Phoenix Before the Ashes

Entrance

The entrance to the common room is located behind the portrait of the Fat Lady on the Seventh Floor. A password is required to reveal the circular hole behind the painting leading to the common room.

Common Room

The common room is a circular room full of squashy armchairs, tables, and a bulletin board where school notices, ads, lost posters, etc. can be posted. A window looks out onto the grounds of the school, and a large fireplace dominates one wall. The walls are decorated with scarlet tapestries that depict witches and wizards, but also various animals. It is usually where celebration parties are held after Gryffindor Quidditch victories.

Dormitories

Every dorm room is equipped with a centrally-located stove, and each student gets their own four poster bed, flanked by a set of windows and space for storing personal belongings. On the window sill, a water jug is placed, in case any of the students should feel the need for a drink in the middle of the night.

Entrance

The entrance to the common room is located behind a stone wall in the dungeons. A password is required to enter it; whereupon a passage is revealed leading to the common room.

The Common Room

The common room is a dungeon-like room with greenish lamps and chairs. This dungeon extends partway under the lake, giving the light in the room a green tinge. The common room has lots of low backed black and dark green button-tufted, leather sofas; skulls; and dark wood cupboards. It has quite a grand atmosphere, but also quite a cold one. The password to the common room changes every fortnight, and it is posted on the noticeboard. It is decorated with tapestries featuring the adventures of famous Medieval Slytherins.

Dormitories

There are ancient four-posters with green silk hangings. During the night it is possible to listen to the lake water lapping against the windows. Silver lanterns hang from the ceilings.

Entrance

The entrance to the common room is located “in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor”, concealed behind a stack of barrels. In order to reveal the entrance, no password is required. Instead, one must tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff’, which will make the lid swing open, exposing a passageway that will lead to the basement when crawled through. However, if the wrong lid is tapped or the wrong rhythm is used, the intruder will be doused in vinegar and barred access.

Common Room

It is round and earthy and low-ceilinged; it always feels sunny, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions. There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills. The Head of house, Professor Pomona Sprout, is Head of Herbology, and she brings the most interesting specimens (some of which dance and talk) to decorate the room – one reason why Hufflepuffs are often very good at Herbology. The overstuffed sofas and chairs are upholstered in yellow and black. 

Dormitories

Reached through round doors in the walls of the common room. Copper lamps cast a warm light over the four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts, and copper bed warmers hang on the walls, should anyone have cold feet.

Entrance

The entrance to the common room is located on the west side of Hogwarts at the top of a spiral staircase, presumably located on the fifth floor, and is a door without a doorknob or keyhole, but a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. In order to enter the room, a person must answer a riddle asked by the eagle knocker; if they answer incorrectly, they must wait for someone else who gets it right.

Common Room

The Ravenclaw common room is one of the airiest rooms at Hogwarts. It is a wide, circular room with a midnight blue carpet, arched windows hung with blue and bronze silks, and a domed ceiling painted with stars. During the day, Ravenclaw students have an excellent view of the school grounds, including the lake, Forbidden Forest, Quidditch pitch, Herbology gardens and the surrounding mountains. The room is furnished with tables, chairs, and bookcases; and by the door leading up to the dormitories stands a tall statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made of white marble.

The Ravenclaw Common Room is a bookworm’s paradise. There is a large room that serves as a library, and it is said that there are almost as many books there as in the main library, even if the room looks much, much smaller. Light floods in from windows close to the ceiling. This is the only common room without a fireplace in the main part of the common room.

Dormitories

The entrance to the Ravenclaw dormitories is located in the Tower, beside a statue of Rowena Ravenclaw. The dormitories are in turrets off the main tower; the four-poster beds are covered in sky blue silk eiderdowns and the sound of the wind whistling around the windows is said to be very relaxing.