jkr doesnt understand anything about america if she thinks the northern and southern states will share the same wizarding school lollll. like the south would have formed its own school anyways after, if not before or during the civil war?
hell east coast and west coast magic has got to be different (european settlers on the east, mexican/hispanic in the whole new mexico, arizona, cali area).
not to mention historically black wizarding schools would have absolutely been a thing bc african magic survived thru slavery hello??? not to mention under slavery and jim crow laws i highly doubt black children would have been allowed to study with white students. you could even make the assumption that white slavers forbade them for using their magic at all (african magic = dark magic and all that Fun Racism)
underdeveloped and struggling to thrive native american reservation schools of magic in the dakotas?
texas has to have its own school on its own school. like its just a given fact. TEXAS WIZARDING SCHOOL QUDDITCH (like texas high school football #texasforever)
and obviously you have the elitist new england schools which everyone assumes is the pinnacle of american magic education lol
#the Texas school would be really aggressive about teaching the unforgivable curses #the ministry of America exists within the pentagon because some founding father decided magic was too much power to go unchecked #there’s a history of indigenous tribal and ancestral magic being taught without books inside people’s homes #because of the assimilation schools #because magical colonization is a thing #Newer Magic Schools with organic robes #all-natural bezoars #GMO-free wolfsbane #around the 1900s a group of purist European wizards take to magically bleaching everything they own and wear #this ‘white purity’ group actively funds assimilation magic schools and condemn and hex the students being assimilated #these white purists inspire a muggle counterpart whose members wear white robes #at some point someone loses track of wizard offspring and children begin to sort it out for themselves by meeting with others #the internet makes this easier as long as you don’t use magic near your device #cults form and disband #wizard schools are also incredibly expensive and many wizard parents push their pre-adolescent children to apply to European schools #more often people who are not white will send their children to an ancestral school or instructor to learn their heritage #often families will leave America to achieve this specific magical education #it’s generally understood by everyone not in America that the spell work is weak and to wrapped up in politics to teach much #Texas gets a lot of flak for The Right To Curse (re: second amendment) #anyway(via @dustafterreign)