Hogsmeade

**Hogsmeade Village**, or simply called **Hogsmeade**, is the only all-wizarding village in Britain. It was founded by Hengist of Woodcroft. Since before 1714 (when the 1714 Edict was passed), Hogwarts third years and above have been permitted weekend trips into the village.

Mainly, students frequent the High Street in the village which contains the named specialty shops and pubs such as Zonko's Joke Shop and Honeydukes. Otherwise, they wander on to observe the infamous Shrieking Shack.

Hogsmeade is a picturesque little village of cottages and shops, with enchanted candles hanging in the trees during the holidays. It is also near the location of the train station used by the Hogwarts Express.

## History

According to tradition, Hogsmeade was founded over a thousand years ago, around the same time as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, by medieval wizard Hengist of Woodcroft as he was fleeing persecution by Muggles.

The village was home to the Fleamont family from some time during the middle ages. According to family legend, a muggle-born wizard by the name of Fleming was born sometime in the middle ages, and when he left his family forever to attend Hogwarts, he established a homestead in the highlands of Scotland, thereby changing the family name irrecoverably to Fleamont.

In 1612 a goblin rebellion took place in the vicinity of the village. Hogsmeade served as the wizards' headquarters during the rebellion.
In November 1926, The Daily Prophet reported that Hogsmeade would play host to the first ever Magical Waterplants Festival.

## Shops and buildings

* **Dervish and Banges** - A shop which sells and repairs magical instruments of various uses.
* **Gladrags Wizardwear** - A clothing shop.
* **Hogsmeade Post Office** - The owl post office.
* **Hogsmeade Station** - The railway station.
* **Honeydukes** - A sweet shop that has the entrance to a secret passageway into Hogwarts inside the cellar.
* **Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop** - A tea room and haunt for happy couples.
* **Scrivenshaft's** - A shop for all types of quills.
* **Shrieking Shack** - An infamous and the most frightening building in Britain. The villagers thought it was haunted, but they didn't know it was actually the werewolf Remus Lupin making the scary noises.
* **Hog's Head Inn** - A dingy pub owned by Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth Dumbledore, which hosted a secret passage into Hogwarts created by the Room of Requirement.
* **The Three Broomsticks Inn** - A pub owned by Madam Rosmerta.
* **Tomes and Scrolls** - A bookshop.
* **Zonko's Joke Shop** - A famous joke shop.

## Passageways to Hogwarts

Hogsmeade and Hogwarts have a shared history, as well. There are at least eight secret passages that run between the school and Hogsmeade, all but two of which were built for reasons unknown. It’s possible that some were used during major historical events, such as the 1612 goblin rebellion that centred in Hogsmeade; more recently we’ve seen at least two used in the final battle to defeat Voldemort.

* **Hogwarts third-floor corridor to Honeydukes cellar**: To enter this passage from Hogwarts, one needs to tap on the statue of the one-eyed witch in the third floor corridor and say “*Dissendium.”* It leads to a trap door in the floor of the Honeydukes cellar. Unknown to Filch, this passage was discovered somehow by James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, who included it on the Marauder’s Map; Fred and George Weasley then used it extensively, and eventually taught Harry Potter how to get through it as well.
* **Whomping Willow to the Shrieking Shack**: When Remus Lupin came to Hogwarts as a werewolf, this passageway was built (and the Whomping Willow planted) to give him a place to go when he transformed every full moon. The tunnel is accessed by prodding a knot on the trunk of the Whomping Willow, and it leads to the basement of the Shrieking Shack.
* **The Room of Requirement to the Hog’s Head Inn**: A secret passage that “opened” in 1998 to allow renegade Hogwarts students who were in hiding to access food. Though the door is in plain sight in the Room of Requirement, the passageway can only be accessed from the Hog’s Head through the portrait of Ariana Dumbledore on the second floor of the inn.
* **A secret passageway behind the mirror on the fourth floor**: Fred and George Weasley used this passageway, also unknown to Filch, extensively until it caved in the winter of 1992.
* **Four secret passageways that Filch knows about**: Not all of these passages necessarily lead to Hogsmeade, though *“most of them” probably do. Regardless, nobody can use them, because Filch keeps watch over them. One of these is behind a statue of Gregory the Smarmy*”.