Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The premier wizarding school in Britain, a vast enchanted castle hidden in the Scottish Highlands where young witches and wizards are sorted into four houses and trained in magic.
Hogwarts is less a building than a living thing. The castle has stood for a thousand years and has accumulated so many enchantments, secret passages, and hidden rooms that no single person — not even Dumbledore — knows all of them. The walls hum with ancient magic that makes electronics fail and Muggle maps useless. Staircases rearrange themselves on Fridays. Doors pretend to be walls. Peeves the poltergeist hurls water balloons from above while the Bloody Baron glides silently through the dungeons below. The ceiling of the Great Hall mirrors the sky outside, and the kitchens below are staffed by eager house-elves who will press food on anyone who tickles the right pear in a painting. It smells of old stone, beeswax candles, and whatever potion Snape is brewing three floors down. For most students it is the first place that ever felt like home, and the castle seems to know it — welcoming those who belong and resisting those who mean it harm.
An immense medieval castle of towers and turrets rising from a craggy highland promontory, its silhouette jagged against the sky. Moving staircases shift between landings. Hundreds of talking portraits line the corridors. The grounds stretch down to a dark lake and a forbidden forest, with greenhouses, a Quidditch pitch, and a gamekeeper's hut dotting the perimeter. Torches flicker in sconces that light themselves at dusk, and suits of armor occasionally creak to attention as students pass.
Also known as: Hogwarts, Hogwarts School, the castle, the school