Unplottability

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An unplottable location cannot be located on a map nor seen as it truly is, by Muggles or wizards, unless they know what to look for. One reason for a location to be unplottable, particularly a school, is to protect their secrets.

[edit] Unplottable locations

• Hogwarts Castle — hidden by the most powerful spells possible to protect its students and secrets from other wizarding schools or dark forces.
• Beauxbatons Academy of Magic — another wizarding school hidden for the same reasons.
• The Durmstrang Institute — yet another wizarding school hidden for the same reasons.
• 12 Grimmauld Place — hidden by a Fidelius Charm to protect the House of Black and, later, the Order of the Phoenix.
• The Room of Requirement — regarded as unplottable because it does not appear on the Marauder's Map.
• The Isle of Drear — home of the dangerous Quintaped beasts and made unplottable because of them.
• Azkaban Prison — Wizarding world prison, located on an island in the North Sea.