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"Trophy Room. No smudging."
— Plaque outside the Trophy Room[src]

The Trophy Room was a room that moved between the third and sixth-floors of Hogwarts Castle.[1] Hogwarts used this room to store all the old awards, trophies, statues, cups, plates, shields, and medals were kept in crystal display cases.

Description[]

"The crystal trophy cases glimmered where the moonlight caught them. Cups, shields, plates, and statues winked silver and gold in the darkness."
— Description of the trophy room[src]

Awards, trophies, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals were kept in crystal glass displays in this room. This room also contained a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. Prominently displayed were Hogwarts Awards for Services to the School, with known recipients being Tom Riddle, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley. According to Draco Malfoy, the room was always left unlocked, even past the students' curfew.[2]

According to the Wizard's Field Guide, polishing the silver in the trophy room by hand was a common punishment for students who needed to be reminded of the value of hard work.[3]

On the third-floor, the Trophy Room was connected to an Armour Gallery. A portrait of Brutus Scrimgeour hung on one of the walls, hiding a passageway to the fourth-floor corridor,[4] and another passageway to the fourth floor exists behind a mirror.

History[]

"We'll meet you in the trophy room; that's always unlocked."
— Draco Malfoy choosing the location for his midnight duel with Harry Potter[src]
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The Trophy Room in 1994

During the 1890–1891 school year, the Goblet of Fire casket was housed in the trophy room, along with suits of Troll Armour, Centaur Armour, and House-Elf Armour.[3]

In the 1991–1992 school year, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley agreed to have a wizard's duel with Draco Malfoy and Vincent Crabbe in the Trophy Room. However, the latter pair never showed up. This meant Harry and Ron, as well as Hermione Granger (who joined to make sure that if they were caught, they would tell the truth) and Neville Longbottom (who forgot the password to the Gryffindor Tower), nearly being caught by Argus Filch. That in turn led to the discovery of Fluffy and the trapdoor.[2]

In the 1992–1993 school year, Ron was given detention by Professor McGonagall, his sentence being to clean the trophies in the room with Filch without using magic, for crashing the Flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow.[5] Ron had a slug-vomiting attack from an earlier backfired charm, and got Tom Riddle 's trophy all covered with slug and slime, resulting in him having to clean it repeatedly. It was from this incident that Ron learned about Riddle, and later told it to Harry and Hermione, thus providing the link to Riddle's diary. Despite this useful incident, Ron still highly resented this detention. Harry later visited the Trophy Room with Ron (who told him "I’d seen enough of the trophy room to last me a lifetime") searching for clues, but the only things he turned up were finding Riddle's name on an old Medal for Magical Merit and a list of Head Boys.[6]

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The Trophy Room at night

In December 1993, on the day of Hogsmeade trip just before the Christmas holidays, Harry Potter observed Peeves bouncing around the Trophy Room the first time that he set eyes upon the Marauder's Map.[7] He observed this again in early 1995 after exiting the Prefects' bathroom, which he had visited to solve his golden egg clue. This time, however, the Trophy Room was on the sixth-floor.[1]

Most likely, in 1995, the Triwizard Cup was placed here as well.[4]

In 1995, Angelina Johnson was trapped in the Trophy room by a gang of Slytherins led by Draco Malfoy, who had vandalised the room and left to fetch Argus Filch, hoping to frame Angelina for the damage. However, Harry, Hermione, and Ron came to her rescue, and used the Mending Charm to repair the damaged objects in the room, foiling Malfoy's plan.[4]

Behind the scenes[]

  • In the films, the Trophy Room is depicted as a large room, with the shelves covered with cups and trophies and the walls covered with plates, shields and medals. Some of the cups move and float and some produce red sparks and smoke from time to time. With a large iron gate at the entrance, this room has a large fireplace. Contrary to the books, the room is connected to the Great Hall, and appears to be beneath it. Some walls are covered with glass. It is implied that there is an entrance to the trophy room from outside as Moody was able to enter the castle through it.
  • The set built for the Trophy Room was later used as the Room of Requirement, with only the addition to glass stands between the pillars, different lights and floor, according to the producers.
  • The same set also served as Horace Slughorn's office in the sixth film.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 25 (The Egg and the Eye)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hogwarts Legacy
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
  5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 7 (Mudbloods And Murmurs)
  6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 (The Very Secret Diary)
  7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
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Charms corridor · Gallery · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Serpentine Corridor · Third-floor corridor · Trophy Secret Passage
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Lost Wands · Storeroom
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East Wing · Floor 6 Bonus · Frog Choir hall · Room of Rewards · Trophy Room
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