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Wizarding Schools Map refers to fanart depictions of the fictional Harry Potter universe school system and their territories. In 2016, author J. K. Rowling offered up the names the majority of the 11 wizardry schools a kin to Hogwarts. In the following years, fans created maps of the alleged territories each school is responsible for and many people commented on Twitter and 4chan on the unrealistic school system territories.

Origin

On January 29th, 2016, J.K, Rowling uploaded a blog post to Pottermore^[1] titled "Wizarding Schools." The post described the school system and provided a map. The map included Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Scotland), Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (France), Castelobruxo (Central Brazil), Durmstrang Institute (Northern Europe), Ilvermorny (Eastern North America), Mahoutokoro School of Magic (Japan), Uagadou School of Magic (Uganda) and Koldovstoretz (Russia) (shown below). Brilliant Maps^[2] and Mashable^[3] shared the news that day.

Spread

On October 8th, 2016, a fanart depiction of the map was posted to 4chan^[4] (shown below, left). Many of the users commented on the system. On simply listed "South America/Population 422.5 million United Kingdom/Population 64.1 million." On November 7th, 2019, Redditor Creative_RavenJedi posted another variation of the map to r/harrypotter^[5] (shown below, right).

On February 29th, 2020, Twitter user @gayrauder^[6] uploaded another map with the caption, "according to this, which wizarding school should you attend?" (shown below). The post garnered over 6,100 likes and 700 retweets in four days.

That day, many Twitter users commented that the map made little sense. Twitter user @matoi1013^[7] replied saying, "peak eurocentrism to give europe like 4 schools but nah every other continent gets about one" (shown below). The reply accumulated over 2,900 likes in four days. The Daily Dot^[8] published an article on the controversy.

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