Hogwarts kitchens

"*He had one brief glimpse of an enormous, high-ceilinged room, large as the Great Hall above it, with mounds of glittering brass pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, and a great brick fireplace at the other end...*"
—Description
The **Hogwarts kitchens** is a room located in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is where all the food for Hogwarts students and staff is prepared. House-elves inhabit this room and are responsible for preparing meals.

## Location

The kitchen is located directly under the Great Hall, down the staircase leading to the Hufflepuff Basement.

### Entry

The school kitchens are accessible by going through a door in the entrance hall and taking the stairs downwards. Downstairs, in a broad stone basement corridor, brightly lit and decorated with food-themed paintings, one can tickle a pear on a painting of a bowl of fruit. The pear will giggle and turn into a large green door handle, revealing the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchens.

## History

Helga Hufflepuff brought the house-elves in to work so that they could avoid being abused; she also created many of the recipes used to this day at Hogwarts.
In 1992, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore decided, upon the rescue of Ginny Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets, that the students of Hogwarts needed a feast. Hence, he sent Minerva McGonagall to the kitchens to persuade the house-elves to hold such a banquet.

## Looks

The kitchen is a gigantic, high-ceilinged room with five tables identical to the ones in the Great Hall above; they are also in the exact same position. There are large quantities of pots and pans heaped around the stone walls, presumably on counter-tops or stoves, and a large brick fireplace at the other end of the hall from the door.

## Function

All of the meals served at Hogwarts are prepared in the kitchen by the Hogwarts house-elves. The five tables in the kitchen were magically linked to the tables in the Great Hall, and dishes placed upon the tables would be transported to their counterparts in the Great Hall.

During the Triwizard Tournament there were a few changes made to the kitchen system. The addition of the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students demanded a greater variety of dishes to better suit foreign tastes. In addition, during the Yule Ball, dining was accomplished through guests selecting their meal choices through menus.

## Inhabitants

Over a hundred house-elves worked in the Hogwarts's kitchens.

* Hogwarts house-elves
* Dobby
* Winky
* Kreacher

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1. ↑ An interview with J. K. Rowling