The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra. A staircase runs to the upper floors. There are a number of age-blackened portaits here, including a large one behind moth-eaten moldy curtains. This portrait is of Mrs. Black, and when disturbed it screeches and screams in a most horrible manner, cursing everyone around and waking the other portraits, who also begin screaming. Not surprisingly, everyone tiptoes and whispers in the hall. There is an umbrella stand in the hall made from a Troll leg.

Hermione and Ginny's bedroom

Harry and Ron sleep in a dark, high-ceilinged second floor room with a wardrobe in it and a blank portrait on the wall

Fred and George sleep directly above them on the third floor. Buckbeak stays in the upstairs bedroom which once belonged to Mrs. Black. Magic items in the house include an ancient set of purple robes that tried to strangle Ron when he attempted to remove them and a grandfather clock that shot heavy bolts at anyone who went past it. In an upstairs toilet, a rather murderous ghoul was lurking.