How would you imagine wizarding schools in other countries?

How do you imagine a wizarding school in your country would be like?
would they have different or extra subjects?

Well, Since I really don't know of many castles in Canada, I think It would be very similar to a university campus, or something..

I reckon it'd be a hole ... a really big hole ... one so big that's big enough. Ok, it's safe to say I have no idea what a magical school in Australia should look like :D

I reckon it'd be a hole ... a really big hole ... one so big that's big enough. Ok, it's safe to say I have no idea what a magical school in Australia should look like :DHidden in the pouch of a really, really big kangaroo? :D

How do you imagine a wizarding school in your country would be like?
would they have different or extra subjects?

As Hogwarts is in Scotland I don't have to ;)

Hidden in the pouch of a really, really big kangaroo? :D

Which we'd hide in the desert so no one would ever find it. At least winters would be more bearable :D

American Hogwarts would be very...diverse, I think. We would have the regular classes and "Quodpot", but I think are houses would function more like cliques.

We'd probably have the school hidden in Ahyers rock and have kangaroos to post our letters instead of owls :P


Is Hogwarts really in Scotland?

We'd probably have the school hidden in Ahyers rock and have kangaroos to post our letters instead of owls :P

Kangaroos would be so slow :D I'd go with eagles myself.


Is Hogwarts really in Scotland?

It's actually still a fictional school :p

wed probably have the school in the Himalayas and card reading as one of our subjects

It would be really cool if JKR did describe the classes of the schools in other countries, the Egyptians could have Mummifying (sp?) classes and Indians could have Snake Charming.

princess_phelps; If you go north from London for the length of time they spend on the train, you would end up somewhere in the Highlands or Carngorms.

As Hogwarts is in Scotland I don't have to ;)
What he or she means is the UK not nessasarily scotland right?
In India,wed probably use eagles to deliver posts

yes... Infact India has a long history of Tantric magic probably some school in the Himalayas operates it.

Hmmm. Never thought of that. Well, I doubt all schools are castles or palaces like Hogwarts, Durmstrang, and Beauxbatons. There have got to be just regular learning facilities like elementary school size or something.

I'd bet the American one is more modern and not as old-fashoined, maybe. I bet some dont even have ancient castles, they might have somemodern buildings or something.

I bet it would be very interesting to see a Wizard school in somewhere like Tokyo.

well, hogwarts castle had a kind of ward that prevented muggles from seeing it as anything other than an old castle.perhaps other schools are located underground or underwater or even on a cloud-imagination is your limitation.i also think that they would have similar classes as we have english, math, science etc they have defence against the dark arts; charms etc.

well britain has Hogwarts so i don't really need to think about it, but i'd like to know the preferred sport, quidditch is hogwarts perferred sport but we know with football/soccer that not every country takes the same veiw on a majority.

I think a magic school in America would be very different to Hogwarts. Whenever I read about an American school i'm like 'huh?' America and Britain tend to prefer to do things differently. :)

As the whole UK has one school, I tend to think that all the Slavian countries would do the same and have one place to teach young witches and wizards. I bet it'd be situated somewhere in Carpathian Mountains, much darker than Hogwarts on the outside, but not in the inside. As for post, we'd probably use bats. :p Sport? Something extreme, flying with dragons maybe. :tu:

I've just realised that Durmstrang is the Slavian wizarding school. It fits my idea generally. :)

I never really thought about this. I think it depends on where the school is in America cause with all the different regions and environments in each one, it would be different. I live in the Northeast, so I know that one best.

I think it would be somewhere in the mountains...like the Adirondacks, because that seems to be less populated than other areas. I think it would be more modern looking, most likely not a castle. Maybe it would be one big building, like a large high school, but with nice architectural features to it? =P

I don't know how different the classes would be than Hogwarts..but I can dream. =]

In Poland, the school would be probably hidden somewhere in the mountains. Maybe you would have to pass under the waterfall and then you would enter the school. I have been in the mountains this year and while I was trekking I was really thinking about the possible place for something like Hogwarts. Maybe it would be a huge castle? As far as subjects are concerned I think the similar ones should be taught and maybe also English :)

Heh an Australian magic school. I don't imagine it would be quite as strict as Hogwarts.
Our uniforms would probably be oversized flannelette shirts instead of robes.
And instead of werewolves there'd be werewallabies.
And galahs would send our post.
And instead of saying "Merlin's beard!" we'd say "Ned Kelly's helmet!"
And instead of a quittitch pitch we'd have a quittitch PIT, a big pile of red dirt.
the list goes on and on........
beauty!

Venezuelan Wizards?? LOOOOLLLL I got to stop to think about it.

Mostly, I would say they would be the same. But perhpas a tovuh of our magic world: vudú, santería, brujería, ehhh

But scholls, I have to stop and think about how Venezuelan wizards school should be... and how it would be called!!! XDDDDDDDD

Hoppitydee,

I love your description, but since Austrailia has undergone a major identity change in the last couple hundred years, I would envision your ancient magic schools to take on a more aboriginal face.

Hogwarts is decidedly of Anglo/Saxony architecture. It (movie interpretation) has a Neuschwanstein Castle influence. Which has been taken from several millenia of growth. Austrailian magic schools, probably having been established long before the British ever got there, might be found in that great red monolith your continent is so famous for.

I love the idea of were wallabies! If you are kicked by one of them, you turn into a werewallaby...g'day, Skippy!

Hidden in the pouch of a really, really big kangaroo? :D

What a horrible idea, i can just imagine bouncing around in a kangaroo while trying to eat! Probably in Uluru

Well Australia has HUGE expanses of unpopulated land in it's centre. It would be easy to hide a school (or even a dozen schools) in the desert. As for transportation to the school I would have to say portkeys as places in Australia are too spaced apart for any one transportation method. I live in Western Australia and the state itself is several times the size of the largest American states.

I would assume there would be a magical shopping area (like diagon alley) in the capital city of every state. Maybe even in some of the more remote towns.

Most Australian schools have houses so I'd expect houses to be present (though they may not be called houses, they were called houses at my high school but at my primary school they were called factions.)

Beauty...And perhaps because Austrailia is so young by worldly standards, there is probably a lot of room for growth. I think I may open a joke shop...perhaps I will franchaise Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Perth.

Seriously, since you chaps Downunder have one of the most unique lands in the world, I couldn't even picture how a wizarding world would look there...

In Poland, the school would be probably hidden somewhere in the mountains.

You're right, since there isn't al lot of castles there. Except that it would be like Hogwart apart from teachers being more strict :/

I picture the one in America being somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Inaccessable, remote, and lots of snow. It will be guarded by Sasquatch (bigfoot), or some version of yeti. Instead of having Hogsmead the students would go to an offshoot of Vail, CO., and they would traverse with magic snowshoes.

In Greece it would surely be by the sea or maybe in a castle somewhere in Pelloponisos (it's in south Greece).The bad thing is that even wizards would have to learn Ancient Greek proffesors are so fond of them:grumble:

Would there really be just one in countries like India? Considering how many wizarding children would be there to be educated in India, and the diversity in language, it would have to be a huge school.

Yes, In America, we'd probably have a bunch of seagulls/crows carrying our mail. Though where we would put the school is beyond me. Instead of "Hogwarts" it would be
"Fastfoodlard" or something like that. [end sarcasm, by the way]

A school in the USA would probably be located in the center of a magical area.
When I think of magic I think of 3 places in the USA.

1. Salem, MA (witchcraft central)
2. Las Vegas, NV (no shortage of magicians!)
3. Disney World, FL ("the most magical place on earth")

Of the three Salem is the least populated, save on Halloween. So it seems that it'd be an okay place - there are higher learning institutions in New England, so why not a wizarding school.

Las Vegas would be a cool place - could see an old hotel on the outside - and on the inside a bustling community of wizards in training. Would explain a lot of the random stuff out there, and people look so unusual that wizards dressed as muggles would fit in nicely.
Orlando/Disney - would have to be on the outskirts of Kissimee somewhere.I wasn't really being serious about it.

Regardless we wouldn't be seeing many quiddich matches. They would probably have a different wizarding sports here(cricket and soccer not as popular in the US). Broomstick Races (ala nascar) or Bludger Ball (akin to Football with different wizard rules of course).
Uniform wizarding robes would be in the school colors, not house colors. And they would have intermural sports (as opposed to intramural). The "headmaster" would be called "Principal" whatever. Students would be required to read over the summer and Teachers would be held accountable for their students performances (No Wizard Left Behind).
Oh and some of the classes you could take on television or computer, and send an owl (or eagle) with the work for your teacher.

JKR sort of "over emphasises" the tradition of the area each school is located in. Hogwarts is in a castle and has a boarding school feel. Just from seeing the students from Durmstrang you sense a Slavic, Eastern European, former Soviet Bloc. Beauxbatons gives off the sterotypical French feel.

I imagine 2 possibilities for an American school. One would be in New England, in a secluded forest, like Vermont. It would be kind of like an Ivy League College or a boarding school, not too unlike Hogwarts. Instead of houses, you could have fraternities. Our society is heavily influenced by our British heritage so it isn't impossible to think our wizarding school similar to Hogwarts.

The other would be set in the West. Think cowboys and Indians. It would be easy to hide.

Well, i dont expect them to be diferent....they`ll be pretty much the same as Hogwarts.
Perhaps,Hogwarts will serve as some sort of a "Head Office" to the other subsidiary schools.
But i dont expect these schools to have a Headmaster like our dear,old DD!!!!
*sob*

Hmm, Aussie Wizarding School. Definitely somewhere in the desert maybe Uluru. We would definitely have houses but the school itself would be very traditional Aboriginal. A lot of the dreamtime legends would be real. We would eat wichedy grubs, damper and other traditional bush tucker. We'd travel by portkeys or kangaroos. We'd study a lot of aboriginal magic.:)

Wow... if only that could be true... I wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer today. ;)

If we would have a wizarding school in Serbia, I suppose it would be an old building, like our faculties... and not a modern school at all, but a traditional one, with rules and guidelines. [that are meant to be broken :p]

And among the standard classes [Transfiguration, Charms, DA, Divination, etc.], we'd have some different ones: our Traditional magic, Beliefs and superstitions, also some Tradiditonal herbal curing...

We would study creatures JKR has never mentioned, creatures from our national legends and myths...

The students would also get sorted on the first day of arrival. And we'd have a pre-school education that would start at age of seven. Magical games and beginnings of magic. That way, little wizards and witches would be prepared for the real school a few years later. :D

Ah... if I countinue like this, I'll never stop.

Simply... If we'd have a school of witchcraft and wizardry, in one word it would be magical. And definitely unforgettable.

A canadian Wizarding School...that an interesting thought.

I had always thought that the Canadians and Americains would share a common government and and schooling system, kind of like Britan and Ireland. But i guess both countries are much too big!

I would agree with whoever said that The Canadian equivalent would be like a university or such. Probably built in the 1800's or so. There would be houses I believe, either that or they devide students by age group. I would think that it would operate much like hogwarts. I also think that some of the native magic would b included, a course thats more of an option course, like muggle studies.

Location...I'd go with the rockies...or if we're willing to brave the cold, the northern tundra, where nobody walks...

Also, i think someone mentioned this elsewhere, but I would say that quebec qould have its own school, completely french, somewhere in the northern regions of the province, possible an island on the hudsons bay?

I would imagine that in the United States there would not be just one wizarding school. Every part of the US is so different from the next that it would be more difficult to have everyone in the same school. Since I would imagine there would be around 4 wizarding schools, the classes would be dramatically smaller than those of Hogwarts. I would say that there would be one somewhere in the west like in the desert of Nevada, one in the midwest like in mountains of Colorado, one in the Northeast like in Salem MA, and one in the south like in Louisiana. Each school in the States would be dramatically different than the next one. The one in the south, for example, would teach voodoo. Each one would have a History of Magic class that would detail the beginnings of witchcraft in the States. We would also probably have a different sport that resembles more American style football.

In both the UK and here (Alabama and probably all of the US) require eduation until the age of 16. Now, I would imagine that magical schools would be seen as just non-religous private schools, but there are varying degrees of regulation (at least in America, but probably to some extent if not more in the UK) involving attendance, course study, teacher certification ("church" schools exempt which may include schools that don't run on federal or state funding), and probably certain other criteria. How would places like Hogwarts and American schools get around this?

Also, would education in the US be very similar to that in the UK or have some differences?

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Failing that suggestion, the Magical schools wouldn't need to worry about it, since JKR has made it clear the breach between muggles and the magic community is perminant. Muggle law therefore wouldn't include Magical schools anywhere in the world.

In both the UK and here (Alabama and probably all of the US) require eduation until the age of 16. Now, I would imagine that magical schools would be seen as just non-religous private schools, but there are varying degrees of regulation (at least in America, but probably to some extent if not more in the UK) involving attendance, course study, teacher certification ("church" schools exempt which may include schools that don't run on federal or state funding), and probably certain other criteria. How would places like Hogwarts and American schools get around this?

Also, would education in the US be very similar to that in the UK or have some differences?

I think this is easily answered. In the books Hogwarts looks like an old abandoned run down building and Muggles don't even know it exists. Electronics don't work around the school. Hogwarts doesn't need to apply for licenses or anything like that because non magic people don't know it exists. I doubt the drivers of the ministry cars actually had to pass muggle driving tests and get drivers licenses. I think a magic school in America would be equally hidden magically. Much like number 12 Grimmauld Place, it would be unplottable and protected from Muggles approaching it with many spells and enchantments. I think as with non magical schools there would be some differences between the two but i'm not sure exactly what they might be. Hopefully someone else will have more idea's on that because it's an interesting question.

I would actually think that the southern US school would take after at least partially French magical schooling...I mean the French were the first to really settle down here (eg Mobile and New Orleans).

Still, the government keeps tabs on students. A truancy officer will even call the parent or guardian when a student is not at school. Options to students are limited until the age of 16: go to public school, go to private school, or get home schooling and past tests every year to make sure "you are on track". This seems to be something that was never taken into account when creating Hogwarts is the bureaucracy keeping tabs on students' eduation and attendance.

Hmm...I definately think that there would be more than one school of magic in the U.S., if for no other reason than the country is so large. I also tend to believe that the government of the U.S. magical community would have the schools studying the same basic materials, even if they are given a few bits of choice on more cultural studies...
As for where, I could imagine schools placed in the Appalacians, out in the desert somewhere, and possibly even in Alaska (it is, afterall, a large expanse of land with an incredibly small population. Perfect for students from the northwestern U.S.).
As for what they would study, I imagine that they would have charms and potions classes, just like they do at Hogwarts. However, I also believe that things like native American mythology and magic would be huge - afterall, wizards and witches seem to have existed in all human populations, and judging by their stories and histories, have been much more accepting than typical populations of magical and unexplainable goings-ons.
For some reason, I also have the impression that muggle studies would be more important than it is at Hogwarts. The muggle population of the U.S. is larger than that of Britain, and with the country being so new by comparison, I wouldn't wonder that a VERY large number of magical students would have muggle relations, rather than so very many of them being born into a self-sustaining magical community.

South Africa might have an African based school. That will firstly have a more physical sport than Quiditch that we compete against other S/hemisphere Teams. This sport Will be more of a full contact sport also played in mid air but one of your main goals as a defending team wil be to HURT the opposition(I have always seen Quiditch as a bit of a soft sport).

The school will focus on a more african outlook ... it will concentrate on using more natural magic (elemental, animals ...) as well as old magic.

Beauxbatons (http://ifiamis.e-ifi.org/2003/infos/imgs/chenonceau.jpeg)

German school (http://www.tu-dresden.de/slub/proj/sachsenspiegel/burg.gif)

South Spanish wizarding school (http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/YALE/alhambra.jpg)

Turkish wizarding school (http://www.istanbulfotos.antalyanet.de/grafik/bild/bildgDSCF1611.jpg)

Sudan wizarding school (muggle view) (http://www.queentravel.at/Sudan/images_sudan/sehenswert/meroe.jpg)

Mexican wizarding school (wizarding view) (http://www.delange.org/TemMayor/Dsc00358.jpg)

:p

Beauxbatons (http://ifiamis.e-ifi.org/2003/infos/imgs/chenonceau.jpeg)

German school (http://www.tu-dresden.de/slub/proj/sachsenspiegel/burg.gif)

South Spanish wizarding school (http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/YALE/alhambra.jpg)

Turkish wizarding school (http://www.istanbulfotos.antalyanet.de/grafik/bild/bildgDSCF1611.jpg)

Sudan wizarding school (muggle view) (http://www.queentravel.at/Sudan/images_sudan/sehenswert/meroe.jpg)

Mexican wizarding school (wizarding view) (http://www.delange.org/TemMayor/Dsc00358.jpg)

:p

LOL. But...what about Durmstrang? ;)

LOL. But...what about Durmstrang?
Durmstrang (http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/WebPage/About%20Bulgaria/Veliko%20Tarnovo.jpg) :D

Durmstrang (http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/WebPage/About%20Bulgaria/Veliko%20Tarnovo.jpg) :D

:D Me likes!

I wonder actually, I put here all types of older architectonic buildings. But it doesn't have to be this way. Actually it's possible that some countries have very modern wizarding schools. Recently opened wizarding schools. Nothing goes against having two or more wizarding schools in one country. Take China for example, you could have one older traditional school, and then newly opened moder wizarding schools to cover the demand

China traditional wizarding school (http://www.bartellonline.com/summer/1/shenyang-palace_building2.jpg)
China new wizarding school (http://www.worldtraveldirectories.com/China/International-Design-Skyscraper.jpg)

For some reason, every time I try to imagine what an American wizarding school would look like, I think of something similar to an American high school...kind of disappointing... :rotfl:

Yeah I think an Australian wizarding school couldn't be a boarding school as we don't really have that here but I guess they could have facilities for students to stay if they live too far from the school. And the uniform would be totally different as the weather is too hot here for long black robes and scarves.

I really don't think a magical school in the U.S. would be all that different. I don't see why it would have to look like some lame high school if muggles were unable to see it. Maybe a really old run-down high school that the muggles see but then it could be something similar to a castle. After all, if you are magical then just because there is no castle doesn't mean you can't create one. Curriculum would also be similar. I don't see why we would need other classes geared toward things only found in the U.S. Also I think we would play Quidditch because that is the sport of the magical world, not just magical Europe.

Japan--
Okuninushi (kami of Magic/Shamanism) Maho no Gakko: Shinamane Prefecture, Japan, an area which includes old Izumo, the center of many early Japanese Legends and the oldest Shinto Shrine. Also like Scotland it is rural and out of the way in the present day. It is accessed by entry at Izumo Shrine (which has a gate between "Heaven and Earth").
This school is the school for "run of the mill" wizards and mixed blooded wizards. For a Japanese institution it is relitively open in it's entry requirements. However it has a sense of inferiority to it's rival Ame no Uzume Maho no Gakko.

It is rumored that there is a great anger in Susano-o, the founder of the school and the first know wizard to marry a Muggle (after saving her from the Dragon, Orochi no Orochi). His line wishes and wait for the moment which it can displace it's rival as the premiere school. This will be rectified at some point.

Ame no Uzume Maho no Gakko: is the "Elite"School. It is known to accept only purebloods and those who are exceptional. It has the air of a private club, where the wealthy and privaliged of the Japanese Wizardling world send their children. Every Japanese minister of magic has come from this school and it's graduates are very clickish, promoting its alumni to positions of power at the expense of the more talented Okuninushi Graduates.
It's founder, Ame no Uzume once cut out the tongues of all clams for questioning the right of her students to rule. Located on Island in the inland sea.

How is that. I'll come back latter with my American schools.

All the Best,

Lunatic

I live in the UK so Hogwarts would be the nearest wizardinag school to me but i can imagine a wizarding school in the middle of a desert that muggles think is just a mirage.

I'd think they'd be similar... but not all together identical