>>15164
Crop circles are perpetrated by teenage wizard hicks - their equivalent of cow tipping, except it sometimes results in being on the news. The people who remember being abducted by aliens actually have had botched memory spells (maybe to forget abuse from bigoted Purebloods?), but the American wizard authority can't fix it without risking more damage to their minds.

>>15204
I thought crop circles were caused by Mooncalves?

I don't know if this pic is related to this whole thing but I saw at /co/, and though it was pretty cool.

>>14233

Since there's very little talk about the Rockies school, I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone: Oregon's Crater Lake is revered by many native tribes, even some who would not normally ever see it, like north Washington or North California.

Unlike other schools that work in spells, curses, or agriculture, the Crater Lake school would be more like an MIT in that it was developed for those students who liked applying their skills to invent new uses for spells, hexes, or mystical items. Think Fred and George: quirky and low high school grades, but geniuses in applying what they do learn.

Because it's within the Cascades of the Rockies, and also within Oregon's huge, sprawling forest range, it would likely be protected simply by being in an area few people would visit. The school would be built in a bubble at the bottom of the lake, and the water is unguarded so as to prevent suspicion of muggles. The campus size is a good lentgh, being almost 2 square miles, and there are often student body activities in the forests surrounding the mountain range.

One of the teachers would have to be a sasquatch who is smarter than the average bear. Also, because it's Northwestern, I imagine there is a lot of coffee-drinking, somewhat extremist liberal wizards and witches.

>>16351
I like the sasquatch idea

So I've been asked to update this with some of my art on the Rocky Mountains ideas, like Sasquatch teacher.

Sorry if I'm bumping a thread that's lost its nterest.

>>17755

>>17755>>17757
Pretty damn awesome

Suggestions for broom analogues
-Skateboards
-Bikes.
-But most skateboards, of the long variety which are used for transport instead of SWEET KICK FLIP DUDE.

Harry Potter was set in the late 80's/early 90's if I recall correctly. If we're going with the "British Immigrant transplanted due to Death Eater madness" thing the culture should be reflective, therefore little to no cellphones, email, computers etc.

I feel like the magic guns are just normal guns that have been enchanted with runes so they don't shatter when an alchemical bullet is shot. Bullets themselves should be like magic concentrate or charmed regular bullets. Certain bullets would contain potions since one can't really be expected to carry a dozen vials with them. Other bullets would be spells attached to a harmless catalyst that would crumble on impact, so only the magic would have any effect on the victim.

The Louisiana School being built near a rather dangerous Bayou could be left over from the school's early history. Say a crazy old witch/wizard lived there and is the one who made the place so magically dangerous in the first place, or it was built as the base of operations for keeping the bayou in check, eventually letting on apprentices to succeed the current guardians which eventually evolved into a school.

The whole "every school is K-12" thing is somewhat unreasonable, those kinds of situations are hardly even present in small town regular school due to the madness of keeping rowdy, cussing teenagers around impressionable young tots, the situation made even MORE unfavourable if magic is involved.

I propose that the more major schools, (Groom Lake, Bayou, Rockies, Salem) are middle-high schools, or just high schools, judging from the apparent levels of intellect needed to survive in some of them. Though I feel like Groom Lake should be a magical university, what with the experiments and geniuses it recruits.

And if we're going to have a school under water, it should either be in the Great Lakes (Where Canadian students and American students all attend) or Hawaii.

Also, I don't see why we're limiting ourselves to North American mythical creatures, don't you imagine there would be massive amounts of illegal mythical creature trafficking throughout the ages? Introduced species? It happened with Muggle animals and plants, why not the magic sort too? Especially with the huge amounts of migrants coming to The U.S. and Canada. Think about it; Japanese dragons, lion dogs, various species of "big feet", leviathans, magic fish, cats in droves, giant birds (Rocs could very well be the Rockies' mascot), fairies, insects, pixies, trolls, golems, dwarves, gremlins, flying whales, giant squid! Monstrous spiders! Flying pigs! North America is HUGE people, if such massive amounts of magical creatures can hide out in Europe with little effort then why the hell are we limiting ourself in the second/third largest countries on earth?

AND HOW COULD YOU GUYS FORGET ABOUT WENDIGOS. Maybe North American Unicorns could be deer with one horn and MAGIC, or simply be Jackalopes. I'm also feeling like huge Irish deer should be wandering around for some reason. North American mythology often times just adds magic to regular animals, like Coyotes, so a lot of magical creatures could be hiding in plain sight.

Also Mermaids. Bayou Mermaids? Mermaid tank at Groom Lake? Great Lakes Mermaids? Somewhere there have GOT to be Mermaids.

Okay I think I'm done.

And YES there should be uniforms, just not as crotchety as robes and pointy hats, how else will they be able to identify who goes to what school (a prestige thing, which fits with the rivalries as well) and who among other children are magic or non magic, especially among the very young.

Instead of robes, there would be blazers, zip sweaters and hoodies, much like you would find on sale at any old high school. Otherwise it would be regular old catholic/private school uniform fare.

Except for Salem, they dress like this.

>>17838

I like the idea of a more college town aspect with the uniforms, in that they can wear whatever they like as long as they wear school colors and not a rival school's colors. And it's certainly optional, but you'd still get beat up by some seniors if you went to the Rockies school wearing Salem colors.

>>17840

I have a friend whose school went by a strict dress code that was ALMOST a uniform in that they could only wear certain things to school, but the school didn't hack up the funding to get actual uniforms commissioned. It was pretty stupid because then the kids ended up walking around day and night in "uniforms" as all of their clothes fit the dress code.

This COULD work and actually carry over into adulthood with different alumni dressing in completely opposing styles and colours than other alumni just due to force of habit, this could lead to school rivalries lasting entire lifetimes. Which, while amusing if played tastefully, can get annoying real fast as I have noticed with my college bound friends being elitist douchebags about it ("It's not a COLLEGE it's a UNIVERSITY that means I'm better than everyone in COLLEGE simply because my school gets more FUNDING" "If you use a fork, you can go to York HERPADERP") every. single. day.

>>17837
>>17838
I'm with you on all of these ideas.

I would be drawfagging the shit out the uniforms for this if I didn't have stuff to do today.

So, I have been reading Blue Beetle lately and I'm really digging the way they handle magic. The whole south, and posse as well.

Also, La Dama needs to be part of this thing.

Salem uniform.

Indigo and orange are the colours I chose, but thats subject to change upon community input.

Here's some reference for the uniform style:

http://www.archivist.f2s.com/bsu/Blcoat.htm

>>17909
Man, that looks hella classy. I would have loved to cast spells in one of those were it not for my childhood loathing of buttons.

>>17909
Thats pretty damn awesome.
See, now I'm wondering if your are going to do the other schools. Although, I don't think some of them have a uniform rule.

>>13944

Majestic?

Since the different schools reflect different specialties, i'd imagine people would telecommute to whichever school they were a 'match' for.

Perhaps one or more of the schools teach staves instead of wands? Either for variety (without getting into MAGIC GUNS LOL) or as a gentle poke at Americans always wanting everything to be bigger and better.

>>17959

I actually thought about how different countries would channel magic in their universe at one point, but forgot to mention it earlier. One thing I'd find interesting is how each culture uses a different channel for magic, not just "Oh, I use a staff instead of a wand" kind of thing. Like some magic requiring water or fire as a conduit.

I do think that staves, staffs, rods, and wands would all handle magic differently. Staffs would require far less motion to wield (wands are very finicky and require a lot of specific gestures, as I recall) at the cost of needing more precise and slow incantations, and the spells would be more explosive.

>>17933
>>Telecommute
Why don't they just go to the school?

How about this for the origin of the Bayou school:

The school was established around a Bayou as a mutually beneficial pact between the denizens of the magical swamp and wizard kind a couple hundred years ago. The bayou folks are kept hidden and protected from poachers and muggles, while the wizards got to set up camp on magically charged land and study the swamp. This probably means herbology classes (and maybe care of magical creatures) are pretty important to the school.

Gatormen are kind of like centaurs.

>>17987
SHIT YES

>>17987
Needs more voodoo.

>>17987
Wow, thats a pretty cool pic

So, would these schools and wizards make such a big deal if some students were mudbloods?
I mean, for some reason I'm thinking they wouldn't care as much as their British counter parts do.

>>18087

I think to some extent America is far less caring about muggles and the like, seeing as how the U.S. is a mesh of different kinds of cultures and thus so many different kinds of magic. One kind of people would probably make little difference to an American wizard or witch unless you're in the deep South where aristocracy is still running things in the magic world.

I think instead of having the schools having any kind of speciality in them (( on the fact of where you go)) that they should have more of a school house kinda feel (( I.E. Gryffindor, Slytherin))
and just as they get sorted there, they would be sorted into schools here...

Also, I don't know if its been completely discussed but how is the magic performed? Is it still a Latinization of the original style words or is it more Americanized. ((Expecto Patronum = Patronus Appear?))

just a few thoughts I had.. also loving the uniform design

>>18901
>>I think instead of having the schools having any kind of speciality in them (( on the fact of where you go)) that they should have more of a school house kinda feel (( I.E. Gryffindor, Slytherin))
and just as they get sorted there, they would be sorted into schools here...
That's so...British.

>>18901

We were hoping to find a way to make the school system American, since this does take place in the U.S.

Y'know, I've thought long and hard about it, and I've gotta say I think the biggest thing about US magic is that it blends so much of other cultures' magic. Indian, Chinese, British, standard European, Native, all of it melded together. The problem is thinking up how other magic differs. I did mention how magic channels could differ (rods vs. wands, etc.), but I'm not going to put too much effort into it at this point.

>>18910
It’s not as standardized. Both because there's just so much to put together and because all those different cultures want to sell you specialty crap to use in their particular form of magic, I mean what is America without capitalism?

I think a north-east school could be based in Delaware. I mean, people forget it's a state anyway. For me it's a tossup between being in Delaware or sticking with the Salem one.

so, is there slavery and segregation in the pasts of these schools?

>>17837
>-Bikes.

im picturing the witch from the wizard of oz, and liking it.

Huh, this thing's still here

>Quiddich isn't popular. Boufball, a game all about strategy and strength, is.
Quidditch doesn't involve strategy? Just because the coach can call swift plays and doesn't have to stop the game every few seconds doesn't mean it doesn't involve strategy!!

>>17987

As long as we're incorporating "American myth" (sasquatch, Men in Black, etc.), why not lizard people? Granted, they're a recent development in pop culture (sort of, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unktehila), but yeah. Maybe have them the American equivalent of goblins?

I had an idea that, since Quidditch is apparently unpopular among American wizards, that the schools might have Quidditch teams that are really undermanned and underfunded and struggle to keep from being disbanded. Like these guys, but... wizards and stuff.

Just felt like throwing the idea out there I guess.

>>27227
It doesn't involve strategy beyond 'GET SNITCH FIRST'.

When you make all ways of scoring grant two digits of points (10, right?) and then catching the snitchything grants over a hundred, it's just

argh

>Heartland USA / Rustbelt.
>School of magic: Christianity.

>>27252
So, turning water into wine, walking on water, etc?

>>27231
Hurr Hurr Quiddich, that's for limey queers.

Oh wow, when did this come back from the dead? How exactly do magic guns fit into this world again? Are they like America's most well known magical secret with the rest of the world trying to steal every school's variation of them or what?

Okay, I drew a little sketch of what the Salem uniform would look for boys. I'll see if I can drum up something for the girls, too.

>>13824
i remember seeing a webcomic that was basically Kill Bill. only it starred Hermoine, who was betrayed by Harry, and she set out to kill them all in her vendetta. was trained and saved by Snape and given revolvers that she loaded with wands

>>28521
http://krazykimchi.com/comic/2006/11/13/kill-harry-new-cover/

>>13861
Connecticuts got Yale AND Trinity college.

One could be one of the most prestigious magic schools in the world (right up there with Hogwarts), while the other is still prestigious, just not quite as well-known (Trinity is pretty big, but no one seems to realize that outside of CT).

>>13882

Source?