grade in a particular subject may take its advanced course for the final two years, in preparation for the Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests (N.

As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. For example, in Arabic it is transcribed as هوغوورتس = Hūghwūrts, in Russian as Хогвартс = Khogvarts, in Japanese as ホグワーツ = Hoguwātsu, in Bengali as হগওয়ার্টস = Hogowarts, in Greek as Χόγκουαρτς = Hóguarts, and in simplified Chinese as 霍格沃茨 = Huògéwòcí.The Hogwarts Express King's Cross Station features a wall between Platforms 9 and 10, where guests can "walk through" to get to Platform 9 + 3⁄ 4, as in the first film. A completely functioning full-scale replica of the Hogwarts Express was created for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter's expansion at Universal Orlando Resort connecting King's Cross Station at the Diagon Alley expansion in Universal Studios Florida to the Hogsmeade station at Islands of Adventure, [29] manufactured by Doppelmayr Garaventa Group in the form of a funicular railway people mover. A must-have collection for Slytherins young and old, the Slytherin House Editions are the perfect tribute to the house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning and are sure to be treasured for years to come.

In another case, when Snape caught Harry using the Sectumsempra curse on Draco Malfoy, he was forced to go through over a thousand boxes of files describing wrongdoers at Hogwarts and their punishments. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. Arthur Weasley claimed still to bear physical scars inflicted by Apollyon Pringle, Filch's predecessor.Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business.

Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English. The Chamber of Secrets, which is deep under the school (most likely under the lake), [22] was home to an ancient Basilisk, intended to be used to purge the school of Muggle-born students. Like the Weasleys' house, it isn't a building that Muggles could build, because it is supported by magic.Celebrate all things Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw with a glorious collection of beautifully crafted House Editions in hardback and paperback. However, during Umbridge's tenure at Hogwarts, she quickly obtains the power to have the final say in disciplinary actions, due to an Educational Decree (one of many) passed by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge. A passage beneath the one-eyed witch statue by the stairs to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, leading to the cellar of Honeydukes.