Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The tallest tower in Hogwarts, used for stargazing classes and infamous as the place where Albus Dumbledore was killed by Severus Snape at the end of Harry's sixth year.
The Astronomy Tower is where students learn to chart the movements of planets and where the most consequential death in the series occurred. On a clear night it offers the best view in Scotland — the lake shining silver below, the Forbidden Forest a dark carpet, the mountains beyond sharp against the stars. During lessons Professor Sinistra directs students to map Jupiter's moons and Venus's phases. But the tower's meaning was changed forever on the night Draco Malfoy cornered a wandless, weakened Dumbledore on its ramparts and could not bring himself to kill — and Snape, bound by an Unbreakable Vow, stepped forward and did it instead. The memory of Dumbledore falling from the parapet hangs over the place like weather.
A slender, soaring tower topped with a crenellated parapet open to the sky. Iron railings ring the observation platform. Telescopes of various sizes stand on tripods, oriented toward different quadrants of the sky. The wind is always stronger up here. On clear nights the view stretches past the lake, past the forest, into the dark Scottish highlands beyond. Steps spiral tightly upward inside, the final landing narrow and exposed.
Also known as: the Astronomy Tower, Astronomy Tower