Hogwarts Academy of Magic

### Motto

Un-Official: Numquam Underrate Draco Intus Secret (Never Underrate The Secret Dragon Within)

### Permanent Residents

Hogwarts Students
Hogwarts Staff
Hogwarts Ghosts

### Houses

Gryffindor
Poufsouffle
Serdaigle
Slytherin

*"Magic, both beautiful and powerful, binds together our long history. That common bond we share is the legacy of Hogwarts."*

**Hogwarts Academy Of Magic**, Often Shortened To **Hogwarts Academy** or **Hogwarts**, was a Scottish wizarding boarding school located in the Scottish Highlands. It accepted any magical student residing in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland at the age of eleven years old at the start of the incoming term for enrolment.

The precise location of the school could never be uncovered because it was rendered Unplottable. To Normies, the school appeared to be an old, abandoned castle. Similarly, most wizarding schools' locations were protected in order to prevent their ways of teaching being revealed, as well as protect the students and schools themselves from any harm.

Hogwarts is considered to be one of the finest magical institutions, though there are other notable schools.

Children with magical abilities were enrolled at birth, and acceptance was confirmed by owl or cat post at age eleven. However, if the child in question was a Muggle-born or a half-blood with no knowledge, a staff member from the school visited the child and his or her family in order to inform them of their magical heritage and the existence of Magical Schools.

Terrance Emily Created A Un-official school motto Which Was Numquam Underrate Draco Intus Secret, Translated From Latin, Means "Never Underrate The Secret Dragon Within"

## Description

*"Every corridor, every portrait, every stone in this castle tells the story of witches and wizards who came before. Here you will meet lifelong friends and grow into your own magical abilities in the class rooms of the worlds most talented professors"*

Hogwarts Academy, located somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland, consisted of the large Hogwarts Academy Castle and extensive school grounds surrounding it, which included sloping lawns, flowerbeds, vegetable patches, as well as a loch (called the Dark Lake), a large dense forest (called the Secret Forest), several greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size Quiditchen Pitch. The castle was set upon huge rocks above the Dark Lake. Its three highest towers were the Astronomy, Serdaigle, and Gryffindor Towers. The castle's 142 staircases were known to change position. The castle was known for its many updates and changes in layout throughout the years. It should be noted that some rooms in the school tended to "move around", as did the steps on the Grand Staircase. The castle had been around for centuries, and consequently had a long history of ancient magic. The school had numerous charms and spells on and around it that made it impossible for a Normie to see it as the school; rather, they saw only ruins and several warnings of danger. Witches and wizards could not Apparate or Disapparate in Hogwarts grounds, except for when the Headmaster lifted the enchantment, whether only in certain areas or for the entire campus, so as to make the school less vulnerable when it served the headmaster to allow Apparition. Electricity and electronic devices were not found at Hogwarts. Due to the high levels of magic, Normie substitutes for magic, such as computers, radar and electricity, "went haywire" around Hogwarts. Radios, however, were an exception as they were not powered by electricity, but by magic.

## History

### Early history

Hogwarts was founded around 993 A.D. by four of the greatest wizards and witches of the age: Guy Gryffindor, Pariage Poufsouffle, Selga Serdaigle And Salzxen Slytherin. They each represented an aspect of personality that they wanted to bring out in new students. They also placed certain protective enchantments in place to ensure the well-being of their students, for which reason the castle and grounds had both always been protected with Anti-Apparition Charms. Although the four founders cooperated well for a time, however, shortly after founding the school, Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders about blood purity, and wanted to admit only pure-blood students. He felt pure-blooded students deserved to learn magic, and those of other ancestry such as Muggle-borns and half-bloods, were unworthy. The other three founders all disagreed, especially Gryffindor. Slytherin left the school, but not before secretly building the Chamber of Slytherin Secrets.

## Houses

*Main article: Hogwarts Houses*
Hogwarts students were divided into four houses:
* **Gryffindor** (Description: Well known for courage, bravery, daring, nerve, and chivalry.)
* **Poufsouffle** (Description: Well known for loyalty, patience, hard work, fair-play, honesty, and tolerance)
* **Serdaigle** (Description: Values intelligence, wit, cleverness, creativity, and wisdom.)
* **Slytherin** (Description: Values ambition, leadership, cunning, determination, and resourcefulness.)

## House ghosts

Hogwarts was the most heavily haunted dwelling place in Britain. The castle was a congenial place for ghosts, because the living inhabitants treated their dead friends with tolerance and even affection, no matter how many times they had heard the same old reminiscences. Each of the four Hogwarts houses had its own ghost. Slytherin boasted the Bloody King, who was covered in silver bloodstains. He was well known for being extremely unsocial and many students, including those of his own House, were known to be slightly afraid of him. The least talkative of the house ghosts was the Lady Rowena, who was long-haired and beautiful. She was the daughter of Selga Serdaigle, making her the only house ghost who was directly related to one of the four Hogwarts founders. suspicious of his ability to cure the pox merely by poking peasants with a stick, and his ill-advised habit of pulling rabbits out of the communion cup. Peeves Was The Ghost Of Poufsouffle House And Gryffindor house was home to Close-To-Be Headless Nicilos, Something of a snob, and a less accomplished wizard than he believed, He was stripped of his wand and inexpertly executed, leaving his head hanging off by a single flap of skin and sinew. His ghost retained a feeling of inadequacy with regard to truly headless ghosts.

## Administration

"*You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."*

The highest position of staff at Hogwarts was the Headmaster or Headmistress. There was also a Deputy Headmaster or Headmistress, who would take over responsibilities of the Headmaster should the circumstances demand it.

### Heads of Hogwarts

The **Headmaster** or **Headmistress** was appointed by the Hogwarts Board of Governors to oversee the safety and the day-to-day functioning of the school, and had the power to override any decision made by any other authoritative facilitator at the school.

### Deputy Heads

The **Deputy Headmaster** or **Deputy Headmistress** (depending on gender) assisted the headmaster or headmistress in his or her duties. In the event of a headmaster or headmistress' incapacitation, the deputy also served as temporary head until the Board of Governors could select a new, permanent one.

### Heads of House

**Head of House** was the title held by a Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who was responsible for looking after the students in one of the four Houses. It was possible for a Head of House to serve concurrently as Deputy Head, but not as Headmaster/Headmistress.

## Kitchen staff

A veritable legion of house-elves were enlisted by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They worked the kitchens, preparing feasts for the entire school. They also moved trunks and baggage to and from rooms, cleaned dormitories, and presumably other areas of the castle as well.

## Subjects and teachers

"*We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.*"
— Description of Hogwarts' Professors
*Main article: Hogwarts subjects*
Hogwarts had in its faculty an abundance of wise and talented professors. Each specialised in a specific subject. Other staff positions included that of a school nurse, caretaker, librarian, and Keeper of the Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts. There were a variety of classes taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. These included both the core curriculum and the electives, available from third year forward. Some classes could be dropped in the sixth year. Numerous lessons were described, instructing the students in various branches of magic. Transfiguration, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions, Astronomy, History of Magic, and Herbology were compulsory subjects for the first five years. At the end of their second year, students were required to add at least two optional subjects to their syllabus for the start of the third year. Five of the choices were Arithmancy, Study of Ancient Runes, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Normie Studies.
### Core classes

* **Astronomy, Taught By Aurora Sinistra**
* **Charms, Taught By Olivirius Flitwick**
* **Dark Arts, Taught By Amyrocs Carrow**
* **Defence Against The Dark Arts, Taught By** **Albusforthe Delacour**
* **Flying, Taught By Helga Prince**
* **Herbology, Taught By Poppy Promana**
* **History of Magic, Taught By Jakub Ski**
* **Normie Studies, Taught By Alecto Carrow**
* **Potions, Taught By Remerus Snape**
* **Transfiguration, Taught By Marisa Mcagall**

### Extra-curricular subjects

* Art
* Ghoul Studies
* Magical Theory
* Normie Art
* Normie Music
* Music
* Xylomancy

### Extra-curricular activity

* Art Club for Gryffindor
* Astronomy Club
* Charms Club
* Duelling Club
* Frog Choir
* Hogwarts Ancient Runes Club
* Hogwarts orchestra
* Magical Creatures Club
* Potions Club
* Slugs and Bugs Club
* Wizard Card Collectors' Club
* Dragon Club
* Sphinx Club

## Grading system

**Pass grades**:

* ***O** - Outstanding (Pass, always continue.)*
* ***E** - Exceeds Expectations (Pass, usually continues.)*
* ***A** - Acceptable (Pass, rarely continues.)* **Fail grades**:
	+ ***P** - Poor (Fail, may repeat subject)*
	+ ***D** - Dreadful (Fail, may not receive credit)*
	+ ***T** - Troll (Fail, with distinction. More than one T may mean refusal)*

## Examinations

All students at Hogwarts were required to complete a set of examinations to get into the next year of schooling. There was one exam for each subject. In fifth year, instead of end of the year exams, students sat their O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels); the score they achieved on these was what allowed them to progress to N.E.W.T.-level. In order to progress to N.E.W.T., a student had to score either an 'Outstanding' or an 'Exceeds Expectations' on their O.W.L.

## Daily routine

The day would begin at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast in the Great Hall. During breakfast, the mail arrived in a flurry of hundreds of owls. A bell chime signalled the start of the first class at 9 a.m. The bell chimed again in one hour to signal the start of the next class. There were two class periods before lunch, scheduled according to house, though N.E.W.T. students could have breaks during some of these. After lunch, there was another break and two more classes. If there was a heavy snowstorm in between periods, certain lessons that took place outside could be cancelled, since it would be difficult for students to traverse from the castle to the outside. Dinner was served in the Great Hall towards the evening, after which the students were expected to be in their house common rooms for studying and socialising. There were Astronomy classes at night on Wednesdays every week (usually midnight) The students had to be in bed or in the common rooms by a certain time, after which was called 'after hours'. The times were different for different years (for example, fifth years were allowed to be in the halls until 9:00 p.m.)

## Quiditchen

*Main Articles: Quiditchen, Hogwarts Quiditchen Teams*

Tryouts for House Quiditchen teams happened at the very beginning of the school year. The Heads of house had a list of applicants, which they would pass on to the team captain, so the captain could schedule tryouts at their leisure. First years were usually prohibited from joining a Quiditchen team, because they were usually inexperienced with brooms and were forbidden to own them in the first place.

## Holidays

Students could go home for certain holidays such as Christmas and Easter. The students who chose to remain were treated to a feast along with some of the faculty. When Christmas holidays ended, classes would begin again. The Easter holidays were not as enjoyable as the Christmas ones, as students were overloaded with homework in preparation for their exams, which were taken at the end of the year. Students were not allowed to use magic over the summer holidays until they turned seventeen; magic was also banned in corridors.

## Uniform

The students at Hogwarts Academy Of Magic were required to wear a uniform. The uniform consisted of a black robe and a black pointed hat (occasionally), as well as coloured lapels and ties that distinguished different houses, along with the house logo on their chest. Students wore their own socks and shoes. Students had to wear their uniforms during all lessons, and while eating meals or studying in the Great Hall. Students were allowed to wear their own clothes after lessons in their House dormitory and during the holidays.

Most students were seen still wearing their uniforms in their house dormitory, most probably because they would need to change into their pyjamas to sleep before they go to bed, so they may feel that it is troublesome to change into their own clothes, then change again into their pyjamas.