--- title: Harry Potter Classroom Decorations description: An Oklahoma teacher decorated her classroom like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone canonical: https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-25T16:49:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:48.206Z og:title: This Harry Potter-Themed Classroom Will Turn Any Muggle Into a Wizard og:description: All the points for Hufflepuff og:url: https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Harry Potter-Themed Classroom Will Turn Any Muggle Into a Wizard twitter:description: All the points for Hufflepuff twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Harry Potter-Themed Classroom Will Turn Any Muggle Into a Wizard > Sponsored content. 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Rowling tweeted she's been working on a new play called_ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Aug 25, 2015 4:49 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Aug 25, 2015 4:49 PM UTC If you never received your owl inviting you to Hogwarts, there’s still hope. And it’s in Oklahoma. Enter Stephanie Stephens of James L. Capps Middle School in Oklahoma City, a self-sorted Hufflepuff who transformed her classroom into a Harry Potter extravaganza. The door to her classroom is set to look like Platform 9 3/4, the infamous entrance to the Hogwarts Express. Inside, there’s a giant board with Harry’s signature lightning bolt scar and glasses, plus the Dursley fireplace with letters addressed to Harry flying out of it. Even the font on her organizational labels is similar to one associated with the storied series. There’s also an area where students — who will earn “house points” for good behavior — can get sorted into Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Slytherin or Ravenclaw. There’s even a section with winged keys hanging from the ceiling, a nod to the flying keys in _Sorcerer’s Stone_, and a collection of “potions” like Amortentia, Flesh-Eating Slug Repellant and Veritaserum. Quotes from the books line the walls, and the reading area has a sign that reads: “Books turn Muggles into Wizards.” Stephens’ husband posted the images on [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/3holki/my%5Fwife%5Fmade%5Fher%5Fclassroom%5Fbased%5Foff%5Fof%5Fharry/), where he told commenters that she teaches 6th through 8th grade special education. “My students mean the world to me,” she told [_Good Morning America_](https://gma.yahoo.com/teachers-harry-potter-themed-classroom-gets-kids-off-154229137--abc-news-BackToSchool.html)_._ “And I hope my enthusiasm for reading will transfer to each and every one of my kids.” Sounds like she’s taken a note or two from [Dumbledore](http://time.com/3974157/jk-rowling-harry-potter-lessons/) on the importance of her students. See the magical classroom photos below. ### Harry Potter Illustrated Edition Illustrations  Harry Potter Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Hermione Granger Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  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The Golden Snitch Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. _Read next:_ [_This_ ](http://time.com/4011456/harry-potter-as-villain/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[Harry Potter _Video Will Either Haunt Your Dreams or Make You Laugh_](http://time.com/4011456/harry-potter-as-villain/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/"},"headline":"This Harry Potter-Themed Classroom Will Turn Any Muggle Into a Wizard","datePublished":"2015-08-25T16:49:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:43:48.206Z","description":"All the points for Hufflepuff","url":"https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4009685/harry-potter-classroom/","name":"This Harry Potter-Themed Classroom Will Turn Any Muggle Into a Wizard"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"J.K. 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