The digital heart of the Wizarding World www.pottermore.com CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: THE JOURNEY TO HOGWARTS King’s Cross Station Platform Nine and Three-Quarters The Hogwarts Express CHAPTER TWO: THE SORTING The Sorting Hat Hatstall CHAPTER THREE: THE CASTLE AND GROUNDS Hufflepuff Common Room The Marauder’s Map The Great Lake CHAPTER FOUR: LESSONS AT HOGWARTS Hogwarts School Subjects Time-Turner CHAPTER FIVE: CASTLE RESIDENTS Hogwarts Ghosts Ghosts The Ballad of Nearly Headless Nick Hogwarts Portraits Sir Cadogan CHAPTER SIX: SECRETS OF THE CASTLE Mirror of Erised Pensieve The Philosopher’s Stone The Sword of Gryffindor The Chamber of Secrets FROM THE POTTERMORE EDITOR: We know quite a lot about Hogwarts. It’s a school for witches and wizards, who are invited to attend by an owl-delivered letter. It has a hundred and forty-two staircases, which move as though they have minds of their own. It was founded by Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, after whom the school’s houses were named. There’s even a secret passageway under a one-eyed witch statue that allows a fairly thin person to escape into the cellar of Honeydukes. But if Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore says even he doesn’t know all of Hogwarts’ secrets, well, neither do we. There’s only one person who knows everything about Hogwarts. In this collection of writing, J.K. Rowling divulges hidden secrets and strange lore from Britain’s school for witchcraft and wizardry.