Hoggy Warty Hogwarts

The Houses

Gryffindor

Namesake: Godric Gryffindor

Head: Professor McGonagall

Ghost: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (Nearly headless Nick)

Quality: "Their daring nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart"

Hufflepuff

Namesake: Helga Hufflepuff

Head: Professor Sprout

Ghost: The Fat Friar

Quality: "Where they are just and loyal, those patient Hufflepuffs are true, and unafraid of toil"

Ravenclaw

Namesake: Rowena Ravenclaw

Head: Prof Flitwick

Ghost: The Grey Lady

Quality: "Where those of wit and learning will always find their kind."

Slytherin

Namesake: Salazar Slytherin

Head: Professor Snape

Ghost: The Bloody Baron

Quality: "Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends."

Subjects

Defence against the dark arts

Professor Quirrel

Care of Magical Creatures

Rubeus Hagrid

Gilderoy Lockhart

Charms

Professor Flitwick

Remus Lupin

Potions

Severus Snape

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

History of Magic

Professor Binns

Transfiguration

Minerva McGonagall

Astronomy

Professor Sinistra

Herbology

Professor Sprout

Muggle Studies

Unknown

Divination

Sybill Trelawney

Ancient Runes

Unknown

Arithmancy

Professor Vector

Flying

Madam Hooch

Space

Albus Dumbledore

- Headmaster

Poppy Pomfrey

- Nurse

Madam Pince

- Librarian

Filch and Mrs Norris

- Caretaker and cat (security)

Rubeus Hagrid

- Groundskeeper

Ghosts

Peeves - School poltergeist

The Bloody Baron - Slytherin ghost

Nearly Headless Nick - Gryffindor ghost

The Grey Lady - Ravenclaw ghost. (thanks for the reminder folks!)

The Fat Friar - Hufflepuff ghost

Moaning Myrtle - Ex-pupil. Haunts the girls' toilet.

Professor Binns - History of Magic teacher. Only dead teacher.

Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore - Leads the Headless Hunt.

Paintings

The Fat Lady - Entrance to Gryffindor house.

Sir Cadogan - Mad knight. Fills in for the fat lady.

Stretch of bare grass, series of landscapes on the way up the north tower.

Violet - The Fat Lady's friend

Landscape on the fourth floor - Fat Lady is spotted here after Black's attack.

Map of Argyllshire on second floor - Fat Lady hides here.

Entrances and Exits

142 different staircases. Wide, Narrow, some lead to different places on a Friday, and some have a vanishing step.

Doors which need tickled to open, doors you have to ask politely, doors that are just walls pretending.

7 secret passageways out of the school. Four are known by Filch. Of the other three, one is beneath the whomping willow (leads to the shrieking shack), one is behind the mirror on the fourth floor and has caved in, and the third is in the hump of the one-eyed witch statue, and leads to Honeydukes' cellar.

Exams and Qualifications

The students at Hogwarts sit exams at the end of every year, including practical tests. At the end of their fifth year they sit O.W.Ls (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) and in their seventh and final year they sit N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests)

Practical tests include concocting a potion for Snape, an obstacle course of magical creatures, and making a pineapple tap-dance for Professor Flitwick

Textbooks and other light reading

First Year / Book 1

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 1 - Miranda Goshank

A History of Magic - Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory - Adalbert Waffling

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration - Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi - Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions - Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self Protection - Quentin Trimble

Curses and Counter Curses (Bewitch your friends and befuddle your enemies with the latest revenge: hairloss, jelly legs, tongue tying and much much more) - Prof. Vindictus Viridian

Modern Magical History

The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts

Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century

Notable Magical Names of our Time

Important Modern Magical Discoveries

A Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry

Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland: From egg to inferno, a dragon keepers guide

Dragon Breeding for Pleasure and Profit

Hogwarts, A History

Second Year / Book 2

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 - Miranda Goshank

Break with a Banshee - Gilderoy Lockhart

Gadding with Ghouls - Gilderoy Lockhart

Holidays with Hags - Gilderoy Lockhart

Travels with Trolls - Gilderoy Lockhart

Voyages with Vampires - Gilderoy Lockhart

Wanderings with Werewolves - Gilderoy Lockhart

Year with the Yeti - Gilderoy Lockhart

Charm Your Own Cheese

Enchantment in Baking

One Minute Feasts - It's Magic

Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests

Prefects Who Gained Power

Magical Me - Gilderoy Lockhart

Encyclopedia of Toadstools

Moste Potente Potions

Flying with the Cannons

Ancient Runes Made Easy

Third Year / Book 3

The Monster Book of Monsters

Unfogging the Future - Cassandra Vablatsky

Intermediate Transfiguration

The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 3 - Miranda Goshank

Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broomcare

The Invisible Book of Invisibility

Predicting the Unpredictable

Insulate Yourself Against Shocks and Broken Balls

When Fortunes Turn Foul

Death Omens: What to do when you know the worst is coming

Sites of Historical Sorcery

Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles

The Handbook of Hippogriff Psychology

Fowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality

Numerology and Grammatica

Quidditch Through The Ages - Kennilworthy Whisp