Hogwarts

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Hogwarts (霍格沃茨)
Alias(es)	Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 1
Occupation/Role	Western magical school and semi-closed boarding institution for young wizards 1 33
Affiliation	Governed by Headmaster Albus Dumbledore; overseen financially by a Board of Governors 4 35
Status	Active in 1991 1
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Governance and Academic System

• Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore holds the highest authority within Hogwarts and may authorize matters affecting its territory, including Zhang San's divine appointments. 4
• Deputy Headmistress: Professor Minerva McGonagall serves as deputy headmistress and Head of Gryffindor. 2
• House system: Students are assigned to Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin through the Sorting Ceremony. 1
• Curriculum: Hogwarts provides a seven-year magical education focused on practical spellcasting; deeper magical research is generally pursued after graduation or through professorships. 6 23
• Restricted knowledge: The castle's library contains both a regular section and a Restricted Section, the latter holding dangerous and abstruse magical theories. 23
• Board of Governors: The governors provide Hogwarts with money and supplies, including funds used to settle Professor Binns's three centuries of unpaid wages. 35 36

Grounds and Facilities

Castle and Grounds

Hogwarts Castle stands beside the Black Lake and several surrounding hills, while the Forbidden Forest falls within the territory later assigned to Zhang San as local deity. 6 33

• Great Hall — venue for the Sorting Ceremony, school feasts, and formal receptions. 1 3
• Forbidden Forest — a dangerous woodland inhabited by creatures including Aragog's Acromantula colony and unicorns. 19 34 40
• Black Lake — provides mud used for the Water Earl statue in Zhang San's temple. 6
• Quidditch pitch — used for House-team training, broom testing, and the annual Quidditch Cup, which runs from November to April. 41
• Hidden rooms — many spaces in the castle are magically sealed until needed; older students sometimes attempt to break these seals and claim the rooms for clubs. 35

Student Areas

• House common rooms — students are expected to gather only in their own House's common room; all four later receive statues of Zhang San. 11 44
• Kitchens — located near the Hufflepuff common room and accessed by tickling the pear in a fruit painting; house-elves prepare and magically deliver food. 10
• School hospital — maintains treatment for Quidditch injuries, including broken bones. 45
• Conference room — a seldom-used, lavishly decorated room unsealed for the Board of Governors' meeting with Professor Binns. 35

Magical Characteristics

• Hogwarts's large resident wizard population produces an energy field that disrupts ordinary electrical devices; electronics may short-circuit, fail, or explode within it. 9
• Consecrated objects can withstand this interference. Zhang San's arcade machines function at the temple because they were transformed into mystical artifacts at Mount Longhu. 9
• The castle houses numerous ghosts, whose knowledge includes ancient magic from earlier eras of Hogwarts history. 35
• Dumbledore arranges for magical isolation measures after Zhang San's cultivation screams disturb every wizard in the castle through chaotic magical elements. 12

History

Exchange Student Incident

In 1991, Hogwarts accepted Zhang San of Mount Longhu's Celestial Masters' Mansion as an exchange student. During the opening feast, Zhang exposed Professor Quirrell as Voldemort's servant; Quirrell killed him with the Killing Curse before fleeing. 1

The death of a Chinese exchange student on school grounds threatened the newly established relationship between the Eastern cultivation world and the Western wizarding world. Dumbledore preserved Zhang San's body and arranged contact with Mount Longhu. 1 2 3

Funeral and Local Deity Appointment

A forty-six-person Chinese Daoist delegation arrived at Hogwarts to conduct Zhang San's funeral, erecting a ceremonial tent before the castle and meeting Hogwarts leadership. 3

As compensation and to allow Zhang San's soul to leave the castle safely, Dumbledore formally recognized him as Hogwarts's God of the Land, Mountain God, and Water Warden. The appointment made Zhang San a local deity bound to Hogwarts territory rather than a wandering ghost. 4 5

Guardian Deity Temple

Daoist masters constructed the Hogwarts Guardian Deity Temple outside the castle on the convergence of the area's earth, dragon, and water veins. 5 6

• The temple contains halls for Zhang San's Earth God, Mountain God, and Water Earl aspects. 6
• Its underground space houses an arcade supported by consecrated machines. 6 9
• Harry Potter and Ron Weasley initially serve as temple attendants, selling incense, issuing game tokens, and maintaining order. 6 12
• The temple normally opens only on rest days so students will not skip lessons to play games. 22

Institutional Changes

After Zhang San reports that Ron Weasley's rat Scabbers is the illegal Animagus Peter Pettigrew, Dumbledore investigates, Sirius Black is exonerated, and Hogwarts introduces stricter pet regulations. 31 32

Zhang San's offerings restore vitality and sanity to Hogwarts's ghosts. Professor Binns subsequently demands payment for centuries of posthumous teaching, and the Board of Governors pays him 200,000 Galleons. 35 36

School Life and Student Activities

Temple Membership System

Zhang San's shrine introduces a membership-points system that converts incense offerings into redeemable benefits. Students from all four Houses participate, whether or not they are sincere believers. 44

• Worshippers can receive arcade access, shopping discounts, homework assistance, blessings, and visual effects. 44
• A “Warm Hogwarts” incense offering grants a twenty-four-hour warming effect, allowing students to watch winter Quidditch matches without feeling cold. 44
• Students elect Zhang San as mascot of the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup. 44

Flying Broom Workshop

Hogwarts becomes the back-factory site for the Flying Broom Workshop, while a Diagon Alley shop handles sales. 43 46

• The workshop develops the Bamboo Mark I and Black Bamboo Mark I brooms through research by Zhang San, Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, and later Bill Weasley. 41 43 46
• Professor McGonagall purchases six Black Bamboo Mark I brooms for Gryffindor at 2,000 Galleons each. 43
• Gryffindor uses the brooms in Quidditch, where their superior speed, handling, and stopping performance provide a major competitive advantage. 42 45

Relationships

• Albus Dumbledore — Headmaster and highest authority at Hogwarts; accepts responsibility for Zhang San's death and authorizes his three divine posts. 4 12
• Minerva McGonagall — Deputy headmistress and Gryffindor Head; ensures Zhang San continues his education after death and later supports broom research while enforcing safety standards. 6 42 43
• Celestial Masters' Mansion of Mount Longhu — Chinese cultivation sect that sends Zhang San as an exchange student and establishes his temple after his death. 1 3 6
• Board of Governors — Hogwarts's financial backers; pay Professor Binns's overdue wages after meeting him directly. 35 36
• Hogwarts ghosts — resident spirits supported by Zhang San's incense-infused offerings, which restore part of their sanity and allow access to their old magical knowledge. 35