The Harry Potter Wizarding School system worldwide is basically retarded

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Seems to me there's ample material for Rowling to incorporate native / local magic legends and such to focus on each country or region.

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Yeah, that was kind of my thing there. Rowling doesn’t seem to have an understanding of America outside of a basic caricature of the northeast. These were my ideas what the American Wizarding Schools could have been:

1) Fire Hill College of Witchcraft and Wizardry- Located in Maine, it is Greek based and students would arrive on enchanted 19th century carriages departing from New York. Founded entirely by Hogwarts alumni, they happened upon the magical land where they founded their university after fleeing the Salem Witch Trials. The Statute of Secrecy was signed by multiple Ministers of Magic in the newly opened Wizarding Institute’s Great Hall. They sought to differentiate it from Hogwarts using Greek magicians as the base and tried to make it even more grand than their alma mater. It would be a Harvard meets Athens on a very grand scale and be the most beautiful of the Wizarding Schools. It would be built on the side of beautiful rolling hills that are populated by beautiful glowing gold and red trees. They are called the Fire Hills and look that way year round due to the glowing trees. Institute specializes in Charms. The school corresponds with Fire. It’d look like a more Greek and much smaller version of this:



2) Mariasverte Academy of Sorcery- Located in the middle of an enchanted swamp in Lousiana. Students depart from New Orleans in an enchanted riverboat arriving in the swamp. It was founded by a French Beauxbatons’ alumni Mariasverte who found the magical swamp in the 1700s, built his estate to study the animals and local magic, and then gifted his property upon his death to become a Wizarding Academy. It has the most exotic of the wildlife surrounding the school and exotic residents, but the school itself would be on a massive beautiful plantation that is very different from its swamp surroundings. It would have beautiful magical gardens and hedge mazes that constantly change testing its students cleverness. The homes would be gigantic and the most spread out of the wizarding schools. They are also known for their unique and delicious cuisine, although it’s sometimes best not to ask what exotic animals and materials they use to make their dishes. The institution also specializes in voodoo magic, Potions, and dabbles in the Dark Arts (especially if you go onto the outskirts of the institute to meet some of the locals). They have a rivalry with Fire Hill College. The school corresponds with Water.

3) Amikuk School of Incantation and Transfiguration- Located in Arizona, you’d depart from Santa Fe NM to get there by train. It is located in a massive enchanted canyon with a river running through it and students live in pueblos built into the side of the canyon that go deep underground. Between the pueblos and to cross the canyon there are massive rope bridges that switch like the stairs at Hogwarts. The school is also the oldest of the four American Wizarding institutions even predating Hogwarts and was created thousands of years ago by Native American shamans on the run from other murderous tribes looking to destroy them, so the school’s direct founders are unknown. This also means there’s a healthy Wizarding community making it unique in being the one of the few Wizarding communities outside of the major cities who also live alongside the canyon. They specialize in ancient Native American magic and Transfiguration. Dumbledore’s mother studied magic here and spread her love and gift for transfiguration to her son. The desert above the canyon is uninhabitable save for certain magical creatures, some of which have a bad habit of digging into the school itself. The school corresponds with Earth.

4) Moonrabbit Institute of Enchantment- By far the newest of the Wizarding Institutes, it split from Amikuk during the time of the World Wars. It was created by some students from Amikuk hearing legends from their Native American professor of the existence of the Aurora Mountain and finding it in near immediate aftermath of their graduation causing a mass break off of students from all three schools to go there. Getting to the Institute you depart from San Francisco at night on a ship that departs on an aurora that dips into the bay that only the magical and squibs can see. It is located on an island in the Alaska Archipelago on top of a tall mountain. The ship lands on a lake that completely freezes in a month but thaws when the students return home. The school is a massive log lodge held up by magic. It has auroras over it at almost all time that change their shapes and speak like the ghosts of Hogwarts. Unlike other Wizarding Institutes, it allows for squibs to study there even if they can’t do magic themselves, mostly focusing on potions, astrology, and magical artifacts with them. Wizarding families from all over the world send their squib children there to get as close of a Wizarding Education as they can where as many of a quarter of their graduates are squibs. By far the most liberal of the four schools, it specializes astrology, astronomy, and divination. It has a rivalry with Amikuk it split from. The school corresponds with Air.

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Have you ever had sex with a woman?

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It’s been a few weeks.

Rowling really gives 0 shits now, she basically prints money with licensing. She stopped caring awhile ago and just does whatever the frick she wants.

I don’t blame her since everybody comes after her for being transphobic.

Her and I had a Twitter war awhile back after she had a beyond moronic take on a person (me) destroying their own their private property (books she had written).

Her followers tried to get me canned and spammed my place of work for like three weeks after that lmao.

I am totally on her side now after the abuse she’s endured.

The attacks from the mentally ill and those that support her intimidators are doing so with a goal of destroying cultural and societal norms.

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I am totally on her side now after the abuse she’s endured. The attacks from the mentally ill and those that support her intimidators are doing so with a goal of destroying cultural and societal norms.

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She and Matt Walsh went back and forth for a while agreeing for a few things. Wild allies we find in the world.

To the OP, you’re not wrong but that’s a wild topic to bring up on a random Monday night.

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Have you ever had sex with a woman?

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I was thinking of some kind of magical bell curve. Perhaps a higher concentration of midichlorians or something?

I can guarantee you he put more thought and effort into the descriptions of those schools than JK Rowling put into the rules of quidditch or the economics of a world without actual scarcity.

I love the Harry Potter books to death - they're a great read, and the story is excellent - but the "Potterverse" falls apart the instant you stop and think about how it would actually work. For instance - why are the Weasleys poor? Why do their kids have to wear/use hand-me-downs? Spells exist that allow you to turn basically anything into anything else, or to just conjure things up from nothing. The Wizarding world, at least, should be a post-scarcity society. And how is it still a secret? Otherwise normal kids are being taken from their Muggle families every year by socially awkward, oddly-dressed strangers who promise they're going to take them to a wizard school to learn how to do magic. That's a scenario that makes your local ice cream guy seem like a solid, upstanding citizen. In all that time not a single person has gone to the police or the press? Just how gullible are these people?