Only 3 magic schools?

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 34630

Originally I 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?
> 
SpyGameFan answered:
> Just so you know, in the states the PC term for "Orientals" is 
> Asians. Secondly, nothing in the book says that these are the only 
> three. Since there is a book on Magical education on Europe there 
> must be more than three... or it is one darn short book.
> And why does everyone assume that just because JKR doesn't point 
> out the race of a character that he/she is Caucasian?

Personally, I admire JKR for her writing and would never call her non-
PC. I think she's quite skillful in her treatment of race issues of 
houseelves and giants and how they parallel race issues in the muggle 
world.

I hope we're not too PC sensitive in this group. I meant that there 
are large societies of wizards untouched in the Potterverse. From the 
HP Lexicon: 
"In book 5, we go into a whole new area, physically, an area you've 
never seen before, a magical world" (1)
This may be unknown schools and cultures.

uncmark