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This secret shortcut was located in Hogwarts Castle and was comprised of three halls connecting the first-floor corridor with the third-floor corridor.[1]

History[]

It could be accessed behind a statue of a wizard on the first floor, and also round the back of some wood panelling on the third floor. The first room was large, with a single bookcase that one had to climb in order to get to a balcony leading to the second room, which was a large hall filled with bookcases. One had to jump from one bookcase to another in order to proceed to the next room. The third room was a large carpeted hall with very high windows and bookcases that could be climbed to reach the third floor.[1]

In 1991, Fred and George Weasley led Harry Potter, who was heading to a first-year Defence Against the Dark Arts class with Professor Quirrell, through this secret shortcut.[1]

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First-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Bathrooms
First-Floor Girls' Toilets
Classrooms
Advanced Arithmancy Studies classroom · Class 1 · Classroom 1A · Classroom 1C · Classroom 1D · Classroom 1E · Classroom 4F · Classroom used for storage · Classroom with maps of Great Britain and Ireland · Muggle Studies Classroom
Corridors
First-floor corridor · Library corridor · Passage of the Fouls · Tapestry Corridor
Halls and rooms
Detention Chamber · East Wing · Great Hall gallery · Hospital Wing · Library · Hogwarts Library secret room · North Hall · Portrait Hall · Rear Hall · Restricted Section · Torture room
Offices
Chiyo Kogawa's office · Matilda Weasley's office · Minerva McGonagall's office · Poppy Pomfrey's office
Other locations
Minerva McGonagall's bedroom · Stone Bridge · Vault of Fear
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Affpuddle of the Cheerful Countenance · Bearded man · Elizabeth Burke · Count · Fat Friar · Female nurse · Male nurse · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Hengist Rawkes · Scholar · Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon Mural · Google Stump
Staircases
Faculty Tower staircase · Grand Staircase · Secret shortcut to the third floor · Staircase to the second-floor corridor · Staircase to the Serpentine Corridor · Staircase to the library corridor · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Hospital Wing stores · Potions Storeroom
Third-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Classrooms
Class 34 · Class 72 · Classroom 2E · Classroom 3C · Classroom 3C backrooms · Classroom 3D · Classroom 7A · Classroom off of the Charms corridor · Classroom off of the Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · Ghoul Studies classroom
Corridors
Ɔdificium Oriens · Charms corridor · Gallery · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Serpentine Corridor · Third-floor corridor · Trophy Secret Passage
Halls and rooms
Abraham Ronen's quarters · Armoury · Clock Tower Entrance · Hesperius Hall · Mudiwa Onai's quarters · Trophy Room · Vastus Vestibule · Viaduct Entrance loft
Portraits, statues, and other artwork
Damara Dodderidge · Dinah Hecat's Hebridean Black skeleton · Dragon statue · Drunk Monks · Google Flange · Basil Fronsac · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Hippogriff statue · Merwyn the Malicious · Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · Valeria Myriadd · Helena Ravenclaw · Alphonso Ringbloom · Brutus Scrimgeour · Temeritus Shanks · Shepherdess · Sphinx statue · Winged horse · Witch in green · Witch in Pompadour hairstyle · Wizard in black · Wizard in red
Staircases
Clock Tower staircase · Grand Staircase · Secret shortcut to the first floor · Staircase to the courtyard corridor · Staircase to the first-floor corridor · Staircase to the Main Landing · Staircase to the ground-floor · Staircase to the second-floor arcade · Turret Stairwell · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Cauldron cupboard · Lost Wands · Storeroom · Stink Bomb Store