Yes, there are eleven major schools worldwide. Yes, I do note that JKR does not give the name of the American school. Rowling - South West News Service - 8 July 2000 Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland. Q: Can American kids go to Hogwarts? (Kelly)Ī: No, they have their own school. Rowling basically says American witches and wizards have their own school of magic: If you don't believe that these people exist, definitely peruse the pictorial triumph that is the People of WalMart site.įinally, as Keen encouraged me in his comment to mention, J.K. For God's sake, here in the US it's totally common for people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, etc, to paint their faces up in their alma mater's team colors and wear a matching clown suit in public, in a show of school pride. By overzealous I'm referring to the sign the witches have hung up between their tents. Or they could have been (somewhat overzealous) alumni. Regarding the Salem Witches Institute, who cares if the witches holding the sign were middle-aged? Some middle-aged people actually attend school as non-traditional students. The Lexicon sources Pottermore for this information. When he deserted Durmstrang, undoubtedly the Durmstrang students were left confused and were facing a lot of uncertainty.ĮTA: 3.28.14 I just happened upon another wizarding school when I was reading something at the Lexicon: Mahoutokoro in Japan. He was subsequently tracked down by the Death Eaters and murdered. Igor Karkaroff, Dumstrang's headmaster, abandoned Durmstrang and his students at the end of Goblet of Fire, as he had sold out many of Voldemort's followers to the Wizengamot and Ministry of Magic following the First Voldemort World. Regarding the Second Voldemort War, Madame Maxime left Beauxbatons for at least a period of time to go with Hagrid to parlay with the giants and her absence from Beauxbatons could have affected the students' morale, just as Dumbledore's absence from Hogwarts ( Chamber of Secrets and after his death in Half-Blood Prince) left staff and students uneasy. The fact that Hermione was unsurprised at Ron's comment about a wizarding school in Brazil would seem to confirm that there are many foreign wizarding schools, but they are just not mentioned by name.Īsia has a professional Quidditch team, the Japanese team the Toyohashi Tengu, so presumably there could be Quidditch at the school-age level at least in Japan, just as there is with the British teams and Viktor Krum, who plays at the professional level for the Bulgarian National team. No doubt she had run across the news about other wizarding schools in some book or other. ![]() He glanced at Hermione, who looked utterly unsurprised by the information. ![]() He supposed, now that he saw representatives of so many nationalities in the campsite, that he had been stupid never to realize that Hogwarts couldn't be the only one. Harry laughed but didn't voice the amazement he felt at hearing about other wizarding schools. His penfriend got all offended when he said he wasn't going and sent him a cursed hat. and he wanted to go on an exchange trip but Mum and Dad couldn't afford it. Bill had a penfriend at a school in Brazil. Never met anyone who went to one, though. "'Spect they go to some foreign school," said Ron. And Harry realizes there can't be just one wizarding school (Hogwarts) as he surveys the international crowd at the Quidditch World Cup. Obviously, there's Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, which we hear all about in Goblet of Fire, but there is also the Salem Witches' Institute in the United States:Ī group of middle-aged American witches sat gossiping happily beneath a spangled banner stretched between their tents that read: THE SALEM WITCHES' INSTITUTE.Īs DVK mentions above, there is apparently at least one wizarding school in South America, in Brazil. Yes, there are wizarding schools outside the UK. There's definitely no mention of any schools being affected.įor a general "Are there mentions of non-European wizarding world in HP", see: Why isn't there ever any mention of the Americas in Harry Potter? ![]() It's logical to suppose that they exist, just as schools and Universities exist throughout Muggle world everywhere.Īs far as being affected, the Voldemort Wars are mostly (though not 100% exclusively) a British affair - aside from Voldemort hunting for Deathstick and his soul fragment existing in Albania (where he got the diadem from earlier). There aren't any mentions of actual wizarding schools elsewhere in Potterverse. ![]() His pen-friend got all offended when he said he wasn’t going and sent him a cursed hat." and he wanted to go on an exchange trip but Mum and Dad couldn’t afford it. Bill had a pen-friend at a school in Brazil. "I know there are others, never met anyone who went to one though. "Spect they go to some foreign school," said Ron.
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