[ SECRET POST #3357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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Comments

[ketita]

She stated that there are 11 major schools WORLDWIDE, and three of them are in Europe. That makes zero sense, and I'm not sure she's very good at counting.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the magic gene is just more dominant in the European branch of humanity. Could be as simple as that. Some races are better at somethings than others, take people from the Horn of Africa as an example. They are just genetically gifted when it comes to running. Or Sherpas as being genetically better at dealing with altitude. Or Gurkhas who are just genetically better at waging war. Europeans just won the genetic lottery for magic and the rest of the world plays catch up.

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure if troll or just idiot who thinks Lamarck was right.

[(Anonymous)]

Because selective breeding and survival of the fittest isn't a thing, even among humans.

[(Anonymous)]

Selective pressures are a thing, yes.

Save for adaptation to oxygenate efficiently at high altitudes, the examples you gave do not qualify.

[(Anonymous)]

She's copped to being shit at counting. 11 schools worldwide doesn't diminish the stupidity of there only being one school for the entirety of North America, though.

The smart thing to do would probably have been to backpedal and say there are more than 11 (that's fewer than two per continent even if they were all spread out evenly!), but if she was married to that number, she could've salvaged the logistics by using the expanded material to mention regional schools that taught local magical traditions or...something less absurd than what she went with.

[caerbannog]

Is it specifically major schools? Some kind of major-school linkage with a board and everything etc?

I could feasibly see lots of little magic "schools" all over the place where the need is.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I had the same thought.

[illiadandoddity]

Yeah, I would have had zero problems with it if she had said there were eleven famous wizarding schools, or that there were only eleven that were particularly historically significant. That leaves room for there to be dozens of smaller schools.

[iggy]

That's... exactly what she said though? These are the ones considered 'significant' by the world's biggest magic governing body, but there are lots of smaller ones too.

[iggy]

It IS specifically major schools. That's what she said.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fairly certain that the wizarding world wouldn't need more MAJOR schools, when we know there are other smaller schools aside from them (in GoF there's an American school named the Salem Institute of something, which is not the major American school she's writing about now).

[(Anonymous)]

She's said repeatedly that the Salem Institute isn't a school.

It's a grown witches thing.

[(Anonymous)]

I always kind of figured it was the witchy version of the DAR.

[elialshadowpine]

Something I noticed when I went to look up about the schools is that she mentions in a couple places (but not in the article on North American schools) that there are apparently a lot of smaller schools that are more widespread. These are the prestigious ones, comparable to going to Yale or Harvard. I still can't quite stretch myself to believe that there's only one prestigious university (effectively) for wizards in all of NA.