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rts/), is a fictional British school of magic for students aged eleven to eighteen,
and is the primary setting for the first six books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter
series.[3][4]
Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the
hogwort plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time
before writing the series,[5][6] although the names "The Hogwarts" and "Hoggwart"
appear in the 1954 Nigel Molesworth book How To Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans.[7][8]
Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a
2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's Loretto School. According to a director
of the Independent Schools Network Rankings, it was added to the schools listing
"for fun" and was then voted on.[9]A huge, rambling, quite scary-looking castle,
with a jumble of towers and battlements. Like the Weasleys' house, it isn't a
building that Muggles could build, because it is supported by magic.
Hogwarts is on the shore of a lake, sometimes called the Black Lake. In that lake
are merpeople, Grindylows, and a giant squid. The giant squid does not attack
humans and sometimes acts as a lifeguard when students are in the lake.
Rowling has said that Hogwarts is "a multifaith school".[15] She has further stated
on the subject, "The only people I never imagined there are Wiccans."[16] In
response to the query, "[D]o you think there are a lot of LGBT students in modern
age Hogwarts? I like to imagine they formed an LGBT club," Rowling replied, "But of