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The Hufflepuff Common Room is located down the staircase to the right of the main staircase in the Great Hall. The corridor it is suitated in is a very cheerful place and near to the Kitchens.

The kitchens are located directly under the Great Hall in an enormous, high-ceilinged room. It has stone walls, heaps of brass pots and pans, and a large brick fireplace at one end. The kitchens contain four long wooden tables positioned exactly the same way as the tables above. Food must simply be placed on these tables in the kitchens in order to be sent up through the ceiling to their counterparts upstairs. The Hogwarts Kitchens are staffed by hundereds of House Elves who love their job.

The Potions Classroom is large enough to accommodate a double class. It is colder here than in the main castle, and the surrounding walls contain many jars of pickled animals, which the students find particularly creepy. Ice cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth into a basin in the corner.

The Slytherin dormitories and common room are actually located under the lake. Access is gained by going through the door to the left of the main staircase in the Entrance Hall and down the stone steps that lead into a labyrinth of corridors. When given the correct password, a bare stone wall down one of the passages opens into the Slytherin common room. The common room is long and low with a rough stone ceiling and walls. It is lit by green-tinted lamps hanging by chains and carved chairs stand around a fire burning under an elaborate mantelpiece.

The Entrance Hall is entered up a flight of stone steps and through huge double oak front doors that face west. The Hall is lit by torches and is quite imposing, with a ceiling so high it is barely visible and a paved flagstone floor. A wide marble staircase opposite the front doors leads to the first floor. On either side of this staircase there are two doors. One leads to the Hufflepuff common room and the kitchens, while the other leads to the dungeons. There is also a door on the left side of the Hall that leads to an antechamber where the first year students wait before the Sorting, as well as a broom cupboard off the Hall. The Hall is also home to the four House hourglasses where the House points are displayed for all to see.

The Great Hall is entered by double doors to the right of the Entrance Hall. The Great Hall is a vast chamber that contains four long tables for each of the four Houses. Closest to the doors is the Slytherin table, followed by Ravenclaw, then Hufflepuff and finally the Gryffindor table next to the far wall. On a raised platform at the front of the room is the High Table where the staff dine. The ceiling is enchanted so that it mirrors the sky as it currently appears outside. There are also high mullioned windows around the room that show the grounds outside. Behind the High Table, there is a smaller antechamber with a fireplace and many portraits.

Classroom 11 is only used when the main classrooms are unavailable.

Located off the Entrance Hall, the staff room is a long panelled room, with mismatched dark wooden chairs. There are two stone gargoyles on either side of the door and they challenge any student who knocks on the door. Within the staff room is a large wardrobe.

The first floor corridor has all the classrooms adjoined onto it.

The DADA Classroom is probably the only classroom that looks vaguely normal.

The History of Magic classroom contains a chalkboard, through which Professor Binns, a ghost, enters and exits at the start and end of class. There is also a window with thick glass and a narrow ledge that looks across the school lake.

The second floor corridor is generally used for students to chat in.

The s Bathroom on the Second Floor is commonly known as 'Moaning Myrtle's' as a ghost of a student lives in the bathroom itself.

Transfiguration Classroom is probably one of the largest in Hogwarts. The classroom itself is used for Transfiguration Classes.

The trophy room is where awards, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals are kept in a crystal glass display case. This room also contains a list of Head Boys and Head s. Beware - anyone with detentions commonly have to clean all the Trophys; but by hand!

The Third Floor Corridor is sometimes out of bounds - for no reason whatsoever.

Charms is taught by Professor Flitwick and the Classroom is located down the Charms corridor and has a window overlooking the front drive.

The headmaster or headmistress' office and residence is inside this tower, and is entered via a staircase guarded by a stone gargoyle on the seventh floor. The office is a large and beautiful round room with windows that have a view of the Quidditch pitch and the mountains surrounding Hogwarts. It is decorated with portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses, including Dilys Derwent, Armando Dippet, Phineas Nigellus Black, Professor Everard and Fortescue. The desk is enormous and claw-footed with a highly polished surface and a high-backed chair. On the wall behind the headmaster's desk is a shelf that holds the Sorting Hat and beside the Hat, Godric Gryffindor's sword is contained in a glass case.

The Fourth Floor Corridor is used for students to chat in.

The library contains tens of thousands of books on thousands of shelves. The different sections include an Invisibility Section, a section on dragons and the Restricted Section at the very back, barred by a rope. Students need a signed note of permission from a teacher to peruse the Restricted Section, as it holds books about powerful Dark subject matter that is never taught at Hogwarts, and is only used by older students studying advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. Books in the Hogwarts library may be put on hold and the student's name added to a waiting list. Chocolate and presumably all other food and drinks are in the library, which closes at eight p.m.

The prefects' bathroom is hidden behind the fourth door to the left of the statue of Boris the Bewildered. Despite the name, this bathroom can also be used by Quidditch captains. The door opens when told the correct password. Inside, the room is made entirely of white marble and is softly lit by a candle-filled chandelier. The bathtub is rectangular and about the size and depth of a swimming pool, complete with a diving board and hundreds of taps each with a differently coloured jewel set into the handle.

Chat to friends in between classes

There is a boys' washroom on this floor, sometimes used for boys to duel.

Located opposite an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas the Barmy attempting to train trolls for the ballet, the Room of Requirement appears only when someone is in need of it. To make it appear, one must walk past its hidden entrance three times while concentrating on what is needed. The room will then appear, outfitted with whatever is required. To the Hogwarts house-elves it is also known as the Come and Go Room.

Chat to friends in between classes.

This classroom is where Arithmancy is taught by Professor Vector.

The Muggle Studies classroom is a class that not many take.

The Seventh Floor Corridor is used to reach the Gryffindor Common Room.

The hospital wing contains many beds with white sheets, optional privacy screens and bedpans. It also contains the office of Poppy Pomfrey, the nurse.

Astronomy classes occur here, since this is the tallest tower and therefore has the best view of the night sky. The Astronomy Tower faces west and is located above the main entrance of Hogwarts.

The Clock Tower overlooks the Courtyard of Hogwarts and you can see for miles around.

To enter the North Tower, it is necessary to climb a ladder on the seventh floor through a trapdoor in the ceiling. The North Tower contains Sybill Trelawney's residence and one of two Divination classrooms. This classroom is at the base of the North Tower and is a round room with walls lined with shelves (they hold teacups, crystal balls and decks of cards), small round tables, armchairs and pouffes. The classroom also has an oppressive fire with a copper kettle that gives off heavy fumes.

Gryffindor Tower is entered through the portrait of the Fat Lady who wears a pink silk dress on the seventh floor. It can only be entered if one knows the correct password. When the correct password is given, the portrait swings forward to reveal a hole which leads into the Gryffindor common room.

Ravenclaw Tower is located at the west side of the castle. It is home to the Ravenclaw common room and dormitories. To enter it you must correctly answer a question rather than simply give a password.

The Owlery is at the top of the West Tower. The Owlery is a circular stone room that holds hundreds and hundreds of different kinds of owls, including both the school owls and owls that students have brought as pets, all nestled on perches that rise right to the top of the tower. None of the windows in the Owlery have glass and so it is rather cold and drafty. The floor is covered in straw, droppings, and the "regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles".

The lake is located on the south side of the castle, which stands on a cliff overlooking the water. It is about half a mile in diameter and the Hogwarts plumbing network drains into it. A number of magical creatures inhabit the lake, including a giant squid, often seen near the surface, a colony of merpeople inhabiting the bottom, and a population of grindylows.

All Care of Magical Creatures classes are held in a small shack outside in the grounds.

The Forest is a large, dark forest to the east of Hogwarts Castle. It is usually referred to simply as "the Forest". It is strictly to all students, except during Care of Magical Creatures lessons and, on rare occasions, detentions.

The Greenhouses contain a wide variety of plants and other dangerous living things. All Herbology lessons are held in here.

The Hogwarts grounds are extensive with sloping lawns, including flowerbeds, vegetable patches and a Quidditch pitch, as well as the vast Forest.

The Quidditch pitch is where Quidditch games are held, and where teams practice. There are three golden hoops, about 50 feet high, at each end used for scoring, and stands surrounding it, providing seating for spectators. It houses the locker rooms for the four House teams and the offices of the four team captains.

The Whomping Willow is a very valuable magical tree on the Hogwarts grounds. The tree is extremely violent, striking viciously with its branches at anything that comes within reach.

Diagon Alley has all the supplies you need for school, and other important items.

Hogsmeade has a variety of places for you to shop, look around or just stare!

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