To avoid spoiling enjoyment of any of the books, we're colour-coding this website so you can choose which areas you look at - click only on the books you've actually read to see if/where Hogwarts appears or is mentioned in those books.

Given that Hogwarts is a "location" ..... you'll find the references to Hogwarts listed on the "Locations" page for any particular book ..... along with any other locations at Hogwarts within that particular book.

You'll need to click on the Hogwarts "chapter links" on the relevant Locations page (linked from Books 1-7 below), to reach the relevant chapter page for the context of what was going on at the time ....

This page - like many of the pages on this website - is under construction whilst all the different aspects of the books are linked together. Sol's "Welcome page" gives details about the different areas of the site and new items being added - along with Harry Potter book reviews and film reviews - and the main Area 13 index page gives an overview of our reasons for creating this intricate guide to JK Rowling's Harry Potter books.

The massive amount of set-up work to engineer the interlinking of tens of thousands of keywords (characters, magic and spells, locations, items, creatures) across all seven books has now been completed. However in the light of ongoing uncertainties about 'Harry Potter copyrights' (affecting all websites or site areas with Harry-Potter-related themes), you may wish to read our Special Note of 1st July 2008. It provides a unique insight into *why* the Harry Potter books have been so successful - as well as showing "how to write like J K Rowling", if you'd like to see "how it was done" and you're planning to write a book some day ....

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