Password

"Password?"

— The Fat Lady guarding Gryffindor Tower

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.

List of previously used passwords

Hogwarts

Gryffindor Tower

1991 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 (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
• 1992
  • Sherbet lemon
• 1994
  • Cockroach cluster
• 1996
  • Acid Pops
  • Fizzing Whizzbees
  • Toffee Eclairs
• 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)

Portraits

Elizabeth Burke's portrait Slytherins are Supreme Facta, non verba (Latin for Deeds, not words) Glanmore Peakes's portraits Sea Serpent Percival Pratt's portrait This Password is Absurd Basil Fronsac's portrait Studious Success Libraries Liberate Giffard Abbott's portrait Dragon's Egg Light against Darkness Damara Dodderidge's portrait Chops and Gravy Dashing Cadogan

Boris the Bewildered's portrait Forget-Me-Never Old Posh Baron's portrait Fizzy Pop Hesper Starky's portrait Lunartickle Edgar Stroulger's portrait Surreptitiousness (Grounds portrait) Catweazle (Dungeons portrait) Wanglewort (Upper Castle portrait) Wolf's Bane

Marauder's Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" to reveal the map, and "Mischief managed" to hide it.

Potterwatch

• Albus
• Dearborn
• Fawkes
• Longbottom
• Mad-Eye
• Meadowes
• Moody
• Padfoot
• Phoenix
• Prewett
• Sirius
• Vance
• Wulfric (One of Albus Dumbledore's middle names)

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• 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
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Possibly)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Possibly)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery