Locations of the Harry Potter novels
In this article important are scenes of action from the seven volumes of the Harry Potter -Romanreihe of Joanne K. Rowling described.
The English name as used in the English-language original edition of the novels is in brackets. If this information is missing, the name is identical in the German and English edition.
In addition to this article, there are four others that describe important parts of the Harry Potter universe :
- Characters from the Harry Potter novels
- Terms of the Harry Potter novels
- Animals from the Harry Potter novels
- List of spells and curses from Harry Potter novels
Hogwarts and the surrounding area
Hogwarts
The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ( Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ) - Main action scene of the Harry Potter novels - is one of the most important wizarding schools in the world and is located in Scotland near Dufftown , a day's journey by train from London away. The catchment area mainly includes Great Britain and Ireland ; it is the only wizarding school in the English-speaking part of Europe.
At the school, young witches and wizards are taught various disciplines of magic. After five years of school they get their first degree with the ZAGs (“ magic degrees ”). In the sixth and seventh school years, the pupils deepen their specialist areas, which form the basis for their later career. At the end of the seventh year of school, there is the final test for UTZ ( “Unheimlich Toller Zauberer” ).
Hogwarts was founded about a thousand years ago by the two witches Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff and the two wizards Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin , who were very powerful and famous at the time. The school's four boarding houses are named after them: Gryffindor , Hufflepuff , Ravenclaw and Slytherin .
The motto of Hogwarts is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" . Translated, this Latin phrase means: "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" . Joanne K. Rowling chose this rather practical motto for “her school” because she didn't want something as pathetic as “ reaching for the stars” .
The school is located in a huge old castle full of magic and mystery. The castle is criss-crossed by countless (magical) secret passages and the stairs lead to changing places. The characters in the murals have a life of their own - they can talk, move, and even visit one another. In addition to the poltergeist Peeves , who is up to mischief in the castle, many ghosts have lived at Hogwarts for centuries, some of them. There are also some special magical rooms such as B. the Chamber of Secrets or the Room of Desires .
The school is run by a principal , in volumes 1 to 6 Albus Dumbledore , and his deputy and later acting successor Minerva McGonagall . In Volume 5, Dolores Umbridge briefly held the office of headmistress. In the 7th volume, Severus Snape is appointed rector.
In addition to the land and a playing field for Quidditch, the school also includes the Forbidden Forest , in which magical creatures and all kinds of unpleasant characters live. The housekeeping is done by the caretaker Argus Filch , the gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid and a group of house-elves .
A variety of spells protect Hogwarts from detection by Muggles . If a Muggle happens to pass the castle, all he will see is a rotten old ruin with a sign above the entrance: "Attention, no entry, risk of collapse" . There are also spells , such as Apparating and Disapparating , that cannot be performed on the school premises. Electrical devices don't work near Hogwarts either.
In addition to Hogwarts, there are other well-known wizarding schools in other countries. In southern France , for example, there is the Beauxbatons Academy , headed by Olympe Maxime , and in Eastern Europe the Durmstrang Institute , headed up to the end of Volume 4 by Igor Karkaroff . The latter is known for teaching magicians the "dark arts".
The Chamber of Secrets
The Chamber of Secrets ( Chamber of Secrets , literally so "Chamber of Secrets") is a secret vaults deep beneath Hogwarts, which in the founding years of Salazar Slytherin had been created without the knowledge of the other three founders. According to legend, a monster has lived there since time immemorial, and one day the school was supposed to "purge" all non-pure-blooded students when the chamber was opened by Slytherin's heirs; however, evidence of the existence of the chamber and the monster was never found. In the second volume, access to the chamber is found in a little-used girls' toilet that serves as the "abode" of the Moaning Myrtle , and the monster living in the chamber, a basilisk , is killed by Harry Potter . In Volume 7, Ron and Hermione retrieve the remaining basilisk teeth from the Chamber of Secrets to destroy a Horcrux.
The room of wishes
The Room of Requirement ( Room of Requirement , so literally "room of need") located near the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy at Hogwarts. The entrance only appears in the bare wall when the space is really needed. To make it visible, you then have to walk past the wall three times in a row and think of what you need - the room then appears with the appropriate equipment.
The room can (if necessary requirement ) as "Room of Hidden Things" ( Room of Hidden Things ) appear. Then everyone who enters see it as a huge, cathedral-like hall, in which all the things anyone has ever hid in it are piled up. Tom Riddle asked for him in this form , who believes that he alone knows this room. For this reason, he considers the room to be the safest of his Horcrux hiding spots.
Harry Potter and his friends use the room in the fifth volume for the meetings of "Dumbledore's Army", in the sixth volume Draco Malfoy repairs the Vanishing Cabinet in this room, through which the Death Eaters from Borgin & Burkes (where the counterpart is) later moved into Penetrate lock. Harry Potter is desperately trying to break into this room to prevent Draco Malfoy from carrying out this plan. But he only got into the room when he was looking for a hiding place for the half-blood prince's magic potions book, which he didn't want to give Snape out of a bad feeling. Sibyll Trelawney comes into the room to hide her sherry there, but is driven away by Draco Malfoy (whom she does not recognize). Albus Dumbledore mentions the room for the first time in the fourth volume; Once he was desperate for a toilet and found a room full of chamber pots.
In the seventh part, the room is used by Neville Longbottom to avoid capture. It serves as a hideout for persecuted classmates at Hogwarts and as the headquarters of the resurrected DA (Dumbledore's Army). Furthermore, after the need arises to get food for the hiding inmates, the room creates a secret passage that leads directly to Hogsmeade in the bar of Dumbledore's brother Aberforth . Through this corridor Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger enter Hogwarts in search of the fifth Horcrux and, following the call of Neville Longbottom, various other members of the DA and the Order of the Phoenix to help them. He is also responsible for the evacuation of Hogwarts before the second battle for Hogwarts.
During the ensuing battle, Harry Potter opens the Room of Requirement as the "Room of Hidden Things" to find the diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw , the fifth Horcrux of Voldemort. The entire contents of the room, including the Horcrux and the magic potion book of the Half-Blood Prince (the latter, however, without explicit mention), is destroyed by a magical fire triggered by Vincent Crabbe.
The great hall
The Great Hall ( Great Hall ) is the main function room in the castle. It mainly serves as a dining room, at whose four long tables the students of the four houses at Hogwarts take their meals. The food is prepared by the Hogwarts house-elves in the castle kitchen, which stretches the entire length of the hall, and magically transported upstairs. Across the tables at the head end of the hall, on a raised platform, is the teacher's desk with the rector's chair in the middle. The ceiling of the hall is enchanted and always looks like the sky outside.
In the hall, the students also write their UTZ and ZAG exams after redecorating individual tables and occasionally have to sleep there if one of the common rooms is inaccessible, such as that of the Gryffindors in volume three . At the end of the school year, the hall is decorated in the colors of the house that won the house cup. The hall is particularly spruced up at Christmas, Halloween and other festivals. The Apparation course offered for the 6th grade (participation voluntarily) takes place annually in the Great Hall, the usual anti-apparatus spells that surround Hogwarts must be canceled for this purpose. The selection of the participants in the Triwizard Tournament took place in the Great Hall, the champions then gathered in a small extension of the Great Hall. The Christmas ball on the occasion of the Triwizard Tournament also took place in the Great Hall. The decisive battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort was fought in the Great Hall ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (book) ).
The houses
On the first day of each school year, all new students from the Sorting Hat are distributed among the four boarding houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. The hat decides on the future household membership based on the character of the student. One of the professors presides over each house. The houses represent family support: every student sleeps in the dormitory of his house, spends his free time with his own kind, e.g. B. in the common room, and eats at the respective table. Only the lessons are held together in classes with students from other schools. Each house has its own coat of arms and colors. In addition, every house has its own spirit .
There is a competition between the houses: for correct answers in class, the students receive points for their house. Some professors also reward pro-social behavior with points. Points are deducted for bad behavior and instead of (or in addition to) detention. The house that has the most points at the end of the school year receives the house cup.
Each house has its own Quidditch team that plays for the annual tournament victory.
The four houses were named after their founders:
Gryffindor
- Founder: Godric Gryffindor
- Coat of arms: golden lion on a red background
- House colors: gold and red
- Head of House: Prof. Minerva McGonagall
- House Spirit: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (called the Nearly Headless Nick )
- Location of the house in the castle: in the north tower on the seventh floor, behind the picture of the fat lady
- Well-known students of the house: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley , Hermione Granger , Ginny Weasley , Fred and George Weasley , Lee Jordan , Neville Longbottom , Lavender Brown , Seamus Finnigan , Dean Thomas , Parvati Patil , Colin and Dennis Creevey , Romilda Vane, Demelza Robins , Jimmy Peakes, Richie Coote
- Well-known alumni of the house: James Potter , Lily Evans , Sirius Black , Minerva McGonagall , Remus Lupine , Molly Weasley , Arthur Weasley , Bill Weasley , Charlie Weasley , Percy Weasley , Peter Pettigrew , Oliver Wood , Angelina Johnson , Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell , Cormac McLaggen, Albus Dumbledore
Bravery and courage are highlighted as typical virtues of the Gryffindors.
Harry Potter has played on his home Quidditch team since his junior year. With his participation, Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup three times in a row in the 3rd, 5th and 6th year ( no Quidditch championship took place in the 4th year because of the Triwizard Tournament ). In his first three school years, Gryffindor also won the house cup every time (no information is given about this in volumes 4, 5 and 6). In his sixth year, Harry Potter is also named captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Hufflepuff
- Founder: Helga Hufflepuff
- Coat of arms: black badger on a yellow background
- House colors: black and yellow
- Head of House: Prof. Pomona Sprout
- House spirit: the "fat monk"
- Location of the house in the castle: in a basement near the kitchen, which is furnished like a salon
- Well-known students of the house: Cedric Diggory , Ernie MacMillan , Hannah Abbott , Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Zacharias Smith
- Well-known alumni of the house: Pomona Sprout , Nymphadora Tonks , Newt Scamander , Amos Diggory, Hepzibah Smith
In Hufflepuff it is important that the students are open to everyone and have no prejudices. Justice, loyalty, and diligence are highlighted as typical virtues of the Hufflepuffs.
Ravenclaw
- Founder: Rowena Ravenclaw
- Coat of arms: bronze eagle on a blue background
- House colors: bronze and blue
- Private tutor: Prof. Filius Flitwick
- House spirit: Helena Ravenclaw , daughter of the house founder, also called the "gray lady"
- Place of the house in the castle: in one of the towers, behind the door with the door knocker in the shape of an eagle's head
- Well-known students of the house: Luna Lovegood , Cho Chang , Padma Patil , Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Marietta Edgecombe , Marcus Belby
- Famous House Alumni : Filius Flitwick , Penelope Clearwater, Roger Davis, Garrick Ollivander, Gilderoy Lockhart
Intelligence, erudition, and wisdom are highlighted as typical virtues of the Ravenclaws.
Slytherin
- Founder: Salazar Slytherin
- Coat of arms: silver snake on a green background
- House colors: silver and green
- Private tutor: up to Volume 6: Prof. Severus Snape / Volume 7: Prof. Horace Slughorn
- House spirit: The " Bloody Baron "
- Location of the house in the castle: in the back of the dark dungeon, under the black lake
- Well-known students of the house: Draco Malfoy , Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle , Pansy Parkinson , Theodore Nott, Millicent Bulstrode, Blaise Zabini, Adrian Pucey, Terence Higgs, Miles Bletchley
- Well-known alumni of the House: Lord Voldemort (Tom Vorlost Riddle), Severus Snape, Horace Slughorn, Lucius Malfoy , Bellatrix Lestrange , Narcissa Malfoy , Regulus Black , Walden Macnair , Marcus Flint
The most determined and ambitious, but above all "pure-blooded" students who do not shy away from cunning and cunning to achieve their goals, find their place in Slytherin.
Unlike the other three school founders, Salazar Slytherin only wanted to accept pure-blood students at Hogwarts. This controversy likely caused him to drop out of school and leave the Chamber of Secrets behind. A millennium later, Slytherin's views are still held by most of his household. Indeed, only pure-blood wizards and witches (and a few half-bloods such as Lord Voldemort and Severus Snape) are assigned to this house by the Sorting Hat. Most of Voldemort's followers, the Death Eaters , came from this house; he had already gathered many around him during his school days.
Harry Potter is prophesied by the Sorting Hat that Slytherin will "help him on his way to true greatness". However, he decides against Slytherin and is assigned to House Gryffindor.
Hogsmeade
Hogwarts is near the village of Hogsmeade , which is said to be the only place in Great Britain exclusively inhabited by wizards. From the third grade onwards, Hogwarts students may visit this village on certain weekends with the consent of their parents or guardians.
In addition to the village inn Die Drei Besen, there is also the joke shop Zonkos , the magic utensil shop Derwisch and Banges , the clothes shop Besenknechts Sonntagsstaat , the candy shop Honigtopf , a somewhat suspicious eatery called Eberkopf , Madam Puddifoot's little café and a post office . There is also the train station where the Hogwarts Express stops, which takes students from London to Hogwarts and back. A special attraction is the Howling Hut , which is said to be teeming with ghosts.
The Howling Hut
The Shrieking Shack ( Shrieking Shack ) is outside the village of Hogsmeade on a hill. The people of Hogsmeade still say the house is haunted, but nothing has moved in this cabin for years. From the third volume on there is talk of a secret passage that leads from the Whomping Willow on the Hogwarts grounds to the hut. This was created to offer the werewolf Remus Lupine a hiding place for his transformation during his school days at Hogwarts. The sound the hut was named after was the howling of the werewolf. So there are no ghosts there, which the people of Hogsmeade don't know.
Part of the action in Volume 3 takes place in the howling hut. Harry learns there that Sirius Black was innocently in jail, who really murdered the Muggles at the time, and there Peter Pettigrew, alias Wormtail, is revealed, who as an Animagus lived previously undetected as Ron's rat Scabies.
In the 7th volume the howling hut is the scene of the murder of Severus Snape, who is killed by Voldemort's serpent Nagini .
The three brooms
Die Drei Besen ( The Three Broomsticks ) is an inn in Hogsmeade, where drinks such as butter beer , mead or gold lacquer water are served. The landlady and owner is Madam Rosmerta , for whom Ron shows a weakness; their mead is known to be the very best.
Harry Potter learns when he is hiding here in Volume 3 that Sirius Black is his godfather and is said to have betrayed his parents.
Zonko's joke shop
Zonkos joke shop ( Zonko's Joke Shop ) is certainly the favorite shop of the Weasley twins . Here they stock up on supplies of joke articles. The range includes whistling worms, hiccups, burping powder, frog spawn soap and nose-biting teacups. Zonko's shop, like some others, closed after the war with Voldemort began. Fred and George Weasley considered taking it over as a branch, but decided against it because the students were no longer allowed to enter Hogsmeade.
The honey pot
The Honey Pot ( Honeydukes Sweet Shop ) is leading a candy shop in Hogsmeade, all kinds of magical and non-magical sweets. Its owner is Ambrosius Flume. A secret passage leads into the basement of this shop, which begins behind the statue of the one-eyed witch at Hogwarts and through which Harry arrives at Hogsmeade in his third school year, despite the lack of permission.
Boar head
The Eberkopf ( Hog's Head ) is a somewhat disreputable eatery in Hogsmeade with dubious audiences. The host of Boar's Head is, as one learns in Volume 7, Aberforth Dumbledore , the brother of Albus Dumbledore. The glasses are very dirty and there is a smell of goat here. Harry and a number of classmates meet there in Volume 5 to hold the preliminary discussion for the establishment of "Dumbledore's Army". When they found the DA there, they were watched by Mundungus Fletcher, who disguised himself as a witch. Hagrid plays cards there with the veiled Professor Quirrell (who carries Lord Voldemort), wins a dragon and reveals to him in a drunk state that Fluffy (the three-headed dog) can be appeased by music. It was also here that Dumbledore heard the prophecy of Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter from the mouth of Sibyll Trelawney . In the seventh volume, the portrait of Dumbledore's sister Ariana serves as the only remaining unguarded entrance to Hogwarts.
Madam Puddifoot's
Madam Puddifoot’s is a small café in Hogsmeade. This cafe is mainly intended for lovers. In Volume 5, Harry meets here for his first (and only) date with Cho Chang on Valentine's Day .
The forbidden forest
Access to the Forbidden Forest ( Forbidden Forest ) is prohibited for all Hogwarts students. It is teeming with all sorts of mythical creatures . There are relatively harmless ones like unicorns and centaurs , but also acromantula (giant spiders) and werewolves . In Volume 5 there is also a giant named Grawp , who is the half-brother of Hagrid , who lives here .
Although entry is actually forbidden, Harry, Hermione, Neville Longbottom and Draco Malfoy have to make a tour of the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid as punishment in Volume 1. In Volume 2, Ron and Harry meet the Acromantulas colony and their chief Aragog. You are almost killed by them, but saved in time by Arthur Weasley's Ford Anglia . In Volume 5, Hermione lures Dolores Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest, and she gets into big trouble when she insults the centaurs. In Volume 7, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters gather in a hollow. Voldemort mistakenly thinks that he murdered Harry Potter there.
London
Diagon Alley
The Diagon Alley ( Diagon Alley ; if you pronounce both words together, they sound like diagonally (English for "diagonal"), which is probably an allusion to the winding structure of this alley) is a hidden shopping mile for magicians in the middle of London. It appears to be the economic hub of the British wizarding society. You can get to it through the back yard of a dingy pub called The Leaky Cauldron on Charing Cross Road in London . However, access is only possible for magicians and their relatives. In Diagon Alley you will find shops for every imaginable wizarding requirement, such as B. Ollivander's Wand Shop , Flourish & Blotts Magic Bookstore , Madam Malkins All Occasional Suits , Weasley's Joke Shop, and of course Gringotts wizard's bank .
To the Leaky Cauldron
Zum Leaky Cauldron ( Leaky Cauldron , literally "Leaky Cauldron" or "Holey Cauldron") is a dark, dingy pub on London's Charing Cross Road that is invisible to Muggles. The pub is run by the bald old innkeeper Tom. In addition to catering for travelers visiting Diagon Alley, they are also given the opportunity to stay overnight. In a way, the pub represents the portal between Muggle London and Diagon Alley, because the entrance to Diagon Alley is in the backyard. To open the gate you have to touch a certain stone in the wall with the magic wand. The pub is also connected to the floo network and is the point of contact for all magical people who want to reach Diagon Alley this way.
In Volume 1, this is where Harry Potter's first conscious contact with the wizarding world takes place when Rubeus Hagrid accompanies him on his first visit to Diagon Alley.
In an interview, JK Rowling said that Hannah Abbott will later take over the leaky kettle and live there with her husband Neville Longbottom .
Gringotts
Gringotts is the only wizarding bank in England. The seat of the bank is a snow-white house with bronze gates that towers high above the other buildings on Diagon Alley. The Bank of goblins (in the original: Goblins ) operated, but also has some human employees. Wizards and witches can deposit their savings or other valuables here in dungeons that lie deep underground and can be reached with small carts via a labyrinth of train tracks. You are protected by strict security measures; Rumor has it that dragons guard the lower-lying high-security dungeons, which is confirmed in Volume 7. In Gringotts, Muggle money can also be exchanged for wizard money, which is noticed by young Muggleborn wizards and witches who do not have wizard money by default.
In volume 1, Harry Potter learns of his fortune on his first visit to Gringotts, a whole dungeon full of wizarding money that his parents left him. He then accompanies Rubeus Hagrid to a security dungeon , from which he fetches the Philosopher's Stone by order of Albus Dumbledore to bring it to Hogwarts . This happens exactly at the right time, because a short time later exactly this dungeon is broken into. This break-in caused a stir in the wizarding world, as break-ins in Gringotts are next to impossible. As it later turns out, the burglar was Lord Voldemort who had the body of Quirinus Quirrell under his control.
In the last volume, Harry Potter returns to Gringotts in his search for a Horcrux . Together with the goblin Griphook and Ron and Hermione , he makes it past all security precautions in the Lestrange family's dungeon . After an ultimately successful search, they escape with the help of a dragon.
The interior shots of Gringotts in the first film were filmed at Australia House , the seat of the Australian High Commissioner in Great Britain, on the Strand in London.
Flourish & Blotts
Flourish & Blotts is a magic book shop on Diagon Alley. This is where Hogwarts students usually get their books for the new school year. Sometimes there are readings by famous wizards and witches, such as B. by Gilderoy Lockhart , who signs his books here in Volume 2. A special challenge for the employees in Volume 3 is The Monster Book of the Monsters , which Rubeus Hagrid uses as a textbook in the subject “Care of magical creatures”, because the books have the constant urge to tear each other apart.
In Volume 2, Ginny Weasley is slipped into this bookstore by Lucius Malfoy Tom Riddle's diary, which later leads to the opening of the Chamber of Secrets and which was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes .
Two of the books that can be bought at Flourish & Blotts are also available outside of the Harry Potter world:
- Newt Scamander: Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them . Carlsen Verlag, ISBN 3-551-55306-8
- Kennilworthy Whisp: Quidditch Through the Ages . Carlsen Verlag, ISBN 3-551-55307-6
Ollivander
Ollivander ( Ollivander's ) is a very old (since 382 BC) wands shop on Diagon Alley. It's described as cramped and shabby, peeling gold lettering can be seen above the front door and a single magic wand lies in the shop window on a faded red pillow. Inside the small shop, thousands of elongated boxes with magic wands are piled up to the ceiling. The shop is owned by the wandmaker, Mr. Ollivander , an old, white-haired man with pale, silvery eyes. He has an extremely good memory and can remember every magic wand he has sold in his life.
Acquiring a magic wand is not a trivial process. After Mr. Ollivander has thoroughly measured the customer, he hands out individual wands to try out. However, it is not up to the customer to decide which wand to use. Because every wand is unique and accordingly does not suit every magician. Rather, the wand chooses its owner.
Harry Potter buys his wand here in Volume 1. But the wand that Harry finally chose as the new owner arouses a certain amount of astonishment in Mr. Ollivander. It is the only existing twin of Lord Voldemort's wand, both wands have a core made from a feather from the same phoenix . In Volume 4, Mr. Ollivander comes to Hogwarts to check the wands of the participants in the Triwizard Tournament . From volume 6, however, Mr. Ollivander has disappeared and left his business. It is widely believed that Lord Voldemort abducted him, which is confirmed in Volume 7.
Madam Malkin's suits for all occasions
Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions ( Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions ) is a clothing shop in Diagon Alley. The store is particularly popular with Hogwarts students every summer , who wear new, longer school gowns here. But you can also buy any other type of clothing here, e.g. B. Ball gowns.
At the beginning of Volume 1, Harry Potter met his future archenemy Draco Malfoy on his first visit to Diagon Alley in this shop - and developed an aversion to him from the start, even if he was quite confused by Draco's questions and many terms from the wizarding world not yet know. Exactly five years later, at the beginning of Volume 6, there is another encounter between the two, with the difference that they are now aware of their roles in the wizarding world. Draco's behavior on the scene is one of the first indications of his possible new membership in the Death Eaters .
Weasley's Magical Jokes
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes ( Weasley's Wizard Wheezes ) is the joke shop, the Fred and George Weasley after their early exit from Hogwarts in Volume 5 by secret financial support of Harry Potter founded. The joke and candy business is booming, as the pair sell the full range of imaginative jokes and treats they developed during their time at Hogwarts.
Eeylop's Owl Department Store
In Eeylops owls department store ( Eeylops Owl Emporium ) Owls verschiedenster types are available for purchase. Distribute on a sign above the door tawny owls , scops owl , owls , barn owls and snowy owls called.
Rubeus Hagrid buys the snowy owl Hedwig here in volume 1 , which he is giving Harry Potter for his 11th birthday.
Magical menagerie
The Magical Menagerie ( Magical Menagerie ) is a pet store for many types of magical animals such. B. huge purple toads, gigantic jeweled turtles, poisonous orange-red snails, cats of all colors, ravens and rats. The shop is pretty narrow and full of cages, the air is bad and you are exposed to the noise of all kinds of animals.
Hermione Granger acquires her tomcat Crookshanks here at the beginning of Volume 3 .
Knockturn Alley
The Nokturngasse ( Knockturn Alley ; the English word nocturnal means "nocturnal") is a small, gloomy side street of Diagon Alley . It is notorious among all decent wizards, because in addition to all sorts of dodgy characters there are some shops here that offer articles for practicing black magic. Only one shop is known by name: Borgin and Burkes .
Borgin and Burkes
Borgin and Burkes ( Borgin and Burkes ) is the largest business in Knockturn Alley and the only one that is mentioned in the books. A large assortment of artefacts belonging to the "Dark Arts" is for sale here. Under the counter, Mr. Borgin also deals in prohibited items.
In Volume 2, Harry Potter ends up in the chimney of this store when he tried to get to Diagon Alley with the Weasley family using flea powder , but flies a chimney too far.
In Volume 6, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger follow Draco Malfoy through Knockturn Alley here, where he is believed to be buying a cursed opal necklace that will later seriously injure Katie Bell . It also turns out that Tom Riddle worked here after finishing school at Hogwarts and by chance came across items from two of the four Hogwarts founders. Albus Dumbledore suspects that he used these as Horcruxes that Harry Potter must find and destroy.
King's Cross
From London's King's Cross station which runs every year on September 1 at 11 am Hogwarts Express to the station Hogsmeade in Scotland - and indeed from Platform Nine three-quarters ( Platform Nine and Three-Quarters ). The train takes students and sometimes teachers to Hogwarts , which is near the village, at the start of the school year . Access to the unseen Muggle track is a hidden portal in the wall between the tracks 9 and 10. The student body is returned to school year from the Hogwarts Express back to Kings Cross Railway 9¾.
Rowling noticed after the books were published that she had confused the layout of the tracks at King's Cross Station with that of Euston Station . Tracks 9 and 10 are next to each other in King's Cross, so that there is no platform between them that is required for the portal.
Ministry of Magic
The Ministry of Magic ( Ministry of Magic ), led by the Minister of Magic is the Government of British magic community. The ministry has perceive seven major departments and many smaller offices, the various administrative tasks in the wizarding world.
The Ministry is located in central London and is completely underground. If you do not arrive or Apparate through one of the chimneys using flea powder , you can access the huge and very splendidly designed one via an old telephone booth in which you dial the number 62443 (stands for MAGIE on a push-button telephone, in the English original 62442 for MAGIC) Entrance hall on the 8th basement floor. As a visitor, you have to register the magic wand you have brought with you with the security magician. In Volume 7, Harry, Hermione and Ron, and above all the employed wizards, get access to the Ministry by "flushing themselves down" in a public toilet.
In Volume 5, the Department of Mysteries and the Reception Hall are the scene of the battle in the Ministry , in which Harry Potter , five of his friends and five members of the Order of the Phoenix face some Death Eaters . In the course of the fighting, Harry's godfather Sirius Black dies. The final duel between Albus Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort ends in Voldemort's escape from the incoming Aurors .
Departments of the Ministry of Magic
The entire “underground building” consists of ten floors. In fact, one can speak of a “real building” and not an underground bunker or cellar system, since at least on the upper seven floors, magic windows on the wall suggest that one is above the ground. The main departments are located on these seven basement floors above the entrance hall. The ninth basement is home to the mysterious Department of Mysteries , whose employees call themselves the Unspeakable , and where mysteries such as death, time, love and prophecy are researched. All floors, with the exception of the tenth basement, where the courtrooms are located, are connected by more than 20 elevators. The exchange of notes and information between the departments takes place via small paper planes (memos) that fly from office to office, also using the elevators.
| Basement | name of department | Subdivisions |
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| 1 | Ministry Headquarters | Office of the Minister of Magic and his staff |
| 2 | Magical law enforcement |
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| 3 | Magical accidents and disasters |
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| 4th | Management and supervision of magical creatures |
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| 5 | International Magical Cooperation |
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| 6th | Magical transportation |
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| 7th | Magical games and sports |
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| 8th | lobby | |
| 9 | Department of Mysteries |
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| 10 | Courtrooms |
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Minister of Magic
The function of the Minister of Magic ( Minister of Magic ) apparently includes legislative , executive and judicial functions, which means a huge position of power. For example, he can initiate the adoption and amendment of magic laws or take over the management of court hearings.
After Millicent Bagnold left office, Albus Dumbledore , who was very popular at the time, was discussed as the new Minister of Magic. Dumbledore wanted to concentrate on his office as Headmaster of Hogwarts and so Cornelius Fudge became the new minister. But he was only the third choice, because after Dumbledore had refused, Bartemius "Barty" Crouch should get the job. But that was made clear when his son Bartemius "Barty" Crouch Jr. was revealed to be a Death Eater . impossible.
Cornelius Fudge shows growing signs of paranoia as the novels progress . He believes that Albus Dumbledore poses a threat to his authority and therefore constantly tries to discredit him. In Volume 4 and most of Volume 5, he refuses to accept that Lord Voldemort is back. When it turns out he was wrong and also trusted Death Eaters like Lucius Malfoy , Rufus Scrimgeour replaces him at the beginning of Volume 6 .
Rufus Scrimgeour, the former head of Auror headquarters , is more likely to be trusted to deal with Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Under his leadership, the ministry cracks down on it, albeit with rather moderate success, which some quarters accuse it of being blind actionism .
In the seventh volume, Rufus Scrimgeour is killed when the Death Eaters take over the Ministry. They install Pius Thicknesse as the new minister, who is controlled by the Death Eaters through the Imperius Curse. Under his leadership (actually Voldemort's leadership), the Ministry adopts a clearly Muggle-hostile attitude, which is also directed against Muggleborn wizards. At the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, Kingsley Shacklebolt is named temporary Minister of Magic. After the war he remains a minister and under him the Muggleborn and Muggleborn hostile and pro-pure-blood laws are repealed.
St. Mungo's Hospital
In St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries ( St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries ) wizards are treated who suffered magically illness or injury. St. Mungo's staff are referred to as healers rather than doctors . Muggle healing methods, such as suturing wounds, are considered backward and outlandish. The founder of the hospital was Mungo Bonham (1560-1659), a famous healer.
St. Mungo's is located in London. In contrast to the Ministry of Magic , it is not built underground because of the fresh air supply, but is located in an old department store that is supposedly "closed for renovation". To enter the hospital, visitors must announce themselves to a mannequin and go through a shop window.
In St. Mungo's Arthur Weasley is treated after being bitten by Lord Voldemort's serpent Nagini in Volume 5 . Alice and Frank Longbottom also live there , the parents of Neville Longbottom , who have lost their minds through torture using the Cruciatus curse . Also Gilderoy Lockhart is here, since he in Volume 2 by Ron Weasley's lost wand broken his memory.
Grimmauldplatz 12
The house on Grimmauldplatz number twelve ( Number twelve, Grimmauld Place ) is a homophone to grim old place (English for "gloomy, old place"). It was the seat of the Black wizarding family for centuries . The last of them, Harry Potter's godfather Sirius Black , made it available to the Order of the Phoenix as headquarters.
It is hidden by a special mystery spell and can only be seen by those persons to whom the Secret Keeper Albus Dumbledore personally reveals the address. It then squeezes out between the other houses and you can enter it.
After Sirius Black's death, Harry Potter inherits the house. But he's not really interested in it, because it would remind him too much of Sirius. There is also a portrait of Sirius' mother who, at every little thing, starts screaming and railing against witches and wizards who are not pure- blood . Unfortunately, due to an adhesive curse, it cannot be removed, just like a tapestry, for example, which links the family tree of the Blacks with those of other pure-blood families and from which shameful relatives have been burned. The house elf, Kreacher , worked in the house , but he wasn’t much help because he was reluctant to obey Sirius. Harry inherited him too and on his orders he works as a kitchen helper at Hogwarts .
In Volume 7 , Harry, Ron and Hermione use the house as a hiding place while they are looking for Slytherin's lost locket . Harry manages to build a friendly relationship with Kreacher. He finds a letter from his mother to Sirius and the evidence that the mysterious RAB is Sirius' brother Regulus Arcturus Black.
The following rooms are mentioned in the novels: kitchen, dining room, living room, bathroom, five bedrooms (room of Harry and Ron, room of Hermione and Ginny and room of Mrs. Black in the 5th volume, room of Sirius and Regulus in the 7th volume) .
Others
Azkaban
Azkaban ( Azkaban ) is the magician's prison located on a rocky island in the North Sea . Wizards and witches who break the laws of the magic community and are sentenced to imprisonment must serve their sentence here. However, usually only very serious crimes, such as B. the use of the Unforgivable Curses , punished with imprisonment in Azkaban. Many of the inmates were or are supporters of Lord Voldemort .
Dementors who report to the Ministry of Magic serve as prison guards . At first glance, Dementors are the perfect guards since they cannot be physically harmed. The only spell that will counter them is the intricate Patronus spell , and even this only stops them for a while. The inmates are helplessly at the mercy of the dementors, because they “suck” every good feeling and every good memory out of them until the victims have to relive the most terrible moments of their lives again and again. This causes many of the inmates to go crazy or die after a while because they lose interest in life and refuse to eat.
Albus Dumbledore has always expressed concern about guarding Lord Voldemort's followers with the help of those creatures most likely to join Voldemort should he come back to power. And this is exactly what happens in the 5th and 6th volumes.
Few wizards have ever fled Azkaban. One of them is Sirius Black , who succeeds at the beginning of Volume 3 after twelve years in prison. A few years earlier, the Death Eater Barty Crouch jr. be smuggled out of Azkaban. In Volume 5 there is a mass breakout from Azkaban.
Kingsley Shacklebolt managed as Minister of Magic to rid Azkaban of the Dementors, and Aurors have been looking after the prisoners ever since.
In the movie of the 5th volume you see Azkaban for the first time in the film series.
Burrow
Burrow ( The Burrow ) is the name of the house of the Weasley family in the fictional town of Ottery St. Catchpole . The house is very high (four to five stories), is only held together by magic and gives the appearance of collapsing in the next instant. It has a certain resemblance to a pigsty, to which several rooms have been added. A ghoul lives in the attic , who sometimes howls, moans and knocks on pipes. The garden around the house is overgrown and has to be " de-gnomed " from time to time. Tucked away nearby is a small fruit plantation where the Weasley children practice Quidditch . On the opposite side of Ottery St. Catchpole from the Burrow is the Wieselkopf Hill , which the Weasleys and Harry visit to get to the Quidditch World Cup with a portkey .
The burrow is one of Harry's favorite places and is visited for the first time in the second part of the series.
Godric's Hollow
Godric's Hollow is a village in the north of South West England . Both wizards and non- magical people ( muggles ) live in the place .
The Potter family lived in Godric's Hollow until Lord Voldemort found them there and murdered Lily and James . 15-month-old Harry survived the attempted murder and only wore a scar on his forehead. The house the Potters lived in was partially destroyed when they were murdered. It has a plaque (invisible to Muggles) on which many visitors have left their congratulations for Harry. The place's war memorial is enchanted; only wizards see it show Harry's parents with him as a baby in their arms.
Godric's Hollow was also home to Hogwarts co-founder Godric Gryffindor (who gave the place its name), the Dumbledore family , Bathilda Bagshot , Gellert Grindelwald and the three Peverell brothers Antioch, Cadmus and Ignotus, the original owners of the Deathly Hallows .
In Volume 7, Harry and Hermione visit Godric's Hollow to look for a Horcrux and are almost caught by Voldemort and his snake Nagini .
Little Hangleton
Little Hangleton is a valley village between two steep hills and the hometown of the Riddle and Gaunt families . In the fourth volume, the place is the scene of history for the first time.
A manor house on one of the hills is the former home of the Riddles. The house serves as temporary refuge for Lord Voldemort in Volume Four as he prepares for his final return. There he murders the Muggle Frank Bryce . For his return Voldemort needs, among other things, the bones of his father Tom Riddle Sr., who is buried in the local cemetery. The cemetery is the setting for the finale of the fourth volume: After Cedric Diggory was murdered and Voldemort's body was restored, Voldemort convened a meeting of his Death Eaters here for the first time. Harry Potter just barely escapes.
On the slope of the opposite hill, the Gaunts lived in a small, dilapidated and isolated hut. Albus Dumbledore finds Vorlost Gaunt's ring here (one of the Horcruxes and also one of the Deathly Hallows ).
Little Whinging
Little Whinging (English whinging means "nagging", a description of the typical behavior of the Dursleys) is a civil suburb of London in the county of Surrey . In 4 Privet Drive (in the original: number four, Privet Drive ) lives the family Dursley , in the Harry Potter lived after his parents were murdered when he was 15 months old. Before handing Harry over there, Albus Dumbledore had put a complex spell on the house that was supposed to protect Harry until his 17th birthday (the day he came of “magical” majority). In order to receive protection, the house should be Harry's home, which is why he had to spend a large part of the summer vacation with the Dursleys every year.
In Little Whinging, Harry is attacked by Dementors in Volume 5 , whom he fends off with a Patronus spell . It is later revealed that the Dementors were sent by Dolores Umbridge to prevent Harry from further telling the truth about Lord Voldemort's return.
Joanne K. Rowling describes Little Whinging as a very boring and stereotypical suburb. Life there contrasts with Harry's new, exciting life at Hogwarts Wizarding School .
Malfoys mansion
The mansion of the Malfoy (English Malfoy Manor ) is inhabited by Draco Malfoy and his parents Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy . The property, which is located on a small country road, is surrounded by a well-tended, high hedge. Within this there is a park in which there is a fountain and several peacocks. In order to open the wrought iron double gate, which is located at the end of a wide driveway, you have to have burned the dark mark . From this a gravel path leads to the manor house. In the carpeted entrance hall, the walls are decorated with portraits of the ancestors. Furthermore, a salon with dark red walls and a richly decorated marble fireplace as well as a dungeon are mentioned in the heptalogy . The salon was first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , as Malfoy black magic objects were hidden under a trap door . In the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , a gathering of Voldemort and his Death Eaters was held in that parlor. Harry, Ron and Hermione as well as Luna , Dean and Ollivander were in the chapter The House of Malfoy , u. a. caught by grabs, imprisoned in dungeon. When Voldemort found out that Helga Hufflepuff had stolen the golden mug , he killed everyone in the drawing room who did not flee.
Nurmengard
Nurmengard is the name of a magician's prison in the Austrian Alps , which is mentioned for the first time in the 7th volume. It was built by one of the greatest black magicians in wizarding history, Gellert Grindelwald , and was intended to imprison all of his opponents there. Since he was defeated by Albus Dumbledore in a duel in 1945 , Grindelwald has occupied a cell there himself, in which he is visited and murdered by Lord Voldemort in Volume 7 .
Spinner's End
Spinner's End is a street in a fictional British town called Cokeworth. It is described as one of several similar-looking streets in a derelict industrial district near a filthy river. Severus Snape owns a house here, which he lives in during the summer vacation. The area is disparagingly referred to in the 6th volume as "Muggelkloake"; this is the first hint of Snape's Muggle ancestry. At the end of Volume 7, it turns out that Evans' parents lived near this neighborhood with daughters Lily (married Potter) and Petunia (married Dursley). The playground frequented by Lily and Petunia was within reach of young Snape.
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- ^ JK Rowling: Webchat with JK Rowling, July 30, 2007. bloomsbury.com, archived from the original on June 15, 2008 ; accessed on August 4, 2017 .
- ↑ In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is West Country speech
- ^ JK Rowling talks about Book Four, cBBC Newsround, July 8, 2000
- ^ Vernon & Petunia Dursley. (No longer available online.) In: pottermore.com. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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