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

The Trophy Room is a room on the third floor of the Hogwarts Castle. Awards, trophies, cups, plates, shields, statues, and medals are kept in crystal glass displays in this room. This room also contains a list of Head Boys and Head Girls. Prominently displayed are Hogwarts Awards for Services to the School, with known recipients being Tom Marvolo Riddle, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The Trophy Room is connected to an Armour Gallery. A portrait of Brutus Scrimgeour hangs on one of the walls, hiding a passageway to the Fourth Floor Corridor. [1]

History

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The Trophy Room in 1994.

In 1991, Harry and Ron 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 (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.

In 1992, 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. 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.

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

Behind the scenes

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The Trophy Room in the films.

  • 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. This room is connected to the Great Hall, and appears to be beneath it (which directly contradicts the literary canon). Some walls are covered with glass.
  • In the video games, Angelina Johnson was trapped in the Trophy Room ahead of the first meeting of the Dumbledore's Army. It was trashed by the Inquisitorial Squad in an attempt to frame her and have the Gryffindor Quidditch Team pulled out of practice, however, Harry, Ron, and Hermione came to her rescue and managed to free her and clean the room before any authority arrived.
  • The set used was the same used in The Room of Requirements, with only the addition to glass stands between the pillars, different lights and floor, according to the producers.

Appearances

Notes and references

Third-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Classrooms
Class 34 · Class 72 · Classroom 2E · Classroom 3C · Classroom 3C backrooms · Classroom 3D · Classroom 7A · Classroom off of the Charms corridor · Classroom off of the Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · Ghoul Studies classroom
Corridors
Charms corridor · Gallery · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Serpentine Corridor · Third-floor corridor · Trophy Secret Passage
Halls and rooms
Armoury · Clock Tower Entrance · Hesperius Hall · Trophy Room · Vastus Vestibule
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Damara Dodderidge · Dinah Hecat's Hebridean Black skeleton · Drunk Monks · Google Flange · Basil Fronsac · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Merwyn the Malicious · Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · Valeria Myriadd · Helena Ravenclaw · Brutus Scrimgeour · Temeritus Shanks · Shepherdess · Winged horse · Witch in green · Witch in Pompadour hairstyle · Wizard in black · Wizard in red
Staircases
Clock Tower staircase · Grand Staircase · Secret shortcut to the first floor · Staircase to the courtyard corridor · Staircase to the first-floor corridor · Staicase to the fourth-floor landing · Staircase to the ground-floor · Staircase to the second-floor arcade · Turret Stairwell · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Lost Wands · Storeroom
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