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All accepted characters are moved here and sorted according to their house.

Sub-boards: hufflepuff, gryffindor, ravenclaw, slytherin

All plotting should take place here, as well as owls your character might want to send to other characters!

Sub-board: owlery

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Just past the entrance hall, you will find the Great Hall, a place where you can enjoy the marvelous meals at Hogwarts, and admire the high, arching ceiling.

Sub-board: great hall

The first floor is home to the Muggle Studies classroom, the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, the History of Magic classroom, and a few other classrooms, teacher offices, and private rooms that seemingly have no purpose.

The entrance to the Headmistress' office is located on the second floor, as well as an unused bathroom, and a few classrooms with different purposes.

The Charms classroom, the Trophy Room, the armor gallery, a few classrooms, and the Hospital Wing are all located on the third floor. Here you can also find a statue of a humpbacked witch, and a strange trap door leading into an empty room with shrivelled, dead vines laying about.

Seas of books and studious students can be found within the library on this floor. Watch out for the trip step on the hidden stair case that heads down to the second floor.

The prefects bathroom, a couple of statues (Boris the Bewildered in the corrider leading to Gryffindor Tower and Gregory the Smarmy in the East Wing), and a few classrooms.

A pretty lonely floor with a few bathrooms and very few classrooms. For some reason, students tend to avoid this floor instinctively.

The Room of Requirement and the Gryffindor Common Room, the base of Gryffindor Tower are located on the seventh floor, as well a few teacher offices, and the Divination Classroom, the base of the North Tower.

Here are where the Herbology classes take place. There are several different greenhouses, each with more and more dangerous and rare plants.

Many creatures live in the forest, though it is almost impassable if you stray from the path. Creatures known to inhabit the forest, which is strictly off limits to students, are acromantulas, unicorns, centaurs, a three-headed dog named Fluffy, threstrals, trolls, werewolves, and a wild turquoise Ford Anglia.

Known to be inhabited by merfolk, a giant squid, and grindylow. It's beautiful, dangerous, and sits at the bottom of the cliff which the castle sits upon. The lake is about a half-mile wide. A low fog usually sits upon it, especially in the mornings.

A rather violent tree that attacks even when not provoked. Most students avoid it, while others are keen to try to find a way to get close to the tree. It has caused many accidents in the past, but no one knows why the tree was placed there. After all, what kind of a moron would plant a tree that hits back?

A clothier, with additional shops in London and Paris. They seem to sell particularly ridiculous socks.

A mysterious and shady pub under unknown management.

A popular destination for Hogwarts students when visiting Hogsmeade on the weekends with shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable.

A small, cramped tea shop with obnoxious, frilly decor. It doesn't seem to be a very popular destination for most students, or anyone for that matter.

A quill and stationary shop located on High Street.

Falsely rumored to be haunted. The shack cannot be entered from the outside, only through the secret entrance located under the willow.

A well-known inn and a frequent haunt of Hogwarts students. It's warm and comfortable, and a great place to drink butterbeer, despite the fact that it is always packed.

Just around the corner from Diagon Alley lies a dark, twisting alleyway devoted to the Dark Arts. It's filled with rather charming looking wizards and witches who are lacking teeth.

In northwestern London lies Kings Cross Station, a Muggle railway station that is one of the busiest in the city. It's a perfectly ordinary station, with big plastic numbers over each track and guards who have never heard of Hogwarts School.

The headquarters of the Ministry of Magic is located in the heart of London. The actual structure is all underground, although magical windows show whatever weather Magical Maintenance has chosen for the day, from bright sunshine to hurricanes.

A perfectly normal town with perfectly normal residents.

A small town along the River Otter in Devon, near Exeter. Ottery St. Catchpole is a Muggle town but has historically also been a large settlement for wizarding families.

Sub-board: frog's yard

Wiltshire includes the Avebury Stone Circle, Salisbury Plain, and Stonehenge, as well as nine white chalk horses carved into hillsides, and the Malfoy mansion.

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