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Passwords are used throughout Hogwarts Castle to restrict entry to certain areas such as house common rooms and teacher offices. The inspirations for these passwords come from specific events and experiences throughout the storyline. Passwords appear to change on a frequent basis.

During Sir Cadogan's period of guarding the Gryffindor common room, he changed passwords so frequently that Neville Longbottom had to write them down. This list was snatched by Crookshanks and was given to Sirius Black/Padfoot, allowing him entrance.

List of Previously Used Passwords

Hogwarts

Gryffindor Common Room

  • Abstinence
  • Balderdash
  • Banana Fritters
  • Baubles
  • Caput Draconis (latin for "Dragon's Head")
  • Dilligrout
  • Fairy Lights
  • Flibbertigibbet
  • Fortuna Major (latin for "bigger luck")
  • Mimbulus Mimbletonia
  • Oddsbodikins
  • Pig Snout
  • Quid Agis (latin for "How are you")
  • Scurvy Cur
  • Tapeworm
  • Wattlebird

Ravenclaw Tower

(Instead of a password, a conundrum is posed by the eagle-shaped door knob)

  • What came first, the phoenix or the fire? (The circle has no start or end)
  • Where do vanished things go? (Nowhere, this is everywhere)

Slytherin Dungeon

Headmaster's Office

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Sherbet lemon

Prefects Bathroom

  • Pine fresh

One-Eyed Witch Passage

  • Dissendium

Chamber of Secrets and Salazar Slytherin's Locket

Elizabeth Burke's Portrait

  • Slytherins are Supreme
  • Facta, non verba[1] (latin for Deeds, not words)

Percival Pratt's Portrait

  • This Password is Absurd

Basil Fronsac's Portrait

  • Studious Success

Giffard Abbott's Portrait

  • Dragon's Egg

Damara Dodderidge's Portrait

  • Chops and Gravy

Boris the Bewildered's Portrait

  • Forget-Me-Never

Potterwatch

Notes and references

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