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The main dining and assembly hall of Hogwarts, famous for its enchanted ceiling that mirrors the sky and hundreds of floating candles illuminating four long house tables.
The Great Hall is where Hogwarts happens. The Sorting Ceremony, the start-of-term feast, Dumbledore's maddening speeches ('Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!'), the arrival of morning post by owl — all of it takes place beneath that impossible ceiling. The room can seat the entire school and still feel intimate. During feasts the noise is deafening, hundreds of voices competing with the clatter of plates. At Christmas, twelve frost-covered trees line the walls and real fairies perch in the branches. Harry's first sight of the Great Hall — the candles, the ceiling like the night sky, the golden plates — is the moment he first believed that magic was beautiful, not just powerful.
A cavernous stone hall lit by thousands of candles hovering in midair. Four long wooden tables run the length of the room, one for each house, with a raised staff table at the far end on a dais. The ceiling is bewitched to reflect the sky outside — stormy, starlit, or snow-laden depending on the weather. Golden plates and goblets appear at mealtimes, and an enormous hourglass tracks house points with colored gemstones. Banners in house colors hang from the walls.
Also known as: the Great Hall, Great Hall, the hall