HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

 

        Hogwarts School, a co-educational institution, develops the magical abilities in the children who have aptitude for magical studies and. It is a boarding school and provides education up to secondary level.

The age for admission to the school is between 11 to 18 years. The school is managed and run by a headmaster. He is assisted by a deputy headmaster. He is answerable to a board of governors comprised of twelve members.

Students are required to procure their own textbooks, dresses and other study material which is normally available from the shops in Diagon Alley, a secret street near Charing Cross in London.

        Letters bearing the offer of admission to the potential wizards and witches who were born in Muggle were hand delivered in person by the wizards. The visiting faculty of wizards explains to the parents of the children about the existence of a magical society.

Each student is permitted to bring an owl, a toad or a cat to keep as pet during his stay at the school. Many students prefer to bring owls, as they are good at delivering the messages by post. In exceptional cases, some other pets may also be allowed.

HOGWARTS EXPRESS

     The Hogwarts Express is the name of the train that makes a run between London, King's Cross Station Platform 9¾ and Hogsmeade Station. It makes this run at about six times a year, and probably more often than that, as needed. It carries students to Hogwarts Castle at the start and end of every term. The train leaves Platform 9¾ without fail on 1 September at 11 o'clock in the morning, arriving at Hogsmeade Station in the early evening. Most students take the train back to King's Cross Station to go home for the Christmas and Easter holidays. It also makes the run back again to London at the end of term in June.