The Hogwarts Trophy Room

• Type: Room
• Location: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland
• Owner/Residents: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; primarily maintained by its caretaker, Argus Filch.
• Key Features: A large room containing hundreds of trophies, cups, plaques, shields, and medals awarded to Hogwarts students over the centuries, all kept in shimmering crystal display cases.

The Trophy Room is a dedicated chamber within Hogwarts Castle that serves as a repository for the school's history of student achievement. The room is filled with gleaming gold and silver awards, meticulously arranged in glass cases. Items on display include Quidditch awards, plaques for academic excellence, shields bearing the names of every Head Boy and Head Girl, and special awards for outstanding service to the school. Despite being a place of honor, the Trophy Room is also a frequent location for detention. The caretaker, Argus Filch, is intensely protective of the room's contents and takes great pride in their polished state. He often assigns students the tedious task of cleaning the silver and gold trophies by hand, without the use of magic, as a form of punishment.

The Trophy Room is a setting for several key moments in the series:

• In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom hide in the Trophy Room while fleeing from Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, after a planned midnight duel goes awry. Their escape from this room leads them directly to the forbidden third-floor corridor where they first encounter Fluffy. Earlier, Harry visits the room and discovers a Quidditch plaque bearing the name of his father, James Potter, revealing he was a Seeker.
• In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry is given detention by Filch in the Trophy Room. While polishing a large shield and an award for Special Services to the School, he hears the chilling, disembodied voice of the Basilisk for the first time. He follows the voice out of the room, which leads him to the petrified body of Justin Finch-Fletchley and the ghost Nearly Headless Nick.
• The awards housed within the Trophy Room are referenced multiple times. Draco Malfoy taunts Harry in their fifth year, expressing his hope of receiving an award for “Special Services to the School” like Tom Marvolo Riddle's for his efforts on behalf of Dolores Umbridge. Albus Dumbledore also mentions Tom Riddle's trophy and a medal for Magical Merit when discussing Riddle's deceptive but brilliant school career with Harry.

• Quidditch Awards: Includes numerous Quidditch Cup replicas and individual player awards, such as a plaque commemorating James Potter's service as a Gryffindor Seeker.
• Head Student Shields: Shields listing the names of all past Head Boys and Head Girls.
• Special Award for Services to the School: A handsome, gold-plated trophy awarded to Tom Marvolo Riddle fifty years prior to Harry's second year. Riddle received the award for his perceived role in capturing Rubeus Hagrid, who he framed for opening the Chamber of Secrets.
• Medal for Magical Merit: A medal awarded to Tom Marvolo Riddle for his outstanding academic performance.
• House-Themed Trophies: Various cups and shields representing the four Hogwarts houses are present, including a large silver cup engraved with a badger, the symbol of Hufflepuff.

• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it is Ron Weasley, not Harry, who serves detention in the Trophy Room. This detention is for the backfired slug-vomiting curse he aimed at Draco Malfoy. A memorable, film-only scene shows Ron vomiting slugs into one of the large trophies. (film)
• The Trophy Room is a playable level in the LEGO Harry Potter video games, where players must polish trophies and interact with the environment. (video game)