Training Grounds tower

Training Grounds Tower
Location information
Location	Hogwarts Castle, Scotland, Great Britain
Owner(s)	Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Affiliation	Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

The Training Grounds tower was one of the many towers at Hogwarts Castle. It was located at the North of the castle and overlooked the Training Grounds. The Library, the second-floor corridor and the Charms Classroom were located in this tower.

During the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, the tower was almost blown up like the Central Tower.

Behind the scenes

• The Training Grounds tower changes in every film adaptation, but the basic shape remains. In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it starts off as a tower with lots of turrets. In the second film, the basic shape remains (if drawn out as a floor plan, the original, which was based upon Alnwick Castle, and the new one are the same) but it changes to look more like the Clock Tower until the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, where the tower was changed to another Bell Tower, but was slightly shorter than the other two. However, in some scenes of the castle (notably the scene in which Death Eaters attempt to get past the protection) the old tower is there, as well as the DADA Tower. However, the reason why the filmmakers changed the tower is because when the production team built the Transfiguration Courtyard set, they built the tower like one of the Bell Towers because it saved time and money. This does not explain why it reverts to its older incarnation midway through the film and then reverts to its new incarnation towards the end of the film.
• In Hogwarts Legacy, this tower is identified as the West Tower, but the canonicity of this is made dubious by an overlap in how the books, films, and video games handle the location of the West Tower. In the books, the Owlery is a distinct part of the West Tower, but Hogwarts Legacy takes inspiration from its castle shape from the film series, where the Owlery is a remote tower away from the Hogwarts building. Different versions of what the West Tower is in the books, films, and even differences between the EA and Avalanche video games means that it is hard to strictly classify this tower as the West Tower, especially when it lacks such a distinctive feature from the books, which are ultimately among the highest sources of Harry Potter canon.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• 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 (film)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• Hogwarts Legacy (Referred to as the West Tower)
• The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy (Referred to as the South Tower)