pog-mo-bhlog:

tracyalexander:

skeletoncrimes:

my personal headcanon is that the reason that there are only 11 recognized wizarding schools, which of course seems like a ludicrously low number given that 3 of them are in europe alone, is that other styles of magical instruction (individual mentoring, generational covens, etc) are actually very common outside of the UK but are looked down upon and not considered proper by the hogwarts crowd

The simplest solution to justifying the imperialism of the author is to extrapolate it as imperialism in the text. You’ve only got a certain number of approved schools that the snooty European ones give their thumbs up to as acceptable by their prescriptivist standards of magic.

There’s also an Irish school set up post independence that the British ministry of magic refuse to recognise because they still think they have power over Ireland. That’s why there’s no Scottish students at hogwarts, they all get sent there. Any European schools that don’t teach magic in the same way as the approved schools also aren’t allowed.