Hogwarts

Hogwarts has 40 new children each year, a minimum 5 of them were muggleborn due to a quota. It is the premier school of Magical Britain.

## Board of Directors

*Main article: Hogwarts Board of Directors*
The Board of Directors in Hogwarts is the leading group discussing the nearly everything happening in Hogwarts. From firing teachers to appointing new headmasters as well as changing the curriculum.

## Chamber of Secrets

Contains the Basilisk and has 14 entrances.

Known entrances:

* Seventh year Hufflepuff girl's shower room
* Second floor girl's toilets
* Ravenclaw girl's Quidditch changing room
* Slytherin sixth-year girl's dormitory

## Curriculum

* Apparition lessons
* Arithmancy
* Astronomy
* Care of magical Creatures
* Charms
* Defence against the Dark Arts
* Duelling
* Healer training
* Herbology
* History of Magic
* Muggle studies
* Potions
* Runes
* Transfiguration
* Quidditch/Flying lessons

## Dicta quils

Dicta quils aren't allowed at Hogwarts anymore because people used them to write their own tests or homework via portraits, which usually were very knowledgeable.

## Duelling

The Hogwarts duelling arena, a round Colosseum of solid oak, stays at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Its complex sets of privacy and safety wards, make it ideal for the violent sport held within. The roof can be closed and opened at will, to better accommodate the ever changing and volatile Scottish weather.

The duelling team is made up of one person from each year from each house. In the tournament, the first years face off against each other and the winner then faces the other team's one year older duellist, and so on, until one side has all seven team members defeated. The teams are usually decided by tryouts at the beginning of the school year. Then all duellist get trained until the main tournament at two-thirds of the school year.

## Healer training

Small group of 3 to 4 students, training usually begins at third year. This program is intended to replicate the first eighteen months of St. Mungo's healer training, part time, over five years. The first year of the program is spent on the basics of first aid and dealing with common physical injuries. These included broken bones, flesh wounds, torn ligaments, sprains, and internal bleeding.

## Quidditch

Each house has one team and they played against each other in a round-robin-system.

## Security

### Castle shutdown

The current headmaster and deputy can issue a Hogwarts wide lockdown, to disallow anyone from leaving or entering the castle in case of an emergency. The lockdown status of Hogwarts castle is a warding protocol that prevents anyone or anything from leaving or entering the school grounds through any normal entrances or exits other than a single point controlled by the Headmaster. Lockdown is the second highest level of security the school could assume and because of the large drain of magic, could only be maintained for a week.

## References

Book 3 - NRiCaD - Ch. 38 - Strategic Sorting,

Hermione Granger explains the muggleborn quota for Hogwarts.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 36 - Bonus - Daphne Goes Down to Village.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 36 - Bonus - Daphne Goes Down to Village,

Known Chamber of Secrets entrances.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 22 - Muggleborns, Ghosts, & Musical Chairs.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 21 - The Duelling Club.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 31 - ...And the Tournament.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 19 - The Chamber's Pipe Network.
Book 2 - TFoP - Ch. 18 - Slytherin's Outcast.