WIZARDING SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD: AUSTRALIA
Originally located in Arnhem Land, The Australian College of Sorcery and Witchcraft was a sprawling campus of large huts that eventually coalesced into one single structure. The school separated from mainland Australia soon after British settlement in order escape diseases that killed a large portion of the indigenous population. Ever since, the school has been drifting haphazardly along the Australian coast. Every year, a team of witches and wizards must be employed to anchor the floating campus so students don’t have to go on a cat-and-mouse chase at the beginning of the school year in order to attend school (a frustrating endeavour which often results in the postponing of classes due to the lack of a present student population). Due to the campus’s exposure to ocean-life, the College of Sorcery and Witchcraft boasts incredibly extensive courses in aquatic creature studies, and is held in high esteem by the international wizarding community for its innovations in water magic.#this is so cool #i would also really like to know what language australian wizards spell in #is it a mixture of latin-based and indigenous? #is the wand universal? #if so are australian wands made from gumtrees etc? #what creatures are used for cores? #so much curiosity
#thank gods for using the indigenous australians #sorry i’m get really upset when australians are perceived as white
#THAT IS SO GOOD OMG #I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
#but oh my god an australian wizarding school would be amazing #it would likely be one of the oldest magical schools in the world #deeply embedded into aboriginal and torres strait islander culture #and like #what happened during british invasion? #there was totally a seperate school yeah? #until idk the 60s #when the european australians either relocated to the original school #or got sent to hogwarts or beauxbatons #or wherever #the culture clashes #and the ancient magic that the aboriginal students (and staff!) are fighting to keep alive