The Main Entrance Gates to Hogwarts were located a short distance from Hogsmeade Station. The gates would be opened on the first day of term and carriages pulled by Thestrals would take students up to the castle.
Description
The Entrance Gates were made of magnificent wrought iron and were flanked by two columns topped with statues of winged boars. Just a few yards from the gates was a small guardhouse with a tall chimney.[1]
History
During the 1993-1994 school year, the gates were guarded by Dementors attempting to apprehend Sirius Black.[2]
In 1996, before the students travelled past the gates, Professor Flitwick and Argus Filch stood guard checking off the names of students and searching them before allowing them to continue up to Hogwarts. The walls surrounding the perimeter were protected by anti-intruder jinxes, and the gates was sealed with a padlock that had been subjected to an Anti-Alohomora Charm that were cast by Albus Dumbledore over the summer of 1996.[3]
Behind the scenes
- The winged boars that frame the gates may be a reference to Chrysaor, the brother of Pegasus, who is sometimes depicted as a winged boar.
- The design for the winged boar statues that flank the gates featured on the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was based on that of Il Porcellino, a bronze fountain of a boar (sculpted and cast in around the 1630s) located in Florence, Italy.
Appearances

Winged Boar Statue as seen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in vision(s))
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 8 (Snape Victorious)