Overview

Motto: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus (Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon)
School Type: Witchcraft and Wizardry
Location Scotland, United Kingdom
Enrolment: Children with magical abilities are enrolled at birth and sent acceptance letters at age eleven
Head: Albus Dumbledore (HP1 > HP6)
Permanent: Rubeus Hagrid
Residents: Firenze, Sybill Trelawney, Argus Filch, Peeves, Nearly Headless Nick, The Bloody Baron, The Grey Lady, The Fat Friar & Moaning Myrtle
Arrival: King's Cross station in London > Platform 9¾ > Hogwarts Express > Hogsmeade station > accompanied by Keeper of the Keys and Grounds to small boats, which magically sail across a lake to arrive in a grotto beneath the castle of Hogwarts (first year students) or arrival to the castle in carriages drawn by Thestrals (older students).
Origin of the name: A flower (=hogwort plant, Croton capitatus)

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