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Getting Started

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Portus Information This is where all the important bits of information about Portus are located. Please be sure to read the introduction, the rules, the plot, and the information on time management, classes and role-playing in general.	RSS Email	10	10	Week B Teacher Sc... S Portus 10/27/04 10:58:39
Questions & Suggestions If, after reading the contents of Portus Information, you are still confused about something, feel free to post your query in this forum and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.	RSS Email	54	214	Accept my Charact... Sunfairy108 08/15/05 16:51:42
Character Applications Once you have read and understood the contents of Portus Information, you are very welcome to fill out a character application form. Everything you need to get started can be found within. Once you've read everything, fill out an application and post it in the Pending Applications forum.	RSS Email	10	12	Luna or Dorcas Unregistered(d) 05/12/07 21:25:32
Pending Applications Once you have finished writing your polished application, and think everything is fine, post it here. Soon after you will be responded with an acceptance, or either a review. Good luck!	RSS Email	5	6	Evelyn Hilton Daydreamergirl 07/12/10 08:24:30
Accepted Applications All accepted character applications will be moved here. This is a read-only forum.	RSS Email	15	33	Re:Mkichaa Terath Unregistered(d) 11/23/04 07:41:50

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Portus Resources

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Announcements This is where you will find notices from the administrators regarding the goings-on at Portus, including the dates for Hogsmeade weekends and Quidditch matches, important absences, student listings and upcoming events.	RSS Email	1	1	Temporary Admins Unregistered(d) 11/20/04 12:41:42
The Current Day Check here for information about the current day in the wizarding world, including class timetables, the weather, the front page of the Daily Prophet and other important reminders.	RSS Email	2	2	Student Schedule S Portus 10/27/04 05:27:03
House Points Students can come here to check their current house ranking. Teachers, every time you give or take away points, post here to let the administrators know.	RSS Email	5	5	Hufflepuff Hourglass S Portus 10/27/04 05:35:49
Extra Activities This is where you can sign up for Hogwarts' extra activities, including Prefect duties, the Quidditch team, the Duelling Club or, if you're really falling behind, Remedial Potions.	RSS Email	4	4	Dumbledore's Army S Portus 10/27/04 05:40:29

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General Discussion Discuss anything and everything in this forum, whether it's related to Portus or not. Please remember, however, that all advertisements will be deleted immediately.	RSS Email	4	167	0	Re:Bertie Bott's ... Unregistered(d) 11/30/04 05:49:31
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Thread Planning Portus has its own unique time frame so members might want to plan where and when they are going to post. Organise encounters with your fellow students in this forum. Everyone is welcome!	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Character Alerts Have you ISO someone, and they havent seemed to reply yet? Maybe it was because they forgot to, or some other excuse such as that. Well, here is the place to remind them, and surely they will respond!	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Character Histories The Character Histories forum allows members to create friendship groups or plan romantic relationships. You can choose a mortal enemy or ex-boyfriend, it's up to you!	RSS Email	2	4	0	Re:Something To Note Unregistered(d) 11/29/04 18:34:31
The Hospital Wing If you know you are going to be absent for a while, please leave a post in this forum to let us know. Likewise, if for any reason you decide to leave Portus for good, remember to say goodbye!	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Website Management This forum is for suggestions, contributions or complaints regarding the Portus website. Feel free to donate avatars or suggest new features we could include at the site.	RSS Email	2	5	0	What is with this... Unregistered(d) 11/29/04 18:39:08
Advertisements This is the only forum in which we allow spam. If you advertise your own website here, remember that you are automatically giving us permission to do the same. Offensive or explicit links will be removed.	RSS Email	48	61	0	Obsidian Night - ... LarLan 08/05/10 02:06:51
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Adoption Center Do you feel like you dont post a character enough, or else dont feel like having it any longer? Then drop your application here, and see if anyone would like to adopt it so you dont need to kill the poor thing.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00

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Diagon Alley

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The Leaky Cauldron The Leaky Cauldron, a small, shabby inn sandwiched between a book shop and a record store, serves as a gateway to the wizarding world. There is a bar, plenty of bedrooms and a large dining room.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Flourish & Blotts A large shop where the shelves are stacked to the ceiling with books of every size, shape and topic. Come here for the items on your Hogwarts booklist, or simply browse at your leisure.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Gringotts Wizarding Bank A large white building with marble walls, run by Goblins. The vaults are located underground and are accessable by cart. It is rumoured that dragons guard the high security vaults.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Apothecary This shop sells potion ingredients. There are jars of all sorts of powders and herbs along the walls. Bundles of feathers, fangs and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Eeylops Owl Emporium A small, dark shop that sells owls of every breed, including Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Madam Malkin's Robes Madam Malkin's is next door to Flourish & Blotts and sells robes for all occasions. Come here to purchase Hogwarts robes, dress robes or even self-ironing, temperature-adjusting robes.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Ollivander's Wands A narrow, shabby shop run by a wizard named Mr. Ollivander. The window displays a faded purple cushion upon which sits a single wand. The walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes and the furniture consists of a single spindly chair.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Quality Quidditch Supplies Displaying a full set of Chudley Cannons robes in the window, Quality Quidditch Supplies is your source for everything Quidditch-related. Purchase anything from broomsticks to Broomstick Repair Kits, or simply browse the shelves.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes Situated at Number Ninety-Three, this shop is run by the Weasley twins. It sells, among other things, joke wands, Skiving Snackboxes and Extendable Ears.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
Knockturn Alley A dingy alleyway devoted to the dark arts. The largest establishment in Knockturn Alley is Borgin & Burkes, which sells all manner of sinister items. Street vendors include a witch with a tray full of human fingernails.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00

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Getting To Hogwarts

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	Platform Nine And Three Quarters A scarlet steam engine and a string of passenger carriages wait at Platform Nine And Three Quarters, with a sign overhead reading "Hogwarts Express, 11 A.M." The platform is filled with milling witches, wizards and students.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
	The Hogwarts Express A passenger train that runs between Platform Nine And Three Quarters and Hogsmeade Station. The train contains compartments with space for luggage, and a witch arrives with a tea cart midway through the journey, selling sweets and drinks.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00

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A passenger train that runs between Platform Nine And Three Quarters and Hogsmeade Station. The train contains compartments with space for luggage, and a witch arrives with a tea cart midway through the journey, selling sweets and drinks.

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Hogwarts Castle

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The Entrance Hall A large, cavernous room with a ceiling so high it is barely visible. There is a marble staircase leading to the first floor opposite the double doors, and another leading down to the dungeons. A second set of doors leads to the Great Hall.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Great Hall The Great Hall is vast, with a ceiling that mirrors the sky above. It contains four long tables, one for each of the houses, and a staff table at the front of the room. Tall windows look out onto the lawn outside.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Library The Hogwarts Library contains tens of thousands of books on thousands of shelves. The Restricted Section is off-limits to anyone that does not have a signed note from a teacher. The library closes at eight o' clock every evening.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Hospital Wing Sickness, especially common during the winter months, can be treated at the Hospital Wing by Madam Pomfrey. A long line of beds furnish the room with screens available for privacy. Madam Pomfrey's office is located nearby.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Kitchens Tickle the pear to gain entrance to the Hogwarts kitchens, which lie beneath the Great Hall. They are staffed by a large number of house elves, have high ceilings and large, brick fireplaces.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Trophy Room Located opposite the armour gallery, the trophy room contains large display cases full of old awards, statues, cups, shields and medals. It also has a list of all the Hogwarts head boys and girls. Peeves often likes to bounce around the trophy room.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Owlery A circular stone room, rather cold and drafy as the windows have no glass in them. The floor is covered in straw and hundreds upon hundreds of owls nestle on perches that rise right up to the top of the tower.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Corridors Beware moving staircases and doors that disappear. The corridors of Hogwarts are full of portraits, statues and secret passages. To avoid congestion, students are not advised to hang around.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Prefects' Bathroom The password to the Prefects' Bathroom is pine fresh. This round room contains a large marble bath surrounded by a hundred taps. On the wall is a portrait of a very giggly mermaid.	-	-	-	-	-
Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom A dank girls' toilet haunted by the ghost Moaning Myrtle. This bathroom is out-of-order.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Room Of Requirement A magical room that can only be discovered by someone who is in need. To make it appear, a person has to walk past the section of wall three times concentrating hard on what is needed.	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Dungeons Travelers beware! No one is sure exactly what lurks in these dark corridors- the sun never reaches the mildewed stone walls and a strange dripping can always be heard if one listens hard enough...	RSS Email	0	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
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Professor Dumbledore's Office A large and beautiful circular room, full of funny little noises. A number of curious silver instruments stand on spindlelegged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. The walls are covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses.	-	-	-	-	-
Professor McGonagall's Office Professor McGonagall's office is located up the marble staircase and down a hallway on the first floor.	RSS Email	2	2	0	Tags Brian James 08/28/06 08:16:58
Professor Snape's Office Situated next to his classroom, Professor Snape's office is filled with bizarre creatures in jars and his own private store of potion ingredients.	RSS Email	1	1	0	Members Only Topic Brian James 08/28/06 08:17:47

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The Classrooms

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Ancient Runes Using various rune dictionaries, students are asked to interpret runes, translate symbols into English and practice writing runes themselves.	RSS Email	2	2	How to Create Mem... Brian James 08/28/06 08:26:16
Arithmancy Taught by Professor Vector, Arithmancy involves complicated number charts and mathmatical equations. This is Hermione Granger's favourite subject.	RSS Email	1	1	View Only Forum T... Brian James 08/28/06 08:21:01
The Astronomy Tower Professor Sinistra's class is taught at midnight and involves both a theory section and a practical section. Identifying celestial bodies is one example of the work set in Astronomy.	RSS Email	2	2	Tips (on/off) Brian James 08/28/06 08:29:15
Care Of Magical Creatures This subject is taught by Rubeus Hagrid, and aims to teach students about various magical creatures. Unicorns, thestrals, bowtruckles and hippogriffs are just some of the animals studied.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Charms Charms are a type of magic spell concerned with enchanting an object to behave in a way that isn't normal for that object. For example, the Summoning Charm brings an object to the caster. Professor Flitwick teaches this class.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Defense Against The Dark Arts Taught by Professor Lupin, Defense Against The Dark Arts deals with counter-curses, hexes and dark creatures. The classroom is located on the first floor.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Divination Divination is magic which attempts to forsee future events. Taught by Professor Trelawney, it includes palmistry, crystal balls and astrology. The Divination classroom is located at the top of the North Tower.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Herbology Herbology classes take place in the greenhouses outside Hogwarts. Professor Sprout teaches this class, instructing students on, among other things, repotting Mandrakes and collecting Bubotubor pus.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
History Of Magic An extremely boring lesson taught by Professor Binns. The topics covered include giant wars, goblin rebellions and magical riots. The History Of Magic classroom is located on the first floor.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Muggle Studies The Muggle Studies classroom is situated on the first floor. Classwork includes charts showing Muggles lifting heavy objects without magic and understanding the importance of electricity to Muggle technology.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Potions Potions is taught by Professor Snape and takes place in a cold, drafty dungeon classroom. The subject includes learning about the properties of certain potions. In practical lessons, students are asked to make the potions themselves.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Transfiguration Changing beetles into buttons is one example of the classwork involved in Transfiguration. Professor McGonagall teaches this class, which is made up of both theory and practical lessons.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00

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Hogwarts Grounds

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Hagrid's Hut Hagrid's small, wooden house on the edge of the Forbidden Forest consists of just one room. An enormous bed stands in one corner opposite a crackling fireplace, over which a copper kettle boils.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Forbidden Forest Home to acromantulas, centaurs, unicorns, thestrals and Grawp the giant, the Forbidden Forest is quite understandably off-limits to Hogwarts students. Detentions can be served there, however.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Lawn A wide, flat lawn slopes down towards the Forbidden Forest and borders the lake. Hagrid's hut stands at its edge. Students often congregate on the lawn in sunny weather to relax and chat with friends.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Courtyard Situated in the center of Hogwarts castle, the courtyard is a flat, square area where students gather between classes and during break times. Several doors lead from the courtyard into the ground floor corridors.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Whomping Willow A valuable, violent tree planted to guard a secret passage leading from Hogwarts to the Shrieking Shack. Adventurous students can brave the tree's flailing branches to gain access to the passage.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Lake Located at the base of the cliff upon which Hogwarts stands, the lake is about half a mile in diameter. It is home to grindylows, merpeople and a friendly giant squid.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Quidditch Pitch A large stadium in the Hogwarts grounds provides the pitch for Quidditch matches. The pitch is surrounded by stands, and has three tall golden hoops at either end. The changing rooms lead out into the stadium.	RSS Email	12/31/69 09:00:00

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Hogsmeade

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The Streets This cobblestone street lines the entirety of Hogsmeade, from Hogsmeade Station to a stile beyond the Shrieking Shack. Meander along the road while you are shopping, and pause to look in the windows of the many interesting shops.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Three Broomsticks A great spot to drink butterbeer, although they also serve gillywater, mulled mead, red currant rum, and even cherry syrup and soda with ice and an umbrella. There are tables, booths, and a mirror over the bar. Madam Rosmerta owns the establishment.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Honeydukes Sweetshop Owned by a couple who live over the shop, Honeydukes sells sweets (or candy, if you're American) of every kind. Produce includes blood lollipops, ice mice, pepper imps, jelly slugs, sugar quills, canary creams, acid pops and chocoballs.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Zonko's Joke Shop Zonko's is a favourite place for Hogwarts students to shop. They carry jokes and tricks to fulfill even Fred's and George's wildest dreams, including Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, Ton-Tongue Toffee and Nose-Biting Teacups.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Post Office At least three hundred owls, from Giant Greys to tiny Scops (local deliveries only), wait to carry messages. They sit on shelves that are colour coded, depending on how fast you want your letter to get to its destination.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Shrieking Shack The Shrieking Shack gets its name from the terrifying screams that were heard coming from it many years ago. Rumoured to be the most haunted house in Britain, the Shack is surrounded by a dank, overgrown garden.	RSS Email	1	1	TALK!!!!! Sunfairy108 08/15/05 16:57:21
Madam Puddifoot's Madam Puddifoot's is a cramped tea shop with tacky decor frequented by Hogwarts couples. It is located down a side street and is filled with circular tables. Madam Puddifoot decorates the shop on Valentine's Day.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
The Hog's Head Suspected to be owned by Aberforth Dumbledore, The Hog's Head is a small inn located off a side street. It is much dirtier than The Three Broomsticks, and attracts rather a more, er, interesting crowd.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00
Hogsmeade Station The station, where the Hogwarts Express ends its journey north from Platform Nine And Three Quarters, is located near the lake. A road extends from the train station around the lake to Hogwarts Castle.	RSS Email	0	0	12/31/69 09:00:00

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Portus: A Hogwarts RPG

Getting Started

This is where all the important bits of information about Portus are located. Please be sure to read the introduction, the rules, the plot, and the information on time management, classes and role-playing in general.

If, after reading the contents of Portus Information, you are still confused about something, feel free to post your query in this forum and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

Once you have read and understood the contents of Portus Information, you are very welcome to fill out a character application form. Everything you need to get started can be found within. Once you've read everything, fill out an application and post it in the Pending Applications forum.

Once you have finished writing your polished application, and think everything is fine, post it here. Soon after you will be responded with an acceptance, or either a review. Good luck!

All accepted character applications will be moved here. This is a read-only forum.

Portus Resources

This is where you will find notices from the administrators regarding the goings-on at Portus, including the dates for Hogsmeade weekends and Quidditch matches, important absences, student listings and upcoming events.

Check here for information about the current day in the wizarding world, including class timetables, the weather, the front page of the Daily Prophet and other important reminders.

Students can come here to check their current house ranking. Teachers, every time you give or take away points, post here to let the administrators know.

This is where you can sign up for Hogwarts' extra activities, including Prefect duties, the Quidditch team, the Duelling Club or, if you're really falling behind, Remedial Potions.

Out Of Character

Discuss anything and everything in this forum, whether it's related to Portus or not. Please remember, however, that all advertisements will be deleted immediately.

At the time being, we do you have the feature with unable us to stick topics. Here you may place your avatar request, test your custom titles, and ask us to fix a problem with any of them.

Portus has its own unique time frame so members might want to plan where and when they are going to post. Organise encounters with your fellow students in this forum. Everyone is welcome!

Have you ISO someone, and they havent seemed to reply yet? Maybe it was because they forgot to, or some other excuse such as that. Well, here is the place to remind them, and surely they will respond!

The Character Histories forum allows members to create friendship groups or plan romantic relationships. You can choose a mortal enemy or ex-boyfriend, it's up to you!

If you know you are going to be absent for a while, please leave a post in this forum to let us know. Likewise, if for any reason you decide to leave Portus for good, remember to say goodbye!

This forum is for suggestions, contributions or complaints regarding the Portus website. Feel free to donate avatars or suggest new features we could include at the site.

This is the only forum in which we allow spam. If you advertise your own website here, remember that you are automatically giving us permission to do the same. Offensive or explicit links will be removed.

A forum for administrators only. Don't worry, we're not talking about you behind your back, we are simply discussing the mechanics of the game, putting forward new ideas and helping to make Portus a better place.

Do you feel like you dont post a character enough, or else dont feel like having it any longer? Then drop your application here, and see if anyone would like to adopt it so you dont need to kill the poor thing.

Diagon Alley

The Leaky Cauldron, a small, shabby inn sandwiched between a book shop and a record store, serves as a gateway to the wizarding world. There is a bar, plenty of bedrooms and a large dining room.

A large shop where the shelves are stacked to the ceiling with books of every size, shape and topic. Come here for the items on your Hogwarts booklist, or simply browse at your leisure.

A large white building with marble walls, run by Goblins. The vaults are located underground and are accessable by cart. It is rumoured that dragons guard the high security vaults.

This shop sells potion ingredients. There are jars of all sorts of powders and herbs along the walls. Bundles of feathers, fangs and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage.

A small, dark shop that sells owls of every breed, including Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy.

Madam Malkin's is next door to Flourish & Blotts and sells robes for all occasions. Come here to purchase Hogwarts robes, dress robes or even self-ironing, temperature-adjusting robes.

A narrow, shabby shop run by a wizard named Mr. Ollivander. The window displays a faded purple cushion upon which sits a single wand. The walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes and the furniture consists of a single spindly chair.

Displaying a full set of Chudley Cannons robes in the window, Quality Quidditch Supplies is your source for everything Quidditch-related. Purchase anything from broomsticks to Broomstick Repair Kits, or simply browse the shelves.

Situated at Number Ninety-Three, this shop is run by the Weasley twins. It sells, among other things, joke wands, Skiving Snackboxes and Extendable Ears.

A dingy alleyway devoted to the dark arts. The largest establishment in Knockturn Alley is Borgin & Burkes, which sells all manner of sinister items. Street vendors include a witch with a tray full of human fingernails.

Getting To Hogwarts

A scarlet steam engine and a string of passenger carriages wait at Platform Nine And Three Quarters, with a sign overhead reading "Hogwarts Express, 11 A.M." The platform is filled with milling witches, wizards and students.

A passenger train that runs between Platform Nine And Three Quarters and Hogsmeade Station. The train contains compartments with space for luggage, and a witch arrives with a tea cart midway through the journey, selling sweets and drinks.

Hogwarts Castle

A large, cavernous room with a ceiling so high it is barely visible. There is a marble staircase leading to the first floor opposite the double doors, and another leading down to the dungeons. A second set of doors leads to the Great Hall.

The Great Hall is vast, with a ceiling that mirrors the sky above. It contains four long tables, one for each of the houses, and a staff table at the front of the room. Tall windows look out onto the lawn outside.

The Hogwarts Library contains tens of thousands of books on thousands of shelves. The Restricted Section is off-limits to anyone that does not have a signed note from a teacher. The library closes at eight o' clock every evening.

Sickness, especially common during the winter months, can be treated at the Hospital Wing by Madam Pomfrey. A long line of beds furnish the room with screens available for privacy. Madam Pomfrey's office is located nearby.

Tickle the pear to gain entrance to the Hogwarts kitchens, which lie beneath the Great Hall. They are staffed by a large number of house elves, have high ceilings and large, brick fireplaces.

Located opposite the armour gallery, the trophy room contains large display cases full of old awards, statues, cups, shields and medals. It also has a list of all the Hogwarts head boys and girls. Peeves often likes to bounce around the trophy room.

A circular stone room, rather cold and drafy as the windows have no glass in them. The floor is covered in straw and hundreds upon hundreds of owls nestle on perches that rise right up to the top of the tower.

Beware moving staircases and doors that disappear. The corridors of Hogwarts are full of portraits, statues and secret passages. To avoid congestion, students are not advised to hang around.

The password to the Prefects' Bathroom is pine fresh. This round room contains a large marble bath surrounded by a hundred taps. On the wall is a portrait of a very giggly mermaid.

A dank girls' toilet haunted by the ghost Moaning Myrtle. This bathroom is out-of-order.

A magical room that can only be discovered by someone who is in need. To make it appear, a person has to walk past the section of wall three times concentrating hard on what is needed.

Travelers beware! No one is sure exactly what lurks in these dark corridors- the sun never reaches the mildewed stone walls and a strange dripping can always be heard if one listens hard enough...

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Gryffindor House

Slytherin House

Ravenclaw House

Hufflepuff House

Staff Areas

A large and beautiful circular room, full of funny little noises. A number of curious silver instruments stand on spindlelegged tables, whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. The walls are covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses.

Professor McGonagall's office is located up the marble staircase and down a hallway on the first floor.

Situated next to his classroom, Professor Snape's office is filled with bizarre creatures in jars and his own private store of potion ingredients.

The Classrooms

Using various rune dictionaries, students are asked to interpret runes, translate symbols into English and practice writing runes themselves.

Taught by Professor Vector, Arithmancy involves complicated number charts and mathmatical equations. This is Hermione Granger's favourite subject.

Professor Sinistra's class is taught at midnight and involves both a theory section and a practical section. Identifying celestial bodies is one example of the work set in Astronomy.

This subject is taught by Rubeus Hagrid, and aims to teach students about various magical creatures. Unicorns, thestrals, bowtruckles and hippogriffs are just some of the animals studied.

Charms are a type of magic spell concerned with enchanting an object to behave in a way that isn't normal for that object. For example, the Summoning Charm brings an object to the caster. Professor Flitwick teaches this class.

Taught by Professor Lupin, Defense Against The Dark Arts deals with counter-curses, hexes and dark creatures. The classroom is located on the first floor.

Divination is magic which attempts to forsee future events. Taught by Professor Trelawney, it includes palmistry, crystal balls and astrology. The Divination classroom is located at the top of the North Tower.

Herbology classes take place in the greenhouses outside Hogwarts. Professor Sprout teaches this class, instructing students on, among other things, repotting Mandrakes and collecting Bubotubor pus.

An extremely boring lesson taught by Professor Binns. The topics covered include giant wars, goblin rebellions and magical riots. The History Of Magic classroom is located on the first floor.

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