Password

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" No Password, no entry!"

— The Fat Lady in 1995^[src]

Passwords are used throughout Hogwarts Castle to restrict entry to certain areas such as house common rooms and teacher offices. Passwords in Hogwarts appear to change on a frequent basis.

During Sir Cadogan's period of guarding the Gryffindor common room, he changed passwords so frequently that Neville Longbottom had to write them down. This list was snatched by Crookshanks and was given to Sirius Black, allowing him entrance.

Passwords were also used as a way to gain to access to the radio programme Potterwatch, as a way to protect it from Death Eaters possibly listening. New passwords were introduced at the end of each broadcast, and could be used to listen to the next one.

Caput Draconis (Latin for "Dragon's Head")
Pig Snout

1992

Wattlebird

1993

Fortuna Major (Latin for "greater luck")
Flibbertigibbet
Oddsbodikins
Scurvy Cur

1994

Balderdash
Banana Fritters
Fairy Lights

1995

Mimbulus Mimbletonia
Alea iacta est^[1] (Latin for "The die is cast.")

1996

Abstinence
Baubles
Dilligrout
Tapeworm
Quid Agis (Latin for "How are you")

Hufflepuff Basement

(Instead of a password, one must tap the correct barrel with their wand, in the rhythm of "Helga Hufflepuff".)

Ravenclaw Tower

(Instead of a password, a conundrum is posed.)

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
- Answer: A circle has no beginning.
Where do Vanished objects go?
- Answer: Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything.

Slytherin Dungeon

1992

Pure-blood

Hogwarts Kitchens

(Instead of a password, one must tickle the pear in the portrait.)

Headmaster's Office

Minerva McGonagall using "Sherbet lemon" in 1992

1985-1986 school year

Iced mice^[2]

1992

Sherbet lemon

1994

Cockroach cluster

1996

1998

Dumbledore

Unknown

Chocolate Frogs

Prefects' bathroom

1994

Pine-fresh

One-Eyed Witch Passage

Dissendium

Chamber of Secrets and Salazar Slytherin's Locket

"Open" (spoken in Parseltongue)
Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four. (spoken in Parseltongue, to release Salazar Slytherin's basilisk from its nesting place)