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Radios , however, were an exception as they were not powered by electricity, but by magic. Hogwarts was founded around A. Although the four founders cooperated well for a time, however, shortly after founding the school, Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders about blood purity , and wanted to admit only pure-blood students. He felt pure-blooded students deserved to learn magic , and those of other ancestry such as Muggle-borns and half-bloods , were unworthy.
The other three founders all disagreed, especially Gryffindor. Slytherin left the school, but not before secretly building the Chamber of Secrets. He foretold that only his own heir would be able to open it once they arrived at the school, and the heir would unleash a murderous basilisk living inside to purge the school of all Muggle-born students.
About three hundred years after the school was founded, the Triwizard Tournament was established as an interscholastic competition between three of the most prestigious magical schools in Europe: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons France , and Durmstrang An undetermined Northern European country. This tournament was considered the best way for wizards and witches of different nationalities to meet and socialise. The tournament continued for six centuries, until the death toll became too high.
The tournament was discontinued until At some point 13th century , following the invention of Floo Powder by Ignatia Wildsmith and the subsequent development of the Floo Network , a long line of Heads of the school refused to permit the school's fireplaces to be accessible this way, for fear of the castle's security could be breached.
During the s , there was a proposal to install an elaborate plumbing system in the castle. This threatened the secrecy of the Chamber of Secrets , forcing Corvinus Gaunt , a Slytherin student, descendant of Salazar Slytherin and Parselmouth , to protect the entrance to the Chamber by having it concealed behind plumbing fixtures and sinks in second floor girls' bathroom , so only future heirs of Slytherin would know how to open the Chamber.
In , then caretaker Rancorous Carpe made a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to rid the school of Peeves by trying to bait him into a trap involving a wide variety of Muggle weapons and a vast, enchanted bell jar reinforced with various Containment Charms , which resulted in the evacuation of the castle and a three-day standoff between the vengeful poltergeist and then Headmistress Eupraxia Mole.
After this, Carpe went into early retirement for "health reasons", and the faculty left the poltergeist in peace. In the s , while a student and her friend were bullying Leta Lestrange , Leta used a spell to seal their mouths shut which Minerva McGonagall found out, and they chased Leta around Hogwarts until Leta hid in a cupboard to escape and found Newton Scamander caring for a baby Raven.
At one point, when Albus Dumbledore was teaching students how to defend against Boggarts in Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Newt was asked to step forward and was revealed that he was scared of ending up stuck with a tedious office job. Leta went soon after and showed that her boggart was her half-brother drowning to death. On 29 November , the Daily Prophet reported that security had to be increased at Hogwarts in response to the growing threat of Gellert Grindelwald 's impact on the Global wizarding war.
Measures included Headmaster Armando Dippet holding an emergency meeting with worried parents and students being sent home early. Leta soon after walks around Hogwarts and reminisces on the past. Dumbledore finds her and they talk about their shared trauma of losing their siblings. The existence of the school was threatened twice when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. The first time it was opened was in , when Tom Marvolo Riddle , the Heir of Slytherin and the man who would become Lord Voldemort , opened the Chamber in his fifth year.
When a girl named Myrtle Warren was killed, the Ministry of Magic threatened to close the school. As Riddle spent his time away from Hogwarts in a Muggle orphanage , he did not want the school closed. His request to remain in school over the holidays was denied due to the situation he created.
Upset with himself, he framed Rubeus Hagrid , and although Albus Dumbledore still suspected Riddle, Hagrid was expelled , and Riddle got off without punishment. However, in , the Chamber was reopened, and it was discovered that Hagrid was innocent and Riddle was guilty. Throughout the entirety of the First Wizarding War, which lasted for eleven long years and caused much distress among the students, Hogwarts Castle was perhaps the only safe haven in wizarding Britain, due to the presence of Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore had risen to the post of Headmaster , and was the only one whom Voldemort was ever afraid of. While war waged outside the ancient walls of the school and it remained safe from Dark Forces outside the castle, the existence of ancient threats hidden deep within it began to stir when a student by the name of Jacob became intrigued with and began to search for the fabled Cursed Vaults , five secret rooms of ambiguous origins somewhere within the castle said to house ancient magical treasures older even than the school itself.
Jacob grew increasingly obsessed with his quest to prove the existence of the Cursed Vaults throughout his school career and broke several school rules in his effort to locate them.
The situation escalated further as when the pupil finally found it, he examined the outer chamber leading to the vault and, as a result of tampering with magic he did not understand, he inadvertently unleashed a curse that threatened to encase the entire castle in ice , injuring several students in the process.
By that point, Jacob's quests for the vaults were no secret. Rumours began spreading among the student body that he unleashed several curses upon the school, and even was cursed himself and that he eventually went mad. Ultimately, however, Jacob managed to break into the vault itself, causing the ice to vanish.
Despite his part in ending the threat, however, he was found to have endangered the school, as he unleashed the threat in the first place. Jacob's resultant expulsion from Hogwarts was covered in the Daily Prophet. With the cursed ice gone from the halls of Hogwarts and his students once more safe from it, Dumbledore and the rest of the school staff did their best to dim the rumours that Jacob had actually located one of the vaults, treating it as an isolated incident that had more to do with Jacob's search for the Cursed Vaults rather than the vaults themselves.
They hoped to discourage others from looking for them and maintain the common view that they were just a myth. This worked so effectively that while people still spoke of it a long time afterwards, no one, not even Jacob's own mother , believed that the Cursed Vaults actually existed. By the end of the s, Lord Voldemort's ascendancy was almost complete. While the Ministry of Magic did their best to both put up a fight and keep wizardkind a secret, a true resistance to him was being concentrated in the underground organisation founded by Dumbledore himself called the Order of the Phoenix.
Several former students at the school went on to join the order. On Hallowe'en of the — school year, news would have reached the school of the fall of Lord Voldemort and his failed attempt at murdering the infant Harry Potter , after which students and staff alike would have celebrated the fall of the Dark Lord.
Jacob's sibling and their friends breaking into the Vault of Ice. However, it was not long before the effects of the Cursed Vaults resurfaced around Hogwarts. It first started with the cursed ice reappearing in Hogwarts castle during the — school year.
By that time, Jacob 's younger sibling had enrolled, and it took two years for they and their friends to locate and break into the Vault of Ice and stop the ice from further spreading. Jacob's sibling opening the centre column in the Buried Vault after defeating Patricia Rakepick. During this time, it was gradually revealed to Jacob's sibling and their friends that a secret dark organisation known as R existed and had also been trying to find the Cursed Vaults for the supposed treasures.
At the start of Jacob's sibling's fourth year , the — school year , Patricia Rakepick arrived at Hogwarts apparently to help Albus Dumbledore deal with the Cursed Vaults, [26] while in fact being a Dark Witch from R who sought to continue her unfinished business with the Vaults.
She became the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor the next year and trained several students, including Jacob's sibling, to be her curse-breaking assistants. Arriving again outside the Buried Vault , she revealed her true nature to the students and attempted to go in before them, but was magically choked by Jacob's sibling and fled. Patricia Rakepick killing Rowan Khanna.
Rakepick's ability to teach students to defend against the Dark Arts, ironically, turned out to have been a lot more competent than the professor who succeeded her in the next school year. With Dumbledore's permission, the fresh graduate Bill Weasley returned to the school to teach this subject after regular classes. She was once again defeated before Jacob's sibling decided to seal the Vault for good to prevent the ancient statue curse from being unleashed again.
In , Harry Potter began his career as a student at Hogwarts. Already famous for being believed to be responsible for vanquishing Lord Voldemort at the age of one, he soon began, with the help of his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger , to unravel the secret of the Philosopher's Stone being kept at the school. Harry discovered that the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor, Quirinus Quirrell , was a host body for the barely-alive Voldemort, who wanted to use the Stone to restore himself back to his former glory and gain everlasting life.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione suffered a series of difficult challenges down in the Underground Chambers , in an attempt to stop the Philosopher's Stone being stolen by Severus Snape. The three believed Snape was trying to steal the stone, when in reality, Quirrell was. Harry discovered Quirrell in the chambers and was able to defeat him, thwarting Voldemort in his attempt to get the Stone and restoring his body. Harry managed this after realising that Quirrell's skin burned whenever he made contact with Harry.
Dumbledore stated that Lily 's self sacrifice left a mark of love in Harry and that Quirrell was so full of hatred, greed, and ambition that he could not bear to touch a person marked by something so good. Ginny Weasley 's attack on Mrs Norris and first blood-written message on the wall.
In , the Chamber of Secrets was re-opened by Ron's younger sister Ginny , under the influence of a diary written by Tom Riddle. The diary allowed Riddle's memory to possess Ginny and act through her to open the Chamber for a second time. Desiring to see Lord Voldemort return to power, Lucius Malfoy had slipped the diary into her bundle of school books, taking advantage of her ignorance that it was a Horcrux. His ulterior motive was to ruin the reputations of several great wizards, including Dumbledore and the Weasley children's father Arthur Weasley , the latter of whom played a big role in the enactment of the Muggle Protection Act.
However, Harry discovered the truth and destroyed the diary and the basilisk, thus bringing an end to these dark plots. In , Harry's notorious godfather, Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban. Because of the charges against him, he spent twelve years in a high-security cell in Azkaban.
The Ministry of Magic also believed that Black was after Harry, as they heard Black murmur "he's at Hogwarts" in his sleep. As a result, Black was thought to believe that killing Harry would bring Voldemort back to full power. Sirius Black 's attack on the Fat Lady's portrait.
Black broke into the school twice: one time almost ripping the Fat Lady to shreds, and another time getting close to Ron's "rat", Scabbers. During the second break-in, Ron awoke, which resulted in him screaming in fright, as Black loomed over him with a knife.
His screams woke the whole tower and alerted McGonagall to the incident. After this incident, security measures were further heightened.
Lupin had been a friend of Black as well as Harry's parents and Pettigrew during the time they attended Hogwarts as a students. Black revealed the truth to them. He was innocent, and it was Pettigrew who had done the things Sirius had been convicted of.
To frame Sirius, he had chopped off one of his fingers as a red herring, turned into his Animagus form the rat, Scabbers , and scurried off. Sirius had come back to kill Pettigrew, and now that Lupin had heard his story, he believed him and set out to help.
However, Harry persuaded them to give Pettigrew to the Ministry and let the Dementors have him. As they took Pettigrew back to the castle, Pettigrew escaped and returned to Voldemort to help him return to power. In , Hogwarts played host to the infamous Triwizard Tournament , this time with more powerful safety measures in place.
It had been many years since the last tournament had been held, but in the light of the advent of advanced safety measures, the tournament was deemed "safe".
However, more dark plots were being hatched. Barty Crouch Jnr , disguised as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody , managed to enter Harry in the Tournament by putting his name in the Goblet of Fire under the name of a fourth school, which ensured he would be chosen by the Goblet. Harry's forced involvement in this plot caused him great misery at Hogwarts, as the representatives for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as many Hogwarts students, believed he hoodwinked the goblet and entered himself in the tournament.
It was because of Crouch Jnr and his influence over certain house-elves that Harry ended up surviving until the end of the tournament and reaching the goal of the Third Task , along with fellow Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory. Voldemort was brought back to his physical form using Harry's blood. Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory. Voldemort attempted to torture and humiliate Harry by means of the Unforgivable Curses. Harry escaped and succeeded in alerting all of Voldemort's enemies, Dumbledore in particular, that he had returned.
Dumbledore reestablished the Order of the Phoenix one hour after he was alerted. However, many, including Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge , chose not to believe him. Hogwarts was further threatened when the Ministry of Magic began implementing "Educational Decrees" in , as part of a conspiracy to discredit and ruin Dumbledore and Harry.
By way of these Educational Decrees , she slowly took control of Hogwarts, eventually replacing Dumbledore as Headmistress. However, it was through the cunning of Hermione and the other members of Dumbledore's Army , which was founded by her, Ron, and Harry, that Umbridge was overthrown.
The Ministry had no choice but to accept that Voldemort had returned. Umbridge was then removed from Hogwarts and Dumbledore was reinstated. The Dark Mark above the Astronomy Tower.
Through the school year, the new Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour ordered Aurors to guard Hogwarts for protection from Dark forces, along with the castle's defences being fortified in many ways. In , Hogwarts was attacked by a mob of Death Eaters. Lucius Malfoy's son Draco was forced into the service of Lord Voldemort for fear of his and his family's lives. As a result, Headmaster Dumbledore's safety was compromised, and he was killed by Severus Snape , in a secret coup de grace arranged in advance between them.
Following this "horrible" tragedy, Professor Minerva McGonagall was appointed acting Headmistress, though the security of the school hung by a thread. There was no certainty that Hogwarts would remain open. The faculty agreed to follow "established procedures" and let the school governors ultimately decide what to do.
Throughout the year students were taken out of school by their families for safety and fear reasons, such as Eloise Midgen and Hannah Abbott , while two of Draco's botched attempts to assassinate Dumbledore ended up dangerously harming Katie Bell and Ronald Weasley , which only served in increasing the anxiety in the atmosphere. However, when Draco succeeded in allowing the Death Eaters entrance, the full effect came to be when many parents rushed their children home, fearing that even Hogwarts, reputably the safest location in the wizarding world, was no longer safe from Voldemort.
Regardless of the school governors' decision, with the takeover of the Ministry by Voldemort, attendance at Hogwarts was mandatory for all eligible children.
New, militaristic requirements were established, such as requiring students to provide proof of blood status. This enabled Voldemort to keep an eye on the entire wizarding world from a young age and identify Muggle-borns , including eleven-year old children who have no knowledge of their magical nature before their forced identification.
Such youngsters faced the possibility of never entering Hogwarts nor returning to their homes ever again. Academic instruction at Hogwarts became corrupted. Muggle Studies became a required subject, and instruction in it took a new tack with an anti-Muggle bias, while Defence Against the Dark Arts had simply become Dark Arts.
Students were taught illegal curses outright, with older students being instructed to practise curses on underclassmen. Snape was appointed Headmaster, and Alecto and Amycus Carrow , teachers of Muggle Studies and Dark Arts, respectively, had been assigned as his deputies. It was a time of great terror in which no one could be certain who was friend or foe.
In May , the Battle of Hogwarts took place as one of its most infamous alumni, Tom Riddle, better known by then as Lord Voldemort, returned to attack the school and subdue or destroy its defenders. Voldemort claimed he had no desire to harm the school or its students, but he and his Death Eaters spared no one who opposed them and recklessly damaged the school during their assault. Numerous students, staff, parents, graduates, and friends of Hogwarts rose to the school's defence in its hour of need, including the notorious poltergeist Peeves.
Minerva McGonagall became the Headmistress of the school. Harry was celebrated as a true hero. Hogwarts sustained extensive damage during the battle. Multiple areas of the main building and adjacent areas were set on fire or blown up, and the Quidditch pitch was largely destroyed by fire.
After the battle, Hogwarts was repaired. Some students, such as Hermione Granger, returned to the school in to complete their education. In , Jakub Gorski came to the school as the visiting History of Magic professor with his lemur "assistant" Bly , who later turned out to be an Animagus who had bewitched Gorski with the Imperius Curse as a part of his search of the Turner family heirloom.
A group of students, including Lottie Turner herself, found out the truth during the school year and foiled Bly's attempt to use Lottie to obtain the heirloom. By , many descendants of previous students were now coming to Hogwarts as new pupils, such as Albus Potter , Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Granger-Weasley. In their fourth year , Albus and Scorpius illegally used a Time-Turner to travel back in time and caused the timeline to deviate, therefore witnessing several alternate versions of Hogwarts in the early s , including a version of which Dolores Umbridge was the Head , in a world where Voldemort had won the Battle of Hogwarts.
Nevertheless, they were eventually successful in correcting the timeline and restoring peace to Hogwarts. Term began on 1 September. Missing the Hogwarts Express for any reason was a very serious problem, but would not cost the student points as long as they got there before the term had officially started. First years traditionally crossed the Black Lake in boats with the gamekeeper , travelling under an opening in the rocks upon which Hogwarts was built, through a curtain of ivy, and finally into an underground harbour.
Older students travelled on the road in carriages pulled by Thestrals invisible to any that haven't witnessed death to the castle. This feast included the Sorting ceremony , followed by a few words from the current Headmaster or Headmistress. The banquet started after this, including large quantities of food and drink. The feast was closed with a few more words from the Headmaster or headmistress, including the usual "start-of-term notices".
Gryffindor Common Room. After dinner, students were led to their house common room by a prefect. This was a special time for new students to get comfortable with their surroundings, because the next day classes would begin. The class schedules were handed out during breakfast by the Heads of House. After two weeks of classes, the Quidditch team trials and flying lessons for the first years usually occured. Homework was usually assigned to students at the end of classes or at the end of the school term.
A homework planner could be used to help students to keep track of all their homework assignments. Some magical planners also told the students to complete the homework when it was opened. If a student failed to complete the homework or was late in handing it in, they could be given a detention as a punishment.
Hogwarts' school year was structured in a similar way to other non-magical schools and colleges in the UK, with a three-term year punctuated by holidays at Christmas and Easter and bounded by the long summer holiday of nine weeks.
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