Chamber Of Reception

The Chamber of Reception was a small building in Hogwarts that lay before the Entrance Hall, next to the Viaduct Courtyard. It was where Professor Minerva McGonagall made the first-year students wait before the Sorting Ceremony and the Start-of-Term Feast in 1991. The students' owls and trunks were stored here during the feast.
==Behind the scenes==
*The set used to film the scenes in the first two movies were the steps outside the dining hall, at Christ Church, Oxford.
*In , this is where Argus Filch finds Harry and Ron after they arrive in the Flying Ford Anglia.
*In , the antechamber interior is never shown, although the doors leading to it can still be seen from the Great Hall, and the building can still be seen in exterior shots.
*In , the building was replaced by the Viaduct Courtyard. However, it can still be seen briefly in the Second Task scenes.
*Although this building did not make much of an appearance in , it appears in the entire game. It is unknown why it is also seen on the cover to the game.
*The antechamber could be seen in some promotional images for the film adaptation of . However, it did not make much of an appearance in the final film, as it did in . The promotional images are probably taken from an earlier film.
*The interior of the Viaduct Entrance seen in the Harry Potter video games appears to have been based upon the antechamber interior seen in the first two films.
*In , when Harry is transported into Tom Riddle's memory, Riddle speaks to Dumbledore in the Chamber of Reception.
*This chamber appears in the PSP version of . It replaces the Viaduct Entrance. This is because due to the system's technical limitations, it would not be able to render the Viaduct Entrance.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Entrances
Category:Halls