Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

"*The finest school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world.*"
—Rubeus Hagrid praising Hogwarts
**Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry** is the top British wizarding school, located in the Highlands of Scotland. It takes students primarily from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Ireland, bu also from worldwide.

The castle is located in the mountains near a loch. The precise location of the school can never be uncovered because it is Unplottable. To Muggles, the school looks like an old abandoned castle.

Established in the 10th Century, Hogwarts is considered to be one of the finest magical institutions in the wizarding world, though other notable schools included Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute. Children with magical abilities are enrolled at birth, and acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven. However, if the child in question is a Muggle-born, a professor from the school would come and inform the child's parents.

The school's motto is *Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus*, which, translated from Latin, means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon".

## Information

School Name: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Established: 990 AD

Location: Hogwarts Castle, Highlands, Scotland, Great Britain

Motto: *"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus"* - 'Never tickle a sleeping dragon'

Houses:

* Gryffindor
* Hufflepuff
* Ravenclaw
* Slytherin

Students: Approx. 1000

## Location

Main Article: Hogwarts Castle

Hogwarts School is located in Hogwarts Castle, a large castle somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle has extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegetable patches, a loch (called the Black Lake), a large dense forest (called the Forbidden Forest), several greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size Quidditch Pitch. There is also an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school and those owned by students.

The three highest towers are the Astronomy Tower, the Ravenclaw Tower, and the Gryffindor Tower. There are 142 staircases, which are known to move around in the massive castle which is set upon huge rocks above a magnificent lake. The castle is known for its many updates and changes in layout throughout the years, such as regenerating itself after the Battle of Hogwarts. It should be noted that some rooms in the school tend to "move around," and so do the steps on the grand staircase. Albus Dumbledore once noted that even he did not know all of Hogwarts' secrets. The castle has witnessed centuries and has a long history of ancient magic.

The school has numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a Muggle to see it as the school; rather, they see only ruins and several warnings of danger. Witches and wizards cannot Apparate or Disapparate in Hogwarts grounds, except for when the Headmaster lifts the enchantment, whether only in certain areas or for the entire campus, so as to make the school less vulnerable when it serves the headmaster to allow Apparition. Electricity and electronic devices are not found at Hogwarts. Hermione Granger indicated that due to the high levels of magic, substitutes for magic used by Muggles, such as computers, radar and electricity "go haywire" around Hogwarts. Radios, however, make an exception as they are not powered by electricity, but by magic. By 2015, however, this had been countered. Very few students, however, kept electronics at Hogwart