Blue Prints to Hogwarts

[cleansweep11]

This thread is purley for the disscussion of the layout of hogwarts. I have been part of threads where people end up disscussing the layout. Well.....BAM! this is the place to!

Theorys:

Chamber of Secrets Under lake
Slytherin Common Room windows peer into lake
Kitchen on same floor as dungeons


And more!!

Current maps to prove theories(by yours truley):

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/282337/Map.JPG

SC stands for Slytherin Common Room
Scribble on top is Windows
Scribble on Bottom Right is Water


http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-7/282337/Map2.JPG

Feel free to create your own!

[Jill]

Not bad maps and I think the kitchen being away from the lake is a good idea.

I have some more blue prints taken from another not to mention site.

Hopefully we can all discuss the accuracy to these blue prints and come up with a blue print for the grounds of hogwarts and Hogwarts itself.

The first blue print is a partial representation of Hogwarts schools ground floor but it needs extending using what we can find in the literature though. Something I will work on over the next couple of days, unless anyone wants to put there own input into extending this blue print.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/SWIFTC139/hogwarts+ground+floor.jpg

Sorry but the file was too big to fit as an attachment but the link above should work.

The Second picture is meant to be a representation of the surrounding ground at Hogswart and includes part of Hogsmade. I think the lake might be a little wrong so I think I might go back and check on a few things, with respect to this.

xxjillyweed.

Great idea, I would really like to see a total blue print for the school as it might help use understand things better in the 6th and 7th books. :tu: :)

[dumbleedore]

Just remember with Hogwarts being a magical building, rooms and such might not be like in regular buildings. For example, the chamber where the stone was hidden. If we go on the logic of them having fallen down under the school, they should have been in the potions dungeon, but they weren't.

[cleansweep11]

I went to the link.....and I personally always thought it was the other way around and that the great hall was on the left and the classrooms and stuff was on the right.......same thing only switched it around....

[hesdead-dealwithit]

Just a note about maps - in real magical life (that is, in life inside of the books) you cannot make a blueprint for Hogwarts, at least not one we would really recognize as a bluepring. This (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essay-marauders-map.html) is solely about the Marauder's Map and how it works, but it gives a good explanation about how another blueprint would work. Suffice to say it would definitely seem foreign to us.

[Jill]

Just a note about maps - in real magical life (that is, in life inside of the books) you cannot make a blueprint for Hogwarts, at least not one we would really recognize as a bluepring. This (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essay-marauders-map.html) is solely about the Marauder's Map and how it works, but it gives a good explanation about how another blueprint would work. Suffice to say it would definitely seem foreign to us.

Well that is why this is a challenging thread. Thankyou hesdead-dealwithit, you have given us some dimensions of the castle to work on.

I think the maurders map works on the basis of where your standing in the castle. I think it can show a 3D picture of part of the castle you are standing in but not the whole castles blue print. As you move so does the 3D blueprint image, so that it reveals the area within say 50m of you in all directions, up, down, right and left etc... :)

[Mad Macca]

The maps are are pretty close to what I've imagined them to be like.
Anyone who has played the Harry Potter games on PC or whatever will probably recognise the first map Jill provided, its pretty much the same layout, but with a few extra little things added like the broom closet and and anti chamber. But I always imagined the staff room and filches office to be on the left side, instead of class rooms. I always thought that there were no classrooms on the first floor, but I dont remember small details like that when I read the books

[Auror Williamson]

I've always imagined Hogwarts grounds to look like the attachment.

By the way, I made it on photoshop, and I apologize for the handwriting. My handwriting on paper is much better.

http://www.cosforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10735

[Niffler_8882]

My way of thinking of it is alwasys so weird..i think so differently but hey! The whomping willow is nearer to the lake and.....woah! its different werid! Its like totally turned around in my point of view...ah well..lets see if i can draw it

[RELASHIO Rachel]

The Slytherin Common Room must be pretty nifty..

I agree about The Chamber Of Secret theory.. I mean, it's described as like dank and dark and stuff.. It would seem it would be VERY far underground, under or even in the middle of the lake.

Does the Forbidden Forest like surround PARTS of Hogwarts.. or just like a straight line, like to the West of the Castle or something.. That's how I imagined it..

Auror Williamson: that's EXACTLY how I imagined it too..

[SbIlRaIcUkS]

Ive always been really interested in the architecture cause its one of the few things that i really like and havent figured out yet whenever i learn a new thing or see something i missed i draw it in on this notebook i have.......ill try to get it into my next post here

[littlesnitch88]

i always imgagined that there was only the chamber on the right side of the entrance hall where they were taken to in their first year and then on the left were the doors to the great hall and then as you walked straigh down the entrance hall the marble staircase was directly across from the doors to the castle. when JK talked about class room 11 in book 5 i was given a real shocker. heh. i never imagined that there were classes that close to the great hall. i think i also pictured the entrance hall longer and that you could walk past the staircase to classes behind it. iff any of that makes any sense...

[Kippin]

I really like the idea of the slytherin common room windows looking at the lake! I Imagine that the stairs that go under the school end on aprox 15 floor and theres a long hallway that leads to a stone wall that is the door to the common room, and that there are no other floors under that, atleast that the students know about.

We know that the hufflepuff common room is under the school too, near the kitchen, do you think if has windows??? Where would they look to?