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Map of Hogwarts + 'A Beginner's Guide To Hogwarts'
SheFlooLikeAMadman
Summary:
GRYFFINDORS. Go up the marble staircase and left, and keep travelling in that general direction; you’ll want to be going towards your left, because Gryffindor Tower is on the easternmost side of the castle, and you’re coming from the north/north-west. Once you reach the second floor, you can take a short-cut! Concealed behind a tapestry is a narrow staircase to the upper floors...
A guide for people writing fic set in Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, who want to know where everything is, a first-person walk-through, written as if a Prefect is handing out pamphlets to all the poor ickle firsties. ^_^’
( Includes a map I made, back before the new illustrated editions came out when we still had no official guide, based on JKR's. )( UPDATE: now includes a rough map of Hogsmeade! )
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written & Illustrated by
SheFlooLikeAMadman
[ last edited: 31/08/2016 ]
CONTENTS.
The Journey.
How You Get to School.
What You'll See:
How To Get To Your Common Room,
for Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, Slytherins.What You Need to Know.
The Seven Subjects and Where to Find Them.
Finding the Teachers.
4. Your First Week-end.
Hogsmeade: How to Get There and What to Do Once You Have.Quidditch.
In the Grounds.
In the Castle.
The Hazards of Being a Student.
Writing Home.
Hogwarts & Environs.
Objects and Curiosities in the Castle.Good Luck!
Notes:
on the Orientation of the Map:
In POA JKR rather confusingly describes the sun as if it's setting behind the Forbidden Forest:"The sun was already sinking behind the Forbidden Forest, gilding the top branches of the trees." (PA16)
Meaning it would have to be in the west, but her own map places it to the east.
I think this may have been a simple mistake, done out of a writerly desire to add some nice poetic description, when she could have said that the setting sun shone on the Forbidden Forest, gilding the top branches of the trees.
This is, after all, the same book where Ron very definitely says:‘That’s south. Look, you can see a bit of the lake out of the window …’ (PA6)
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