Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a British wizarding boarding school teaching the magical arts, located in Scotland inside Hogwarts Castle. The castle is in the mountains near a loch. The precise location of the school can never be uncovered beacuse it has been rendered Unplottable. Similarity, most wizarding schools locations are protected in order to prevent their ways of teaching being revealed, as well as protect the students and school themselves from any harm.

Established around the nineth or tenth century, Hogwarts is considered to be one of the finest magical institutions in the wizarding world, though other notable schools include Beauxbatons Academy of Magicand the Durmstrang Institute. Children with magical abilities may be enrolled at brith, and acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven.

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

Hogwarts was founded around 990 AD by 2 wizards and 2 witches: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. They each represented an aspect of personality that they wanted to bring out in new students. However, shortly after founding the school, Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders about blood purity. Slytherin wanted to admit only pure-blood students, but the other 4 founders disagreed. Slytherin left the school, but no before secretly building the Chamber of Secrets. When his own true heir, the Heir of Slytherin, returned to the school, he or she would be able to open the Chamber of Secrets and unleash a murderous Basilisk to purge the school of a Muggle-born students.