<div align="center">(https://fontmeme.com/permalink/180326/0c4c98e14cd49fcf63c86a2e6a7ae403.png)<br/>This thread is for all scenes that take place outside of The Castle at Hogwarts including the Quidditch Field, Courtyard, Forbidden Forest, and Great Lake. Please use the header below to avoid confusion.<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/neumMDt.jpg)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Quidditch Pitch</strong></span></span><br/>(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/8/89/Quidditch_Pitch.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20070114195447)<br/>The stands surrounding the pitch are decorated differently for each Quidditch match at Hogwarts. Every second stand would be decorated with the colours of one team, and every other stand with the colours of the opposing team[2]. Spectators would sit in between these stands.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Viaduct Courtyard</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The Viaduct Courtyard (also known as the Entrance Courtyard) is a quadrangle in Hogwarts Castle. A covered stone cloister with an open colonnade runs around it, and two checkpoint towers flank its entryway via the Viaduct. There is a stone walkway leading from this courtyard into The Quad, and into the Viaduct Entrance. The courtyard is partially paved, in a cross pattern.<br/><br/>A popular hang-out spot for students of all Houses, this courtyard is where some students spend their spare time playing Gobstones.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Middle Courtyard</strong></span></span><br/><br/>The Middle Courtyard (also known as the Transfiguration Courtyard) is one of the cloisters in the inner part of Hogwarts Castle. This courtyard has grass in the open area, in which a big tree has grown over the centuries. There is one massive iron Armillary Sphere that stands in the centre of the courtyard.<br/><br/>The Transfiguration department was located somewhere near here as well as Classroom 1B. Also, during the 1992–1993 school year, the entrance to the Headmaster's office was located here.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Clock Tower Courtyard<br/></strong></span></span><br/>The Clock Tower Courtyard is a cloister on the base of the Clock Tower at Hogwarts Castle. This cloister seems to be one of the older parts of the castle and the ceiling and walls are dilapidated. It also leads to the Wooden Bridge and, as it is on a hill, is on the third floor. In the centre of the courtyard is an antique fountain surrounded by statues of eagles. A pear tree also grows in this courtyard.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Forbidden Forest</strong></span></span><br/>(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/5/59/Forbidden_Forest.png/revision/latest?cb=20130819184917)<br/>The forest is thick with trees — beech, oak, pine, sycamore, and yew are mentioned, as well as undergrowth such as knotgrass and thorns — but there are paths, brooks, and some clearings. Off the path the way is almost impassable, although people have moved through it and creatures as large as Acromantulas and a Ford Anglia have managed to get around.<br/><br/>It is hard to navigate the Forest at night, as there are tree roots and stumps that are barely visible in near blackness. Also clothes were known to snag on low-slung branches and brambles.<br/><br/>The forest is home to a wide and strange assortment of creatures. Anything wild and dangerous that needs a place to live is put there.<br/><br/>There are areas around the edges of the forest that are part of the Hogwarts grounds, but which are out of sight of the castle. Hagrid set up a paddock for hippogriffs in an area like this and the dragons which had been brought in for the first task were confined here.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Greak Lake</strong></span></span><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/CqC6hx6.jpg)<br/><br/>The Great Lake (alternatively known as the Black Lake) is a large body of water, freshwater and landlocked, located to the south of Hogwarts Castle. It is about half a mile in diameter and the castle's plumbing network drains into it.<br/><br/>The grounds of Hogwarts function partly as a nature reserve for magical creatures which have difficulty existing in Muggle-inhabited areas. There are Grindylows (vicious little water demons), Selkies (of a hardy Scottish strain) and a giant squid, which is semi-domesticated and permits students to tickle its tentacles on sunny days, when it basks in the shallows.</div>