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wizarding schools around the world // ilvermorny

The great North American school of magic was founded in the seventeenth century. It stands at the highest peak of Mount Greylock, where it is concealed from non-magic gaze by a variety of powerful enchantments, which sometimes manifest in a wreath of misty cloud.

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wizarding schools around the world // hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry (scotland)

Hogwarts School is located in Hogwarts Castle, a large castle somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle has extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegetable patches, a loch, a large dense forest, several greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size Quidditch Pitch. There is also an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school and those owned by students. The three highest towers are the Astronomy Tower, the Ravenclaw Tower, and the Gryffindor Tower. There are 142 staircases, which are known to move, in the massive castle, which is set upon huge rocks above a magnificent lake.

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wizarding schools around the world // koldovstoretz (russia)

Koldovstoretz is one of the larger schools that provides private wizarding education. Generally, most students come from rich, pure-blooded families in Russia and the Middle East, though there have been known to be students from as far away as Australia. The students are housed in an enormous ice palace, once owned by a wizard who had become a nobleman in muggle society. The walls of the palace are still displayed with the magnificent paintings and ice sculptures decorate the rooms. As it is cold most of the year around, uniforms involve fur coats and a form of quidditch is played on uprooted trees.

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wizarding schools around the world // mahoutokoro (japan)

This ancient Japanese school has the smallest student body of the eleven great wizarding schools and takes students from the age of seven (although they do not board until they are eleven). While day students, wizarding children are flown back and forth to their homes every day on the backs of a flock of giant storm petrels. The ornate and exquisite palace of Mahoutokoro is made of mutton-fat jade, and stands on the topmost point of the ‘uninhabited’ (or so Muggles think) Volcanic island of Minami Iwo Jima.

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wizarding schools around the world // uagadou (africa)

Although Africa has a number of smaller wizarding schools, there is only one that has stood the test of time (at least a thousand years) and achieved an enviable international reputation: Uagadou. The largest of all wizarding schools, it welcomes students from all over the enormous continent. The only address ever given is ‘Mountains of the Moon’; visitors speak of a stunning edifice carved out of the mountainside and shrouded in mist, so that it sometimes appears simply to float in mid-air. Much (some would say all) magic originated in Africa, and Uagadou graduates are especially well versed in Astronomy, Alchemy and Self-Transfiguration.

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wizarding schools around the world // the salem witches’ institute (usa)

One of a group of small education centers in the united states, the salem institute is in salem, massachusetts, at the site of the witch trials 400 years before. Unlike more prestigious wizarding schools, the house which houses approximately a hundred girls between 5 and 18 is visible to no-majs passing by, though thought instead to be a boarding school for rich no-maj girls. Surrounding the house is a garden, from where students pick plants for their potions. Salem girls are particularly skilled in healing and tend to not use wands as around a third are descendants of the african witches who were kept as slaves at the time of the trials. A large proportion of Salem girls also have a form of the sight, passed down from ancestors, a talent sharpened by the focused teaching at the institute.

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wizarding schools around the world// castelobruxo (brazil)

The Brazilian school for magic, which takes students from all over South America, may be found hidden deep within the rainforest. The fabulous castle appears to be a ruin to the few Muggle eyes that have ever fallen upon it (a trick shared by Hogwarts; opinion is divided on who got the idea from whom). Castelobruxo is an imposing square edifice of golden rock, often compared to a temple. Both building and grounds are protected by the Caipora, small and furry spirit-beings who are extraordinarily mischievous and tricky, and who emerge under cover of night to watch over the students and the creatures who live in the forest.

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wizarding schools around the world // durmstrang institute (north europe)

Although believed to be situated in the far north of Europe, Durmstrang is one of the most secretive of all schools about its whereabouts, so nobody can be quite certain. Visitors, who must comply with memory charms to erase their knowledge of how they got there, speak of vast, sprawling grounds with many stunning views, not least of the great, dark, spectral ship that is moored on a mountain lake behind the school, from which students dive in summertime.

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wizarding schools around the world // beauxbatons academy of magic (france)

Thought to be situated somewhere in the Pyrenees, visitors speak of the breath-taking beauty of a chateau surrounded by formal gardens and lawns created out of the mountainous landscape by magic. Beauxbatons Academy has a preponderance of French students, though Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Luxembourgians and Belgians also attend in large numbers (both Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have a larger studentship than Hogwarts). It is said that the stunning castle and grounds of this prestigious school were part-funded by alchemist gold, for Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel met at Beauxbatons in their youth, and a magnificent fountain in the middle of the school’s park, believed to have healing and beautifying properties, is named for them.

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“I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately smashin’ every expectation. Every action’s an act of creation! I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow. For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow” 

The Millennial Patriot.