Hogwarts School of Wizardry

Hogwarts School of Wizardry Hogwarts School of Wizardry The school has numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for aMuggleto locate it. Muggles cannot see the school; rather, they see only ruins and several warnings of danger.[GFCh.11]The castle has extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegetable patches, aloch(called The Black Lake), a large dense forest (called theForbidden Forest), severalgreenhousesand other outbuildings, and a full-sizeQuidditch pitch. There is also an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school and those owned by students. Some rooms in the school tend to move around, and so do the stairs in the grand staircase.[12]Witches and wizards cannotApparate or Disapparatein Hogwarts grounds, except 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.[GFCh.28]Electricity and electronic devices are not found at Hogwarts. InHarry Potter an d the Goblet of Fire, Hermione indicates that due to the high levels of magic, substitutes for magic (that) Muggles use such as computers, radar and electricity go haywire around Hogwarts. Radios however, make an exception. Rowling explains this by saying that the radios are not powered by electricity but by magic. Hogwarts is on the shore of a lake, sometimes called the Black Lake. In that lake aremerpeople,Grindylows, and agiant squid. The giant squid does not attack humans and sometimes acts as alifeguardwhen students are in the lake. Hogwarts is acoeducational, secondaryboarding school, taking children from ages eleven to eighteen.[4]Education at Hogwarts is not compulsory, with some students being home schooled as stated in the seventh book. Rowling initially said there are about one thousand students at Hogwarts.[13]She later suggested around six hundred, while acknowledging that this number was still inconsistent with the small number of people in Harrys year. She further explained that this had resulted from her creating only 40 characters for Harrys year.[14]