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Poudlard

/pud.laʁ/

proper noun/pud.laʁ/

Hogwarts, the fictional school of magic in the Harry Potter series

Au collège Poudlard, on apprend la magie avec les manuels de Bathilda Tourdesac ou d'Adalbert LasornetteAt Hogwarts school, you learn magic with textbooks by Bathilda Bagshot or Adalbert Waffling

Coined by Jean-François Ménard in Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (1998), his translation of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). From pou (“louse”) + lard (“bacon”), based on Hogwarts (hog + wart).