What is Hogwarts?
{{no sources|date=June 2023}} [[File:Hogwarts Castle (7119191451).jpg|thumb|Hogwarts Castle]] '''Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry''' is a fictional [[boarding school]] in [[J. K. Rowling]]'s best-selling ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series. It is a school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and seventeen living in the [[United Kingdom]], the Republic of Ireland and Scotland. ==Hogwarts houses== ===Gryffindor=== Gryffindor house was started by Godric Gryffindor, from whom it gets the name. The house especially values [[courage]]. Its symbol (animal) is the lion and its colours are [[scarlet]] (red-purple) and yellow / [[gold]]ish yellow. Nearly Headless Nick is the house ghost. The Gryffindors always compete with the Slytherins. The Gryffindor Common Room (the place where the Gryffindor students spend their time and do their homework) is in one of the castle's towers, at the seventh floor. At the door, there is the Fat Lady, or the Lady who is fat. She lets the students in only after they give her the password (which changes from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year). The Fat Lady wears a blue dress. In the room there is a place with fire, many chairs and tables, and two pair of stairs which take the girls and boys to their sleeping rooms. The head of Gryffindor house is Minerva McGonagall. ====List of well-known Gryffindors==== {{columns-list| * [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] * [[James Potter]] * [[Ron Weasley]] * Bill Weasley * Percy Weasley * [[Fred Weasley]] * [[George Weasley]] * [[Ginny Weasley]] * Charlie Weasley * Arthur Weasley * Molly Prewett * [[Hermione Granger]] * Neville Longbottom * Dean Thomas * Seamus Finnigan * Lavender Brown * Cormac McLaggen * Parvati Patil * [[Albus Dumbledore]] * Minerva McGonagall * [[Remus Lupin]] * [[Sirius Black]] * Peter Pettigrew * Rubeus Hagrid * Lily Evans * Colin Creevey * Dennis Creevey * Alicia Spinnet * Angelina Johnson * Katie Bell * Oliver Wood * Demelza Robins * Jack Sloper * Sir Nicholas de Mim