Other magic schools/Shrieking Shack

[blpurdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 34619

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jrober4211" <midwife34 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "uncmark" <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> > > 
> > Are we further to guess from the Triwizard Tournament that there 
> > are only 3 secondary schools worldwide? They represent the UK. 
> > France, and the Eastern European groups, but conspicuously 
> > missing are Americans, Orientals, Africans, or Latinos. Do these 
> > populations have no magical schools?
> > 
> > I think that Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbaton might be the 
> > three oldest only, much like the US 'ivy league'. It was 
> > mentioned that the Tournament hadn't been held in centuries. 
> > There are probably schools in other regions, maybe we'll see 
> > them in later books. 

Hermione mentions merely that these are the three biggest schools in 
Europe.  That would imply that there are others.  JKR has stated 
explicitly that Hogwarts is the only one in the British Isles.

> I remember one of the Weasley kids having a pen pal from a school 
> in South America. I can't remember where, but I think a school was 
> mentioned in the US, and for some reason the state of Texas comes 
> to mind. 

Bill had a penfriend in Brazil.  The Salem Witches Institute is 
mentioned at the QWC in GoF, but it is not clear whether it is a 
school or research facility or what.  The popularity of Quidditch 
throughout the world argues for local magic schools wherever it is 
played (after all--they'd have to get their players from 
somewhere).  

"Quidditch Through the Ages" mentions three Canadian Quidditch teams 
(the best--so it's clear that there are more): the Moose Jaw 
Meteorites, the Haileybury Hammers, and the Stonewall Stormers.  It 
is explained that Quidditch isn't as popular in the US as Quodpot, 
but that in recent years a couple of US teams have gained 
international recognition: the Sweetwater All-Stars (which may be 
the Texas reference you're remembering) and the Fitchburg Finches, 
from Massachusetts.  Quidditch teams are also given for the European 
mainland, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  
The list has debated locations of North American wizarding schools 
before, but while there is no clear consensus on where they are, 
their existence is generally accepted, as well as schools in the 
other locations mentioned.

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judyserenity quite correctly noted that when everyone left the 
Shrieking Shack in PoA, Snape was unconscious, and so he couldn't 
have stunned Pettigrew.  However, when they were leaving, Lupin was 
not yet a werewolf, and so either he or Sirius could have done this 
and simply used the same spell to move Pettigrew's body that they 
were already using for the unconscious Snape.  (If anything, this 
further exonerates Snape from responsibility for Pettigrew's escape.)

--Barb