Hogwarts Entrance Gates

The Main Entrance Gates to Hogwarts were located a short distance from Hogsmeade Station. The gates would be opened on the first day of term and carriages pulled by Thestrals would take students up to the castle.
==Description==
The Entrance Gates were made of magnificent wrought iron and were flanked by two columns topped with statues of winged boars. Just a few yards from the gates was a small gatehouse with a tall chimney.
==History==
In 1996, before the students travelled past the gates, Professor Flitwick and Argus Filch stood guard checking off the names of students and searching them before allowing them to continue up to Hogwarts. The walls surrounding the perimeter were protected by anti-intruder jinxes, and the gates was sealed with a padlock that had been subjected to an Anti-Alohomora Charm that were cast by Albus Dumbledore over the summer of 1996.
==Behind the scenes==
*The winged boars that frame the gates may be a reference to , the brother of , who is sometimes depicted as a winged boar.
*The design for the winged boar statues that flank the gates featured on was based on that of Il Porcellino, a bronze fountain of a boar (sculpted and cast in around the 1630s) located in Florence, Italy.''
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==Notes and references==
Category:Entrances
Category:Hogwarts School Grounds
Category:Iron Known Objects