#in which reb never shuts up and gets Real about european history
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I was wondering if you'd ever thought about what a polish Wizarding school would be like? I've been following your blog for a while and I've always been curious as to what your thoughts on the matter would like since you always come up with the most amazing wizarding classes :)
cześć anon! currently i have poland under durmstrang (i have a durmstrang oc who is polish) becuase Lord Knows How Much Land Durmstrang Covers (re: its name is german, but it’s written in cyrillic on the crest, and it’s ‘scandinavian’, and its founder is bulgarian?? that’s like central europe + northern europe + eastern europe + the balkans, @jkr do you know basic geography), but i think it would definitely be cool to have uniquely polish school
i think a polish school would be the best school for defensive magic, considering how many times it’s been fucking invaded i’m not salty about european history nope totally not but also poland has defeated quite a lot of foes in its history as well (the germans in the twelfth century and again in the fifteenth, and not to mention its participation in wwii) and it would have probably the most interesting, mixed/alchemical form of magic – i’m thinking about jewish alchemy (since casimir iii extended protection to the jews in the fourteenth century), but also about mixing all the european cultures that immigrated into poland around the same time: german, flemish, danish, armenian, etc.
because i love the mountains, i would be inclined to place a polish school in the tatra mountains, but the idea of a water-based school really fascinates me, so maybe a school somewhere like the masurian lakelands would be cool! i think the buildings would be in a romanesque architectural style because i’d like to think the polish wizards organised pretty early – it seems to me that ethnic and cultural groups in eastern european history banded together a lot back then, but i’m not sure because i’m not really a polish historian, i’ve really only studied russian and (kievan) rus’ian history during that time period – and also i’m fucking sick of gothic castles in hp at this point those can fuck off
i also think that poland would have a lot more muggle studies classes? considering that there are so many famous poles gjdkgsdfg like my boy fryderyk chopin and marie curie and poland is a relatively smaller (and somewhat contained) nation, so i think there’d be more interaction with muggle peoples. i’d imagine that they’d find a lot of muggle discoveries quite useful and interesting … thus they’d go head to head with japan in terms of cutting-edge magic, possibly
i also think that a polish school would be structured ‘cyclically’ – the slavic religion they had before christianity was very nature based and rituals were connected with cycles within nature. so each class would be offered based on the current spot in the yearly/seasonal cycle they were in. if that makes any sense?? like you learn different things as you go through the year, you’re not taking one kind of transfiguration year-round or anything. but in that vein poland would be very, very good at herbology, very skilled casters bc they know ‘what’s in season’ and how to channel that magic, and also there’d probably be more life + death magic than in western europe, because northern and eastern european cultures have more death and resurrection in their folklores than western european cultures i think
honestly i could go on and actually get deep into curriculum and social structure and that but this is getting really long at this point and i probably shouldn’t!! i really like the idea of a polish school (thanks for asking about one anon!!), but it makes me sad that there’s a very high likelihood one may have been destroyed by conquest from the west or from russia, and a western or russian school would have replaced the polish one :(
#anon#owl post#answered#in which reb never shuts up and gets Real about european history#fuck i hate how much poland's been fucked oVER LIKE FUCK OFf#also disclaimer i'm not polish i'm just a historian dgjkdshgdfjg#headcanons#saladfic
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