The Magic School - Hogwarts

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, shortened Hogwarts, 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.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft And Wizardry
Coat of Arms for Hogwarts.
Coat of arms of Hogwarts
Universe Harry Potter
Type School
First appearance Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Founded c. 9th/10th century
Location Scotland
Head
Albus Dumbledore (c.1960-1997)
Minerva McGonagall (1993) (1998–present)
Dolores Umbridge (1996)
Severus Snape (1997–1998)
Purpose Training for children with magical abilities (who may be enrolled at birth and acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven)[1]
Motto Latin: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
("Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon"[2])
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] image

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]