Ground Floor

Staff Room

A long panelled room, mismatched with dark wooden chairs. There is a large cupboard in the centre of the room, sometimes inhabited by a boggart. The staff room is located off the Entrance Hall.

Filch's Office

Filch's office is a small room with a single oil lamping hanging from the ceiling. It smells of fried fish. In it are filing cabinets with details of the misdeeds of students. Fred and George have an entire drawer to themselves.

• filing cabinet with records of the misdeeds of students, including an entire drawer for the Weasley twins.

• chains and manacles (not used these days but kept polished just in case).

• cabinet full of confiscated magic items marked "Confiscated and Highly Dangerous."

• desk and chairs

• lots of forms to write up malefactors

• smells vaguely of cooked fish

• probably on the ground floor because Filch took Harry "back downstairs" to write him up for befouling the castle, and because the Vanishing Cabinet which Peeves broke directly over Filch's office (CS8) was located on the first floor.

Broom Cupboard

• located off the Entrance Hall

• Harry and Ron locked Crabbe and Goyle in it.

• Hermione and Harry hid here while using the Time-Turner to wait for themselves to pass through the Entrance Hall.