J.K. Rowling's Pottermore Reveals Magic Schools Besides Hogwarts on Four Continents

Muggles and no-majs, listen up: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has just announced the names and locations of four more magic schools besides Hogwarts, located in Africa, North America, Asia and South America. On Pottermore, Rowling revealed a bit about Brazil's Castelobruxo, Japan's Mahoutokoro, Africa's Uagadou and America's Ilvermorny aside from Europe's three known wizardry schools.

In the fourth book of Rowling's famous wizard saga, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is revealed that there are at least two more wizarding schools in Europe aside from Hogwarts. Beauxbatons, located in France (with students from Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands) and Durmstrang, located somewhere around Sweden and Norway, serving students from seemingly Northern and Eastern Europe.

It seems there are, in all, eleven "long-established and prestigious wizarding schools," and Rowling has just given fans a glimpse of four more besides the three we already know.

Ahead of this year's return to the Harry Potter world, through the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film and the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, Rowling has taken to the Pottermore website to share a little further about this universe.

Brazilian school Castelobruxo, a castle just not unlike Hogwarts, hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest and "looks like a ruin to Muggle eyes," is protected by furry spirits called the Caipora. The school's teaching approach focuses mostly on Herbology and Magizoology (which makes sense seeing it's located in one of the most biodiverse places in the world) and it takes students from all over South America, which seems mean considering Brazil is one of the very few countries in the region where Spanish isn't the first language.

The palace of Mahoutokoro is located in Japan and it looks like an "uninhabited" Volcanic island of Minami Iwo Jima. The school has the smallest number of students among the major wizardry schools and takes children from the age of seven, who all wear magical robes that change colors depending on how much they've learned. They're also really good at quidditch and have very, very strict rules about using Dark Magic or breaking the International Statute of Secrecy (namely, telling Muggles about the magic world).

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Uagadou, located somewhere in the "Mountains of the Moon," is the oldest magic school in Africa (plus the biggest of them all) and welcomes students from all over the continent. Academically, it focuses on Astronomy, Alchemy and Self-Transfiguration, and the school's description shows that maybe magic have originated from Africa (logically, since that's where humankind is from).

There's little information regarding the American school other than the fact that it's called Ilvermorny, but there's a promise of more. Besides, the action of the Fantastic Beasts movie will take place, at least partially, in New York, so fans will certainly find out more about American wizards in the movie.