Passwords

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**Passwords** are used throughout Hogwarts Castle to restrict entry to certain areas such as house common rooms and teacher offices. Passwords in Hogwarts appear to change on a frequent basis.

During Sir Cadogan's period of guarding the Gryffindor common room, he changed passwords so frequently that Neville Longbottom had to write them down. This list was snatched by Crookshanks and was given to Sirius Black, allowing him entrance.

Passwords were also used as a way to gain to access to the radio programme *Potterwatch*, as a way to protect it from Death Eaters possibly listening. New passwords were introduced at the end of each broadcast, and could be used to listen to the next one.

## List of previously used passwords

### Hogwarts

#### Gryffindor Tower

	+ Vivamus, Moriendum Est (**Let us live**, where **we must die.** - **One** of the most famous **quotes** of Seneca the Elder, a Roman rhetorician and writer.)
	+ Caput Draconis(Latin for "Dragon's Head")
	+ Pig Snout
* 1992
	+ Wattlebird
* 1993
	+ Fortuna Major (Latin for "greater luck")
	+ Flibbertigibbet
	+ Oddsbodikins
	+ Scurvy Cur
* 1994
	+ Balderdash
	+ Banana Fritters
	+ Fairy Lights
* 1995
	+ Mimbulus mimbletonia
	+ Alea iacta est(Latin for "The die is cast.")
* 1996
	+ Abstinence
	+ Baubles
	+ Dilligrout
	+ Tapeworm
	+ Quid Agis (Latin for "What are you doing?")

#### Hufflepuff Basement

Instead of a password, one must tap the correct barrel with their wand, in the rhythm of "Helga Hufflepuff".

#### Ravenclaw Tower

Instead of a password, a conundrum is posed:

* Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
	+ Answer: A circle has no beginning.
* Where do Vanished objects go?
	+ Answer: Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything.

#### Slytherin Dungeon

* 1992
	+ Pure-blood

#### Hogwarts kitchens

* (Instead of a password, one must tickle the pear in the portrait.)

#### Headmaster's Office

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* 1985–1986 school year
	+ Iced mice
* 1992
	+ Sherbet lemon
* 1994
	+ Cockroach cluster
* 1996
	+ Acid Pops
	+ Fizzing Whizzbees
	+ Toffee Eclairs
* 1998
	+ Dumbledore
* Unknown
	+ Chocolate Frogs

#### Prefects' bathroom

* 1994
	+ Pine-fresh

#### Chamber of Secrets and Salazar Slytherin's Locket

* "Open" (spoken in Parseltongue)
* Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four. (spoken in Parseltongue, to release Salazar Slytherin's basilisk from its nesting place)

#### Portraits

	+ Slytherins are Supreme
	+ Facta, non verba (Latin for *Deeds, not words*)
* Glanmore Peakes's portraits
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* Percival Pratt's portrait
	+ This Password is Absurd
* Basil Fronsac's portrait
	+ Studious Success
	+ Libraries Liberate
* Giffard Abbott's portrait
	+ Dragon's Egg
	+ Light against Darkness
* Damara Dodderidge's portrait
	+ Chops and Gravy
	+ Dashing Cadogan
	+ Forget-Me-Never
* Old Posh Baron's portrait
	+ Fizzy Pop
* Hesper Starky's portrait
	+ Lunartickle
* Edgar Stroulger's portrait
	+ Surreptitiousness
* (Grounds portrait)
	+ Catweazle
* (Dungeons portrait)
	+ Wanglewort
* (Upper Castle portrait)
	+ Wolf's Bane

#### Marauder's Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" to reveal the map, and "Mischief managed" to hide it.

### Potterwatch

* Albus
* Dearborn
* Fawkes
* Longbottom
* Mad-Eye
* Meadowes
* Moody
* Padfoot
* Phoenix
* Prewett
* Sirius
* Vance
* Wulfric (One of Albus Dumbledore's middle names)

## Behind the scenes

* The 1992 password for the Headmaster's Office, "Sherbet Lemon," is changed to "Lemon Drop" in the American edition of *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*.

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## Notes and references

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18. ↑ Transcription of the old Pottermore Introductions to Hogwarts Houses
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33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PlayStation)*
34. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (PC)*
35. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)*
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