Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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The premier wizarding school in Britain, now hosting the Triwizard Tournament — its grounds transformed by the arrival of a powder-blue carriage, a ghost ship, and a goblet that burns with blue-white fire.

Hogwarts has never been like this before. Three schools, four champions, and the electric atmosphere of a competition that was banned for centuries because students kept dying. The castle accommodates its guests with the grudging hospitality of an old building that is used to things being done a certain way — Beauxbatons students shiver in the drafts, Durmstrang students eye the moving staircases with suspicion, and everyone agrees the food is either magnificent or terrible depending on their country of origin. Beneath the festive surface, something is wrong. Someone put Harry's name in the Goblet. Barty Crouch Sr is behaving strangely. The new Defence teacher's eye never stops moving. And in the Forbidden Forest, the centaurs are reading the stars with unusual intensity, because Mars — the planet of war — is brighter than it has been in decades.

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An immense medieval castle of towers and turrets rising from a craggy highland promontory. This year, the grounds are crowded with visitors: the enormous powder-blue Beauxbatons carriage parked near Hagrid's hut, its Abraxan winged horses grazing in a paddock; the Durmstrang ship moored in the Black Lake, its dark hull rising from the water like a phantom. Inside, the castle hums with the energy of three schools sharing one space. The suits of armor have been polished. The house-elves are cooking for three times the usual number. The Goblet of Fire sits in the entrance hall, blue-white flames licking at its rim.

Also known as: Hogwarts, Hogwarts School, the castle, the school

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