With cobbled white stone on the ground, tall vines of ivy climbing the walls of the castle, the Courtyard is a great place to sit and study, or enjoy the sun in between of classes.

The lawns are wide and flat, opposite the castle from the forest and Hagrid's hut where the first-years took their first flying lesson. The sloping lawns also lead down toward the forest and border the lake.

Flying Lessons for first years are also held here on the lawns, including Advanced flying for older students.

Lead down from the sloap of the Lawns of Hogwarts, the Black Lake is located to the south of the castle, which stands on a cliff overlooking the water. The lake is approximately a half-mile in diameter and various creatures live in the lake, including the giant squid, merfolk and grindylows. Just be careful when going for a swim and don't disrupt the creatures

There are three large Greenhouses around the back of Hogwarts castle.

Herbology classes are held in the greenhouses and include plenty of hands-on activities, including pruning alihotsy bushes, repotting mandrakes, and harvesting bubotuber pus. Students are also assigned essays as homework, and hands on experience in practical tests.

Outside of the greenhouses, holds a few beds of flowers and opposite the flowers, are the vegetable gardens.

The class of Care of Magical Creatures has always been held outside. Usually in a clearing along the treeline of the Forbidden Forest. It's safe enough, just don't venture too far into the forest.

Hagrid lives in a small wooden house on the edge of the forbidden forest. A crossbow and a pair of galoshes sit outside the front door. There is only one room inside. Hams and pheasants hang from the ceiling, a copper kettle usually found boiling on the open fire, and in the corner stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it.

To the east of Hogwarts castle is a large, dark forest. This forest is strictly off limits to Hogwarts students, except in the course of occasional Care of Magical Creatures lessons or detentions.

The forest is thick with trees -- beech, oak, pine, sycamore, and yew grow there, as well as undergrowth such as knotgrass and thorns -- but there are paths, brooks, and some clearings. Off the path, the way is almost impassable, although people have moved through it and creatures as large as Acromantulas and a Ford Anglia have managed to get around.

The forbidden forest is home to a wide and strange assortment of creatures. Anything wild and dangerous that needs a place to live is put there. Hagrid moves around the forest with respect but without fear. Any other person who has entered it, however, has emerged hoping never to enter it again.

Students found near the edge or in the forest will not only be punished suitably by the Headmistress, but might also already have been punished by the creatures that lurk within.

Due to the amount of Student Attacks - Ministry Employees have been patrolling the forest and along the edges making sure that Hogwarts will not be attacked.