thatcuriouskat:

professorsparklepants:

Stuff you can think about while continuing to ignore JK’s racist and pathetically misguided attempts at approximating American wizard history:

• magic schools in old, one room schoolhouses enchanted to have a dozen rooms for a hundred students at a time
• magic schools under the Appalachians disguised as old, abandoned coal mines
• magic schools disguised as abandoned railroad towns (there are a LOT more of those than you think. Seriously, look up West Virginia ghost towns sometime)
• magic schools under the Kansas hills, built like sod houses to resemble the old faerie mounds
• historically black magic schools
• each Native American nation having its own school of magic, making sure their own traditions won’t die out and be forcibly replaced with European ones
• Chesapeake Bay Academy, the magic school for the DMV (DC, Maryland, and northern Virginia) being sister schools with Mahoutokoro
• magical schools mascots like hidebehinds, cactus cats, and teakettlers (because lumberjack folklore is weird and adorbs and makes perfect magical creatures)

• and the weirdest news stories in the American wizarding world still come from Florida because some things are universal