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"Snape had imposed his personality upon the room already; it was gloomier than usual, as curtains had been drawn over the windows, and was lit by candlelight. New pictures adorned the walls, many of them showing people who appeared to be in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts. Nobody spoke as they settled down, looking around at the shadowy, gruesome pictures."
— Classroom 3C while Snape was the DADA Professor[src]

Classroom 3C,[4] also known as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Classroom,[5] was where Defence Against the Dark Arts class was taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was located off of the Serpentine Corridor[1] on the third-floor of Hogwarts Castle.[2][3][4][5]

Description

Classroom 3C

An iron chandelier hung from the ceiling, as well as a dragon's skeleton.[6] On one end of the classroom stood a projector that was activated by magic.[7] There was also a blackboard at the front of the classroom. Several desks and tables could be found in the classroom as well as some sets of large windows. The classroom decoration had several changes over the years, spanning from lots of pictures of Gilderoy Lockhart,[8] to skeletons and Shrunken Heads.

History

Pre-19081927

Dumbledore teaching in his classroom

During his early teaching career, a young Albus Dumbledore occupied this classroom in his capacity as the school's Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Throughout much of this time, the classroom was home to a number of curious magical instruments that would one day find their way to the Headmaster's study following Professor Dumbledore's appointment as Head of Hogwarts many years later. A gifted instructor, he made good use of the classroom to, among other things, teach students how to handle dark creatures and how to duel.[9]

1988–1989 school year

Professor Rakepick teaching a class

A world-renowned Curse-Breaker who had been originally enlisted by then Headmaster Albus Dumbledore to help investigate the fabled Cursed Vaults and spent the better part of the previous school year searching for them, Patricia Rakepick accepted the former's offer of employment and became a member of the teaching staff.

Filling her classroom with an assortment of objects harking back to her many adventures while working for Gringotts Wizarding Bank, most of them Egyptian in origin, she also used it to house a number of dark artefacts that the students would have to identify and counter as part of their studies. An efficient teacher, her first-hand experience encountering Dark Magic throughout her career enabled her to offer her pupils a comprehensive curriculum, teaching everything from handling dark creatures, learning Defensive spells as well as martial magic.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

1989–1990 school year

Bill Weasley teaching a group of sixth year students in this classroom

Defence Against the Dark Arts was taught by a teacher who was considered useless by most students. Bill Weasley was given permission by Albus Dumbledore to use the classroom to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts to students after lessons were done for the day.[24] The Circle of Khanna held a duelling practise session in this classroom one evening watched over by Bill Weasley.[25]

1990–1991 school year

Bill Weasley continued teaching his extra-curricular evening DADA classes in this classroom in the 1990–1991 school year as well.[26] Later on in the year, Jacob's sibling assembled the Circle of Khanna in the classroom for a meeting one day, in order to update them on important information.[27]

1991–1992 school year

Quirinus Quirrell used a temporary classroom because the third-floor corridor was out-of-bounds.[28]

1992–1993 school year

Gilderoy Lockhart's pictures in the classroom

When Gilderoy Lockhart was the professor, during the 1992–1993 school year, he decorated the room with his own pictures. During the first lesson, he gave a quiz completely irrelevant to the subject and then released a group of boisterous Cornish Pixies for the class to practise. However, due to his ineptitude and the students' inexperience, Lockhart lost control of them, leading the classroom to be demolished, and Lockhart ultimately fled the room with the rest of the students while irresponsibly ordering Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger to clear up his mess.[8]

After this one fiasco, Lockhart simply read aloud his supposedly great deeds from his textbooks, sometimes reenacting them and usually dragging Harry to play certain degrading roles.[29] Due to this, the students did not learn anything useful or meaningful about the subject.[30]

1993–1994 school year

Remus Lupin having his first lesson on Boggarts

Remus Lupin taught in the 1993–1994 school year. They studied various dark creatures. The first class was hands-on as they fought a Boggart with the Boggart-Banishing Spell.[31] He also brought a Grindylow to class so that they could observe it. They covered Boggarts, Hinkypunks, Kappas, Red Caps, Vampires and Werewolves in the year.[32][33][34] Their final exam was a practical one, an obstacle course with some of the creatures they had studied throughout the year, which was carried out on the school grounds.[35]

1994–1995 school year

Barty Crouch teaching his class on the Unforgivable Curses

The 1994–1995 school year brought yet another teacher, Barty Crouch Jnr (impersonating Alastor Moody). Although they were only supposed to be learning Counter-curses (per Ministry of Magic regulations), Crouch covered the Unforgivable Curses, demonstrating with three spiders.[36] In another lesson, he placed the Imperius Curse on several students in turn until they could learn how to resist the curse.[37] He also taught his class the art of Hex-deflection.[38] Crouch also had a metal jar of worms, as well as a glass container full of bees.[39]

1995–1996 school year

Dolores Umbridge treating her class with dull and meaningless materials

In the 1995–1996 school year, Harry and his fellow students were taught by Dolores Umbridge, who taught theory only with no practical training whatsoever. The book used was Defensive Magical Theory and it discouraged anyone from ever using any form of defensive or offensive spells. The chapters of the book instead focused on negotiation and states that there is no good use for a jinx.

Umbridge did not allow the students to discuss the material and certainly not to disagree with it. She also forbade any talking without raising hands, and always requested wands to be put away.[40][41] As one of the methods of retaliation against her tyranny, the moment she enters the classroom she would be greeted by students with ill-coated symptoms of "Umbridge-itis", much to her chagrin.[42]

1996–1997 school year

The 1996–1997 school year brought another teacher, Severus Snape. His sixth year class learned about Dementors, the Unforgivable Curses, and Nonverbal spells. Snape imposed his personality onto the room with rather dark decors: curtains drawn over the windows and the room was lit by candlelight, leading to a gloomier atmosphere, and new, gruesome pictures adorned the walls, many of them showing people in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts.[43]

Behind the scenes

  • In the video game adaptations, the classroom used in 1991 is the same as the one used the following years. It is located on the third floor.
  • The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban features the Divination classroom, which uses a redecorated version of the same film set as this room. This can be seen clearly when the back of the room is shown to have the same semicircle window and door.
  • In the Nintendo DS video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the classroom is shown without the stairs to the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office. The reason may be that Severus Snape did not use this office. In the rest of the video game adaptations, you can go up the spiral staircase on the third floor and reach the entrance to the classroom, but you can not enter the room, except in Order of the Phoenix. In that game you can enter in Umbridge's Office.
  • In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the set receives somewhat of an overhaul. The antechamber seen in the previous films is removed and replaced by a spiral staircase, which was filmed at the same location as the Divination Stairwell. The door leading into the classroom changes shape, and the window at the back of the classroom is enlarged. A reason for this change may have been due to the Divination Classroom re-using the set and originally featured the same stairwell.
  • In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a door at the back of the class near the stairs that leads into a series of backrooms, which in turn lead to a roof top on the outside of the Castle. In these backrooms the trio encounter a series of obstacles which they must clear before they can proceed. This might indicate that teachers can suggest changes to the Castle to match their needs.
  • Despite being shown as being located in either the Hogwarts Turris Magnus or Astronomy Tower, neither of these towers have window patterns that match the windows that are seen on the classroom's interior film set, most notably the semicircular window in the back of the room.
  • In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, since the original classroom from the Harry Potter films fell apart after time within the time span of the last time we saw the it in use, they went through the original drawing and copied and rebuilt it.[44]
  • For each DADA Professor, they each had their own style and way to dress the clasroom;
    • For Albus Dumbledore, he was into Astronomy they gave him a bunch of telescopes and one 15 feet high telescope which was a look alike of the one we see in the Headmaster's Office during his time as Headmaster.
    • Gilderoy Lockhart was a very cocky person and liked to show himself off so he decorated the room with many pictures of himself.
    • During Alastor Moody time in the classroom, he was very paranoid so he had many mirrors of many sizes.
    • As for Dolores Umbridge, she was a very neat person so they decorated the classroom very tight and didn't have many things in it, besides the desks.

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Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marauder's Map replica by the Noble Collection
  2. 2.0 2.1 (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince) - "An hour later they reluctantly left the sunlit common room for the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom four floors below [the seventh-floor]."
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 11 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) - Chapter 14 (Substitute Teacher)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  9. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay, Scene 64
  10. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 1 (Year Five Begins) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Ghoul"
  11. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 2 (Grave Danger) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Hex-Deflection"
  12. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 3 (Detention Before Extension) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Impedimenta"
  13. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 7 (The Life and Death of Duncan Ashe) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Pixies"
  14. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 8 (Trial by Fire)
  15. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 13 (Rats and Dogs) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Trip Jinx"
  16. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 15 (Secrets and Lies) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Deprimo"
  17. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 17 (Broken Bonds) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Fumos"
  18. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 19 (The Unforgivable Curses) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Lacarnum Inflamari"
  19. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 22 (Agent of Chaos) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Vipera Evanesca"
  20. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 24 (Dark Pranks) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Reductor Curse"
  21. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 26 (Chaos Ensues) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Densaugeo"
  22. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 28 (About Merula) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Homenum Revelio"
  23. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 29 (Final Preparations) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Everte Statum"
  24. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 5 (Wherefore Art Thou, Weasleys?)
  25. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 24 (Return to the Forest)
  26. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 3 (On the Case) - Defence Against the Dark Arts Lesson "Chameleon Ghoul"
  27. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 31 (Circle Up)
  28. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) - Chapter 15 (New Seeker)
  29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
  30. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 14 (Cornelius Fudge)
  31. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 7 (The Boggart in the Wardrobe)
  32. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8 (Flight of the Fat Lady)
  33. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9 (Grim Defeat)
  34. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
  35. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 16 (Professor Trelawney's Prediction)
  36. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
  37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15 (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
  38. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 28 (The Madness of Mr Crouch)
  39. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 7 (Mad Eye Moody)
  40. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 12 (Professor Umbridge)
  41. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
  42. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 30 (Grawp)
  43. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
  44. Return back to Hogwarts
Third-floor of Hogwarts Castle
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Creatures studied at Hogwarts under D.A.D.A.
Banshee · Boggart · Chameleon Ghoul · Charmed skeleton · Cornish Pixie · Dementor · Dugbog · Erkling · Flesh-Eating Slug · Ghost · Ghoul · Gnome · Grindylow · Gytrash · Hag · Hinkypunk · Iguana · Imp · Inferius · Kappa · Manticore · Nocturnal beasts · Poltergeist · Red Cap · Snake · Troll · Vampire · Vampire bat · Werewolf · Yeti · Zombie
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