I’d say that the New Orleans school was taken over by the American equivalent of Slytherins if that’s were the Anna Rice witches got their education.
The Australian school has got to be deep in the outback. Probably in the middle of the desert - they’d have cooling charms and water conjuring spells to make it habitable.
Wshington DC. Consider the street layout. Obviously Pierre L’enfant put in those diagonals and circles for a mystical reason
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And he planted the details in Banakker’s mind. Plausible.
Pripyat. Either before 1986 or after 1986, depending on how you want your conspiracies.
Pennsylvania, however, still has a very good campus of Necromancy.
I saw the entrance to one once many years ago. It was in the general vicinity of Courtenay on Vancouver Island on a road off the main highway. There was this routed wood sign with rabbits to the sides and these words I could not make out because the routed edge at the to was casting a shadow over the tops of the letters. After staring at it for a bit, I realized it said “Poontang Acres”.
What else could that have been?
Bryn Mawr
Have you ever seen people from the Main Line ??
They are… Not like other humans…
Just to set the record straight, Ol’ Misk is not a “wizarding” school. Most graduates have a standard business or liberal arts degree. Miskatonic developed the “oooh, magic” reputation because of the zeal of some of our researchers, and those few unfortunate incidents during field work seasons, or in the storage areas of the museum, or the Rare Book Room . . .
But we deal in Science, not magic. Extradimensional psychic verbal feedback loops are NOT incantations, and atavistic holdovers from ancient eras are NOT demons.
Go Cephalopods!
If I may return this thread to sense…
It’s mentioned, IIRC, that at least one school in America is located at Salem. That makes sense for New England.
Also, how many can there be? We only hear about Hogwarts in GB/Ireland and two on Europe. That’s three schools for several hundred million people. Yet we know there are witches all over. But it’s never determined what percentage of the population has the power.
The facts are few and hard to put together. I’d say in North America there’d be no more than three or four.
I’d appoint these:
Salem, MA
New Orleans, LA (I live in Charleston, SC and it’s embarrassing how much it WANTS to be New Orleans)
Montreal (Good choice!)
Veracruz, Mexico
One in the west, apart from making fun of LA or SF eludes me. Maybe Rapid City for the Black Hills magic connection. But I have a lot of NA connections, that might be influencing me.
It’d sure explain a lot about Colonial Williamsburg.
That said, could you imagine the brass balls of someone building a big fairy-tale castle and hiding its purpose by calling the whole thing The Magic Kingdom?
Nope. It’s mentioned that there’s a “Salem Witches’ Institute” in one book, and one of the Weasley brothers has a pen-pal at a Brazilian wizarding school. Additionally J.K. Rowling has mentioned in interviews a wizarding school in Japan. It’s also mentioned at some point the Hogwarts has about a thousand students at any given time, and nearly every wizard or witch in Britain has attended there.
(I am not a Harry Potter superfan, I am just reading the books for the very first time, and in a weird coincidence I was looking up something about wizarding school on the Harry Potter wikia last night.)
Area 51?
The House on the Rock
Wall Drug
I think that would be St. Augustine, FL (1565).
Montreal was not established as a European settlement until 1611 at the earliest (and then just as a fur-trading post), and an actual colony wasn’t established until 1642.
A fort was built at the site which was established as Quebec City in 1535, but it wasn’t founded as a city until 1608.
OK, so Salem. That makes sense, though it sounds like a girls’ school to me, analogous to Smith or any of the other old girls’ schools in New England. I agree that New Orleans makes sense too, since there’s so much room in the bayou to hide it. (I don’t know where they’re hiding the Salem Witches Institute.) There’s so much room in the West to hide a school, I’m not sure where to put it. The mountains of Colorado, Montana, or Wyoming? The Salt Flats in Utah? The desert in Nevada? Dry, mountainous NorCal? The deep woods of Oregon or Washington? Underneath Yellowstone would explain all those damn geysers.
Also, 1000 students at Hogwarts? How? I figure about 7 boys in Harry’s dorm times two genders times seven grades times four houses. That’s only 392. Even if we assume that there are relatively few Gryffindors in Harry’s year and double that 7 to 14, you’re still under 800.
Americans, the Blue Wizards of the Potterverse.
There’s one in San Antonio, Texas, in the basement of the Alamo.
Hey! I resemble that remark! :mad:
I’ve got nothing to add, all the good ones have already been suggested.
As a member in good standing of the College Of Etheric Sciences,
I got my education at a school hidden under the Franklin Institute ( a venerable and respectable museum dedicated to sleeper science). I occasionally return their to take a continuing education course, have interesting discussions with other Scientists, and to buy astronaut ice cream.
Re Rowling
After having seen the first film and being exposed to Potter in the media, I refuse to consume any more. It is clear that Rowling is a tool of the Grey Faces. Readers become obsessed with useless trivia while being convinced they are “muggles” and forever incapable of performing Magic. The truth is, any human is capable of Actualizing their MetaConscious Mind and altering reality.
This stumped me, too. But I do think The Black Hills, being as mystical as they’re reputed to be, have to be the place. Either Rapid City or in the interior near Spearfish
Perhaps the mountain Inyan Kara.