Summary - Hogwarts castle, grounds and lake

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No: HPFGUIDX 29565

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., katzefan at y... wrote:

> Questions
> 
> 1. What else might be in Hogwarts, apart from classrooms, 
> dormitories and common rooms, and staff offices?

Secret passages... Store rooms. Teacher's homes (enough room for 
families) .. and well, they got to have toilets!!! And, a Hall for 
fests, a place to eat, kitchen, class rooms, study-rooms (Where some 
could study on their own, after-graduating), library, nurse's place, 
sports-field for Quidditch... Place for all allowed practice.
 
> 2) Why aren't the students given official notice of trick staircases 
> and other oddities, when someone could get seriously hurt on 
> them?

Only first-years need be told, and that's prefects' duty. Way to 
Gryffindor-tower could well be trapping for things that should not be 
there.
 
> 3) Why is Peeves allowed to stay, when he's such a menace?

Because Poltergeists always trouble when there are adolescents around 
- besides, he's not really hurting anyone.

> 4) Do the official House Ghosts ever change, or have these four 
> got their positions for all of eternity?

House-ghosts ... I don't think they'll change unless a ghost stops 
existing for some reason. Because to get a new ghost, someone is to 
die (might be nice to see a ghost Cedric or Lily or James, though).