The design for the winged boar statues that flank the gates featured on the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was based on that of Il Porcellino, a bronze fountain of a boar (sculpted and cast in around the 1630s) located in Florence, Italy.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire EA Play FIFA 23 F1™ 22 Madden NFL 23 Apex Legends Battlefield™ 2042 The Sims 4.The winged boars that frame the gates may be a reference to Chrysaor, the brother of Pegasus, who is sometimes depicted as a winged boar.
The walls surrounding the perimeter were protected by anti-intruder jinxes, and the gates was sealed with a padlock that had been subjected to an Anti-Alohomora Charm that were cast by Albus Dumbledore over the summer of 1996. In 1996, before the students travelled past the gates, Professor Flitwick and Argus Filch stood guard checking off the names of students and searching them before allowing them to continue up to Hogwarts. History ĭuring the 1993-1994 school year, the gates were guarded by Dementors attempting to apprehend Sirius Black. Just a few yards from the gates was a small gatehouse with a tall chimney. The Entrance Gates were made of magnificent wrought iron and were flanked by two columns topped with statues of winged boars.
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