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The
Wizarding World
Inside
Hogwarts Castle
"Oh
I would never dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets..."
-- Albus Dumbledore
It is not possible
to create an accurate floorplan or map of Hogwarts (Sch1) because rooms
and staircases move around a lot.
There
were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones;
narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some
with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump1.
Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or
tickled them in exactly the right place2,
and doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending.
It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed
to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each
other, and Harry was sure the coats of armor could walk. (SS8)
But it is possible
to list and describe some of the rooms and indicate where they seem to
be found most often.
Dungeons
and sub-levels:
-
Potions
classroom
-
large enough to
accomodate a double class (about twenty cauldrons)
-
"Potions lessons
took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the
main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled
animals floating in glass jars all around the walls." (SS8)
-
icy cold water
pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner
-
you can see your
breath in this room during the winter months
-
Snape's
office and private stores
-
adjacent to classroom
-
filled with bizarre
creatures in jars, his own private stores of potion ingredients, located
next to his dungeon classroom
-
Slytherin
dungeon common room
-
hidden door in
a blank stone wall, opens by password
-
low ceiling, greenish
torchlight
-
Dungeon
Five
-
some third year
accidentally plastered frog brains all over the ceiling in this dungeon,
which suggests that it is used for making potions (CS8)
-
other dungeons,
including one large enough for a Deathday
party
-
kitchens
-
located directly
beneath the Great Hall, equal in size
-
preparation tables
directly under the tables above
-
staffed by over
a hundred house-elves
-
corridor
with door to kitchens
-
pictures on the
wall, mostly of food
-
down a flight
of stone steps into a broad stone corridor, brightly lit with torches
-
this corridor
also leads to the Hufflepuff common room
-
the Chamber
of Secrets and passageways leading to it
-
the chamber
of the Philosopher's Stone and passageways leading to it
-
Hufflepuff
common room (or at least Diggory heads down the kitchen stairs
as he heads off to his common room)
Ground
Floor: (Atlas: map
of ground floor)
-
Entrance
Hall
-
Double oak front
doors, opening to the west (PA21). Large, cavernous room, lit by torches,
with ceiling so high it's barely visible. Wide marble staircase opposite
the front doors (east wall) leads up to first floor. Double doors to the
right (south wall) lead into the Great Hall. On the east wall are two doors,
one on either side of the staircase. To the north of the staircase is a
door leading down a flight of steps to the first dungeon level. To the
south is a door leading to the Hufflepuff common room and the kitchens.
On the left (north wall) is a door leading to a smaller antechamber where
First Years wait to be sorted.
-
Great
Hall
-
Vast chamber with
an enchanted ceiling which mirrors the sky outside. Four long tables for
the four houses. Closest to the doors from the Entrance Hall is Slytherin,
then Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and next to the far wall, Gryffindor (this
order may possibly be reversed, depending on how you orient the room to
the entrance hall). The teachers sit at the High Table, a table on a raised
platform at the front of the room.
-
A door behind
the staff table allows a person to enter the Great Hall from outside without
going through the main entrance (Hagrid enters this way to the welcoming
feast in GF); it isn't clear if this is the same door as the one leading
into the antechamber.
-
there are windows
into this room from the lawn outside (CS5)
-
There is a smaller
antechamber
connected to the Great Hall, door behind the teachers' table, with
a fireplace and many portraits (including that of the Fat Lady's friend
Violet) off the Great Hall (GF
-
small
chamber
-
located off the
Entrance Hall, opposite the Great Hall
-
where first years
wait to be sorted
-
broom
closet
-
located off the
Entrance Hall
-
Harry and Ron
locked Crabbe and Goyle in it (CS12)
-
Hermione and Harry
hid here while using the Time Turner to wait for themselves to pass through
the Entrance Hall (PA21)
-
staff
room
-
long panelled
room
-
mismatched, dark
wooden chairs
-
large wardrobe,
sometimes inhabited by a boggart
-
located off the
Entrance Hall (SS16)
First
floor
-
Muggle
studies classroom
-
to get to her
Muggle Studies exam, Hermione stops at the first floor while Ron and Harry
go on (PA16)
-
McGonagall's
office
-
up the marble
staircase and down a hallway, on the first floor (PA
-
Hospital
Wing [3]
-
lots and lots
of beds with white sheets
-
Madam Pomfrey's
office
-
privacy screens
-
bedpans (since
Ron has to scrub them for detention) (PA
Second
Floor
-
Moaning
Myrtle's bathroom (out of order)
-
empty
corridor with stone gargoyle the entrance to Dumbledore's Office
[4]
-
Defense
Against Dark Arts professor's office (sometimes 3rd floor)
-
faces south (GF,
Moody looks out and sees Durmstrang ship)
-
Lockhart
- vanity pictures of himself
-
Lupin
- grindylow
tank, creatures for use in class, tea things
-
Moody
- Foe-Glass, Dark Detectors, seven-lock chest
Third
Floor
-
statue
of humpbacked witch with secret passage to Hogsmeade
-
forbidden
corridor where Fluffy guarded the trapdoor to the hiding place
of the Philosopher's
(Sorcerer's) Stone
-
trophy
room
-
armor
gallery (adjacent to the trophy room)
-
Charms
classroom, down the Charms corridor
Fourth
Floor
-
fourth
floor corridor - Harry encountered Peeves here (GF
-
there is a landscape
painting here which the Fat Lady was seen running through after Sirius
Black attacked her (PA8)
-
there is a secret
passageway out of Hogwarts behind the mirror on the fourth floor, but it's
caved in and completely blocked. (PA10)
Fifth
Floor
-
statue
of Boris the Bewildered
-
Prefect's
Bathroom
-
white marble
-
large pool-like
tub
-
a hundred taps
giving water plus various bubble bath, etc.
-
picture of a mermaid
on the wall
-
4th door to the
left of the statue of Boris the Bewildered
-
password: "pine
fresh"
Sixth
Floor
Seventh
Floor
-
Gryffindor
common room (base of Gryffindor Tower)
-
begins on the
seventh floor
-
common room with
squashy armchairs, a fireplace, tables
-
entrance behind
a large painting of a Fat Lady in a pink silk dress in a corridor on the
seventh floor. If you know the right
password
to tell her, she opens to reveal a round opening in the wall.
-
dormitories
- one boys' and one girls' per year for a total of fourteen - with
four-poster beds - round rooms with windows
-
Divination
classroom
-
base of North
Tower
-
round room
-
access is by means
of a ladder through a ceiling trap door from the room below
-
oppressive fire
with a copper kettle that gives off sweet-smelling fumes
-
walls lined with
shelves: tea cups, crystal balls, decks of cards, etc.
-
small round tables,
squashy armchairs and little poufs
-
at least one window
which Harry opened just a crack to let fresh air into the room (GF
-
Flitwick's
office
-
thirteenth window
from the right of the West Tower
Towers
-
Astronomy
Tower (tallest tower)
-
where they have Astronomy class every Wednesday night
at midnight
-
handy for releasing baby dragons in the dead of night
-
Dumbledore's
residence and office
-
round room with
windows
-
entrance is through
a secret door behind a stature of a gargoyle on the second floor (GF28),
the password for which seems to be the names of sweets that Dumbledore
likes
-
once in the door,
you ride on a spiral wooden stairs that moves slowly upward
-
Phoenix
on a stand, Sorting
Hat, Gryffindor's sword, cupboard with Pensieve
in it
-
portraits of previous
Headmasters and Headmistresses
-
desk and chairs
-
"It was a large
and beautiful circular room, full of funny little noises. A number of curious
silver instruments stood on spindlelegged tables, whirring and emitting
little puffs of smoke. The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters
and headmistresses, all of whom were snoozing gently in their frames. There
was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind
it, a shabby, tattered wizard's hat -- the Sorting Hat." "Standing on a
golden perch behind the door was a decrepit-looking bird..." (CS12)
-
North
Tower
-
Trelawney's
residence and the Divination Classroom (PA16)
-
Gryffindor
Tower
-
West
Tower
-
the Owlery
is located at the top of this tower (GF15)
Other
rooms: (locations uncertain)
-
Hufflepuff
common room and dormitories
-
located down the
staircase to the right of the main staircase in the entrance hall
-
Ravenclaw
common room and dormitories
-
location and description
unknown
-
library
-
tens of thousands
of books, thousands of shelves (SS12)
-
Filch's
office
-
filing cabinet
with records of the misdeeds of students, including an entire drawer for
the Weasley twins.
-
chains and manacles
(not used these days but kept polished just in case)
-
cabinet full of
confiscated magic items
-
desk and chairs
-
lots of forms
to write up malafactors
-
smells vaguely
of cooked fish
-
magical chamber
pot room
-
"Oh I would never
dream of assuming I know all Hogwarts' secrets, Igor," said Dumbledore
amicably. "Only this morning, for instance, I took a wrong turning on the
way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room
I have never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection
of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered
that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly
it is only accessible at five-thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear
at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder."
(GF23)
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classrooms
-
History
of Magic
-
blackboard through
which Binns enters the room
-
Transfiguration
-
Defense
Against the Dark Arts classroom
-
has windows
-
had an iron chandelier
until Neville was hung from it by his ears by pixies and it broke off the
ceiling (CS
NOTES
1
- Harry finds himself stuck in just such a staircase on his way back from
the Prefects' Bathroom. He is almost caught by Snape and Filch but he is
rescued by Moody (GF25). Neville kept forgetting this particular step and
had to be pulled out of it more than once.
Neville’s
foot had sunk right through a step halfway up the staircase. There
were many of these trick stairs at Hogwarts; it was second nature to most
of the older students to jump this particular step, but Neville’s memory
was notoriously poor. Harry and Ron seized him under the armpits and pulled
him out, while a suit of armor at the top of the stairs creaked and clanked,
laughing wheezily (GF12).
2
- The door to the kitchens is an example of this. It's hidden behind a
large painting of a bowl of fruit.
(Hermione)
seized his arm again, pulled him in front of the picture of the giant fruit
bowl, stretched out her forefinger, and tickled the huge green pear.
It began to squirm, chuckling, and suddenly turned into a large green door
handle. Hermione seized it, pulled the door open, and pushed Harry hard
in the back, forcing him inside. (GF21)
3
- Harry leaves the Hospital Wing, intending to go up to the seventh floor
and the Gryffindor common room. He gets to the floor above and he is at
Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Later in that chapter it states that they go
up the marble staircase to get to the Hospital Wing (CS13).
4
- Harry runs into the castle to find Dumbledore when Mr. Crouch accosts
him and Viktor near the forest:
Harry
tore up the stone steps, through the oak front doors, and off up the marble
staircase, toward the second floor.
Five
minutes later he was hurtling toward a stone gargoyle standing halfway
along an empty corridor. (GF28)
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