<div align="center">(https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180326/a57c288c5a6977a24f9669c616c1e195.png)<br/><br/>This thread is for all scenes that take place inside of Hogwarts Castle <em>except for Dorms and The Great Hall</em>. All posts in this thread must use the header listed down below.  Please make sure to use the header below to avoid confusion<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/2NeMMuv.jpg)<br/><br/>Hogwarts Castle is a large, seven-storey high building supported by magic, with a hundred and forty two staircases throughout its many towers and turrets and very deep dungeons. The castle was built in the late Early Middle Ages by a wizard architect and the four most celebrated wizards of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. The castle houses Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, regarded as the finest wizarding school in the world.<br/><br/>Hogwarts’ walls are covered with paintings and portraits, the subjects of which move freely from frame to frame. Gryffindor’s common room is guarded by the Fat Lady, in her pink silk dress. If that wasn’t enough, the antique suits of armour like to wander about as well. Karkus’s Potions lessons are taught in the dungeons, which are particularly cold in the winter months. The corridors can be draughty, and the classrooms swelteringly hot in summer. So, not even magic can save Hogwarts’ residents from the vagaries of the Scottish climate.<br/><br/>Stairs at Hogwarts are not straightforward. The 142 staircases vary in shape, size and destination. There are wide ones, narrow ones, some with vanishing steps and others that lead somewhere different on a Friday. Not helpful when you’re trying to stick to a timetable. Hogwarts’ doors aren’t much better. Some won’t open unless you ask politely, some like to be tickled and some aren’t doors at all, ‘but solid walls just pretending’. Others lead to disused rooms that house are rumored to house mysterious objects. <br/><br/>Students’ letters are delivered by owls that stay in the Hogwarts owlery, which is one post office we wouldn’t mind queuing up for.<br/>.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Classroom information</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Astronomy</strong></span></span><br/><br/>Astronomy classes take place in the top-most level of the Astronomy Tower, the tallest tower in Hogwarts Castle, and include sky observation sessions with telescopes (each student has to buy one of his/her own).<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Charms</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The Charms Classroom (designated Classroom 2E) is where Charms classes are taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and it is located on the third floor, on the Charms corridor, near another classroom.<br/><br/>The classroom has three rows of desks, all facing the teacher's table, behind which sits a large upholstered chair with a high back. Two blackboards flank the teacher's table, and behind them is a small shelf with books and other objects, beneath a pair of windows.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Defense Against the Dark Arts</strong></span></span><br/><br/>Classroom 3C, also known as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom, is where Defence Against the Dark Arts class is taught. It is located off of the Serpentine Corridor on the third-floor<br/><br/>An iron chandelier hung from the ceiling, as well as a dragon's skeleton. On one end of the classroom stands a projector that is activated by magic. There is also a blackboard at the front of the classroom. Several desks and tables can be found in the classroom as well as some sets of large windows. <br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Divination</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The Divination Classroom is where Divination classes are taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is located in the North Tower. It is accessible through a circular trapdoor and is described as looking like a cross between somebody's attic and an old-fashioned teashop. The classroom is located at the top of the Divination Stairwell, connected to the rest of the castle by the long corridor.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>History of Magic</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The History of Magic Classroom (designated Classroom 4F) is where History of Magic classes are taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is located on the first floor of Hogwarts Castle.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Potions</strong></span></span> <br/><br/>The Potions Classroom was one of the large dungeons in Hogwarts Castle, used for Potions lessons. It is large enough to allow at least twenty students to work and its walls are lined with pickled animals in glass jars. In one corner of the room stands a basin into which ice-cold water pours from a gargoyle's mouth, while in another is a student supply cupboard. There is also a blackboard on which the Potions Master can write the class's instructions. The room is especially cold, particularly in the winter when students are able to see their own breath.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Transfiguration</strong></span></span><br/><br/>Transfiguration classes are held in Class 1 on the first-floor, Class 34 on the third-floor, Class 99 in the South Tower and Classroom 1B on the ground-floor, around the Middle Courtyard. Classroom 1B is big, surrounded by high windows, has four rows of three desks, and still has enough room for several cages and bookshelves, two chalkboards, and a desk for the teacher. Several candlesticks stand lit behind the desk.<br/></div></div></div>[/spoiler]