Questions tagged [hogwarts]
For questions about the magical castle featured in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Must be used in conjunction with the [harry-potter] tag.
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Why couldn't Harry or anybody else see Peter Pettigrew aka Scabbers on the Marauder's Map when Lupin could?
Fred and George stumbled upon the Marauder's map in their first year. They passed it on to Harry while in their fifth year. Also note that, while talking to Harry on the train, Ron described Scabbers ...
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Did Voldemort actually curse the job of Defense Against Dark Arts professor after being denied the position?
So, everyone and their formidable Grandmother believes that DADA position at Hogwarts is cursed so that anyone taking it only lasts a year at most.
Some people who know more than others, might ...
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How does the Hogwarts Headmaster know whom to invite to school?
So all wizards get an invitation to Hogwarts at 11... How do they know whom to invite?
If a wizard is Muggle-born, then nobody would know about their existence.
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Why was the Triwizard Cup used as the portkey?
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the Triwizard Cup was used as the portkey to send Harry and Cedric to the graveyard in Little Hangleton to face Voldemort.
Why was the Triwizard Cup chosen?
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Do Hogwarts Houses have quotas?
Not a year goes by where we don't see at least one person Sorted into each House, and it's usually a fairly even distribution.
The Sorting Hat doesn't get a chance to study the mind of each child ...
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What do wizard children do before attending Hogwarts?
Most of the wand-carriers that come from a non-Muggle family seem fairly uneducated when it comes to interacting with Muggles. This implies that they don't go to any type of Muggle school before ...
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When was Hogwarts founded?
We don't know the exact dates for when Hogwarts was founded, but can you at least give bounds or make an educated guess? Alternately, what are the bounds for the date of building the Hogwarts castle, ...
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What if the parents of a Muggle-born witch or wizard refuse to let them attend Hogwarts?
In the Harry Potter universe, young wizards and witches are sometimes born to Muggle parents. In this case, someone from the wizarding world visits them to offer the child their place at Hogwarts.
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How do you get into Hogwarts if you are muggle-born?
If you're muggle-born how do you get your acceptance letter to Hogwarts if it has 'muggle repelling charms' on it?
How, for example did Hermione Granger get her letter and how did she reply to it?
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Can one's House change?
In Harry Potter, when a witch or a wizard is 11 they go to Hogwarts and their first major experience is their own Sorting. In front of the Great Hall, each new student goes to the stool, sits down, ...
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Why is the intake of students for Hogwarts so small compared to the number of witches and wizards in Britain?
If we assume that Harry's year in Hogwarts is an average size, and that each house gets roughly a quarter of the amount of new students each year, then it seems to me that Hogwarts doesn't house ...
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Was Hogwarts named such because of a connection to warthogs?
Was Hogwarts named 'Hogwarts' because of a connection to warthogs?
Or was it named for hogs and warts separately, or something else entirely?
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Hogwarts: So why aren't the kids "doing it"?
So you've got Hogwarts, with several hundred adolescents obviously suffering from raging hormones, living in sexually integrated housing, and the incidence of hanky-panky beyond snogging is apparently ...
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Where did Hogwarts get money for salaries, food and other purchases?
We know that you can't transfigure food, so you have to grow it or buy it. Ditto money.
I'm sure that aside from some medicinal plants Herbology Professor had there were no farmlands at Hogwarts. So ...
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How did Harry get his hair cut at Hogwarts?
In the first book, it's mentioned several times that Harry's hair grows quickly. I don't remember he exact quote, but I remember something like 'he must have gotten more haircuts than all the other ...
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Who gets Muggle-born students onto Platform 9 3/4?
Who gets Muggle-born students onto Platform 93/4? Their parents can't pass through the magical wall (I suppose).
Harry only gets onto the platform by good fortune in his first year after bumping into ...
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Why didn't the Hogwarts ghosts know about the Chamber of Secrets?
This question got me to wonder why Hogwarts ghosts never knew about the Chamber of Secrets.
Some ghosts have been around Hogwarts for centuries. Plenty of time to explore the school grounds, talk to ...
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How do people at Hogwarts usually tell the time?
Classes and lessons at Hogwarts are presumably scheduled at fixed times of day. The first class might start, for example at nine in the morning.
To be on time for one's lessons, it is therefore ...
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Can Ministry officials Apparate inside Hogwarts?
In the recently launched trailer of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, there are people Apparating inside Hogwarts grounds.
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How well are professors paid at Hogwarts?
Just kind of a curious question that came to mind while looking at this answer about who gifted Harry the Nimbus 2000 (a fairly expensive broom at the time, I would imagine) which says it was ...
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Who came first; The Four Founders or the Peverell Brothers?
After seeing these two questions, it got me wondering about the the question I am asking.
Was Harry related to Salazar Slytherin?
Were the Peverell brothers and Salazar Slytherin related?
In the ...
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What is the association of the 4 house animals to the Hogwarts houses and who picked them?
In Harry Potter each Hogwarts house has its own animal that represents it; is it ever explained how these animals came to represent a specific house? I never read a canon explanation to who chose the ...
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What Hogwarts classes are taught to two houses at once?
I remember from my mumble about nine mumble rereads of the Harry Potter series that the following classes Harry took were taught to more than one house in the same lesson:
Potions with the Slytherins ...
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To what extent are flying lessons provided at Hogwarts?
Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday — and Gryffindor and Slytherin would be learning together.
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter Nine - The Midnight Duel Harry's first -
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Are there any other male Gryffindors named in Harry's year, beyond the main five?
Based on the comments discussion below this answer, I'm wondering how many students there were in each year. There have been various speculations about how many people attended Hogwarts in total. But ...
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Are there other conventional transports to Hogwarts/Hogsmeade? [duplicate]
Everyone familiar with Harry Potter is likely familiar with the Hogwarts Express, the direct line from Kings Cross station in London to Hogsmeade. But being a direct line, this would seem to require ...
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Why did Hogwarts Library carry a book containing information on horcruxes if it was a banned subject?
The book I'm talking about is 'Secrets of the Darkest Arts' (which is the only book covering the subject of horcruxes to my knowledge). Riddle presumably read this book prior to him asking Slughorn ...
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What spells, enchantments and charms do we know were taught in the first year of Hogwart's curriculum?
I'm about to write a fanfiction based in the Harry Potter universe, but I want it to be strictly canonical.
A lot of fanfics invent spells of their own similar to Eliezer Yudowsky's satirical Fixus ...
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Is there any way to make sense out of the scheduling for electives at Hogwarts? [closed]
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The actual question is as follows: The scheduling system for elective classes at Hogwarts, as presented in the books (particularly Prisoner of Azkaban) does not seem to make sense. I am ...
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Why did Voldemort assume that no-one knew about Room of Hidden Things?
Voldemort hid one of his Horcruxes inside Hogwarts. It seemed to be relying on security through obscurity as far as protecting it. But as we know, it ended up not being so secure because it wasn't so ...
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How could Harry and Ron bypass Hogwarts' security in a flying Ford Anglia?
How could Harry and Ron so easily fly Mr. Weasley's car (the magically enhanced Ford Anglia) to Hogwarts, when many times in the book it is mentioned that Hogwarts is protected by various spells, such ...
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Who is the Current Headmaster of Hogwarts?
After the second Wizarding war, who is the Headmaster for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
There were assumptions that it would be Professor McGonagall because she was most trusted by ...
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How many ways are there of getting to Hogwarts?
We know that most students get to Hogwarts by train, and that Harry Potter and Ron Weasly arrived by flying car, but are there other ways to get to the school?
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Were there (or are there) any Dark Wizards who were Sorted into the Hufflepuff House?
I just finished watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone on DVD. Not my first time seeing in the movie by a long shot, but Quirrell captured my attention during the film. He was ...
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Were there muggleborns in Slytherin?
Is it possible for a Muggle-born to be sorted to Slytherin? We know that half-bloods can like Snape and Voldemort, but how about Muggle-borns?
If it is possible, was there an example from canon to ...
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Are the Hogwarts Potion Books intentionally misleading?
They don't seem to be giving the correct instructions in concocting the potions- as seen when Hermione isn't able to make her draught in Slughorn's class.
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How did Newt graduate from Hogwarts if he got expelled?
JK Rowling revealed1 on twitter that Newt Scamander got expelled from Hogwarts.
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Dumbledore was a young teacher at the time Newt was expelled. He wasn't able to revoke ...
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Students expelled from Hogwarts, breaking of wands, and complete education
Related to this question: What does it take to be expelled from Hogwarts? and Why Couldn't Hagrid Have a Functional Wand?
TL;DR - 1a) Do we know of any other students that were actually expelled?
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Can House Elves Apparate Inside Hogwarts?
In the sixth book Harry summons Kreacher (and Dobby comes too) when he's in the hospital wing after he was hit by the bludger. Crack and then they just were there. Is this just a mistake in the book?
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What are the requirements to teach at Hogwarts?
After reading in the wiki that Neville Longbottom would become Professor for Herbalogy at Hogwarts I got curious if there are any special requirements for becoming a teacher there.
Do you just need to ...
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What does it take to be expelled from Hogwarts?
The only person we know who was expelled from Hogwarts was Hagrid and his transgression was quite big:
Harry was threatened several times to be expelled but it never came to that, even when he broke ...
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Who created the tunnel between the Room of Requirement and Hogsmeade?
Did someone create the tunnel a very long time ago, or did the Room of Requirement create it as soon as Neville and co got hungry?
And how did he get into a tunnel while being in a room starting on ...
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What are the names of everyone in the four houses in Harry's year? [duplicate]
I'm currently making a mind map of the Harry Potter universe, but when I got to filling in the houses of Hogwarts, I realised that I barely know any names.
What are the names of everyone from Harry's ...
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Why doesn't Hogwarts have more teachers?
Hogwarts apparently has only one professor per subject. We could reason this out by looking at the fact that all of Harry's Potions classes are with Snape (for as long as Snape is teaching Potions), ...
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What’s the meaning of Hogwarts motto?
The motto for Hogwarts is "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus", or, "Never tickle a sleeping dragon".
This seems like quite obvious advice and rather silly as a school motto. Is it essentially an ...
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Where do students who don't get into Hogwarts go?
Hogwarts is modeled on English private schools like Eton. If Hogwarts is a "private school" where do the students go who either can't afford it or don't get in?
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Who did Hermione share a dorm with?
Along the same lines as my other question about Hogwarts sleeping arrangements, I'm wondering if it's ever been revealed who Hermione shared a dorm with. Or whether it's possible to make an educated ...
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How is the winner of the Hogwarts Quidditch cup determined?
The rules in the Quidditch tournament in Hogwarts are pretty simple: each house plays one game against each of the other three.
This could result in several teams (up to three) having an equal number ...
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How do muggles communicate with their magical children when they're at Hogwarts?
How do muggles with children at Hogwarts (for example, Hermione's parents) communicate with their children while they're at school? The students are able to send owls but does that mean the parents ...
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How did the Hogwarts founders sort students?
Currently the Sorting Hat looks inside a student’s head and determines the traits that best match one of the Hogwarts houses. These may be traits the student has yet to demonstrate or even be aware ...
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