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Hogwarts is hidden from Muggle eyes. The castle is bewitched so that if a Muggle looks at it, all they see is a moldering old ruin with a sign over the entrance saying DANGER, DO NOT ENTER, UNSAFE. It might also be Unplottable . The castle is 'a huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle, with a jumble of towers and battlements.'

Hagrid's Hut
Greenhouses
Forbidden Forest
Whomping Willow
Black Lake
The front gate
Lawns
Quidditch pitch

Beneath the ground floor of the castle are found many passages, dungeons, and chambers. Some of these are easily accessible from doors that open off the Entrance Hall. Others are hidden and can only be entered by magical means.

Dungeons
Lily Snape's Office
Potions classroom
Slytherin common room
Kitchens
Hufflepuff common room

The floor that is leveled with the ground. This is the first floor that you see when you enter Hogwarts for the first time through the oak doors.

Entrance Hall
Great Hall
Staff room
Classroom eleven
Filch's office
Small chamber
Broom cupboard
Corridor

At the top of the marble staircase from the ground floor is the first floor. The Entrance Hall and Great Hall are several stories tall, so they extend into this floor from below.

Muggle Studies classroom
Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom
History of Magic classroom
McGonagall's office
Hospital Wing
Madam Pomfrey's office

Ancient Runes classroom
Moaning Myrtle's bathroom
Empty corridor with stone gargoyle
Slughorn's office

Statue of humpbacked witch with secret passage to Hogsmeade
Forbidden corridor
Trophy Room
Armor gallery
Charms classroom

Arithmancy
Fourth floor corridor
Bathroom & library
Mirror of Erised room

A statue of Boris the Bewildered
Prefects' bathroom
A statue of Gregory the Smarmy

Boys' bathroom
Marble staircase to seventh Floor
Transfiguration classroom
Heads' common room

Room of Requirement
Divination classroom
Flitwick's office
Corridors

Astronomy Tower (tallest tower)
North Tower
Gryffindor Tower
Ravenclaw Tower
West Tower & the Owlery

A well-known inn and a frequent haunt of Hogwarts students. It's warm and comfortable, is packed every time a student goes in, and is a great spot to drink butterbeer, although they also serve firewhisky, gillywater, mulled mead, red currant rum, and even cherry syrup and soda with ice and an umbrella.

A sweetshop, owned by Ambrosius Flume and his wife, which is filled with 'shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable'. In addition to the standard Wizarding candy that is sold there, the owners also make their own fudge and chocolate. For obvious reasons, the shop is quite a popular destination for Hogwarts students when visiting Hogsmeade on the weekends.

Down in the cellar of the shop, amidst the boxes and wooden crates and known to only a select few people, is a trap door in the dusty floor--which opens to reveal a secret passageway to Hogwarts.

Shop that sells and repairs 'magical instruments and stuff,' including Sneakoscopes. It is located near the end of High Street.

Falsely rumored to be 'the most haunted building in Britain,' the Shrieking Shack is a favorite stop on any Hogsmeade visit.

A 'tiny, dark platform' where the Hogwarts Express ends its journey north from Platform Nine-And-Three-Quarters. The station is located near the lake, and from there a road extends around the lake to Hogwarts Castle. The station is actually quite a distance from the town itself, being on the opposite side of the Hogwarts grounds.

A small, cramped tea shop with decor on the tacky side of frilly (such as floating golden cherubs throwing pink confetti), located just off High Street. The only Hogwarts students who seem to patronize the place are trysting couples.

Zonko's is a favourite place for Hogwarts students to shop. They carry 'jokes and tricks' including Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, and Nose-Biting Teacups.

Located on the High Street.

A rather shady pub managed by Aberforth Dumbledore.

The only wizarding post office we ever hear of, where at least three hundred owls, from Great Grays to tiny Scops ('Local Deliveries Only'), wait to carry messages. They sit on shelves that are color-coded, depending on how fast you want your letter to get to its destination. It is also referred to as an 'owl office'.

Clothier, with additional shops in London and Paris.

Location of the offices of the Minister for Magic and other administrative staff.

Department of Magical Law Enforcement


Divisions:

-Auror Headquarters
The Auror Headquarters is an open area that is divided into cubicles. The walls of these cubicles are covered in wanted posters, personal photographs, Quidditch posters, and Daily Prophet clippings.

-Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office
A small and crowded office at the end of a shabby corridor on this level.

-Wizengamot Administration Services

Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

Divisions:

-Accidental Magic Reversal Squad
-Obliviator Headquarters
-Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee

Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

Divisions:

-Beast, Being, and Spirit Divisions
-Goblin Liaison Office
-Pest Advisory Board

Department of International Magical Cooperation

Divisions:
-International Confederation of Wizards, British Seats
-International Magical Office of Law
-International Magical Trading Standards Body

Department of Magical Transportation

Divisions:
-Apparition Test Center
-Broom Regulatory Control
-Floo Network Authority
-Portkey Office

Department of Magical Games and Sports.

A brief glimpse of this level reveals an untidy-looking corridor, the walls of which are hung with various Quidditch posters.

Divisions:
-British and Irish Quidditch League Headquarters
-Official Gobstones Club
-Ludicrous Patents Office

The Atrium:

The Atrium is a large hall with fireplaces up and down both long walls. Down the left-hand side of the hall are gilded fireplaces which witches and wizards can use to arrive at the Ministry. The right-hand side contains gilded fireplaces as well, and these are used for departures. The floor is polished dark wood. The ceiling is peacock blue with golden symbols moving across it.

The Fountain of Magical Brethren lies halfway down the Atrium. A group of golden statues, depicting a wizard, a witch, a centaur, a goblin, and a house-elf, spout water into the surrounding pool of water. At the end of the Atrium is a set of golden gates, next to which is a security stand.

Eric Munch is usually on duty here. He registers the wands of visitors. Another smaller hall is beyond the gates and here there is a series of lifts.

Department of Mysteries

A single door opposite the lift doors provides access to the Department of Mysteries.

This level can only be reached by the stairs to the left of the door which leads to the Department of Mysteries on Level Nine. Dungeon-like corridors lead to Courtroom Ten.

The walls of the courtroom are dark stone. In the center of the room is a chair covered in chains that stands below rows of high benches on which the Wizengamot sit.

Founded in late 1500s or early 1600s by Mungo Bonham, St. Mungo's Hospital is the primary (and likely only) wizarding hospital in Britain.

Located in an abandoned department store in London, the hospital's Healers treat wizards for all sorts of magic-related illnesses and injuries, and in extreme circumstances has been known to treat Muggles as well. The hospital's logo is a wand and a bone, crossed, and donations are welcome.

The entrance to St. Mungo's is concealed behind an abandoned red-brick London department store called Purge and Dowse, Ltd. on a Muggle street. Unlike, say, the Leaky Cauldron, St. Mungo's is visible to passing Muggles, who merely believe the sign on the front that the store is "Closed for Refurbishment."

In the front window, a dummy dressed in outdated styles serves as the gatekeeper; wizards wanting to enter do so by talking to the dummy, and then walking straight through the window.

A sign inside the hospital by the front desk reads: 'If you are unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to remember why you are here, our Welcome Witch will be pleased to help.'

The Apothecary is a fascinating shop crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls.

Bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage. The name of this shop in the films is Slug & Jiggers Apothecary.

This shop, the closest one to the entrance from the alley behind the Leaky Cauldron, sells all sorts of cauldrons. Outside the shop, a stack of them shines in the sun, under a sign that reads:

Cauldrons
All sizes
Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver
Self-Stirring
Collapsible

The cafes had 'brightly colored umbrellas' over their tables outside.

The headquarters of the Daily Prophet are located in Diagon Alley, as the newspaper instructs that letters to the editor should be sent here by owl.

A dimly lit shop which, according to the sign, sells tawny, screech, barn, brown, and snowy owls.

An ice cream parlor with outdoor tables, where Florean Fortescue served Harry free ice cream sundaes and offered advice about medieval witchcraft for a report he was writing.

A large wizarding bookshop filled with shelves stacked to the ceiling, Flourish & Blotts is the primary--and perhaps only--supplier of textbooks for Hogwarts, though of course that's far from all they sell.
In addition to the store's manager, who at times helps customers himself, the store also employs an assistant manager (paid 42 Galleons a month), and an assistant. The job is not altogether easy, as Wizarding books might attempt to bite or simply be completely invisible, or fight back.

This shop, a favorite of Fred and George, sells a wide variety of tricks and practical joke items. The twins bought Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks here in 1992, though of course three years later they were a direct competitor with their own joke shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, just down the road.

Located at 93 Diagon Alley, the Weasley twins Fred and George run this joke shop that they started in 1995. They sell everything from love potions to Instant Darkness powder.

A large white marble building and Diagon Alley fixture, staffed by goblins.

Though far from the only Wizarding clothier around, Madam Malkin's seems to be the best, as it is the place where most Hogwarts students purchase their robes. Madam Malkin herself is a friendly, squat witch, though she seems a bit out of touch at times.

Madam Malkin's is located next door to Flourish & Blotts, and in addition to selling Hogwarts school robes, they also sell robes which are "spangled, self-ironing, beautifying, slimming, fattening, lengthening," and "temperature-adjusting." And they carry robes made by Whopperwear 'for the outsize witch or wizard.'

A later advertisement states that every robe sold at the store is 'self-ironing and repairing' as well.

Full of broken wands, lopsided scales, etc., and a thin little book called Prefects Who Gained Power which caught Percy's eye.

Company that helps witches remove 'warts and worse,' and that was recently advertised for the Junior Potion Mixer section in the Daily Prophet. Madam Primpernelle's is located at 275 Diagon Alley.

A very crowded pet store, noisy with the sounds of all the animals.The proprietor is a witch who wears heavy black spectacles. She offers advice and sells things like rat tonic. Other creatures for sale included:

*Crookshanks
* enormous purple toads
* gigantic tortoise with jewel-encrusted shell (probably a Fire-Crab)
* poisonous orange snails (Streelers?)
* a fat white rabbit that changed into a top hat and back
* cats of every color
* noisy cage of ravens
* custard-colored furballs (probably Puffskeins)
* sleek, black rats, rather more intelligent than normal rats

Located at 18A Diagon Alley, and the publishers of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

Quality Quidditch Supplies sells everything Quidditch related, from brooms to balls to protective gear.

They also once displayed a full set of Chudley Cannons robes in the front window.

'Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C,' Ollivander's is a narrow and shabby little shop with a window display consisting of a single wand resting on a faded purple cushion.

Inside the walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes, which Mr. Ollivander chooses from when trying to find a wand to match each customer .

Mrs. Weasley took Ginny there to buy robes for her first year at Hogwarts. This is also likely the place where she purchased Ron's dress robes for the Yule Ball.

Next door to Quality Quidditch Supplies, this store sells ink, quills, and parchment. The name of one such shop in Diagon Alley is Scribbulus Everchanging Inks.

There have always been street peddlers on Diagon Alley, and shoppers have always had reason to be wary of them (such as when 'Honest Willy Wagstaff' managed to sell substandard wands and loose-bottomed cauldrons a few years back.)

However, once the Dark Lord James Potter came to be, wizards looking to capitalize on the public fear managed to sell even sketchier items, from Metamorph-medals that simply made the purchaser turn orange or sprout tentacles.

Located at 59 Diagon Alley, Terrortours advertises that they offer 'action holidays for the Wizarding family with a sense of adventure!' Some of their tours include:

* Transylvanian castles for rent, with the host a guaranteed vampire.

* A trip down the 'Zombie Trail' where you can come 'face to face with the living dead!'

* A cruise through the Bermuda Triangle where you'll see the remains of ships that 'didn't spot the monster.'

The small print at the bottom of the ad warns that 'Terrortours accepts no responsibility for death or injury.'

An upscale clothing shop. Narcissa decided to take her business there after meeting a 'Mud-blood' in Madam Malkin's.

Note that Twilfit and Tatting's is not specifically stated to be in Diagon Alley.

Located at 129B Diagon Alley, and the publisher of Quidditch Through the Ages.

This is where the Order of the Golden Dawn members gather to meet.

All meetings must take place in this board.

Here is where all the Order members come to hang out without worry of someone overhearing their business. They make their plans here, and just kick back.

All Knights of Walpurgis meetings that the Dark Lord decides to call will take place here.

Attendance is manditory under threat of torture.

The dungeons are located down here. Dark and damp, spiders make their webs in here, and rats crawl through the walls.

Not the place you want to be.

But it's perfect for holding and torturing prisoners.

Here is where all the Knights of Walpurgis come to hang out without worry of someone overhearing their business. They make their plans here, and are generally just as kick back as they get.

On occasion, the Dark Lord himself will come in here and honor them with his presence.

This is where all the Muggle-born wizards and witches live.

-Granger residence

This is where all the half-blood and pure-blood wizards and witches live.

-Malfoy Manor
-Godric's Hollow
-The Burrow
-#12 Grimmuald Place
-Spinner's End
-Lovegood Rook