Before you can begin your journey in the magical world of Harry Potter, you must first sit yourself down on the unsteady stool and be sorted in to one of the four houses. An old, frayed, magical and rather dirty hat will be placed on your head. The Sorting Hat speaks inside with a small, quiet voice to the wearer and it can read thoughts and respond to them. When not sorting students, the Sorting Hat rests on its stool in Dumbledore's office.

Sub-boards: The Hogwarts Staff Index, The Hogwarts Student Index, The Wizards, Witches and Squib Index, The Death Eater Index, The House Tables || Introductions

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The dark and dingy undergrounds of Hogwarts. The usual place where Potions is taught. Walk the hallways, discover the kitchens, and watch out for Professor Snape lurking in the shadows! The hidden Slytherin Common Room is also here!

Sub-boards: The Dungeon Hallways, Slytherin Common Room, The Potions Classroom, Professor Snapes Office

As you make your way up to the first floor, there are many rooms to see. Muggle Studies, History Of Magic, Staff Room, Professor McGonagall's along with many empty classrooms for you to practise your magic!

Sub-boards: Muggle Studies, History Of Magic, Staff Room, Professor McGonagall's Office, Defence Against The Dark Arts

The magical staircase has taken you to the second floor! You will find Professor Umbridge's Office here, along with Moaning Myrtle's bathroom at the very end of the corridor - which is always out of order, and Animagi - the class that teaches you how to transform yourself in to an animal!

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Sub-boards: Professor Umbridge's Office, Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom (OUT OF ORDER) , Animagi

As the magical staircase swivels round and lands on the third floor, you realise this is one of the more mysterious levels. The place of the Forbidden Corridor, the Statue of The Humpbacked Witch, the Hospital Wing and the Trophy Room, full of Hogwarts' great achievements!

Sub-boards: Charms, Statue of the Humpbacked Witch, Forbidden Corridor, The Hospital Wing, Trophy Room

The floor of The Library, a quiet place to study. You will often find this the place to come near examination time. This is also the floor of Occlumency, the Girl's Bathroom and the mysterious room where the Mirror of Erised once stood.

Sub-boards: The Library, Mirror of Erised Room , The Girls Bathroom, Occlumency

The Academic floor, home to the Prefect Bathroom, Arithmacy and Ancient Runes along with the Club activity board and many classrooms.

Sub-boards: Arithmancy, Study of Ancient Runes, The Clubs and Organisation Board, Prefect Bathroom

Often known as the deserted floor. There are more deserted classrooms in the corridor than any other in the castle. Also the place to come if you are studying Transfiguration or looking for the Boy's Bathroom.

Sub-boards: Deserted Classrooms, Transfiguration, Boys Bathroom

The very top floor of the main castle sits happily at the foot of all the Hogwarts towers, the highest points of the school. Here you will find Astronomy, The Owlery the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor Common Rooms, Divination, The Headmaters Ofiice, The Room of Requirement and The Dormatories among others.

Sub-boards: Divination - Professor Trelawney, The Astronomy Tower, Ravenclaw Common Room, Owlery, Gryffindor Common Room, Professor Flitwicks's Office, The Room Of Requirement, The Headmaster's Office

"Harry wished he had eight more eyes.... There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Harry had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon...."

Diagon Alley is a wizarding street and shopping area located in London, England behind a pub called the Leaky Cauldron. Inside the alley is an assortment of restaurants, shops, and other sights. All items on the Hogwarts Supply list can be bought at Diagon Alley. The alley is completely hidden from the Muggle world which is right outside of its boundaries.

Sub-boards: The Leaky Cauldron, Flourish & Blotts, Ollivander's, Gringotts Wizarding Bank , Magical Menagerie, Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions, Quality Quidditch Supplies, Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor

"This is the best house I've ever been in."

The Burrow is the family home of the Weasley family Ottery, St. Catchpole, Devon, England. It is a thoroughly magical dwelling that became a second home to Harry Potter. It is so well hidden that Molly Weasley doubts that the postman even knows it exists. Nestled amongst rolling hills and fertile meadows, other wizarding families in the area include the Diggorys, the Lovegoods and the the Fawcetts. Once have been an old stone pigpen, which has had several crooked stories attached to it. Four or five chimneys dot the roof of the house, and the entire building is most likely held up by magic due to its crazy construction.

The headquarters of the Ministry of Magic is located in the heart of London. A visitor to the Ministry of Magic comes to a broken-down red telephone box located on a dingy street which has several shabby offices, a pub, and a wall covered with graffiti. When the telephone in the box is dialed (62442, the word M-A-G-I-C), the welcome witch's voice answers, not from the phone but from the air as if the person is standing right there. Visitors must state their business, upon which a silver badge pops out with the visitor's name and purpose of visit. Then the telephone box drops down like a lift for about one minute, after which the visitor is in the Atrium.

Sub-boards: Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, The Department Of Mysteries, Wizengamot Courtrooms (Stairway Access Only)

St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is reached via Purge and Dowse, Ltd. in Muggle London. Purge and Dowse, Ltd. is an red-brick, old-fashioned department store that has “Closed for Refurbishment” signs hanging on its doors. One speaks to the ugly dummy in the front window, who will nod its assent and beckon you to enter. In a process very similar to how one gets onto Platform 9 and 3/4, one walks into the window. The Healers at St. Mungo's are trained and equipped to treat a wide variety of magic-related illnesses and injuries.

Godric's Hollow is a village in the West Country of England. It is a small community, which centers on a village square with only a church, a post office, a pub, and a few retail shops. The residential streets are lined with quaint cottages. According to A History of Magic, the graveyard was rumoured to be haunted.

Godric's Hollow is one of the places where magical families have come to live alongside Muggles. Over the centuries, it has been home to many wizards and witches of note, including Godric Gryffindor, who was born there. On October 31, 1981, James and Lily Potter were murdered by Lord Voldemort in their home at Godric's Hollow, at which time Voldemort lost his powers and physical form when he tried to kill the couple's infant son, Harry, due to Lily's sacrifice. James and Lily's bodies were laid to rest in the Godric's Hollow graveyard.

Spinner's End is a street, on which sits a house that is the summer home of Severus Snape. It is stated to be one of several streets of identical brick, presumably terraced, houses. It is near a dirty river, the bank of which is strewn with litter. A mill (presumably a woollen or cotton mill) with a tall chimney is close by. This rather bleak background suggests it is located within a run-down industrial area, possibly in northern England. It is revealed to be near Lily Potter's childhood home.

The home of the Malfoys, located in Wiltshire, England. Malfoy Manor is a "handsome manor house" surrounded by elaborate gardens, including a fountain and roving white peacocks, and enclosed by wrought-iron gates that permit select individuals to pass through them as if they were smoke. The interior is described as "sumptuously decorated", and includes ornate furniture, marble fireplaces, and gilt mirrors. It has a large entrance hallway with portraits lining the walls and a stone floor mostly covered by a magnificent carpet.

According to Draco Malfoy, the family's collection of Dark artifacts were hidden below ground level in this room so as to prevent any from being seized during Ministry raids. The function of this room changed to that of a holding cell for the aforementioned prisoners. This room is completely escape-proof and has no light. It has nothing in it except a water jug and a food bowl.

A dark deserted park, no one dares to travel here for too many times has some disappeared. Talk of strange meetings and eerie lights happen here. Death Eater Initiation and Sign ups are also held here.

An old run down mansion, said to be haunted and often the setting for many dares. Though said to be deserted there is often seen cloaked figures. Watch the upper window.

The Riddle House is a manor house in Little Hangleton that was home to Thomas, Mary and Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort's paternal family. Their mansion was perched atop a hill overlooking the village. Voldemort murdered his grandparents and father in the Riddle House in 1943.

A long way underground, where there is little light apart from one torch on either side of the walls. There is a long hallway with dungeon-like cages all the way along. It is cold and damp and there is a definate smell of rotting flesh. This is where The Dark Lord holds his prisoners.

12 Grimmauld Place is the ancestral home of the Black family. It is located in London, in a Muggle neighbourhood, and the location is protected by a Fidelius Charm. As the house is invisible to the neighbourhood residents, the local Muggles have long since accepted the mistake in numbering which landed number 13 next to number 11.

In 1995, the home became the headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix, with consent of Sirius Black, with Albus Dumbledore becoming Secret-Keeper.

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