As the students often use the library to progress in their academics, it is likely there is at least one section of books concerned with every subject taught at Hogwarts.

The marble busts are another distinctive feature of the Long Room and they date back to 1743 when 14 busts were commissioned from Peter Scheemakers, a renowned Flemish sculptor. Although some of the 13,000 square feet building has a much more modern feel to it, there are some hidden gems within the 15 reading rooms that give off a very Hogwarts vibe. The library's "Royal Reading Room" is a stunning display of dark wood and rows upon rows of Portuguese literature. Today, the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are housed in two different places: the François-Mitterrand Library and the Richelieu Library.At Easter, Harry ate chocolate with Ginny Weasley in the library whilst reading books, however Madam Pince caught them and enchanted their belongings to chase them out of the library.

In the late medieval era, Duke Humfrey’s Library was an invaluable collection of books amassed by Sir Humphrey Plantagenetis, the first Duke of Cloucester and brother of King Henry V. Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also read through various library books in the hope of finding information about Nicolas Flamel; Hermione in fact managed to find a book about Flamel whilst doing some "light reading". The Bodleian Libraries is the largest university library system in the UK and include one of the oldest libraries in Europe. In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Library is divided into separate sections which are distributed throughout every floor of the castle, still containing a number of known secret passages concealed among their shelves. Ghosts haunt the many halls and antechambers of the Section, some of which will attack the player if File:Foto0699.In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23 ( Horcruxes), Dumbledore thought that Tom knew how to create Horcruxes, but that he just wanted to know whether it was possible to create seven because "no book could have given him that information". I would always recommend avoiding Saturdays if you can as it can get very busy in here, especially in the afternoons. Rowling revealed the name of the school in 2016 to fans on her site Pottermore, as part of a series of story about the history of wizardry in America. Built in 1876 in the Gothic Revival Style, this library was luckily unharmed in a fire that broke out in 1916.