Parseltongue, will release the basilisk it contains in order to rid the school of the "mudbloods" instead of making it Slytherin.

The school and its location

Accessibility

The Hogwarts Express crossing the Glenfinnan viaduct (Scotland).

Hogwarts is located in the Scottish Highlands. The school is protected by numerous charms and spells that make it impossible for Muggles to find. Instead, Muggles only see a few ruins and danger signs.

The existence of the Hogwarts Express means that all registered students can board it at King's Cross station in London to get to the station in the town of Hogsmeade, right next to the school. It is the only means of authorized access for all students. Wizards cannot "apparate" (ie teleport) onto Hogwarts grounds, in order to make the school less vulnerable. However, it may happen that the headmaster lifts the enchantment for a limited time or only in certain areas of the castle, to allow students to practice apparitions.

General architecture

Hogwarts Castle, as shown in the Islands of Adventure theme park of Universal in Orlando.

I have not drawn it [a plane of Hogwarts], as it would be difficult even for the most skilled architect, because the stairs and the rooms are kept moving. However, I have a very clear mental image of what it looks like.

J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling, the author of the novels, envisions Hogwarts as a great castle on top of a mountain, imposing, menacing-looking, with towers, battlements, and corridors all around. Like the Burrow, the home of the Weasleys, it is not a building Muggles can build, as it is full of magic. Some stairs inside the castle move from one level to another, such as the grand staircase, and access to certain rooms is through animated portraits.

In Hogwarts there were 142 staircases, some spacious and clear, other narrow and [...] Then there were doors that did not open, unless one asked him with kindness [...] It was also very difficult to remember where everything was, as things seemed to change place continuously. The people of the portraits continued to visit each other,

Harry Potter and Philosopher Stone

Places in Hogwarts

Main rooms of the school

The hall entrance

Oxford Christ Church, including a perfect replica reproduced in the studio for Harry Potter movies.

As the name implies, this is the first room you enter. The hall is huge (an entire house could be built) and its ceiling is invisible since it is very high. Torches are attached to the walls and the floor is of stone slabs. Niches are carved into the walls and contain large hourglasses filled with jewels that count the points earned by the different houses for each good deed.

The Great Dining Room

This immense room serves as the lunch room for the rooms, the exams, the reception for the ceremonies and a place of refuge in case of alerts. Its very high ceiling reproduces the mood of the real sky (snowflakes falling without touching the students, rain, blue sky, clouds...). The four large tables (one for each house in the school) are lined up next to each other, facing the head table and the principal. This is a welcoming place where all students and teachers can attend, especially at every meal. All festivals are held in this room (Christmas, New Year Banquet, First Year Distribution Ceremony, Halloween, Ball, etc.). At each ceremony, the Great Hall features a different design.

Common rooms

Possible development of a bedroom of the tower of Gryffindor.

The Gryffindor common room is an intimate room with warm colors (red and gold). It is full of rugs covering the floor, soft chairs and sofas around the fireplace. The windows are high up and the room is always well lit. A charm prevents the boys from entering the girls' bedroom, though there is no spell to prevent the reverse. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley's bedroom (shared with Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, and Neville Longbottom) is a room circular where each student sleeps on a four-legged bed with red velvet bedspreads and curtains in order to have a bit of privacy, and sleeps on thick pillows. There is a nightstand for each bed, and each bedroom has a water jug and glasses on a tray. In winter, at night, the water bottles are placed on your bed, a few hours before you go to bed.

The Hufflepuff common room is entered via a painting (depicting a still life) near the kitchen. It has a comfortable and cozy light. There are lots of yellow curtains on the walls and big armchairs. Small underground tunnels lead to the girls' and boys' dormitories. All the doors are circular, like barrel tops. This architecture is reminiscent of the cozy houses with round doors of the hobbits of the Shire in the world of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The common room of Ravenclaw House is located in the west wing of the castle. To participate, students must correctly answer the question posed by an eagle-shaped knocker. It is a large airy space, with circular arched windows, blue silks and bronze on the walls. The windows face the surrounding mountains. The ceiling is covered with a dome painted with stars that are reflected on the floor. There are plenty of tables, chairs and a bookcase so Ravenclaw students always have books available. The white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw is placed in a niche opposite the entrance to the common room, and next to the bedroom door.

The Slytherin students meet in the basement of the castle. Their common room is accessed through the dungeons. To participate, a password must be provided and a hidden door is opened in a bare, damp wall. It is a long underground room with stone walls and a stone ceiling. Round lamps hang from the ceiling and illuminate the room with a greenish hue. There is also a sculpted fireplace and comfortable sofas and armchairs. The light is always green, as it is located just below the Hogwarts lake. Harry and Ron have the opportunity to go there illegally in their second year, in the guise of Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, in order to extract information from Draco Malfoy in the Chamber of Secrets and the Heir to Slytherin.

Dumbledore's office, The Wizarding World of Harry PotterOsaka.

Professor Dumbledore's office

The room is guarded by a large stone statue that moves when the person pronounces the correct password (usually a confectionery name for wizards). The statue then releases a revolving spiral staircase from the earth for the visitor to ascend. Said staircase leads to a single oak door with a knocker in the shape of a griffin. Dumbledore's office is a large circular room lit by tall windows. The walls are covered with paintings of the former Hogwarts Headmasters and Headmistresses, who sleep and snore in their frame most of the time. Fawkes, the phoenix settles on its perch to the left of the entrance. The few tables are covered with small, breakable instruments. (Harry also breaks some in fifth year.) Behind the headmaster's office, a display case is displayed in which the sword of Gryffindor and the pensieve are placed. The Sorting Hat is placed, in turn, on a shelf just outside. Many times, Harry is called to Dumbledore's office, most notably in his sixth year, when the Headmaster shows him memories of Voldemort, and when he asks Harry to get information on Horace Slughorn.

The library

Old books from Trinity College Library in Dublin.

"Whoever wants to have the recklessness of tearing, crushing, bending, twisting, damaging, disfigureing, desecting, staining, throwing, dropping, dropping or damaging the book in any way, maltreating or showing any disrespect, will suffer the consequences that I will try to do it as painful as possible."(Irma Pince, written in the book Quidditch through time)

The library is very large, with many wooden shelves filled with thousands of ancient books and witchcraft grimoires. The forbidden section of the library is separated from the other by a string section and contains books on black magic, only sixth and seventh year students are allowed to visit without permission from a teacher. However, in Hermione Granger's fourth year, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter with Professor McGonagall's permission study some spell books to help Harry in the second round of the Goblet of Fire. Harry, Ron, and Hermione also had the chance to Opportunity to borrow Great Power Craft Potions with Professor Lockhart's permission. in the second year. This is all in this book that the three friends find the recipe for polyjuice that allows them to get answers about the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione frequently conducts research.

There are numerous wooden chairs and tables, and tables with low-light lamps. It is a very quiet place where students can isolate themselves to study. Madame Pince, the librarian, forbids any knick-knacks or snacks in the room.

• See Quidditch through time and Fantastic animals and where to find them (book guides) written by J. K. Rowling, inspired by the world's homonymous books Harry Potter.

The main works of the library (Consult the complete list of books by subject in the Encyclopedia Harry Potter).

Textbooks

(See the complete list of books by subject encyclopedia of Harry Potter). The textbooks

• A thousand magic herbs and mushrooms of Phyllida Spore
• Dissipate the fogs of the future by Cassandra Vablatsky
• Dark forces. A guide to self-protection of Quentin Trimble
• A story of magic of Bathilda Bagshot
• Manual of metamorphosis for use of beginners Emeric G. Changed (various volumes)
• Advanced potion preparation manual of Libatius Borraja
• Books by Gilderoy Lockhart: I, the magician, Guide to harmful creatures and Hiking with the trolls
• Magical potions Arsenio Beaulitron
• Magic Theory of Adalbert Lasornette
• The book of spells and enchantments by Miranda Goshawk (various volumes)
• The monstrous book of monsters
• Theory of Magic Defense Strategies of Wilbert Eskivdur

Books consulted by Harry, Ron and Hermione

• Fantastic animals and where to find them of Newt Scamander
• The different species of dragons from England and Ireland
• Bird or monster? A study on the brutality of the hypogrifo
• Death penalty: what to do when you know the worst is near
• Guide to medieval witchcraft
• Assessment of Magic Education in Europe
• Great magical events of the 20th century
• History of Hogwarts
• Frequent magical diseases and diseases
• Moste Potent Potions
• The Bible of the beaters of Brutus Scrimgeour
• Flying with the Cannons
• Cydditch teams from Great Britain and Ireland
• Manual of maintenance of flying broom
• The noble sport of magicians de Quintius Umfraville
• Quidditch through time of Kennilworthy Whisp
• Rune dictionary
• Spellman link
• Sorrows and contra-hechizos (made your friends and surprise your enemies with bald Craneo spells, Jambenconton, Lead Language and many others) by Professor Vindictus Viridian

Defence Room against the Dark Arts

The decoration of this classroom changes every year, since the course is taught by a different teacher. Visitors find particularly rare specimens from the school year when Remus Lupin teaches. The Quidditch pitch is seen from the teacher's desk window. This is an office that Harry knows about since he was frequently kindly invited by Professor Lupine in his third year, keeping through the pain inflicted by Professor Umbridge, in fifth year.

Hall of divination

Professor Trelawney's classroom is located at the top of the north tower of the castle. This is a rather stuffy room decorated as a kind of attic that students have access to through a small door. Round tables are arranged like a tea room, surrounded by comfortable chairs and ottomans. As the curtains are always closed the dim light only reaches the individual lamps on each table. The shelves against the circular walls are filled with crystal balls and teacups.

The dungeon

This is where Severus Snape, the potions teacher, teaches his class for the first five years of studying Harry Potter. There is also his office. Access to the dungeons is through the entrance hall, taking the opposite direction to the Great Hall, and up some dark stairs. In Snape's office, the walls are lined with shelves on which stand glass jars containing repulsive colored substances. At the bottom of the desk is a locked cabinet that includes the Gillweed (useful for Harry in his fourth year to dive into the depths of the lake during the Triwizard Tournament), the Horn of the Bicorneum, and the Snakeskin. African tree (including Hermione who in second year uses it to prepare Polyjuice Potion).

The kitchens

They are located in the basement. To enter, you must tickle the pear painted in a painting representing a large silver bowl filled with fruit. The kitchens are located just below the Great Room and are exactly the same size as the second, with four large tables arranged in the same way, for house elves, skilled chefs, to prepare the dishes and present them at the kitchen tables, before sending them to tables in the Great Hall, passing through the ceiling. The walls are lined with copper utensils. There is also a brick fireplace. The kitchen is provided by the Hogwarts house-elves. The elves offer a wide variety of food and drink for all meals. The food is largely typically British (roast beef, chicken, pork and lamb chops, sausages, bacon, meats, gratins, sautéed potatoes, French fries, mixed vegetables, ketchup sauces…), although the school occasionally makes exceptions. (During the Triwizard Tournament, foreign dishes, such as bouillabaisse, were served in honor of the received schools.) The most frequent drinks served (except water) are orange juice and pumpkin juice. The house elves also offer rare food with pleasure to the students who come from the kitchens.

The infirmary

It is a spacious room that is well lit and fresh due to the white color of its stone walls. Sick or injured students stay here for a few days, under the care of the comfortable beds and Madame Pomfrey, separated from each other by screens. The infirmary is located at the back of the room, so you can always keep an eye on the students entrusted to it.

Lettucery

The Owlery is located at the top of the west tower on the fifth floor. The many untiled windows (for which the owls can fly in and out with the mail) are arranged around the large circular stone-walled room, which rises to the top of the tower. The floor is covered with straw., owl dung and dead rodents.

The trophies room

This is the room where all the student prizes are stored. There are various medals, including notably those earned by Tom Marvolo Riddle during his schooling at Hogwarts. The room is lined with glass cabinets containing many gold, silver, or bronze badges, plaques, bowls, and figurines.

Secret Chamber

The legend of the Chamber of Secrets, mentioned by Professor Binns in the second year (Minerva McGonagall in the film), explains that Salazar Slytherin would sit in the castle a secret room containing a monster that supposedly he would free his heir to free the school for the children of Muggle families, to complete Salazar Slytherin's "task."

Harry discovers that the heir to Slytherin is none other than Voldemort (then known by his real name: Tom Riddle), who terrorized the school fifty years before the opening of the Chamber of Secrets and freed the giant serpent that killed a student: Weeping Myrtle. The school was about to close, but Riddle, who had great influence due to his intelligence and exemplary discipline, accused Rubeus Hagrid of opening the Chamber, but then left. retracted.

The Chamber of Secrets is reopened in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: it is through Tom Riddle's diary and his use of Ginny Weasley that Voldemort tries to finish his task by releasing the basilisk again. Harry discovers the entrance to the room in Weeping Myrtle's bathroom, and enters it using Parseltongue to operate the opening mechanism and is confronted with Tom Riddle's memory and the monster of him. He manages to kill the basilisk with the help of Fawkes and the sword of Gryffindor, with which he destroys the horcrux, which was Riddle's diary, and saves Ginny.

This is a long, dimly lit underground room accessed by sliding the plumbing out of Weeping Myrtle's bathroom. Its high ceiling is supported by stone columns on which are carved coiled serpents in an eerie green atmosphere. The carved serpents have deep-set eyes, giving the visitor the strange impression that they follow him with his movements. At the back of the room, on the wall, is a huge statue of Salazar Slytherin. It stands at the foot of the statue where Harry found Ginny lying on the floor.

Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger consign to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in order to get some basilisk teeth and destroy one of the horcruxes, knowing that Harry had already destroyed Harry's diary. Riddle saving Ginny, five years earlier, with a tooth from the monster.

Room of the Menesteres

"Sometimes it is, sometimes not, but when it appears, it continues to contain what we want.(Dobby about the Menesteres Room)

The Room of Requirement, also called the "Go and Fair" by the Hogwarts house elves is a magical part of the school that the user can enter only if they really need to. It is located on the seventh floor and the entrance is invisible: for it to appear, the user must pass three times before the blank wall, thinking hard about what they want. Various residents of the school voluntarily or accidentally use the room upon request. This is the case of Professor Dumbledore, who said he found the toilet, Fred and George Weasley were able to hide when they were the size of a broom closet, Dobby, who used to put Winky to sleep when he was drunk, or Voldemort, who hid Ravenclaw's lost diadem there, transformed into a horcrux.

In the fifth year it is the gymnasium for Dumbledore's Army, staffed by students from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. This leads the students to the knowledge that Umbridge forbids them from using magic.

In the sixth book, Draco Malfoy uses the room to hide and repair the Vanishing Cabinet in order to penetrate the Death Eaters inside the school. That same year, Harry hides the book from the Half-Blood Prince.

In the seventh book, the Room of Requirement became the headquarters of the resistance against the Carrows, and all those who are seriously threatened hide there. The part that connects to the Hog's Head pub, run by Aberforth Dumbledore, is the only way to go unattended at Hogwarts.

Features:

• The Chamber of the Menesteres is unable to conjure up food, nothing and no one can, because the food is the first great exception to the Gamp Law on Elementary Metamorphosis. However, if the user needs food, the room reveals a secret passage to a place where it is possible to get it. For example, in the seventh year, the room opened a passage to the tavern in Cabeza de Puerco of the village of Hogsmeade.

• If requests require the user to hide something, then the room reveals the full content, presented in disorder, in a room as large as a cathedral.

• This table shows the different provisions of the Menesteres room according to the main objectives of the characters:

The Myrtle la Llorona bath

These are the older girls' bathrooms, on the second floor. They are no longer used due to Myrtle being found dead the year the Chamber of Secrets was first opened. Since then, the ghost never leaves this place. It's a sad room with a chipped sink. Above is a large broken mirror that no one has bothered to fix and the floor is always wet or flooded. The entrance to the secret chamber is behind the individual sink in which a snake or griffin is embedded. It is here that the basilisk enters and exits the secret chamber in the second year without being seen by anyone.

The bath of prefects

Prefects share a bathroom that is reserved for them with the captain of each house's Quidditch team. Thus, Harry officially agreed in the sixth grade, even though he already used it two years ago to find a clue in the Triwizard Tournament. Later, Myrtle revealed to him how to find the index of the golden eggs, earned by completing the first task of the tournament.

The password to access this bathroom is found in the fourth year "fresh pine". The bathtub is a large rectangular pool set in the ground. It is surrounded by a hundred taps pouring scented water.

Outdoor park

Hogwarts School has a large park with sloping lawns, flower and vegetable beds, a lake, a large 'forbidden' forest, various greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a quidditch pitch..

On the first day of school, students arrive in a carriage in front of a large wrought-iron gate, flanked by statues of winged boars. This portal has been enchanted by Dumbledore to prevent any attempted intrusion. It was before this portal that Harry and Tonks in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince await Hagrid's arrival after the accident that It happened on the Hogwarts Express.

Notably found on the grounds of Hogwarts is the Whomping Willow, an enchanted tree that was planted the year James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupine and Peter Pettigrew arrived at Hogwarts, and beats the branches at anyone who get too close to him. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley accidentally landed on this tree when they flew in a car in their second year. The tree contains a secret passage under the largest root of the tree, which leads through an underground tunnel to the House of Screams in the neighboring town of Hogsmeade. This passage was used by the Marauders during Remus Lupine's transformations into a werewolf to get away from the other students who could cause him injury.

The lake is inhabited by many creatures. In the early years, students may see a giant squid protruding from the surface of the water to warm its tentacles. This is a harmless animal, which also brought a first year student (Denis Creevey) to the surface when he fell from his boat on the other side of the lake. When Harry had to dive under the water during the second round of the Tournament of Triwizard in fourth grade, discovered that the lake is also inhabited by mermaids, mermen, and grindylows.

Hagrid Cabin

Harry, Ron and Hermione regularly visit Rubeus Hagrid who lives in a small wooden house outside the castle on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Sometimes they even go there at night with Harry's invisibility cloak. The cabin consists of a living room, with a large table and chairs, a bed, a chest of drawers, and a fireplace. A second door leads to the back of the cabin where Hagrid built a small garden, where he grows giant pumpkins.During the first year, Hagrid will attempt to raise a dragon which he names Norbert. In their second year, Harry and Ron will witness, hidden under the cloak, Hagrid's arrest and Dumbledore's temporary return. Taking advantage of Hagrid's absence, Harry and Hermione took refuge with Buckbeak the hippogriff to escape from Remus Lupine transformed into a werewolf. During the sixth year, Harry goes with Hagrid to the funeral of Aragog, a giant spider, and using the potion felix felicis extracts vital information from Professor Slughorn in the fight against Voldemort.

Forbidden forest

The forest is located within the walls of Hogwarts. It is strictly forbidden for all students to enter, except during the course of attention to magical creatures or deductions (who are then accompanied by Hagrid). Among the plant species, there are tree species such as beech, oak, pine, sycamore and yew. Although the forest is infinitely dense and wild, some paths and clearings allow its identification. Hagrid, who travels frequently in the forest for various reasons, uses these paths. The forest is also home to stands of magical creatures:

• a pack of centurs, including Bane, Magorian, Ronan and Firenze;
• a colony of acromantulas: Aragog and his family (until the battle of Hogwarts, in volume 7);
• the unicorns;
• Grawp, a giant, who lives in the woods after the fifth year of Harry;
• a pack of thestrals, horses-like creatures with wings like a bat. These creatures are visible only by the person who saw death (such as Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom and Moon Lovegood). They are the ones who, in September, throw the cars for the castle. In the fifth volume, they were also used to go to the Ministry of Magic.

The Forbidden Forest is the place where Harry sees Voldemort for the second time in his life, feeding on the blood of a dead unicorn to survive. It is also the scene of his encounter with Aragog in his second year.

Field quidditch

This is the place where students can (outside of class hours) play or enjoy a game of quidditch, the favorite sport of wizards. The stadium is surrounded by raised stands where spectators can install to keep track of the meetings, but also the training sessions. Two fifteen-foot-tall posts, with their highest point large vertical rings, serve as goals. The Quidditch pitch is not just for games. During the Triwizard Tournament, it transforms into a 20-foot-tall hedge maze, for the ultimate event.

Secret Passages

There are seven secret passages in and out of the school. Argus Filch knows barely four, while Fred and George Weasley, all familiar with the Marauder's Map, offer it to Harry in his third year. The location of some of them are not revealed. However, it is possible to note three that Fred and George refer to Harry:

• a passage under the boxing willow, leading to the House of Grites: it has generally been used in the days when James Potter and Sirius Black were in Hogwarts, when his friend Remus Lupin became a werewolf regularly and they secretly visited him in their animal form;
• a passage behind a mirror on a fourth floor, unusable due to a landslide;
• a passage behind a blind of the statue of the witch: it leads to the winery of Honeydukes, Confectionery Pre Hogsmeade. For this it is necessary to give a wand in the statue saying "dissendium" and the witch begins to slip, thus releasing a space large enough to move. When borrowed this passage, Harry makes a huge fall from a stone slide, then passes through a dirt road enough to climb an irregular staircase with worn steps leading to the door of Honeydukes' cellar.

Other passages are discovered by Harry, Ron and Hermione in the story such as the one leading to the Chamber of Secrets which is only opened by speaking Parseltongue to one of the valves in Weeping Myrtle's bathroom (this faucet is embellished with a snake).

Houses

The house system within a school is not something specific to Hogwarts, as many real schools in the UK and US use it.

Features

Heraldic	House	Heads of the known house	Qualities	Phantom
	Gryffindor	Godric Gryffindor (Middle Age) Albus Dumbledore Minerva McGonagall	Value Force Audacity	Nick Almost Decapitated
	Hufflepuff	Helga Hufflepuff (Middle Age) Pomona Sprout	Justice Loyalty Patience	Fraile Gordo
	Ravenclaw	Rowena Ravenclaw (Middle Age) Filius Flitwick	Creativity Scholarship Intelligence	The Grey Lady
	Slytherin	Salazar Slytherin (Middle Age) Horace Slughorn (from the sixth year and before the start of the series) Severus Snape	Ambition Determination Astucia	The Blood Baron

Selection ceremony

When the first-year students first arrive at the castle, they don't go directly to the Great Hall to start the welcoming feast, but instead go to the sorting, an important ceremony. Students at Hogwarts are divided into four houses, each named after one of the school's original founders (Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, respectively). As Minerva McGonagall said in The Sorcerer's Stone:

"The classification of houses is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your home will be like your family in Hogwarts. They will have classes with the rest of their house, sleep in the bedroom of their house and spend their free time in the Common Room of their house."

The Sorting Ceremony at Hogwarts takes place in the Great Hall, and all students as well as teachers are invited. After a short speech by the headmaster or principal, freshmen wait in lines to be called, in alphabetical order, by name. The Sorting Hat, which has the appearance of an old patched hat, first sings a song, explaining its functions and describing the qualities of the different houses. The song is never the same, and varies from year to year based on events. Each freshman then advances in alphabetical order and sits on a stool. Professor McGonagall dons him the Sorting Hat, taking a few seconds to minutes to complete a brief psychological analysis of the students and determine their aptitudes, then loudly announcing the house the student belongs to throughout their schooling.

Since the hat distributes the students according to their personality, the children of a family do not always end up in the same house, as in the case of Sirius Black who was sent to Gryffindor despite the fact that his entire family had been a Slytherin, or Parvati and her twin sister Padma Patil, of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, respectively.

When having difficulty choosing a house, the hat may argue with the student in question in order to get their opinion. This was what happened to determine Harry Potter's house. The Sorting Hat had detected in him qualities of Slytherin and Gryffindor, but after Harry's explicit reluctance to the former, he decided to send him to Gryffindor, another case was with Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick and Hermione Granger, who could be sent to Gryffindor or Ravenclaw.

The houses are named after the surname of their creator, these being: Gryffindor, whose colors are scarlet and gold, and its symbol is a lion; Slytherin, his colors being green and silver, and his symbol a snake; Ravenclaw of blue and bronze colors, and his symbol an eagle and Hufflepuff of yellow and black colors, and with a badger as a symbol.

Rivalry and Manichaeism

As the story is told from Harry Potter's (Gryffindor's) point of view, the traditionally rival Slytherin students are portrayed in a very pejorative light: as idiots, rude, and often ugly. Dumbledore's Army includes students from various houses, but does not include any Slytherins in its ranks.

Lord Voldemort and most of his followers known as Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, as well as Lucius and Draco Malfoy, are former students of Slytherin house, with the exception of Professor Quirinus Quirrell of Ravenclaw house, or Peter Pettigrew that he was a Gryffindor. There is one notable exception to this correspondence between Slytherin and the forces of evil revealed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Severus Snape, potions, does not share the idea that the pureblood magicians are superior to others. He admired and loved Lily Evans, Harry's mother, for her talent in brewing potions, so she came from a Muggle family. Despite his willingness to associate with people of high rank and boast of having long arms, Snape seems warm and welcoming.

This Manichaeism between Gryffindor and Slytherin could provide a handicap in the Harry Potter saga, which features complex themes and still denies a simplistic application of good versus evil. However, it was reduced in the last 14 volumes, especially in the last chapters, where Slytherin house and some of its members appear in a more interesting light: Severus Snape turns and stays out of the Order of the Phoenix, in the name of love that felt for Harry's mother, Lily Evans, and secretly aids her son in his mission to destroy Voldemort; Narcissa Malfoy, psychologically tortured and manipulated by Voldemort as much as possible face to face with her son Draco, finally helps Harry Potter in the final battle of Hogwarts, leading his master to believe that Harry died; and Professor Slughorn, whose courage is not a remarkable quality, participates in the same final battle in the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix, leaving for face the m ism Voldemort; it is also indicated that the Death Eater Regulus Black was in fact rebellious in the past, against his master and even tried to destroy one of his horcruxes; the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black, meanwhile, helps Severus Snape to trying to communicate with Harry and Hermione when they are searching for Voldemort's Horcruxes across the country. Phineas also embodies the redemption of a part of Slytherin by telling Harry, after the battle: "And they say that Slytherin house played their part! May our contribution not be forgotten!"

On the other hand, the fact that Harry has admired qualities of a Slytherin (trait Parseltongue, willingness to push himself, ambition, denial of rules, etc.) may also qualify the black image of the house, which shows that you can have the temperament and be a respectable person. Finally, in the epilogue of the story, Harry tells his son Albus Severus that the two names that were given to him in homage to two Hogwarts headmasters: Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, and the second (a Slytherin) was probably the bravest man Harry has ever met in his entire life.

Staff

At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, like all other schools, courses are taught by professors. Most of the teachers are witches, but occasionally a centaur or a ghost may be used. Teachers are recruited by the school principal, who may also return, as the case of Dolores Umbridge shows. The Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position has a reputation of being "cursed" by many. since Dumbledore refused to name Tom Riddle. Since, in this sense, teachers are successful and remain in their position throughout the school year.

Some teachers may have additional distinctions. The most outstanding element is the director. In Harry Potter's education, the role of headmaster is provided by Albus Dumbledore most of the time. The headmaster is assisted by a deputy headmaster, this role is performed by Minerva McGonagall for Harry's schooling. Another prestigious position is being the director of one of the houses, in charge of the discipline and responsibilities of his house, as is the case of the four recurring characters: Minerva McGonagall for Gryffindor, Pomona Sprout for Hufflepuff, Filius Flitwick for Ravenclaw and Severus Snape for Slytherin.

School Principal

During the events of Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster of the school. Other directors are regularly mentioned throughout the story. The following list presents all known directors, in chronological order:

• Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin: founders and co-directors (before 992 - centuryXI)
• Professor Everard (1703 - 1741)
• Dilys Derwent (1741 - 1768)
• Dexter Fortescue (1768)
• Phineas Nigellus Black (1865 - 1925)
• Armando Dippet (years 1930 - 1952)
• Albus Dumbledore: (1952 - 1997)
• Dolores Umbridge (1996) (temporarily)
• Severus Snape: (1997 - 1998)
• Minerva McGonagall: (1998 - present)

Teacher Table

Other staff members

• Ranger and guardian of the sites: Ogg (before 1968), then assistant Rubeus Hagrid and professor of Magic Creature Care (since 1968)
• Concierge: Picott Apollo (1970), and Argus Filch.
• Librarian: Madame Pince
• Nurse: Poppy Pomfrey
• Cooking, cleaning and others: household elves

School Life

Registration and welcome

Every witch and wizard in the UK is registered from birth to admission to Hogwarts, thanks to a magical quill located at Hogwarts that detects the birth of a magical child and writes their name on a long scroll. summer, a professor (in recent years, Professor Minerva McGonagall) sees this scroll and wizards who reach the age of 11 before August 31 of the current year are contacted by owl, to inform them of their registration and send him the list of required uniform clothing, textbooks, and materials. Confirmation or denial of enrollment must be returned to the school by July 31. Prospective students must buy their supplies before classes start, most often in Diagon Alley, a hidden street off Charing Cross Road in London. Students who cannot afford such materials may receive financial aid from the school, as was the case with the young orphan Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort) when he was a Slytherin student.

Textbooks and school supplies requested in the register

• The Regulatory Book of Spells (Class 1) Miranda Goshawk
• A story of magic, Bathilda Bagshot
• Magic TheoryAdalbert Waffling
• Transformation guide for beginnersEmeric Switch
• A thousand herbs and magic mushrooms, Phyllida Spore
• Magic Filters and Potions, Arsenius Jigger
• Fantastic animals and where to find them, Newt Scamander
• Dark forces. A guide to self-protection, Quentim Trimble

Supplies

• 1 magic wand
• 1 furthest (measure 2)
• 1 glass or glass redomas game
• 1 telescope.
• 1 balance of brass

Students may also bring an owl, cat, rat (or mouse), or toad.

Letters for Muggle-borns, who may not be aware of their powers or unfamiliar with the wizarding world, are brought in by wizards themselves, who explain everything about wizarding society to the parents and convince them that it is not a hoax.

Each student is allowed to bring one owl, one frog, one mouse, or one cat to keep and care for at school. Most students prefer owls because they can deliver mail so there is an owlery where they can be instead of in the student's room, although there are also owls at Hogwarts which anyone can use to send mail. However, other animals have been seen as pets at Hogwarts, most notably Ron's rat Scabbers, but Hermione's cat Crookshanks and Neville's toad Trevor are also mentioned. The school year begins on September 1.

The Hogwarts Express at the village station of Goathland, England (Hogsmeade station in the films Harry Potter).

To get to school, all students must go to Kings Cross Station in London on the first of September to board the Hogwarts Express at platform 9¾. Platform 9 3/4 is invisible to Muggles. To get there, students (sometimes accompanied by their parents) must cross a barrier (a magical wall in the movies) between platforms 9 and 10. The train takes almost a full day to reach Hogsmeade Station, just next to the school. During the trip, an old hag enters the carriages to sell sweets to the students, such as chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott dragees of all flavors, sugar feathers, etc.

Arriving at Hogsmeade Station, the first-year students are joined by Rubeus Hagrid in the little boats, which (by magic) sail across a lake to a grotto below Hogwarts castle. The veteran students travel to the castle in carriages that appear to be self-drawn but are actually drawn by thestrals, skeletal winged creatures that are invisible to wizards who have never seen death.

While the second-year students and above have already arrived at the Great Hall for the banquet earlier this year, the newcomers arrive later this year, accompanied by the deputy headmistress, who has previously gathered at the entrance hall, to explain the functioning of the distribution of students in the different houses throughout their schooling.

Discipline

Uniform

Exposure of uniforms used in film versions Harry Potter.

For reasons of equality and ease of integration within an institution, the school uniform is very common in the UK. Virtually all public and private institutions have their uniform, or at least a strict dress code.

At Hogwarts, students are required to wear full-size black wizard robes, a black pointed hat, a pair of dragonskin or similar gloves, and a black winter cloak with silver clasps. Each item of clothing must be marked with the student's name.

Although not stated in the novels by J. K. Rowling, British students are often required to wear a white shirt, black or blue trousers (or skirt), black shoes, a V-neck sweater with the school (or house) badge and a tie. The costumes of the Harry Potter films have also complied with the main characteristics of the British uniform.

Prefects

In the summer, before starting their fifth year, two students are elected prefects, which is the case in every house. In the Gryffindor case, it was Ron and Hermione. Prefects are given extra privileges (on the Hogwarts Express they have a car reserved for them, they have a bathroom, which has a bathtub, or pool, because of its large dimensions) and other responsibilities and remain as prefects, unless be appointed delegates or stripped of their position, for the remainder of their school career. The delegate is appointed by the students of the seventh year. It is possible to become a delegate without having previously been a prefect (Hagrid mentions that James Potter was made a delegate despite not having been a prefect). Prefects may reduce other students' house points for infractions but may not reduce other prefects' points. They can also impose punishments. Quidditch team captains also enjoy some of the privileges of prefects, such as permission to use their bathroom.

In general, they ensure compliance with regulations and escort first-year students into their rooms on the night of their arrival at Hogwarts.

Known prefects, by houses:

Known delegates:

• Albus Dumbledore
• Minerva McGonagall
• Tom Marvolo Riddle
• Lily Evans
• Bill Weasley
• Percy Weasley
• Teddy Lupin

The Inquisitorial Squad

The Inquisitorial Squad was founded by Professor Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). This is an organization that aims to hinder Albus Dumbledore, on behalf of the Ministry of Magic, considering Dumbledore a madman since the end of the Triwizard Tournament. Dumbledore wants to publicize Voldemort's return, but the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, rejects this idea. As a consequence, Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students are under close supervision to prevent any organization from going against the Ministry's ideas.

Primarily made up of Slytherin students and Filch, Umbridge's appointed janitor, (including Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle and Pansy Parkinson), this association allows members to have the same power over other students as they have. Umbridge - even from other teachers. Therefore, they can sanction other prefects. Squad members are primarily responsible for reporting any suspicious activity by other students to Umbridge.

The Squad has various powers, such as withdrawing or distributing points, distributing deductions, or opening student packages and letters.

Punishments

In addition to losing house points, serious disobedience at Hogwarts receives punishment.

According to the school's custodian, Argus Filch, punishment meant different forms of torture until very recently, but today it results in helping staff or the school with various jobs and tasks. Enforcement of the rules while out of class falls to the custodian with the assistance of the prefects. A student's head of house usually has the last word when it comes to discipline. However, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge, then High Inquisitor, had the power to punish in a more serious way any other punishment imposed by the school staff, such as the In the case of Harry Potter, when Professor Umbridge decides to confiscate his Firebolt throughout the course for having fought with Draco Malfoy.

The House Cup

During the school year, the four houses compete for "house points". As a form of incentive or punishment, each student's achievements or failures—academic or disciplinary—cause their respective house to gain or lose points. In the first book, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom find themselves shunned by other students from Gryffindor for being the cause of losing a significant amount of home points. The points are recorded by four large hourglasses found in the school lobby. For every point a student earns, a jewel in the house color (rubies for Gryffindor, diamonds for Hufflepuff, sapphires for Ravenclaw, and emeralds for Slytherin) will drop on the corresponding clock. At the end of each school year, the points are added up, and the house with the most points wins the House Cup.

The addition or subtraction of points are automatically detected by magic terms and adjustments are made in the respective hourglass. When an authority figure reduces points they must announce the cost of the reduction, otherwise the points will not be reduced. For example, when Inquisitorial Squad member Montague tried to deduct points from Fred and George Weasley, they locked him inside the vanishing cabinet on the first floor before he could say the words and thus the points were not deducted.

Houses also receive points for their Quidditch performances, as seen in all of Harry's years at the school, except for his fourth, where matches between the houses are suspended, due to the holding of the Tournament of Three magicians.

A typical day

Table layout at the Grand Dining Room.

The day begins with breakfast in the Great Hall. Students sit at the table in their own house (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin) and can eat and talk, play board games, or finish their homework. The headmaster of each house eats with the other professors at the large table at the end of the room and at which Dumbledore is also present, especially during ceremonies. During breakfast, the owls bring the mail to the students. Usually it is a copy of the daily The Daily Prophet , letters from parents or friends, or parcels (Harry received the first broom from him in this way). A bell signals the start of morning classes at 9:00.

There are two classes in the morning with a short break between each so students can get to the next class. The bell rings for lunch at noon. After lunch, classes resume at 1:00 p.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. Freshmen often have Friday afternoons free, while sixth and seventh years have more free time during the week. In the evening, the students take their meals in the Great Hall, after which they are supposed to be in the common room of their respective houses, with the exception of students who must take an astronomy course at midnight.

The four common rooms of the four houses are located behind pictures or walls that require a password (with the exception of the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room, where you are asked to answer a question or riddle and in the from Hufflepuff, where you have to touch a barrel). Inside the common room there are sofas and chairs for the students as well as tables and there are also fireplaces to keep the rooms warm. Students relax here in the afternoons or complete their homework. There are billboards in each common room as well as at strategic points in the school. Each house has two bedrooms: one for the ladies (they have a trap so that only the girls can go up because if a gentleman goes up, the stairs become a slide, and in this way, he falls rolling to the entrance of the stairs) and another for the gentlemen. Each student sleeps in a long four-poster bed with canopies and bedspreads in the house color and thick white pillows. There is a nightstand for each bed and each bedroom has a pitcher of cold water with glasses on a tray.

Courses and exams

Since Hogwarts is a wizarding school, students do not receive classes such as math or grammar; they are expected to have a good grasp of this before entering the school. Before going to Hogwarts, most magical children study at home or attend Muggle schools, especially if they are Muggle-born.

In the saga, many courses are described. Some are required from the first year of study, such as defense against the Dark Arts, potions, herbology, etc. At the end of the second year, students have to choose at least two other optional subjects.

Mandatory courses

Optional

At the end of their fifth year, students take the Required Title of Ordinary Magic (OWL) exams for all subjects in which they are enrolled. Each exam consists of a written knowledge test and, where appropriate, a practical demonstration of skills before a panel of Ministry of Magic proctors. Students who achieve a high enough OWL score in a particular subject can take its corresponding advanced course during the next two years, in preparation for the Terrible Exams of High Wisdom and Secret Invocations (NEWT). given at the end of the seventh year.

In English, OWL is the abbreviation of «Ordinary Wizardry Level», which can be translated as «Indispensable Title of Ordinary Magic». 'Owl' means owl. And NEWT is short for Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test. 'Newt' means newt.

Holidays and weekends

Reconstitution of the village of Hogsmeade, in the Harry Potter Park.

The Hogwarts school year is structured similarly to other "non-wizard" in the UK, with three quarters marked by holidays at Christmas and Easter. The year begins on the first of September and the summer vacation ends at the end of June, with a period of eight to nine weeks, before starting a new school year. Students can choose to stay at Hogwarts during the Christmas season. Those who choose to stay in the castle have no extra classes, attend a feast on Christmas Day, and are free to roam the castle. During winter break, these students have the opportunity to celebrate Christmas with teachers in the Great Hall.

Apart from summer, Easter, Christmas, and weekends, students have classes every other day of the year. Usually, there are four feasts a year, the beginning of the year or welcome feast and the end of the year or farewell feast, as well as the Halloween and Christmas feasts. In Harry's fourth year, there was a fifth feast to celebrate the start of the Triwizard Tournament. Also, in Harry's second year, Professor Lockhart decided to celebrate Valentine's Day much to the chagrin of the rest of the teachers and a number of male students.

On special weekends, Hogwarts students from their third year, with signed permission slips, are allowed to go to the nearby village of Hogsmeade, where they can relax and enjoy the bars, restaurants and shops. There seems to be a good relationship between the school, the village and the students who get along well with the locals. Favorite places in Hogsmeade include Honeydukes sweet shop, Zonko's joke shop, clothing stores like Gladrags, the Shrieking Shack (rumored to be the most haunted building in Britain, making it an attraction tourist), the Las Tres Escobas bar and the Cabeza de Puerco pub.

Temporary meetings

Dumbledore's Army

Dumbledore's Army (often abbreviated D.E.) is a secret organization founded by Harry Potter, based on an idea by Hermione Granger, so that his companions can learn how to deal with the most dangerous situations in terms of defense against Dark Arts and to counter the Ministry of Magic policy and the teaching of Dolores Umbridge.

Club of Eminences

The Eminence Club is a club formed at Hogwarts by Horace Slughorn, on two occasions, when he was a potions teacher. Slughorn selected its members from among the most promising students, celebrities, or famous children or children of his favorite alumni, and organizes them with parties, dinners, parties, the aim of which is to create a network of contacts. And he also said that all of Harry's friends were his friends which means that Professor Slughorn loved Harry very much.

Participants have, in the past, included: the editor of the daily Daily Prophet, the head of Honeydukes confectionery, Lily Evans, Rodolphus Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy and Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort). In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Slughorn recruits (among others) Harry Potter, Cormac McLaggen, Blaise Zabini, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom

Extracurricular Activities and Events

Quidditch Matches

Each year the Hogwarts Quidditch tournament is organized between the four houses. During the year, six matches are held (except during Harry's fourth year, for the Triwizard Tournament). The house that wins the most matches wins the Quidditch Cup and allows them to contribute more points to their house for the House Cup at the end of the year.

The Triwizard Tournament

This tournament is an event that has become rare over the centuries and was first held 700 years earlier. It includes the three largest schools of magic in the world: Beauxbatons (France), Durmstrang (located in the Northern Europe), and Hogwarts (Great Britain). These two schools take on Hogwarts, even during Harry's fourth year.

This tournament consists of three dangerous, even life-threatening tasks. Three witches or wizards are selected at the start of the tournament for the Goblet of Fire (one student selected from each school). Students wishing to participate in the tournament must record their name on a piece of parchment and drop it into the cup before selection day. These students must be at least 17 years old.

Against all odds, Harry Potter (then just 14 years old) is selected for the Goblet of Fire, in addition to the three regulation entrants, despite not having entered his name in the Goblet.

Competers selected by the Hogwarts Fire Chalice

The winner of the tournament wins a scholarship of one thousand galleons and the Triwizard Cup. During this tournament the Christmas Ball also takes place, a tradition based on International Magical Cooperation, seeing "an excellent way to build relationships between young witches and wizards of different nationalities". This tournament has become very rare and would not have taken place after a century due to too large a toll.

Event description

• Dragon Test: The champions must recover a golden egg protected by a dragon. This egg, once recovered, reveals a key to solving the following essay: finding a way to stay under water for an hour to recover well (you don't even know how good it is). If the champion cannot recover the egg, he cannot continue the tournament because the egg contains vital information for the future.

• Lake Test: Champions must recover their friend(s) or family member at the bottom of the lake at Hogwarts as quickly as possible, avoiding hostile underwater creatures. They have up to an hour.

• Maze Test: The champions must find their way through a giant maze, full of puzzles and obstacles of all kinds to prevent them from continuing their route. The first to reach the Trophy of the Three Wizards in the center of the maze is the winner of the tournament. The winner of the previous task has an advantage over other competitors, as it is the first to enter the maze.

Tournament results

	Test	Classification
1.a task	Dragon test	1. Harry Potter / Victor Krum (ex æquo) 2. Fleur Delacour 3. Cedric Diggory (brûlure)
2.a task	Lake Test	1. Cedric Diggory 2. Harry Potter 3. Victor Krum 4. Fleur Delacour (abandoned)
3.a task	Maze Test	1. Cedric Diggory / Harry Potter (ex æquo) 2. Victor Krum (abandoned) 3. Fleur Delacour (abandoned)

At the end of the 3rd and final round, Cedric Diggory and Harry Potter, by mutual agreement, take all the trophies (which, unbeknownst to everyone, was turned into a Portkey by Barty Crouch Jr., Lord Voldemort's servant, in the guise of Professor Moody). They land in a graveyard and Cedric Diggory was killed in front of Harry by Peter Pettigrew, on Voldemort's orders. After fighting the dark wizard, Harry managed to escape again and return to the Trophy which takes him back to Hogwarts with the body. of Diggory. Although they reached the trophy together, Diggory's death made Harry the sole winner of the tournament. Thereafter, upset by this tragic event, Harry refuses to get any reward for his unfair victory in a tournament that he did not want to participate in from the beginning, which had been a ploy created by Voldemort to get to him.

The Dueling Club

The Dueling Club was established at Hogwarts by second year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart. The idea, which was mostly a pretext for the professor to brag about his alleged exploits in front of his fans, has proven useful for teaching students some defensive spells and allowing them to deal with eventual aggressions, following the events related to the opening of the Chamber of Secrets.

Armed with their wands, students can compete in a friendly duel, under the supervision of Professor Lockhart and Professor Snape, on a gold candlelit dais temporarily set up in the Great Hall.

In these duels, Professor Snape teaches the students to use the Disarming Charm expelliarmus, used against Lockhart himself.