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Massachusetts, USA

Ilvermorny School of Witches and Wizards

Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts, USA

Rooms and facilities at Ilvermorny

Snakewood Tree (Schlangenholz)

Powerfully magical: healing

Grew up where they buried Isolt’s disabled wand

Salazar Slytherin’s wand was snakewood/mundane

Bellows Pipe Village, Gateway wizards’ village

On Mt. Greylock side ridge "Ragged Mountain" near Ilvermorny.

Raven Rocks

Formation at the base of the ridge toward North Adams, MA

North Adams, Massachusetts

Nearby Muggle town

Hoosic Tunnel

Cursed rail tunnel nearby

Wampanoag & Narragansett tribal areas

Pocomtuc/Deerfield, MA

New York City

The Blind Pig

Magical speakeasy [1] run by Gnarlak, American goblin gangster[2]

Tavern quest hooks, functionally

MACUSA / Magical Congress of the United States of America

Located within Woolworths Building

MACUSA’s primary aim was to rid the continent of Scourers, corrupt wizards who had hunted their fellow magical beings for personal gain.

Department of Magical Law Enforcement

Department of Magical Transportation

Because it is difficult and dangerous, Apparation requires a licence from the Department of Magical Transportation, which can only be issued to those of seventeen and over. [3]

Federal Bureau of Covert Vigilance and No-Maj Obliviation

Body for Protection of Magical Species

Run by Irene Kneedander

Provoked the The Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892, forcing MaCUSA’s move to NYC from DC

Wizard Broadway

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Wizard_Broadway

Noman

("NOH-min"): A magically hidden witches-only island near Roosevelt Island[4]. Think Wonder Woman's island of Amazons. Created because my wife loves Wonder Woman.

Canada

Blyth, Ontario

Ellen’s hometown Google map

Outside of setting: home to annual Potterverse festival [6]

Takagawa Family Home

Provincial University of Ontario at Blyth

Ellen’s father Makoto Takagawa is a successful Muggle professor at P.U.O.B.

Could use ideas from Sigil Preparatory School for Wizards, caution, DanDwiki...!

Europe

Durmstrang Institute

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry somewhere near northern Europe or Scandinavia.

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry near France.

United Kingdom / England / Scotland

Map of UK Potterverse locations

Diagon Alley

‘“Welcome,” said Hagrid, “to Diagon Alley.”’ -- Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling

Accessed via the Leaky Cauldron pub.

Gringott’s Wizarding Bank

Only wizard bank in the world

Jimmy Kiddell's Wonderful Wands

In Diagon Alley. He is presumably an inferior wandmaker to Garrick Ollivander as most wizard children get their wands at Ollivanders.

Ollivander's Wands

Knockturn Alley

Home to nefarious Dark Arts practitioners and questionable shops.

Hogsmeade Village

Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Magic

‘“Harry Potter must stay where he is safe. He is too great, too good to lose. If Harry Potter goes back to Hogwarts, he will be in mortal danger.”’--Dobby in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling

Headmaster

Phineas Nigellus Black (Slytherin), until 1925[7]

"There's Phineas Nigellus. . . my great-great-grandfather, see? . . . least popular Headmaster Hogwarts ever had."—Sirius Black on Phineas's legacy as Hogwarts Headmaster.

Anti-Muggle

Professors

Albus Dumbledore

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