Hogwarts Classroom 3C

Classroom 3C, also known as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom, was where Defence Against the Dark Arts class was taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was located off of the Serpentine Corridor on the third-floor of Hogwarts Castle.
==Description==
An iron chandelier hung from the ceiling, as well as a dragon's skeleton. - Chapter 11 (Gilderoy Lockhart) On one end of the classroom stood a projector that was activated by magic. - Chapter 14 (Substitute Teacher) There was also a blackboard at the front of the classroom. Several desks and tables could be found in the classroom as well as some sets of large windows. The classroom decoration had several changes over the years, spanning from lots of pictures of Gilderoy Lockhart, to skeletons and Shrunken Heads.
==History==
===1991–1992 school year===
Quirinus Quirrell used a temporary classroom because the third-floor corridor was out-of-bounds. - Chapter 15 (New Seeker)
===1992–1993 school year===
When Gilderoy Lockhart was the professor, during the 1992–1993 school year, he decorated the room with his own pictures. During the first lesson, he gave a quiz completely irrelevant to the subject and then released a group of boisterous Cornish Pixies for the class to practise. However, due to his ineptitude and the students' inexperience, Lockhart lost control of them, leading the classroom to be demolished, and Lockhart ultimately fled the room with the rest of the students while irresponsibly ordering Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger to clear up his mess. After this one fiasco, Lockhart simply read aloud his supposedly great deeds from his textbooks, sometimes reenacting them and usually dragging Harry to play certain degrading roles. Due to this, the students did not learn anything useful or meaningful about the subject.
==Behind the scenes==
*In the video game adaptations, the classroom used in 1991 is the same as the one used the following years. It is located on the third floor.
*The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban features the Divination Classroom, which uses a redecorated version of the same film set as this room. This can be seen clearly when the back of the room is shown to have the same semicircle window and door. 
*In the Nintendo DS video game adaptation of , the classroom is shown without the stairs to the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office. The reason may be that Severus Snape did not use this office. In the rest of the video game adaptations, you can go up the spiral staircase on the third floor and reach the entrance to the classroom, but you can not enter the room, except in Order of the Phoenix. In that game you can enter in Umbridge's Office.
*In , the set receives somewhat of an overhaul. The antechamber seen in the previous films is removed and replaced by a spiral staircase, which was filmed at the same location as the Divination Stairwell. The door leading into the classroom changes shape, and the window at the back of the classroom is enlarged. A reason for this change may have been due to the Divination Classroom re-using the set and originally featuring the same stairwell.
*In the video game adaptation of , there is a door at the back of the class near the stairs that leads into a series of backrooms, which in turn lead to a roof top on the outside of the Castle. In these backrooms the trio encounter a series of obstacles which they must clear before they can proceed. This might indicate that teachers can suggest changes to the Castle to match their needs.
*Despite being shown as being located in either the Hogwarts Turris Magnus or Astronomy Tower, neither of these towers have window patterns that match the windows that are seen on the classroom's interior film set, most notably the semicircular window in the back of the room.
*In , since the original classroom from the Harry Potter films fell apart after time within the time span of the last time we saw the it in use, they went through the original drawing and copied and rebuilt it.Return back to Hogwarts
*For each DADA Professor, they each had their own style and way to dress the clasroom;
**For Albus Dumbledore, he was into Astronomy they gave him a bunch of telescopes and one 15 feet high telescope which was a look alike of the one we see in the Headmaster's Office during his time as Headmaster.
**Gilderoy Lockhart was a very cocky person and liked to show himself off so he decorated the room with many pictures of himself.
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== Notes and references==
3C, Classroom
Category:Regular Defence Against on-the Rare Dark Arts