What would it look like?
Every meal provided to students consists of pizza with charred pepperoni cups and
Josh Allen is still the Headmaster after his unfortunately unsuccessful run as President of the United States. Allen/Diggs 2020, never forget.
We don't do Quidditch here, lest we freeze to our broomsticks. However, we do compete in the Table Smashing World Championships every year. Even though none of the other competitors ever show up (let alone light their tables on fire like we do), we still have never won the World Cup, because That Is The Buffalo Way. "But you know what, the boys are looking really good, this could be our year.
We also don't do houses here. Every student is a member of BillsMafia and wears red, white, and blue zebra striped pajama bottoms to class year-round. Don't ask us what zebra stripes have to do with Bison, we don't have an answer for you.
Finally, we have an exchange program with Walt Disney’s Imagineering Academy of Magicks. Well, really it's not much of an exchange program because nobody ever comes to visit us. We just send mass amounts of our students there for a few weeks every year and then when they get back we will spend hours upon hours discussing every minute of their time spent there instead of doing our homework like we should be doing, to the extreme annoyance of the handful of students who don't actually come from WNY.
And imagine all the sick magical sea creatures we could study, and lounging on the beach between classes!
Students are required to take seven years of Astronomy, and use the Headmaster's Quarters to observe the Northern Lights. The rest of the grounds are further inland, though students can often be found by the water year-round, sometimes climbing frozen waves, practicing ice and water spells, and collecting rocks. The Great Lakes, formed by glaciers, have the richest variety of rocks in the world, and students at the Great Lakes School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have learned to harness their power. They often harvest the bones of fish and different breeds of driftwood as well, which they use both in potion-crafting and for religious reasons.
Aside from Astronomy, students must take a minimum of five years of Elemental Water Magic, and many go on to take Dark Water Magic or Protective Water Magic. Care of Magical Creatures is a popular class as well, and includes water life. One of the school's most notable feats is taming a lake serpent that the students often ice fish to help feed throughout the winter.
To protect the school from Muggles, is it Unplottable. If anyone attempts to visit it, they will see only the cliff of the nearby lake.
Academia Imperial de Artes Mágicas (Imperial Academy of Magical Arts) is one of the most prestigious magical schools in South America and considered to be the first built in Brazil.
Hidden in the Atlantic Forest at the actual State of Mato Grosso do Sul, the school was founded in 1846 by Pedro the Magnanimous, the second Brazilian Emperor, to offer Brazilian young witches and wizards the best education that could be provided at the time.
The school's coat of arms and colours (green, yellow, blue, and red) are the same as the Bragança's — D. Pedro's family. The official animal is the ocelot.
The school started out as a set of two-or-three-store buildings. Eventually, as a number of students grew, the campus was expanded and, nowadays, it looks like a small village.
Uniforms The formal uniform is composed of a white shirt with the school's coat of arms; students can also wear a green-and-yellow short poncho also decorated with the Academy's coat of arms; and green-coloured pants/shorts/skirts. For the cold weather, the school also offers a green-and-yellow jacket or sweatshirts with the Academy's coat of arms. The use, however, is optional, and the students may wear whatever coat they wish as long as there is no hateful message or obscenity in it. There's no mandatory foot-wear, so the students can whatever they choose. Other than informal occasions, jeans pants, shorts, and skirts are also accepted.
Education Nowadays, the Academy is a public magical school that offers free and broad education to those between the ages of 11 and 18. The most traditional programs in the schools are Languages of Magic (which covers the study of Latin, Runes, and a few native languages); History of Magic; Magibiology (the study of magical plants and animals); Ritualism (covering the subject of magical rituals); and Transfiguration.
Far into the Atlantic forest region of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and deep within the territories of the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá and Guarani-Nhandeva tribes, is the Imperial Academy of Magical Arts. Also known locally as Mbo'Eroy Arandu, which simply means "to teach with intelligence" in one of the many Guarani languages, the academy is one of the most unique schools of magic in South America.
The Imperial Academy was founded in the mid 1840s when a young D. Pedro II reached out to different indigenous groups to build a magical community with a Brazilian identity. With the Pagis (guarani sorcerers) amongst its founding team, the academy mixed European and indigenous teachings, resulting in many forms of magic unique to it. Mbopará, the Pagi technique of inscribing spells directly onto one's skin for power and/or protection, with the use of enchanted ink, is among the most famous. On the European side, the school brought many things from England (a huge ally in Brazil's declaration of independence), like subjects taught and the house system used in Hogwarts.
Well-hidden within the forest, the Imperial Academy is only accessible to those who know the trail. Students must take the academy's boats, that travel from east to west of Brazil through the Paraná and Dourado rivers, before being escorted safely to the school in carriages. The school grounds are guarded not only by the staff but also by the Ao Ao, ferocious magical beasts that have made the place their home and will attack those who stray off the trail to defend it. Those who wander aimlessly into the forest will either be chased off by the Ao Ao or led back out by the Confundus Charm. Illusion and camouflage charms are also put in place to avoid detection from the outside.
The quality of the formation of Brazilian students was a major concern of the founders when the school was created. The country's magical community had only just begun to grow and form its own identity, and the Imperial Academy was intended to be a major driving force for that. However, in 1943, the rising tension between the indigenous tribes and the muggle government almost caused an open war between the muggle and magical communities. The hostile takeover of the indigenous territory by the muggles put the secret of the Imperial Academy's existence in jeopardy. The international wizard community had to interfere in order to make peace and the school was closed. It remained closed until the 1980's when the Kaiowá and Nhandeva tribes started to regain their territory with the help of both muggle and magical societies pressuring their governments.
The school specializes in magic without the use of wands or any type of conductor, as well as in the treatment and training of magical creatures. Currently, the school works as a specialization for a very select group of students, serving students from Southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and with a disputed exchange program(that requires fluency in at least 3 languages) for those above 21 years and willing to pass a secret test.
The natives that the Spaniards observe here practiced a more rudimentary type of magic, very natural and instinctive, without the use of wands or spells, the region's magicians practiced the connection with the land and magical creatures. When the Spaniards had to abandon everything due to disputes with the Portuguese, they left behind magical animals like Abraxans horses that mixed with native animals, giving rise to a unique breed of magic horse that exists only in this region and is considered the most resistant among winged horses. And also the most difficult to tame.
The semi-educated natives embraced the teachings and incorporated their culture in this way, keeping the Pampa school in a way existing, developing a style of magic that is not limited, which is about letting the magic flow and connecting. When the Spaniards came back here they found what they called creature enchanters because there was no animal that they could not be tamed with their magic technique, in addition now the magic practiced without wands was more focused and directed more similar to that of European magic folks.
The school has a long tradition of creating and training the best-winged horses which is part of the curse for magical creature and rumour has it that the ones who achieve mastery have to go through this final ritual, dated back to the native tribe from the region, where a wizard or witch must tame a wild winged horse with only its magic without ever touching it, bounding the animal only with its magic and therefor creating a magical connection for life, proving proficiency both magical care and also in wandless magic. The Pampa is a house to both great naturalist wizards but also to the great magical fighter who excelled in combat due to their nonverbal and wandless magic
It would be foolish to consider that one can become a master in the mere 7 years you spend in school. To be a true master, one must commit oneself fully to the art, until there is not a drop of knowledge you have yet to taste.
Ravensdorm Potions Academy is located in Aberdeen, Scotland, housed secretively in King’s College. This auspicious, selective academy has been there since 1428. It is known for its intensive course load and exacting expectations for pupils. The admissions process is so severe that those who pass come out so exhausted they can hardly stand —and those that do not pass, are often transported directly to St. Mungos. To succeed at Ravensdorm represents that you survived the rigorous four-year program and did not accidentally kill yourself from poisoning. It also means there is not a brew recorded you cannot identify or replicate with the proper tools — and you always have the proper tools. Graduates of Ravensdorm, as few as there are, are prized at St. Mungos and the Ministry. If you are lucky enough to have such an apothecary, the cost is worth the liquid perfection that you acquire.
In the middle of Amsterdam, underground, there is the School of Magical Transportation. Wizards between the ages 15 and 22 come to this school to learn wizard and muggle courses that will help them with inventing new and improving current wizarding transportation. Students work on transportation methods for short and international and even transportation into space.
This school is one of the smallest, most ancient ones in Europe, located in Galicia, on the very Northwest of Spain. Land of both sea and forests, Galicia has a strong Celtic culture and a huge tradition of magic, witchcraft and rituals.
The name of the school comes from the Galician (a language spoken in Galicia) and can be translated as “School of Magic of the Sacred Forest”, as a tribute to the ancient forests where druids performed magic rituals.
It was founded by the druid Maeloc in the VI Century, who was famous for his deep knowledge about the secrets of the Sacred Forest of Meira. The school is still placed in the very castle where Maeloc used to live, and it is so deeply merged into nature that almost no magic is needed in order to make it inaccessible to muggles.
The school curriculum focuses on the teaching of Herbology and Potions, students spending most of their time outside, grabbing plants from the forest and preparing unique healing concoctions.
They are also proficient in identifying magic creatures, as Galicia is home to many specific specimens like Meigas, as they know humanlike witches who pursue diabolic magic, trasnos” little playful elves known for pranking everyone around, or the Urco, that could be an analogue to The Grim, but it emerges from the sea.
During the summer, the school welcomes wizards and witches from all over the world to seminars and workshops about Galician potion making, Defence Against the Diabolic Magic (a specific branch of the Dark Arts), and Celtic runes among other fascinating subjects.
My school is the Glasgow School of Dark Arts and Trickery. Cloaked by powerful magic, the school sits proudly in the heart of the city. A mighty building whose architects were eventually driven insane building the place, it goes unnoticed by the Muggles that pass by it every single day. Inside, the ceilings capture the playground of the Gods, the stars constantly changing and dancing with one another. The dark and labyrinthine library stacks hide the darkest of texts, many wizards driven mad by the words contained within. The staircases, chiseled from the finest marble by hand, making each one completely unique. The students that assemble in these halls learn the darkest arts, defend the city from the most wicked creatures and grow to be the most powerful wizards, all done in deep secret. The witches and wizards of Glasgow are certainly ones you want one your side and not ones to bump into in the dark.
In the north of the Netherlands, in the heart of the city of Groningen, you can find the Jan Modderman College. The school is named after a citizen in the 18th century who was famous for his industrial prowess and his pioneering in aeronautics, and who was a wizard unbeknownst to muggles. As it is located right in the middle of a muggle town, most students live in houses all over the city with a matron overseeing the group. The school is famous for its decision to give its students both a muggle and magical education. Students graduating from the Jan Modderman College are free to continue their studies in both muggle and magical fields. Some of the teachers come here specifically to study the effects of magic on muggle appliances and how to get it to work together.
Melnishka Shkola - the Bulgarian school Victor Krum snubbed for Durmstrang. It's situated in the mountains near Melnik, where muggles and wizards cohabit in peace. Students specialize in potion brewing and being straight-up cool cats. The locals take pride in Melnishka Shkola and a strong culture of potion-developing has grown in the town since the school's opening. Now every house has a cave cellar, which maintains a steady temperature perfect for brewing and storing ingredients. Cave cellars are also great for making and keeping a grape potion that muggles refer to as wine.
In Melnishka Shkola you can also sign up to take classes in the language of the local wood spirits, the samodivas. They take care of the forest and the magical creatures in it, and sing tales of ancient times at night. On clear nights, the Samodiva language teacher takes out small groups of students to listen to the singing. This class doesn't require magic and is open to muggles.
The muggle vehicular device parked in front of the school belongs to headmaster Patladjan Otvarov, who likes riding around town with the windows down and Celestina Warbeck on blast. Students have mixed feelings about that.
(Sorcerer’s Secret Society)
This was an unconventional, clandestine school established in Seville, Spain, in the XV Century. It was not exactly an educational institution but a congregation of witches and wizards that aimed to preserve magic knowledge during the dark ages of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition was especially powerful in Seville due to the city's international status (because it was key in many Commercial routes) and because there were important non-Catholic minorities. In this context, the Inquisition found that there were a lot of people considered, in their eyes, heretic, and established headquarters in the city. But what they didn’t know is that magic people from all different cultures were more powerful together.
Always having to hide, witches and wizards founded an informal school in the Atarazanas, a shipyard near the river where huge galleys were built. During the day, the students stayed at home in little houses all over the city, both inside and outside the city’s walls, and try to remain unnoticed. But at night, everyone who had shown a sign of magic at any age was welcomed in the school.
There was not a formal curriculum, but the students became proficient in Defense Against the Dark Arts and, of course, Disillusionment and Concealing charms. The true value of the school, however, laid in the multicultural environment, that allowed witches and wizards from all different ages to share magic wisdom from all over the world.
Both the name and the founders of the school remain undisclosed to this day. Its doors were happily closed when the Spanish Inquisition was abolished, allowing its members to found other official schools knowing that they will not have to hide from anyone (but Muggles) ever again.
The Salisbury School of Transfiguration, is a Higher Education School for when Young Witches and Wizards complete their schooling and wish to pursue a mastery in Transfiguration. Based in the Mediaeval City of Salisbury. It's a very selective school, taking up to 10 students per year. The students benefit from the powerful ley lines running through the Salisbury Plains.
One of the oldest surviving centers for the magical education of youth in Italy, Ca’ Spinalonga is a magical school for adolescents and young adults located on a tiny island in the Venetian lagoon glamoured to be inaccessible and invisible to Muggles.
Originally a school focused on diplomatic relations, both with Muggles and among Mediterranean wizards, founded by the homonymous wizarding family in one of their palaces in Venice proper, the building was moved to its current location after the introduction of the International Statute of Secrecy, with the original now appearing to onlookers like an abandoned church undergoing restoration. Any wizard who crosses the crumbling door would however find themselves in the entrance hall of Ca’ Spinalonga, with the other two access points to the public being a maze garden some near a mainland villa belonging to a cadet branch of the old family, or the recently added perpetually out-of-order women’s toilets in Marco Polo international airport. The school can otherwise only be reached by authorised vessels that have been properly enchanted to pierce through the glamour, which includes a ferry line that sails without conductor every twenty minutes from Piazzale Roma.
Our alumni include Lenin, Che Guevara (who is responsible for half the graffitis on the school boundary walls) and even the infamous dark wizard, Joseph Stalin. Students can take the tram to get to the school and they are sorted into the houses Bourgeois and Proletariat for the rest of their term. It's a two-year degree and in the second year, the student is assigned to the other house to help them inculcate two different perspectives of the world. Football is a popular sport in the school and the students enjoy discussing world politics over a steaming cup of coffee at the Calcutta Coffee House.
For fun, the students often go for a boat ride on the river Ganges, where they can get a spectacular view of the Howrah Bridge.
Languages: official language is Russian, however, most students are bilingual and can speak other such as Kabardian, Georgian, Chechen, Armenian, Kumyk and 30+ others.
Сommon wizarding pets: cats, eagles, falcons, red squirrels, foxes.
Fun fact: there’s a captured demon in the cell on the grounds. He’s cursed to be a sculpture during the day but roams territory overnight. Curfew is really strict if you don’t want to be eaten!
Located deep in the Seoraksan (설악산) Mountain in Gangwon-do, South Korea, it is the only magical academy in the country that accepts students through an exam. The exam tests the students on intelligence, magical abilities, and other characteristics such as honor and respect throughout a week. Notoriously known to have an extremely difficult exam, the number of accepted students is around 30 each year.
In the academy, tradition and honor are the two pillars of education. Respect towards the professors and fellow students is emphasized. Qualities like selflessness, honesty, and hard work are highly regarded, while qualities like deception, negligence, and disobedience are disapproved.
The academy building is the exact copy of Gyeongbokgung (경복궁) Palace located in Seoul and was built in 1435, 40 years after the Palace was built. The founder of the academy is believed to be King Sejong the Great but is uncertain as the founder himself sealed the secret away. The academy has been providing a dorm for the students since 1441 and has continued to expand to include extracurricular buildings. Even though the buildings have nearly 600 years worth of magic running through it, it is possible to use technological objects, though it is strictly forbidden during lessons.
The age of acceptance is commonly between ages 9 and 11, but the academy also accepts older students if they show great promise. There are no houses, but there are three ranks called Geup (급) - First, Second, and Third. Each Geup is separated into three grades. Passing a grade isn't hard, but passing a Geup is considerably harder. There have been cases of students taking 12 years to pass the 9-year system when they failed to pass a Geup onto the next.
Walt Disney was a specialized master in Transfiguration and Illusionary Charms. He could create objects no one had ever considered and used them for entertainment purposes, and to him, that was the greatest of his achievements. Whimsical and entertaining, he wanted to bring the joy of magic to Muggles without scaring them or causing a storm for the wizarding world at large. He was told he could never do it. Many learned you should never tell Walt Disney what he could or could not do.
Graduates of the Coven who receive an overall grade of at least 85 in their final KOALA exams are guaranteed a cadetship with the Department of Magical Affairs and are automatically recommended to the School of Magic at the Australian National University for higher studies. Students at the Coven get to experience all that the Bush Capital has to offer, including its abundant wildlife and wonderfully mild climate.
The school’s location in the heart of the historical-cultural and parliamentary precinct of Canberra offers a fantastic opportunity for students to experience and learn about muggle culture while honing their magic skills. Brindabella Coven is named for the Brindabella Ranges, also known as ‘The Brindabellas’, the mountain range ringing Canberra to the south and west.
Founded in 1893 by Tifania Strawbroom, the Wood Wood School started as a small family school but has expanded as more magical families moved into the area.
Disguised as an abandoned bush cottage on the banks of the Murray River, Wood Wood operates as a day school for students between the ages of 5 and 18, although some older students opt to attend the larger school in Melbourne.
Students are taught the muggle curriculum until age 11 when they do their EMU tests (Essential Magical Understanding) and then they are taught a combination curriculum of both magical and muggle subjects. The current Headmistress is Talitha Strawbroom, great great great granddaughter of Tifania.
