Harry Potter: Hogwarts

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a British boarding school for magic which is located in Scotland. The precise location can never be uncovered because the school is hidden by the most powerful spells possible, and is Unplottable. Spells protecting the castle include anti-Apparition and Muggle-repelling charms, which make the castle appear as an old ruin with a sign that says 'Danger, Keep Out.'

Most electronic devices do not work on Hogwarts grounds.

J. K. Rowling said she wanted a humorous motto for Hogwarts (Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus, meaning 'never tickle a sleeping dragon' in Latin), since so many schools have less pragmatic ones such as "Reach for the stars".

In an interview with J. K. Rowling, she said there are about one-thousand students attending Hogwarts at any given time. This is supported by the fact, that when Harry sees his father doing his OWL (in the Pensieve in Snape's office), there are over 150 students. Secondly, during a Quidditch match, everybody was supporting Gryffindor except around 200 Slytherins supporting their own. However, if each year had the same number of students as Harry's, with five boys and five girls in each dorm, there would only be two-hundred and eighty students. This means that there are usually at least 70 students per House per year.

It is rumoured that on the W.O.M.B.A.T. test, Rowena Ravenclaw had a dream that a warty hog was leading her to a lake and that's how Hogwarts got its name.J.K. Rowling has said in an interview that Hogwarts is a multi-faith school.

The set:
Hogwarts was 60 x 50 x 30 ft high on a scale of 1:24.

The original version took about seven months to create with 40 people working on it.

The miniature has been updated over the years due to story requirements. Each of these updates has taken approximately 3-4 months with about 20 model makers.



Translating 'Hogwarts':
Most translations keep the name 'Hogwarts', transcribing it if necessary (for example Arabic هوغوورتس = Hūghwūrts, Russian Хогвартс = Khogvarts, Japanese ホグワーツ = Hoguwātsu, Bengali হগওয়ার্টস = Hogowarts, Greek Χόγκουαρτς = Hóguarts), but some translate or otherwise adapt it (French Poudlard (lard = "bacon"), Latvian Cūkkārpas shortened from cūka = "pig" + kārpas = "warts", Dutch Zweinstein modified from zwijnsteen = "pig rock", Norwegian Bokmål Galtvort (Nynorsk keeps "Hogwarts"), Finnish Tylypahka (pahka = "wart"), Hungarian Roxfort, Slovenian Bradavičarka (bradavič = "warts")). The Ancient Greek translation of the school is "Ὑογοήτου Παιδευτήριον τὸ τῆς Γοητείας καὶ Μαγείας", loosely translating to "Hogwizard's School of Wizardry and Magic", Ὑογοήτου replacing "Hogwarts" and derived from the ancient Greek words ὑo- (hog) and γοητής (wizard).

[Souces: Hollywood Reporter, Harry Potter Wikia, Wikipedia; Image: Official Site]