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> Plaque outside the Trophy Room

The **Trophy Room** was a room that moved between the third and sixth-floors of Hogwarts Castle. Hogwarts used this room to store all the old awards, trophies, statues, cups, plates, shields, and medals were kept in crystal display cases.

### Location

* Third floor, Hogwarts Castle
* Sixth-floor, Hogwarts Castle

## Description

> The crystal trophy cases glimmered where the moonlight caught them. Cups, shields, plates, and statues winked silver and gold in the darkness.
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> Description of the trophy room, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Awards, trophies, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals were kept in crystal glass displays in this room. This room also contained a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. Prominently displayed were Hogwarts Awards for Services to the School, with known recipients being Tom Riddle, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley. According to Draco Malfoy, the room was always left unlocked, even past the students' curfew.
On the third-floor, the Trophy Room was connected to an ***Armour Gallery***. A ***portrait*** of ***Brutus Scrimgeour*** hung on one of the walls, hiding a passageway to the ***fourth-floor corridor***, and ***another passageway*** to the fourth floor exists behind a mirror.

## History

> We'll meet you in the trophy room; that's always unlocked.
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> Draco Malfoy choosing the location for his midnight duel with Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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In the 1991–1992 school year, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley agreed to have a wizard's duel with Draco Malfoy and ***Vincent Crabbe*** in the Trophy Room. However, the latter pair never showed up. This meant Harry and Ron, as well as Hermione Granger (who joined to make sure that if they were caught, they would tell the truth) and Neville Longbottom (who forgot the password to the Gryffindor Tower), nearly being caught by Argus Filch. That in turn led to the discovery of Fluffy and the trapdoor.
In the 1992–1993 school year, Ron was given detention by Professor McGonagall, his sentence being to clean the trophies in the room with Filch without using magic, for crashing the Flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow. Ron had a slug-vomiting attack from an earlier backfired charm, and got Tom Riddle 's trophy all covered with slug and slime, resulting in him having to clean it repeatedly. It was from this incident that Ron learned about Riddle, and later told it to Harry and Hermione, thus providing the link to Riddle's diary. Despite this useful incident, Ron still highly resented this detention. Harry later visited the Trophy Room with Ron (who told him "*I’d seen enough of the trophy room to last me a lifetime*") searching for clues, but the only things he turned up were finding Riddle's name on an old ***Medal for Magical Merit*** and a list of Head Boys.

## Behind the scenes

* In the films, the Trophy Room is depicted as a large room, with the shelves covered with cups and trophies and the walls covered with plates, shields and medals. Some of the cups move and float and some produce red sparks and smoke from time to time. With a large iron gate at the entrance, this room has a large fireplace. Contrary to the books, the room is connected to the Great Hall, and appears to be beneath it. Some walls are covered with glass. It is implied that there is an entrance to the trophy room from outside as Moody was able to enter the castle through it.
* The set built for the Trophy Room was later used as the ***Room of Requirement***, with only the addition to glass stands between the pillars, different lights and floor, according to the producers.
* The same set also served as ***Horace Slughorn's office*** in the ***sixth film***.

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## Notes and references

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