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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.


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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).


Magic Schools Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Ilvermorny Beauxbatons Academy of Magic Brazilian Wizarding School Durmstrang Institute Koldovstoretz School Mahoutokoro School of Magic Uagandou School of Magic BEAUXBATONS CASTELOBRUXO DURMSTRANG HOGWARTS ILVERMORNY KOLDOVSTORETZ MAHOUTOKORO UAGADOU

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.


marian @gayrauder according to this, which wizarding school should you attend? KOLDOVSTORETZ DURMSTRANG HOGWARTS BEABATONS SCHOOL 9 KAROCTOORO LVERHORNY SCHOOL BO UAGADOU SCHOOL CASTELOBRCKO HARRY POTTER WIZARDING SCHOOLS RameDesoule 1:02 PM - Feb 29, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

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.


Blumen @matoi1013 Replying to @gayrauder peak eurocentrism to give europe like 4 schools but nah every other continent gets about one 5:25 PM - Feb 29, 2020 · Twitter Web App

Various Examples


inner child' @softlytaeguk Replying to @gayrauder All latin americans speak spanish except for brazil and WE have to speak portuguese? I think the f--- not 4:58 PM - Feb 29, 2020 - Twitter for Android La noche mundana @DiegoGa89835016 Replying to @gayrauder Yeah frenchs spaniards protugueses in the same school i wont last more than a week 5:55 PM - Feb 29, 2020 · Twitter Web App Moony is seeing Larry 9 @mikasmiledatme Replying to @gayrauder I didn't understand,, is it Italy a muggle country? 3:56 PM - Feb 29, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone world of warrencraft: the burning campaign @goblinpunk9 Replying to @gayrauder have to wonder how a single Magic School appears capable of serving the populace of the world's two most populous countries, both of which have hundreds of different ethnic, social and linguistic groups within them 3:04 PM · Mar 2, 2020 · Twitter Web App Red Blacksmith ® @MazdakThePriest Replying to @gayrauder Are we gonna talk about how Rowling just trimmed the name of Burkina Faso's capital for the African wizarding school? Sankara would be laughing. 6:11 PM · Mar 1, 2020 · Twitter for Android disaster elf* mcr 4 life @pokuliusz Replying to @gayrauder This just shows jk has no idea about geography or anything outside the UK, how tf is one school going to contain a whole ass continent? Or which language is gonna be used in the scandinavian/central eu school? All of India and China in one school? This is so stupid 9:59 AM - Mar 1, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone

Search Interest

External References

[1] WizardingWorld – Wizarding Schools

[2] BrilliantMaps – Wizard School

[3] Mashable – New Harry Potter Schools

[4] 4plebs – tv/thread

[5] Reddit – r/harrypotter

[6] Twitter – gayrauder

[7] Twitter – Matoi1013

[8] DailyDot – JK Rowling Wizarding School Map

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TerribleTrike
TerribleTrike

in reply to Rainbow Crash

I think it goes even further than that.
I'm a fan of introspective worldbuilding and I could probably go on for hours about how bizarrely centered the entire fictional universe of Harry Potter is around the main character.
The consequences of shaping the world around the main characters the way Rowling did is that in the end the world makes very little sense when scrutinized and the internal logic is a bit weird.

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Ten Shadows
Ten Shadows

Maybe this is just all the big prestigious Oxford/Cambridge-level schools, and there's a whole bunch of little ones around for those that are either too poor or don't live near enough or whatever. It'd probably explain the unrealistically small wizarding population as well.

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