Hogwarts the Hogwarts Express that students take at the start of each school year. Students board the train from the also fictional and hidden Platform 9¾ at King's Cross station in London. The train arrives near Hogwarts, some time after nightfall. From there, first-year students are accompanied by the "Keeper of the Keys, Game and Grounds" (which was Hagrid during the first novel) to small boats, which magically sail across the lake and get them near the entrance of Hogwarts. The older students ride up to the castle in carriages pulled by creatures called Thestrals. When the first-year students initially arrive
Hogwarts ' shortened from ' = "pig" + ' = "warts", Dutch ' modified from ' = "pig rock" while simultaneously referencing Albert Einstein, Norwegian Bokmål ' (galt = boar, vort = wart) (Nynorsk keeps ""), Finnish ' (' = "wart"), Hungarian ' (playing with the name of Oxford), Slovenian ' (' = "warts")), Czech ' means simply "warts". The Ancient Greek translation of the school is "Ὑογοήτου Παιδευτήριον τὸ τῆς Γοητείας καὶ Μαγείας", loosely translating to "Hogwizard's School of Wizardry and Magic", "Ὑογοήτου" replacing "Hogwarts" and derived from the ancient Greek words ὑo- (hog) and γοητής (wizard). Hogwarts Hogwarts School