Marble Staircase

" [The Entrance Hall] housed a magnificent marble staircase that led to the upper floors."

— Description.^[src]

The Marble Staircase^[2] was a wide marble flight of steps in Hogwarts Castle. It connected the Entrance Hall with the first-floor corridor.^[1]^[2]

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In the films, and the first (PC version), second (PC version), third (PC version), fifth and sixth video games, the Marble Staircase appears to be made of rough stone, not marble. In all the other video games in which it makes an appearance, it closely resembles the book description.
In The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the Grand Staircase is referred to as the Marble Staircase.
In the early film adaptations (POA, GOF, OOTP and HBP), the staircase is viewed as a small flight of stairs leading to the Grand Staircase. Whereas in the last Harry Potter film, we can see a rather long passage of stairs leading into the upper floors.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort had a brief duel on this staircase, during which Harry blocked several of Voldemort's Killing Curses; this depiction of Voldemort's Last Stand is not canonical as it contrasts the book's depiction of this event.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)

Ground floor of Hogwarts Castle
Bathrooms
Boys' toilets · Haunted Toilets
Classrooms
Classroom Eleven · Classroom 1B · Temporary Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom · Transfiguration department
Corridors & Bridges
Corridor off the Entrance Hall · Courtyard corridor · Great Hall balcony · Ground-floor corridor · Herbology corridor · Musical corridor · Owl Corridor · Oxford Corridor · Quad balcony · Staffroom passage · Suspension Bridge · Terrace · Tracery Hall · Viaduct
Courtyards
Astronomy Tower courtyard · Central tower courtyard · Courtyard · Middle Courtyard · Northern Courtyard · Northern Courtyard Annex · North Tower courtyard · Paved grounds · The Quad · Storeroom courtyard · Viaduct Courtyard · West Tower courtyard
Halls and rooms
Bean Bonus Room · Bell Tower Entrance Hall · Central Hall · Chamber off the Great Hall · Chamber of Reception · Duelling Club room · Entrance Hall · Great Foyer · Great Hall · Ground-floor green room · Hall of Herodiana · House Point Ceremony chamber · Link Building · Out Of Bounds · Portrait Room · Resting chamber of Lord Voldemort · Side chamber · Staffroom · Suspension Bridge entrance · Training Grounds Entrance · Viaduct Entrance · Suspension Bridge foyer
Offices
Room 234-00
Other locations
Bridge Outskirts · Keep Out! · Secret student sweetshop · Viaduct Courtyard Gatehouses · West Well
Portraits, statues, and other artwork
Architect of Hogwarts · Brian Gagwilde · Broken Broom · Circe · First Headmaster of Hogwarts · Gargoyles at the staff room entrance · George von Rheticus · Giffard Abbott · Girl with flowers · Glanmore Peakes · Godric Gryffindor · Google Stump · Greta Catchlove · Heath Heatherton · Henry Bumblepuft · Jocunda Sykes · Kelpie Statue · Lonely Male Gargoyle · Lonely Male Gargoyle's friend · Medieval couple · Merwyn the Malicious · Mirabella Plunkett · Miserable Female Gargoyle · Norvel Twonk · Pangur Donn · Old Posh Baron · People watching Quidditch · Sarcastic Male Gargoyle · Staring Portrait · Statue symbolising heartbreak · Professor Swoopstikes · Sylvia Pembroke · Temeritus Shanks · Three Sisters Bells · Timothy the Timid · Violet · Wizard with a walrus moustache · Wyvern Fountain · The Yawning Gargoyle
Staircases
Boathouse Steps · Faculty Tower staircase · Grand Staircase · Marble Staircase · Slughorn's Stairs · Staircase to the Entrance Dungeon · Staircase to the Serpentine corridor · Staircase to the second-floor corridor · Staircase to the third-floor corridor · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Artefact Room · Broom cupboard (Entrance Hall) · Broom cupboard (ground floor) · Herbology Store · Storage Cupboard · Storeroom

[PS7-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)

[POA5-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)

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Marble Staircase

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