American Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry

[Demelza]

No: HPFGUIDX 27166

I agree with other group members that NYC would be a good location 
for one of the American schools. However, I think Manhattan is too 
crowded already. Maybe the school is located in one of the 5 
boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island. Out of 
the boroughs, I would opt for the Bronx. The Bronx in the 18th to 
19th centuries was countryside (a good place to hide a wizarding 
school). Edgar Allen Poe lived there for a while in what was to 
become the Grand Concourse. By the early 20th century, it became more 
industrialized and more populated. The Grand Concourse was the place 
to go to be seen and to shop.. A school could have existed in this 
area at that time in the disguise of an iron foundry or some sort of 
factory or warehouse. Likewise, a school can still exist today in the 
disguise of a warehouse or crumbling factory. 

I agree, too, that there are probably several schools located 
throughout the US and Canada. One is probably located in the Mid-
West, maybe in Nebraska: vast areas of farm land is a feasible place 
to build and conceal a wizarding school. One probably located on the 
West Coast. I vote for San Francisco: the various earthquakes could 
be the result of Potions experiments or Charms exercises gone awry. 
In the South, maybe one of the more mountainous states like 
Tennessee: easy to conceal and disguise a school in the mountains or 
in a valley.

There's probably a school in Central America and several in South 
America too.