Subject: Hey, Potterheads! Have you seen this?
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Posted on: 2015-06-10 19:10:00 UTC
As has long been suspected, there is, in fact, an American wizarding school.
And now to mope again over the fact I still haven't gotten my letter.
That gives us only three more unknown wizarding schools left. Since Pottermore confirmed there are 11 schools in the world, we have:
1. Hogwarts (British Isles)
2. Beauxbatons (France and (?) central-western Europe: Belgium, Holland, etc.)
3. Durmstrang (Northern Europe)
4. Mahoutokoro (Japan and the isles around it (?))
5. Koldovstoretz (Russia and Eastern Europe (?))
6. Uagadou School of Magic (Africa)
7. Unnamed school in Brazil (Bill's pen-pal attended it)
8. The American school revealed now.
We can officially cross out the Salem Witches' Institute, or brand it as a second-class school (something akin to Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts).
So - three more. Any ideas? I personally think Asia Minor woud have one - somewhere around Iraq, where the original city of Babylon was once raised... as for other two, I'd say Australia - maybe somewhere close to the Ayers Rock? - and a total wild guess, North or South Pole.
Or somewhere nearby. It's plausible, what with the voodoo myths.
There might not need to be one. The idea of Voodoo is deeply ingrained in Louisiana Culture, that theoretically it could service the Caribbean, because from a population stand point does the Caribbean have enough to support its own school?
But hey… THERE'S ONE IN AMERICA! WHOOPIE! HOORAY! *laughs hysterically* Even with the fact it's fantasy, at least in HP canon it's there! Sorry, I just got very excited, so...
I like the idea of there being one around Babylon. Egypt would be my other guess for one in the area. There are already a lot in Europe, but I wouldn't be surprised by a Grecian one, either.
Perhaps one in India or China (or both)? Japan isn't very big, so I doubt a school there could support all of Asia. I'd lean India more than China.
Definitely one in Australia, as it's pretty isolated from other areas. A school with Aboriginal-themed magic would be cool.
Where all the people from the Mediterranian basin would gather - that would include Egypt and Lybia, as well.
Although, in my own headcanon (*boom!*) I imagine that, aside from the Big 11, there are lesser schools, with a certain field of study - i.e. in Mexico, where they research Meso-American culture or an Alchemy Institute in Poland (we have a discoverer of oxygen, Michael Sendivogius, on our side! :D)
Two American Schools, actually in a way make sense. You can look at it this way, Witches and Wizards reflect a small percentage of the population at large, so it seems reasonable to infer that a larger concentration of population would mean a corresponding larger wizard population. So look at the US, as of 2014 3rd Largest Country by Population and 4th Largest by Area. It seems reasonable to infer that they would have a larger population of Wizards and Witches. So I would suggest that Salem is still viable.
I would personally, again going of population, probably expect to see one in China and India. Not to mention China and India have very old cultures. But that's just my guess.
This tweet confirms it being only a joke.
Still does not mean that there is not a second US School. But upon seeing information I previously did not have, I still think China and India make a lot of sense and I do think that somewhere in the former Persian and Babylonian Empires does make sense, though maybe in Mesopotamia. How about the Gozer School of Magic? Founded by Gozer the Gozerian in 6000 B.C.E. But that leaves one question to that...
"Who you gonna call?"
Since the South Pole is, you know, devoid of human life save for scientists.
Originally, I thought about Spain, but that would give us too many European schools. Now though, I'm thinking about Alexandria, Egypt. The library there was pretty darn famous.
In a collegiate setup called the League of the Latin Four.
Think about that for a minute.
Then hurt.