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The Main Entrance Gates to Hogwarts were located a short distance from Hogsmeade Station. The gates would be opened on the first day of term and carriages pulled by Thestrals would take students up to the castle.

Description[]

The Entrance Gates were made of magnificent wrought iron and were flanked by two columns topped with statues of winged boars. Just a few yards from the gates was a small gatehouse with a tall chimney.[1] To the right of the entrance there were stables for the Thestrals to rest in, which also housed a butcher's room to prepare food for the Thestrals.[2]

History[]

Hogwarts guardhouse 2

The gatehouse.

During the 1993-1994 school year, the gates were guarded by Dementors attempting to apprehend Sirius Black.[3]

In 1996, before the students travelled past the gates, Professor Flitwick and Argus Filch stood guard checking off the names of students and searching them before allowing them to continue up to Hogwarts. The walls surrounding the perimeter were protected by anti-intruder jinxes, and the gates was sealed with a padlock that had been subjected to an Anti-Alohomora Charm that were cast by Albus Dumbledore over the summer of 1996.[4]

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Appearances[]

Winged Boar Statue WU

Winged Boar Statue as seen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

Notes and references[]

Hogwarts Castle
Hogwarts grounds
Beasts Classroom · Boathouse Steps · Bowtruckle Island · Broomshed · Care of Magical Creatures Classroom · Clock Tower Courtyard · Entrance footpath · Entrance gatehouse · Entrance Gates · Exterior Walkway · Forbidden Forest · Forest Vault · Gargoyle Gate · Gatehouse · Great Lake · Greenhouses · Greenhouse battlements · Grounds Portrait Room · Hagrid's Garden (Pumpkin patch) · Hagrid's Hut · Incendio Challenge · Landing Strip · Lawn by the Forbidden Forest · Path to Owlery · Path to the Whomping Willow · Pixie water well · Quidditch Changing Rooms · Quidditch Gate · Quidditch pitch · Quidditch pitch viaduct · Quidditch Training Pitch · Ravenclaw Duelling Arena · Ravine · Road to Hogsmeade · Road to Hogwarts · Secret Garden · Secret room near the Training Grounds · Stables · Stone Circle · Sunken Vault · Training Grounds · Waiting Tent · Walled Garden · Waterfalls · White Tomb · Wooden Bridge
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