Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
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, 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 and the occasional small explosion from the Weasley twins' end of the Gryffindor table. During exams it transforms into a silent cathedral of scratching quills and nervous sweat. At Christmas, twelve frost-covered trees line the walls and real fairies perch in the branches. The enchanted ceiling is Hermione's favorite piece of magic in the whole castle — described in detail in Hogwarts, A History.
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, filled by house-elves working in the kitchens below. Banners in house colors hang from the walls, and an enormous hourglass tracks house points with colored gemstones.
Also known as: the Great Hall, Great Hall, the hall