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==Castle and grounds==

Rowling has described Hogwarts as a "huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle, with a jumble of towers and battlements." She said the castle is supported by magic.<ref name="scholastic-chat-1">{{cite news |last=Rowling |first=J. K. |date=3 February 2000 |title=Transcript of J. K. Rowling's live interview on Scholastic.com |url=http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010413164539/http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript1.htm |archive-date=13 April 2001 |publisher=[[Scholastic Press|Scholastic]]}}</ref> The school grounds have sloping lawns, vegetable gardens and greenhouses. There is a pitch for playing the wizard sport [[Quidditch]], and a large wooded area known as the Forbidden Forest. There is also a lake, which is home to [[merman|merpeople]], [[grindylow]]s and a giant squid. Wizards cannot [[Magic in Harry Potter#Apparition and disapparition|Apparate]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-09-07|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Magic in Harry Potter#Apparition and disapparition|reason= The anchor (Apparition and disapparition) [[Special:Diff/1241236516|has been deleted]].}} (teleport) on Hogwarts grounds, but there are several hidden passages that lead out of the school.<ref>{{HPref|book=4|chapter=28}}</ref> In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' (2000), it is explained that [[Muggle|Muggles]] (non-magical people) cannot see Hogwarts because there are numerous enchantments on it.<ref>{{HPref|book=4|chapter=11}}</ref>[[File:Universal-Islands-of-Adventure-Harry-Potter-Castle-9182.jpg|thumb|right|A version of Hogwarts castle at [[Universal Islands of Adventure]] amusement park in Orlando, Florida.]]

A subterranean area of the castle known as the Chamber of Secrets is introduced in the second novel, ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' (1998). In the novel, the young student [[Ginny Weasley]] is forced to open the Chamber by the [[Dark arts (Harry Potter)|Dark]] wizard [[Voldemort]]. From the Chamber emerges a deadly [[Magical creatures (Harry Potter)#Basilisk|Basilisk]], which attacks students until Harry kills it. A magical room called the {{Visible anchor|Room of Requirement|text=Room of Requirement}} is also located in Hogwarts. It only appears when someone needs it, and contains whatever the person requires. In ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]]'' (2003), Harry holds meetings of his student group Dumbledore's Army in the Room of Requirement. In ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]]'' (2005), [[Draco Malfoy]] uses the room to hide and repair a [[Vanishing Cabinet]], which allows him to smuggle Voldemort's [[Death Eaters]] into Hogwarts.

== Houses ==