General Dorm Furniture Position
Due to the large size of the population of those attending Salem Witches’ Institute, the Houses’ dormitories have several rooms where the students can sit and rest in.
To get into the Good dormitories, a student must press the
Portrait of Anne Jones by Joseph Blackburn into the wall located on the top floor of the Institute and towards the back of the building, triggering the stairs near the portrait into lifting up. The stairs open up towards the
Good Parlor. A white door near the entrance opens into
Good Den, a common area where the Good students lounge during the winter. On the left side of the Good Parlor, there are two doors, one leads to the
Good Study, a room where students usually do their homework. The right door further from the staircase entrance opens to the
Good Drawing Room. The Drawing Room is where most socializing happens or where the students go to participate in their particular hobbies, such as painting and of the like. The
Good Lavatories are connected to the Good Den, the male and female lavatory being nearly identical. Next to the doors to the lavatories is another door that leads to a spiral staircase that leads to the male and female dorms.
The Good dormitories are known for the stars that blanket over the ceilings and the windows. They glitter always, dazzling the room with the tiny lights. If a student so wishes, they may open a window and even stick a hand out and touch the stars without burning themselves. Every night, a new constellation is seen in a different room. Anything dropped into the stars will float for a little bit before disappearing it for years. It is not odd for a student to randomly find an object a hundred years old, floating past the window or bobbing near the ceiling. It is a traditional practice for students to write letters or notes and stick them into the stars and the biggest rule is to never pull a current student’s note out of the stars. The letters and notes are usually placed through the windows, but there are always the ambitious ones who climb on top of things in order to throw them into the ceiling.
The Tituba students are the most unfortunate of all when it comes to hidden dormitories. The entrance to the Tituba Dorms happens to be a floor cabinet located in a stray hallway near the History of Magic classrooms that leads to a staircase that twists downwards. This, regrettably, means that the Tituba students must get on hands and knees in order to crawl through the cabinet hole and into the
Tituba Parlor Room. There is also a more handicapped-friendly entrance around the corner, through a hidden doorway inside a broom closet. The Tituba Parlor leads to all the other rooms, the
Tituba Lavatories being located to the left of the couches and fireplace, identical in appearance while the
Tituba Den is through the archway and to the left. Next to the Tituba Den is an archway to the
Tituba Drawing Room and the
Tituba Study is located on the opposite wall of the Tituba Den and Drawing Room. An adjacent hall connected to the Parlor is lined with the dorms of the Tituba students; blue doors with white swirls carved into it belong to girls while white doors with blue swirls carved into it belong to boys and the opposite gender of the door cannot open it or their hand will be zapped.
The Tituba dorms happen to be located underneath The Great Lake and can see into the lake water through their windows as well as the floor. At night, they can sometimes see a flicker of a siren passing by in the water, but will never fully see their body. They are protected from the Siren’s Song through a soundproof from the water and thus are impervious to such things. Because of this, the sirens keep away from the students and refrain from bothering them. However, time to time, students will knock a rhythm onto the window and if a Siren particularly likes the beat, she will flicker by quickly, her tail thumping against the window in approval.
The Warren Dormitories are entered through a full-length mirror on the ground floor of the building in the very back of the building. It enters into the
Warren Parlor which is surrounded with glass windows. However, on the outside, no windows are seen. In order to get to the other rooms, the student simply has to walk into the windows, despite it seeming like they will walk on to the ground. The left window leads to the
Warren Drawing Room and the student seems to come out of mirror above the fireplace. To the right of the Warren Drawing Room, are the girls’ dorms and, if boys try to enter, will only appear back in the Warren Parlor. The rightmost window of the Warren Parlor leads to the
Warren Study where the student comes out of the reflection of the picture frames. To the left of the Warren Study is a door that leads to the boys’ dorm and, just like with the Warren Drawing Room, if a girl tries to enter the boys’ dorm, she will reappear in the Warren Parlor. The right window of the Warren Parlor, next to the door, leads to the
Warren Den, the student typically dropping to the floor in the middle of the sofas, from the chandelier. The doorway of the Warren Parlor’s doorway leads to the identical
Warren Lavatories, instantly transporting the student to their gender-specific bathroom. The Warren Dormitories are a maze and it is extremely difficult to get back to the Parlor on purpose. In the study, it is mostly a guess on which picture a student must press their hand into in order to go back to the Parlor as it is random. Any reflection in the rooms, if a body part is placed into the reflection, can transport the student into a random available room as long as they are allowed into it. Many refer to the Warren Dormitories of the Warren Maze.