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(How to be a Serial Killer)

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Inspired by the thread for secret 12 that got into Harry Potter, and because I am less than impressed at Rowling's worldbuilding especially in the international arena:
What would the magic school(s) in your country be like? And Wizarding society in general? Share your headcanons!

My headcanon for the US is there would be at least 2, but maybe 3 or 4 regional schools, just because of geography.

That Key and Peele sketch about the inner-city wizard school would be about accurate.

(Yeah, usually I'm the first to defend Jo's worldbuilding and... pretty much everything, I did just call her "Jo" after all, but that one didn't make sense to me.)

Anyway, I think there would actually be a few schools in North America. There's one in Arizona that services Mexican and American students, one in Vermont that's Canada and the US, and then each country might have a smaller school of their own.

Actually, I think most countries would be set up that way. Even before JKR posted the different schools, I always figured Hogwarts must be pretty unique in really only serving one wizarding government. In my headcanon that's the exception, not the norm.

I did a calculation based on numbers. Like, if Europe has 3 schools for a population of 742 million, then North America should have 2, South America 1-2, Asia would have 17-18, and Africa 5.
Either way, Rowling's idea of 11 with three of them in Europe makes no sense to me.

I'm American, so we already have at least one school. There would very likely be more, and I imagine that American schools would be influenced by the regional culture.

The International Statute of Secrecy would basically be dead in Israel. The population is so small that everybody would have a family member who was a witch/wizard, so you'd probably have it be one of those "secrets" that everybody knows.

That's a cool thought!

Locally, probably something where people learn to get shifting confederate flag tatoos on them.

Ideally, something like Bloor's Academy.

+1 for Charlie Bone ref. <3

Yeah, this is one thing I honestly can't let go either. Unless she reveals there are language (learning) spells or something, having one or two schools for an entire continent filled with different languages is ridiculous.

In theory, I'm supposed to go to Beauxbatons. At age 11 I spoke enough French to maybe order a sandwich, but not to get a proper education. The books would have been a lot less whimsical if Harry didn't understand a word anyone said the moment he arrived at Hogwarts.

Plus, what about international conflicts? Especially since wizards seem to have a long memory for grudges. I can totally imagine people not wanting to send a child across the border when there's a (muggle) war going on.

Yup. Also like how Durmstrang is apparently located in Scandinavia, but Viktor Krum who is from Bulgaria goes there. Bulgaria is so far from and a completely different culture from Norway or Sweden. Distance wise it would make a lot more sense for him to Beauxbatons.

Everything about it is just very strange.

Australia -
During the 19th century, English wizard settlers founded their own hedge-schools in the various population centres. Meanwhile, the Aboriginals continued the same traditions of one-on-one tutoring and students travelling to different tribes to share knowledge and techniques that they'd been practising for the last 60,000 years.
During the 20th century, the governments of both the magical and non-magical anglos decided that those silly aboriginals couldn't be trusted with their own kids, so they took black kids and locked them up in badly-funded, badly-run facilites where abuse was endemic and literally no-one wanted to be there (except the pedos).
Eventually, the non-magical government was convinced that stealing people's children on the basis of their skin tone, allowing them to be abused for years, and trying really hard to wipe out their cultures was maybe a ~~supervillan plot~~ bad idea; and they stopped, mostly.
Going by the way the wizarding world (as Rowling presents it) is pretty consistently behind the non-magical world on all possible points, though, they're probably still at it.

:D

I would also say that the white settler's model for schools would be more or less based on what they knew in Britain, so the possibility that their schools may be smaller scale versions of Hogwarts to start with is very likely. Maybe in years since they would have drifted away from the Hogwarts model, and as population spread, newer schooling models came into being (things like day schools, not having Houses, even integrated magical/muggle education).

Though I agree with your assessment of treating Aboriginals.

I like to imagine that the schools Rowling's listed are just the big ones - the famous ones that top the lists in terms of what they offer etc - but there are many more smaller schools that may not be as well-known but still offer great educational opportunities for kids in the region.

i.e., Hogwarts is Eton but there are also comprehensives that serve students locally.

[Scholarships for the Weasleys? Or maybe paying outrageous school fees for seven kids is why they're poor?]

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