Scotland

**Scotland** is a Celtic country on the island of Great Britain in Western Europe that is part of the United Kingdom. Its only land border is with England, to the south. Its capital city is Edinburgh.

## Wizarding world

### Education

Scotland was known as the location of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the magical village of Hogsmeade, the only all-wizarding settlement in Great Britain. The more remote, mountainous terrain of Scotland made it a more likely choice of place for an institution that had to be disguised to keep it invisible to Muggles. Its location was unknown, and Unplottable; however, Hermione Granger believed it to be close to Dufftown, in the Moray region of North-Eastern Scotland.

### Games and sports

#### Creaothceann

*Main article: Creaothceann*
Creaothceann originated in Scotland, and is regarded as the most dangerous of all broom games. Creaothceann players were equipped with a broomstick and wore a cauldron strapped to their head. At the start of the game, a hundred rocks that had been charmed to float a hundred feet (30.48m) above the ground began to fall to the ground. The players then zoomed around the field, trying to catch as many rocks in their cauldrons as possible.

#### Quidditch

*Main article: Scottish National Quidditch team*
The Scottish National Quidditch team was the national Quidditch team for Scotland competed in the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.

The Banchory Bangers were a Scottish Quidditch team noted for their poor skills and post-match parties. After a match against the Appleby Arrows in 1814, the Bangers allowed their Bludgers to zoom off into the night, and set out to capture a Hebridean Black to be their mascot.

Other Scottish teams included the Montrose Magpies, Pride of Portree, and Wigtown Wanderers.

## Magical creatures

Scotland was one of the most frequent national violators of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, Clause 73 (the clause that ensured the secrecy of magical creatures). This is mostly due to frequent Muggle sightings of the "Loch Ness Monster", the world's largest kelpie, who resided in Loch Ness. Due to the large number of sightings, it was considered impossible to use Memory Charms on all the Muggles who have spotted the creature; therefore the Office of Misinformation instead focused on discrediting any photographic evidence.

### Native to Scotland

Selkie

Blast-Ended Skrewt

Giant Squid

Hebridean Black (Hebrides Islands)

Quintaped (Isle of Drear)

Vampyr Mosp

Hinkypunk

Flying Seahorse

* Possibly ogres, as one was possibly seen drinking in the Three Broomsticks Inn.
* Blood-Sucking Bugbear
* Weetimorousbeastie (River Clyde) (possibly)

### Great Britain

The following creatures were found throughout Great Britain:

Kelpie

Augurey

Thestral

Vampire

Niffler

Jarvey

Centaur

Grindylow

Murtlap

Imp

Aethonan

Moke

Gytrash

### Europe

The following creatures were found in certain regions of Europe that Scotland fell under:

Unicorn

Hippogriff

Goblin

Doxy

Knarl

Troll

Graphorn

Gnome

Red Cap

Jobberknoll

Dugbog

Glumbumble

Nogtail

Mackled Malaclaw

### North Sea

The following creatures were found throughout the North Sea:

Lobalug

### Atlantic Ocean

The following creatures were found throughout the Atlantic Ocean:

Sea Serpent

Shrake

#### Worldwide

The following creatures were all found worldwide:

Ashwinder

Bundimun

Chizpurfle

Clabbert

Fairy

Flobberworm

Ghoul

Kneazle

Merpeople

Mooncalf

Plimpy

Puffskein

Fire Dwelling Salamander

Streeler

Werewolf

Winged horse

## Magical plants

### Native to Scotland

Bubotuber

Devil's Snare

Wiggentree

Moondew

* Wiggenbush

## Food and beverages

* The source of the sparkling beverage McSpratts was in the Vale of McGowan in the Scottish Highlands.
* Quintin Black was a brand of alcohol produced and sold in Scotland by the Quintin family.

## Known individuals

### Wizardkind

* Guthrie Lochrin was a wizard who lived in 1107 and made a broomstick flight from Montrose to Arbroath.
* The McGonagall family and Ross family of Caithness. Isobel McGonagall (née Ross) was a witch and mother of Minerva McGonagall, Robert McGonagall Jnr and Malcolm McGonagall. Minerva was a Professor of Transfiguration and later Headmistress of Hogwarts.
* Prudence, Modesty Rabnott's sister, was from Aberdeen, Scotland sometime around the 13th century.
* The Quintin family was a Scottish wizarding family who manufactured Quintin Black.
* Rowena Ravenclaw was a medieval witch and one of the four founders of Hogwarts. She was noted for her cleverness and creativity, and was described by Xenophilius Lovegood as "beautiful." The Sorting Hat introduced her as "fair Ravenclaw, from glen", suggesting she was from Scotland.
* Torquil McTavish was a Scottish broom flier in the 18th century.

### Muggles

* Angus Fleet was a Muggle who lived in Peebles, Scotland. On 1 September, 1992, the *Daily Prophet* reported how he spotted a Ford Anglia in flight and told the police about it.
* Robert McGonagall Snr, (husband of the witch Isobel McGonagall, and father of their magical children Minerva McGonagall, Robert McGonagall Jnr, and Malcolm McGonagall).

## Known locations

### Exclusively magical

* North Ford Bog
	+ Pitt-upon-Ford
	+ San Bakar's Tower
* Hogsmeade Valley
	+ Hogsmeade
		- High Street (Hogsmeade)
	+ Overlook Mine
	+ Horklump Hollow
	+ Upper Hogsfield
	+ Falbarton Castle
* Forbidden Forest
	+ Spinners Cavern
	+ Jackdaw's Tomb
* North Hogwarts
	+ Korrow Ruins
	+ Collector's Cave
* South Hogwarts
	+ Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
	+ Lower Hogsfield
	+ Aranshire
* Hogwarts Valley
	+ Brocburrow
		- Dale Family Tomb
	+ Keenbridge
	+ Lower Hogsfield
	+ Gilded Perch
	+ Mine's Eye
* Feldcroft Region
	+ Feldcroft
		- Feldcroft Catacomb
	+ Rookwood Castle
	+ Irondale
	+ Moonstone Garden
* South Sea Bog
* Coastal Cavern
	+ Tomb of Treachery
* Poidsear Coast
	+ Poidsear Castle
	+ Phoenix Mountain Cave
* Marunweem Lake
	+ Marunweem
	+ Marunweem Ruins
	+ Tower Tunnel
	+ Coastal Mine
* Manor Cape
	+ Bainburgh
	+ Bainburgh Manor
	+ Henrietta's Hideaway
* Cragcroftshire
	+ Cragcroft
* Clagmar Coast
	+ Clagmar Castle

### Muggle and magical

* Aberdeen
* Arbroath
* Argyllshire, was a county of Scotland until 1975
* Banchory
* Dufftown
* Dundee
* Edinburgh (capital city)
* Glasgow
	+ River Clyde
* Hebrides Islands (a group of islands located off the west coast of Scotland)
	+ Isle of Drear
	+ Isle of Skye
		- Portree
* Inverness
* Loch Lomond, a famous lake in Scotland
* Loch Ness, a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands
* Lowercroft
	+ Wildbrook Crescent
* Montrose
* Peebles
* Vale of McGowan, Scottish Highlands
* Wigtown