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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

@shyclumsyprincess / shyclumsyprincess.tumblr.com

Clare/18/Spaced-out nerd with a passion for stars and storytelling.  Fandoms: Doctor Who, Star Wars (including Clone Wars & Rebels), Disney, Harry Potter, The Librarians, DC, Marvel, AtLA & Korra, OUAT
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bakwaaas

‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

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I heard that J.K. Rowling screwed up the American wizard school system...

namely the Native American aspect of it, so I had some IDEAS!

I’m thinking there would be multiple regional schools in the contiguous United States: the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, the Mountain region (Colorado, Montana, Wyoming area), & the West (Cali, Oregon, Washington).  Students can transfer to schools other than the one in their region, if they want to.  Canada and Mexico each have at least 1 school.  Hawaii has its own school, and Alaskan wizards usually go to Durmstrang or a Canadian school.  And finally, there’s one school just for Native American wizards: LADIES & GENTLEMEN, I PRESENT...

The Native American Academy of Magic

Located in Oklahoma, where most Native American tribes were forced to relocate over the years, this school is exclusively for witches and wizards of Native American heritage.

Students learn alongside others from their own tribes, taking classes in their tribe’s magical arts, as well as learning their tribe’s language/dialect and traditional culture.  In this way, young witches and wizards not only learn magic but also preserve their culture for future generations.

  • Some exchange/overlap: Where some tribes have similar mythologies and beliefs about magic, classes may be combined.
  • Students can also take classes in another tribe’s arts, with the permission of that tribe’s professors.

Classes frequently travel by Portkey to the traditional land of a tribe: ex. Iroquois students take field trips to New York, Crow students visit the Yellowstone River valley, etc.

Non-native students may attend the Native American Academy of Magic only with special permission, as part of an exchange program.  They are called Visitors.

  • This is restricted to older students, mostly 10th-12th grades (a.k.a. 5th-7th years).  These are almost always advanced, talented students who tend to be interested in philosophy, world history, and/or anthropology.
  • Visitor students may choose either an overview or focus curriculum
  • Overview is based on the difference between Native American approach to magic and Old World approach, covering the basics of Native American techniques in a broad, encompassing manner.
  • With a focus curriculum, professors of a specific tribe examine a student’s personality, beliefs, philosophy, etc. and accept that student into their tribe as a Visitor. The student will then take the same classes as students from that tribe.
  • ******NOTE: Upon graduation, a Visitor student does NOT become a member of the tribe with which he/she studied. They leave only with greater knowledge of and friendship with natural-born members of that tribe.*******
#harry potter#native americans#american indians#j.k. rowling
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thehesitantmemer

hardison is just. so important.

a hacker who is probably the most emotionally mature of the group. a black man who is undeniably a genius. a geek who gets the girl not because of some weird entitlement thing or because he changed, but because he’s compassionate and patient and lets her enter into things at her own pace. a child from the foster system who grew up kind and with a stable home (once he got to his nana of course). a nerd who is exceedingly charming

hardison is just. sO. IMPORTANT

#leverage#leverage tnt#hardison#alec hardison
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patrocles

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

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geniusface

HAWAIIAN MAGIC SCHOOL

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night-hawks

please give me the midwestern magic school that’s on the banks of the mississippi river and everyone assumes the only charms you learn relate to cows and corn because i would go there in a h e a r t b e a t

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shyclumsyprincess

I think the problem is that JKR assumed America is basically the same as the U.K. - similar cultures, but in reality America is FRIGGIN HUGE AND SPREAD OUT.

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