Wizarding Schools (rejected from HPFGU)

[lord1912 <Lord1912@juno.com>]

OK...here's another twist.  What about schools of wizardry on other 
planets?   To crossover with the Star Trek universe, I can well 
imagine a Klingon school of wizardry, as well as those of the 
Vulcans, Romulans, Cardassians, Bajorans, etc.   

Cardassians coming to Hogwarts as transfer students would most 
definitely be Slytherins, Vulcans would be Ravensclaw, and so on.

Thoughts on what their own schools would be like?



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston) <catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Kristjan Arnason 
> <karnasaur at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Remember that all of Europe seems to only have three
> > schools; Hogwarts in Scotland, Beaubatons in France,
> > and Drumstrang in (I think) either North-western
> > Russia or Lapland (remember all the lakes).  
> 
> Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang are not the only three 
> wizarding schools in Europe; they are the three most prestigeous 
and 
> probably the three oldest. That doesn't rule out the existence of 
> other schools.
> 
> Durmstrang is, alas, in Northern Scandinavia (JKR said so in an 
> interview and a Norwegian list member has confirmed it) and some 
> people who read a book about Andorra (Andorra is a small country 
> on the border between France and Spain and I think the title was 
> ANDORRA: THE MAGICAL KINGDOM) became convinced that Beauxbatons is 
in 
> Andorra. I don't know enough about the weather there to know 
whether 
> it is reasonable for the uniforms to be summer-weight robes with 
no 
> warm cloaks.
> 
> Starting to guess at the number of schools might begin with 
guesssing 
> at the number of students, starting with JKR's statement that 
there 
> are 1000 students at Hogwarts and making a ratio to the population 
of 
> Great Britain. 
> 
> (Of course, that leads to the famous "number of students" battle, 
of 
> which my solution is that JKR's statement is correct because it 
seems 
> correct for a wizarding population of 16,000 to 24,000 which seems 
> correct for the amount of wizarding economy shown, the number of 
> shops and so on, AND the depictions in the stories of Hogwarts 
with 
> around 280 students are ALSO correct, and the SOLUTION is that the 
> Hogwarts in the book is HOGWARTS'S MAIN CAMPUS (Hogwarts School of 
> Witchcraft and Wizardry AT Hogswarts Castle) and the other around 
700 
> students are at two or three other campusses, with names like e.g. 
> Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at Woodhenge for a 
campus 
> at Woodhenge, but colloquially the main campus is called Hogwarts 
> (like the UC campus in Berkeley is called "Cal") while the other 
> campusses are called Woodhenge (for my made-up example) like the 
UC 
> campus in Los Angeles is called "UCLA". I think that the 
Headmaster 
> of Hogwarts and the Board of Governors reign over all the 
campusses, 
> but from day to day each campus is ruled by its own Deputy 
> Headmaster.) 
> 
> > > There have been numerous posts about how many
> > > wizarding schools the US might have (I think two,
> > > Salem and New Orleans) but no one has brought up
> > > Canada, the country I left.  
> 
> Back in the days when Joywitch, Amanda and I were in that 
discussion, 
> we thought that the North American schools would be divided by the 
> local culture areas. The following is what I came up with and NOT 
> CANON. 
> 
> A New England school which would be named New Hogwarts, which 
would 
> also be attended by the anglophones of eastern Canada
> 
> a Southern School which might be in Savannah (MIDNIGHT IN THE 
GARDEN 
> OF GOOD AND EVIL was real big at that time), 
> 
> a Western school in the Redwood Forest which might be named 
Hogwest 
> (depending how recently it was founded), and would also be 
attended 
> by the Anglophones of Western Canada, (there used to be a 
wonderful 
> luxury camp or rustic resort named Hartsooks in the Redwood 
Country 
> and it would be a fine place for the Western School of Wizardry, 
and 
> "Hartsooks" would be a fine name for it),
> 
> a Texas school, named Lone Star or Yellow Rose School, which IIRC 
> Amanda placed in Bluebonnet, TX,
> 
> a French-speaking school Nouveaxbatons (from Joywitch) in New 
Orleans 
> (or in Mobile), but I suspect that the Francophones of Canada 
would 
> have their own L'Etoile du Nord Ecole de Magie somewhere in Quebec,
> 
> a Midwestern school (maybe also covering Sasketchuan and 
Manitoba), 
> altho' the magical-reputed Midwestern place I can think of is Oz, 
and 
> one needs to be carried by a tornado to get there,
> 
> two schools in Mexico that were founded before European contact. 
One 
> is called the Mayan school and the other is called the Aztec 
school, 
> altho' their teaching has become more European over time, and they 
> take students from all the Central American countries. 
> 
> The very first school of wizardry in the world was founded in 
Sumer 
> a little over 4000 years ago, named The School of Wizardry. It 
still 
> exists but its language of instruction has evolved to Aramaic so 
it 
> is usually called The Aramaic School.
> 
> The second school of wizardry in the world was founded in Lower 
Egypt 
> a little less than 4000 years ago. Its language of instruction has 
> evolved to Coptic so it is called The Coptic School even tho' its 
> real name is the Per-Heka. 
> 
> All the wizarding students from all the Middle East go to those 
two 
> schools (which must be huge). It doesn't matter if they are from 
> Israel or Palestine or Iran or Iraq or Turkish or Armenian or 
> whatever ethnic groups that hate each other in the Muggle world -- 
> the wizarding folk of the Middle East have learned to view 
themselves 
> as all one ethnic group that sticks together against all the 
Muggles.
> 
> I suppose that might also apply to your point about the Chinese 
and 
> the Japanese and the Koreans not getting along. Altho' I think 
those 
> places are all populous enough to have their own schools; China 
would 
> have at least a couple of schools for different Chinese 
languages.  
> 
> Now I must back and criticise myself. If I choose to include 
Atlantis 
> in my Potterverse, then the Very First school of magic would 
> have been in Atlantis something around 9000 years ago; I don't 
know 
> which the Atlantaean wizards invented first, school or plumbing.