Hogwarts

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Hogwarts

fictional school of magic

Also known as: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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…has been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also sheds light on Harry’s past, informing the boy that his parents, a wizard and a witch, were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort and that Harry acquired the lightning-bolt scar on his forehead during the fatal confrontation.
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…has been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also sheds light on Harry’s past, informing the boy that his parents, a wizard and a witch, were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort and that Harry acquired the lightning-bolt scar on his forehead during the fatal confrontation.
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boarding school
Boarding schools in fiction
…fictional boarding schools include the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Malory Towers and St. Clare’s in series of the same names by Enid Blyton, and St. Trinian’s, created by the artist and cartoonist Ronald Searle. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) sees…
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…fictional boarding schools include the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Malory Towers and St. Clare’s in series of the same names by Enid Blyton, and St. Trinian’s, created by the artist and cartoonist Ronald Searle. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) sees…
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