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Passwords are used throughout Hogwarts Castle to restrict entry to certain areas such as house common rooms and teacher offices. Passwords in Hogwarts appear to change on a frequent basis.

During Sir Cadogan's period of guarding the Gryffindor common room, he changed passwords so frequently that Neville Longbottom had to write them down. This list was snatched by Crookshanks and was given to Sirius Black, allowing him entrance.

Passwords were also used as a way to gain to access to the radio programme Potterwatch, as a way to protect it from Death Eaters possibly listening. New passwords were introduced at the end of each broadcast, and could be used to listen to the next one.

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List of previously used passwords

Instead of a password, one must tap the correct barrel with their wand, in the rhythm of "Helga Hufflepuff".[18]

Instead of a password, a conundrum is posed:

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame? Answer: A circle has no beginning.

Where do Vanished objects go? Answer: Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything.



(Instead of a password, one must tickle the pear in the portrait.)

"Open" [28] (spoken in Parseltongue)

(spoken in Parseltongue) Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four.[29] (spoken in Parseltongue, to release Salazar Slytherin's basilisk from its nesting place)

Portraits

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" to reveal the map, and "Mischief managed" to hide it.

Albus [36]

Dearborn

Fawkes

Longbottom

Mad-Eye [36]

Meadowes

Moody

Padfoot

Phoenix

Prewett

Sirius

Vance

Wulfric (One of Albus Dumbledore's middle names)

Behind the scenes

The 1992 password for the Headmaster's Office, "Sherbet Lemon," is changed to "Lemon Drop" in the American edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Appearances