What is the password for the Fat Lady in Harry Potter?

When Harry and the other first-year students arrive at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower, Percy addresses the portrait of a very fat lady, in a pink silk dress, to give her the password, "Caput Draconis." Never named, the portrait is called The Fat Lady throughout the rest of the series.
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What's the password for Gryffindor in Harry Potter?

An iconic moment, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone boasted the very first utterance of a Gryffindor password. It was 'Caput Draconis' which is Latin for 'dragon's head' and that definitely fits as a straightforward password for the common room.
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What was the password to the Slytherin's common room in Chamber of Secrets?

They entered the dungeons and got lost. While they were spotted by Percy, Malfoy came along and took them to common room. The password then was “Pure blood”. The common room was concealed by stone door in the wall.
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Does Ravenclaw have a password?

Since the entrance to Ravenclaw Tower requires an answer to a riddle, rather than a password, it may be easier for some members of other Houses to enter the common room if they are intelligent enough.
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Does Hufflepuff have a password?

The entrance to the common room was located "in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor", concealed behind a stack of barrels. In order to reveal the entrance, no password was required.
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What is the Slytherin password?

The entry password was "Pure-blood" when Draco Malfoy let them in. The Polyjuice Potion's wearing off prompted Harry and Ron to leave after staying nearly an hour, still not finding out the identity of the Heir of Slytherin, but they did learn that Malfoy was not the heir, as they originally thought.
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Are slytherins pure blood?

Due to their affiliation to Slytherin and Lord Voldemort, many wizards and witches might be considered pure-bloods. Others had openly expressed their prejudice toward half-bloods and Muggle-borns, which is another reason to believe they were pure-blood supremacists.
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How do Hogwarts students know the password?

As explained in this question, each password protected area appears to have the password set by its somewhat sentient guardian (such as the Fat Lady).
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What are all the passwords for Dumbledore's office?

'Sherbet lemon' and 'Acid Pops' are used as passwords to Dumbledore's office, and his preferred jam flavour could be used as a question to check his identity – it's raspberry, just in case you want to know.
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Does the Fat Lady have a name?

In the American versions of the Chamber of Secrets video game, she is instead named The Pink Lady.
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Who scared the Fat Lady?

Half-crazed and desperate, Sirius sneaked into Hogwarts through the old passageway from the Shrieking Shack and on one occasion slashed the Fat Lady's portrait when she refused him entrance to Gryffindor Tower ,probably due to anger as he is unable to enter his own groups common room on 31 October, 1993.
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What was the Gryffindor password in Prisoner of Azkaban?

When Harry and the other first-year students arrive at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower, Percy addresses the portrait of a very fat lady, in a pink silk dress, to give her the password, "Caput Draconis." Never named, the portrait is called The Fat Lady throughout the rest of the series.
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Who broke Dumbledore's nose?

The books only record Dumbledore's nose being broken once, by Aberforth at Arianna's funeral.
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What is the spell to get into Dumbledore's office?

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the password for Dumbledore's office is "Lemon Drop", yet, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Harry tries to access Dumbledore's office, using the password he had learned two years earlier, he says "Sherbet Lemon".
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Why does Dumbledore's office have a password?

Entrance. Like the Gryffindor Tower and Slytherin Dungeon, the Headmaster's tower required a password from anyone who wished to gain entry to the room. The tower was guarded by a large and ugly stone gargoyle, which rarely talked but was capable of doing so.
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What happens if a boy tries to enter the Gryffindor girls dormitories?

The dorm had a centrally located stove in the centre of the dormitory next to the table. The staircase to the girl's dormitory was enchanted so that if a boy attempted to enter the dormitory, a wailing klaxon went off and the staircase turned into a stone slide, sending them back to the Common Room.
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Can girls go in boys dormitory Hogwarts?

BOYS CAN'T ENTER THE GIRL'S DORMITORY

But the weird thing about this one was that boys were totally not allowed in the girls' dormitory, but the girls were allowed in the boys'. Hermione pointed this out as an old-fashioned rule, and she was right.
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Why did the Fat Lady change?

When Alfonso Cuaron signed on as director for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he recast the Fat Lady and gave the part to British television comedian Dawn French.
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Is Lily Potter a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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What's the sacred 28?

The Sacred Twenty-Eight were, according to the author of the Pure-Blood Directory (widely believed to have been Cantankerus Nott), the twenty-eight British families that were still "truly pure-blood" by the 1930s.
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Can a Muggle-born be in Slytherin?

It is not impossible if a muggleborn witch/wizard have the traits and values of Sytherin, and Slytherin doesn't mean they only accept purebloods but also halfbloods and that halfbloods are really talented and great like Snape he is a potion master and Umbridge also she was a Slytherin.
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How do you get into Ravenclaw common room?

In order to enter the room, a person must answer a riddle asked by the eagle knocker; if they answered incorrectly, they had to wait for someone else who got it right.
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Who was in Hufflepuff?

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  • Bridget Wenlock.
  • Cedric Diggory.
  • Ernie Macmillan.
  • Fat Friar.
  • Hannah Abbott.
  • Hengist of Woodcroft.
  • Justin Finch-Fletchley.
  • Leanne.
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How do I get into Slytherin House?

The entrance to the common room is located behind a bare stretch of stone wall in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle. A password is required to enter it; whereupon a passage is revealed leading to the common room.
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What did Muggles do to Ariana?

At the age of six, Ariana was attacked by Muggle boys who saw her practicing magic, and, when she couldn't show them the trick, attacked her in an attempt to stop her from using the magic. This left her traumatised to the point of rendering her magical abilities unstable and uncontrollable.
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