- " No Password, no entry!"
- —The Fat Lady in 1995[src]
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.
List of previously used passwords[]
Hogwarts[]
Gryffindor Tower[]
1991[]
- Caput Draconis (Latin for "Dragon's Head")
- Pig Snout
1992[]
- Wattlebird
1993[]
- Fortuna Major (Latin for "greater luck")
- Flibbertigibbet
- Oddsbodikins
- Scurvy Cur
1994[]
- Balderdash
- Banana Fritters
- Fairy Lights
1995[]
- Mimbulus Mimbletonia
- Alea iacta est (Latin for "The die is cast.")
1996[]
- Abstinence
- Baubles
- Dilligrout
- Tapeworm
- Quid Agis (Latin for "How are you")
Hufflepuff Basement[]
- Instead of a password, one must tap the correct barrel with their wand, in the rhythm of "Helga Hufflepuff".
Ravenclaw Tower[]
(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.
Slytherin Dungeon[]
1992[]
Headmaster's Office[]
1985-1986 school year[]
- Iced mice
1992[]
- Sherbet lemon
1994[]
- Cockroach cluster
1996[]
- Acid Pops
- Fizzing Whizzbees
- Toffee Eclairs
1998[]
Unknown[]
- Chocolate Frogs
Prefects' bathroom[]
1994[]
- Pine-fresh
One-Eyed Witch Passage[]
- Dissendium
Chamber of Secrets and Salazar Slytherin's Locket[]
- "Open" (spoken in Parseltongue)
- Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four. (spoken in Parseltongue, to release Salazar Slytherin's basilisk from its nesting place)
Elizabeth Burke's portrait[]
- Slytherins are Supreme
- Facta, non verba (Latin for Deeds, not words)
Glanmore Peakes's portraits[]
- Sea Serpent
Percival Pratt's portrait[]
- This Password is Absurd
Basil Fronsac's portrait[]
- Studious Success
- Libraries Liberate
Giffard Abbott's portrait[]
- Dragon's Egg
- Light against Darkness
Damara Dodderidge's portrait[]
- Chops and Gravy
- Dashing Cadogan
Boris the Bewildered's portrait[]
- Forget-Me-Never
Old Posh Baron's portrait[]
- Fizzy Pop
Hesper Starky's portrait[]
- Lunartickle
Edgar Stroulger's portrait[]
- Surreptitiousness
(Grounds portrait)[]
- Catweazle
(Dungeons portrait)[]
- Wanglewort
(Upper Castle portrait)[]
- Wolf's Bane
Marauder's Map[]
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" to reveal the map, and "Mischief Managed" to hide it.
Potterwatch[]
- Albus
- Dearborn
- Fawkes
- Longbottom
- Mad-Eye
- Meadowes
- Moody
- Padfoot
- Phoenix
- Prewett
- Sirius
- Vance
- Wulfric (One of Albus Dumbledore's middle names)
Kitchen
Tickle the pear in the portrait