THE JONES VISIT HOGWARTS: "PORTUS"

The Jones, ready to cross the magic wall

The Jones have just arrived to Hogwarts after crossing another Platform 9 3/4 entrance in the Highlands. It's not necessary to stay in London to arrive to Hogwarts and this little secret is something that not everybody knows, except J.K.Rowling.

After crossing the magic wall, The Jones have been travelling by train, the main transport in Hogwarts. They have been revising some aspects of English Grammar during this travel. Then, they have talked about Present Simple and its different uses.

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The Grandma has taken profit to explain new stories. For one hand, the chosen theme today has been the use of Literature as a tool to create a non-real world to protect communities and countries during the Middle Age. It's the case of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in Britain Islands, but it's also the same story with other examples in other literatures. Countries were afraid of enemies in a furious dark age and they used their imagination to create legends about brave heroes, powerful kings and magic wizards.

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The Grandma visiting King Arthur's Tomb

For other hand, she has explained a resume of the last studies about linguistic anthropology, a science that studies the relation between human evolution and language.

Finally, The Jones have asked lots of questions to Víctor Jones, who is a specialist in the magic world of Hogwarts and its characters.

Come on Jones! Let's go to enjoy this magic place and discover wonderful things and stories that we haven't known. Open your mind and be alert because there are also dark presences at school and perhaps they're not very happy with our arrival.

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In the novels, Hogwarts is somewhere in Scotland. The school is depicted as having numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a Muggle to locate it. Muggles cannot see the school; rather, they see only ruins and several warnings of danger. 

Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Joaquín and Sílvia Jones

The castle's setting is described as having extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegetable patches, a loch, called The Black Lake, a large dense forest, called the Forbidden Forest, several greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size Quidditch pitch. 

There is also an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school and those owned by students. Some rooms in the school tend to move around, and so do the stairs in the grand staircase. 

Witches and wizards cannot Apparate or Disapparate in Hogwarts grounds, except when the Headmaster lifts the enchantment, whether only in certain areas or for the entire campus, so as to make the school less vulnerable when it serves the headmaster to allow Apparition. Electricity and electronic devices are not found at Hogwarts.

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Hogwarts is on the shore of a lake, sometimes called the Black Lake. In that lake are merpeople, Grindylows, and a giant squid. The giant squid does not attack humans and sometimes acts as a lifeguard when students are in the lake. 

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. 

In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, 

it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans 

whose experiences we have never shared. 

J. K. Rowling