Chapter 454: Eleven schools of magicians

Soon, everyone came to the camp Mr. Weasley had reserved.

At the edge of the woods at the top of the camp, there was an empty space, with a small sign nailed to the ground that read WEASLEY.

"This place is good!" Mr. Weasley said happily. "The field is just on the other side of the forest, we're as close as we could be."

Ivan looked at the dense forest and felt that the place was very good.

The scenery was pleasant. If there was any disturbance in the camp, they could escape into the forest for the first time.

Although Ivan didn't expect any disturbances, it didn't hurt to prevent trouble before it happened.

"Well, let's start putting up the tents!" Mr. Weasley said excitedly. "No magic allowed, not when we're in these numbers on Muggle land. We'll put these tents up by hand! Muggles do it all the time. It's not that hard, is it?"

He pulled two gray tents out of his backpack and an assortment of tools.

"Come on, kids..." He dabbed his forehead with a handkerchief.

"Wait, Arthur, is there enough room for all of us in these two tents?" Sirius said, looking carefully at the tents on the ground.

"When Charlie, Bill and Percy get here, we'll be a group of twelve!" Mr. Weasley frowned. "I borrowed these from Perkins in the office. To be honest, they're not very appropriate. We'll be a bit cramped, if we add some beds..."

"There's no need for extra beds. I have a tent there, one with plenty of room!" Sirius said. "A few days ago, I told Kreacher to send it over. Now I can use it directly."

"Good!" said Mr. Weasley. "That's a good idea; otherwise, we'd have to make room for ourselves. There are two empty spaces here; we can build a tent for the girls to stay in first!"

"Ivan, Harry, Ron, can you come with me to move the tent?" asked Sirius.

All three were quick to nod and followed Sirius into the camp.

By this time, the sun had just risen and the fog gradually dispersed. In the camp, they could see endless tents stretching out in all directions.

The four of them walked slowly through the rows of tents and looked around with interest.

"God, I never thought there were so many wizards in the world!" Harry said excitedly.

Before that, he never seriously thought about what wizards from other countries would be like.

"It's the first time I've seen so many wizards too!" Ron sighed. "This is almost imaginary!"

"If, after graduation, you can join an organization like the Ministry of Magic's Department of International Magical Cooperation, like Percy; or the International Confederation of Wizards, you'll be in frequent contact with foreign wizards!" Sirius explained with a smile. "For different countries, the traditions and magic used by wizards are also different. In Africa, for example, curses, sorcery, astronomy and transfiguration are more prevalent, and they rarely use wands to cast spells, they are more used to using their fingers or arms."

"They don't use a wand, they use their fingers?!" Ron said in amazement. "Just like house elves."

Ivan remembered the African dark wizard he had seen in the pub at the edge of the Albanian forest. He didn't have a wand, but he carried an evil doll with him, always dangling from his wrist.

Ivan speculated that the strange doll was made of human skin and was used to cast curses.

"Sirius, you went to Beauxbatons with Ivan in the summer vacations - it's also a magic school like Hogwarts!" Harry suddenly asked, "Can you tell us anything about other magic schools?"

Ron was also focused, and wanted to know about other schools of magic.

Ivan had seen relevant descriptions in magic books before, but most of them were vague.

The magic school is the top secret of the magic circle in many countries. Magicians who are not in their own countries are rarely able to gather relevant information about them.

"It is well known that the culture and educational traditions of the magic world are different in each country. There are many ancient traditions that are still inherited in a more traditional way than through magic schools." Sirius said, "But in general, there are eleven famous schools of magic currently known in the world."

"There are that many?!" Harry exclaimed. "I only know of Hogwarts!"

"Hogwarts is one of the three most famous magic schools in Europe, the other two being Beauxbatons in France and Durmstrang in Germany!" Sirius said. "You must have heard Ivan talk about Beauxbatons before. As for Durmstrang, it's a wizarding school that only admits pureblood students. It has a long history, but its attitude towards dark magic is more lenient. In the past, many dark wizards graduated there."

Ivan knew that the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald had been there.

As the Dark Lord that existed before Voldemort, Grindelwald could even rival Voldemort in his heyday.

Considering the environment of Muggle society at the time, the great wars around the world provided the proper ground for the display of the dark arts, and Grindelwald and his minions nearly took control of all of Europe.

He was hatching a terrible plot and was almost on the verge of success.

But unfortunately, he was confronted by Dumbledore.

At the height of Grindelwald's power, Dumbledore single-handedly defeated him and saved the European magic circle.

Coincidentally, shortly after that, the protracted war in the Muggle world also came to an abrupt end.

Germany was defeated and paid a heavy price!

Since then, the world had come to peace and a new international order had been re-established.

"What about the eight other wizard schools outside of Europe?"

"There are three in America, including two in North America, and one of them is a magic school that recruits only witches. It's the only magic school in the world that's full of witches, and the third is in Brazil!" said Sirius. (Although Beauxbatons was portrayed in the movies as an all-girls school, that wasn't really the case.)

"Well, I know. Bill had a pen pal at a school in Brazil!" said Ron. "This was years ago. He wanted to go on an exchange trip, but Mom and Dad couldn't afford it. His pen pal was offended when Bill told him he wasn't going and sent him a cursed hat. It made his ears crinkle."

Harry chuckled at the thought of this image.

He was actually quite surprised when he heard Sirius say that there were so many wizarding schools in the world.

Looking around the camp tents, he thought to himself how stupid he used to be.

He had never realized that Hogwarts wasn't the only wizarding school.