The General Discussion Super Topic

[Ignatius]

That is not what I meant and you know it, crazy buzzard.

[Rimor]

So I’ve been watching the Harry potter series again and I remembered that not everyone gets accepted into Hogwarts by the book and quill

“it saves the staff tedious explanations to parents who are furious that their children have not been selected for Hogwarts.”

So are there public wizarding schools that accept those who aren’t allowed into the private wizarding school Hogwarts?

[Ashburn]

It’s kind of terrifying to think, but I’ve got the sneaking suspicion that it’s more of a “congrats, home school the kid enough that they don’t blow anything up.”

Or maybe there’re approved tutors.

[Rimor]

Man I hope that’s not true as you’re not allowed to use magiq outside of school

[Ashburn]

Maybe it is the tutoring situation in the vein of piano teachers that work out of their houses, and so long as it’s in that location it’s marked as okay.

Honestly I think I read it just accepting that magic users weren’t as wide-spread to require more than a school for the entire country.

Probably helped sell that thought process that the UK is not particularly big on the map compared to all of the US. (One school for all of North America, not just the US, was kind of hard to write off)

[Rimor]

Once source I found said there’s 3,000 British wizards, one third of that is Hogwarts students so you might be right! Man that must mean that wizards are an endangered species

[Ashburn]

Which would help sell the bigoted pureblood logic of intermarrying to preserve the magic.

Which would be kind of funny if getting the families too closely related were the cause of the dying out of magic.

[Rimor]

But surely intermarrying would actually cause the number of wizards to shrink due to a limited gene pool.

(You editing wizard )

[Ashburn]

[Rimor]

Well Harry Potter just got way darker

[Ashburn]

That’s saying something, considering the end of CoG. (which, to be fair, is pre-HP, but still)

[Rimor]

I’m not familiar with CoG?

[Cj_Heighton]

The court of grandmothers! Masters of the arcane! Knitter of sweaters!

[Ashburn]

Crimes of Grindelwald, most recent “Fantastic Beasts.”

Quotes because there was a distinct lack of them for that to be the primary part of the title.

[Rimor]

Oooooh duuurrrr

[Rimor]

Ye I can imagine that the wizards also took part in the WWs

[Ashburn]

Okay, if we ever need a fibercrafts (knitting/crochet/etc.) thread, it needs to be called that.

As I work on my temperature blanket.

[Rimor]

The court of grandmothers totally needs to be made canon!

[Cj_Heighton]

@CJB, we found the identity of the council of the 18 gates!

[Nimueh]