Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a fictional setting in J. K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter series. In the series, it is a Boarding school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and eighteen living in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Six of the seven books in the series are largely set at the school, with each book lasting the equivalent of one school year. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, most of the book is set outside Hogwarts as main characters Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger do not attend their final year of school (though Rowling has stated that Hermione eventually does return to school to complete her N.E.W.T. examinations). The climactic battle of the book, and the series, however, is set at Hogwarts.

Despite it being a fictional school, Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in an online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's Loretto School. Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the hogwort plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at Kew Gardens some time before writing the Harry Potter series, although the names 'The Hogwarts' and 'Hoggwart' both appear in the 1954 Nigel Molesworth book How To Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans.

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