Because JK Rowling Never Wrote Anything About Magic In The Americas, I Love To Come Up With Worldbuilding

Because JK Rowling never wrote anything about magic in the Americas, I love to come up with worldbuilding and headcanons about how the Wizarding world would operate in the US. Of course as some have postulated there would be numerous Wizarding schools in various states, much like the collegiate system. They would be attended by teens and young adults. Magic at younger ages would be mostly learned at home or in private day schools, (a large city like New York could easily host more than one magic elementary school) where the children could go home to their parents at night.

The Salem Witches Institute (Salem Oregon) is one of the foremost of these, not to be confused with the venerable Salem Witches' Academy (Salem, Massachusetts).

What else. Oh of course, virtually every adult wizard in the US knows how to apparate and does so on a regular basis, complaints from the UK that this is an extraordinarily difficult magic go ignored, although Apparition incidents is the leading magic-based cause of death in the US exceeding even dark magic. Floo powder exists as a niche commodity but is called "chimney powder" since nobody in the US knows what a flue is.

Speaking of dark magic, there are some cultural variations between Britain and the US on what is considered Dark, as well as across different regions of the United States. Potentially lethal hexes are generally more socially tolerated in the US, studied for self-defense purposes, and there are no legal restrictions on studying the Dark Arts on a purely theoretical level.

(Magical guns are also not unheard of.)

What else.

oh. I like this one

One of the reasons that the headcanon that Qui-Gon "repudiated" Feemor post-Xanatos really bothers me is that the characterization we get of Qui-Gon really lends itself more to the idea that he might've CLUNG to Feemor rather than pushed him away. There's zero indication that Qui-Gon has cut off all contact with the people he had relationships with prior to Xanatos (Yoda, Mace, Tahl) and one of the reasons he's so disinclined to take a new apprentice is the fear that he'll make the same mistakes he did with Xanatos and cause their fall. But if he has a whole other apprentice that he WAS successful with, wouldn't he instead cling to that proof that he's not actually a failure? Even just as a comfort?

I propose an AU where Qui-Gon actually ends up partnering with Feemor post-Xanatos in order to always have that comfort nearby. Feemor wants Qui-Gon to get back into the saddle of teaching but knows Qui-Gon well enough to understand that throwing him into that saddle won't go well for anybody, so he decides on a trickier plan and takes a Padawan of his own (his first Padawan since he became a Knight) and ask for Qui-Gon's assistance. Since Qui-Gon is partnering with him, it's inevitable that they'd end up basically sharing the responsibility of teaching any Padawan that Feemor takes, but Feemor intentionally makes sure Qui-Gon knows that he's nervous about it and will want his Master's guidance.

So instead of becoming Qui-Gon's Padawan, Obi-Wan ends up becoming FEEMOR'S Padawan. Qui-Gon sees right through all of this of course, but he can't really do anything about it and he doesn't really mind helping Feemor with a Padawan the way he would if he had sole responsibility. He bonds with Obi-Wan relatively easily and the three of them become an incredible team.

And then you can get real angsty with it and say that Feemor died before the events of TPM, so Qui-Gon obviously took over Obi-Wan's apprenticeship on his own afterwards.

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(This is very Tumblr-core. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)

I'm gonna give y'all a hot take here. The main difference I can see is how involved each of them are, and how much they listen to their father.

My Pride & Prejudice hill I will die on is that Lydia and Elizabeth have almost the exact same character flaws, being that they’re both gossipy and judgmental and the only difference is that Elizabeth is a little more subtle about it and less boy crazy but both of those could easily be explained by her being almost six years older. They BOTH fell for Wickham’s charm and the only reason Elizabeth was spared is because Wickham chose not to pursue her, and yet Lydia is often portrayed in adaptations as this horrible audacious brat while Elizabeth is a snarky girlboss.

JK Rowling is back at it again 💞

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat.