The Madame's School
Summary: Harry goes to a new school and I'm bad at summaries. This is my first fic so please give criticism I'm doing this to improve as an author.
Disclaimer: I only own the plot everything else is the property of their respective owner's I make no profit from this
Harry didn't really know where he was going as he walked around that night all he knew was that he wanted to be alone. He was so sick of the hypocrisy of the wizarding world and how they seemed to turn on him faster then Crabbe and Goyle could eat a cauldron cake. One minute everything was fine and the next potter stinks badges are flashing in his face. Even Ron is so caught up in being judgmental that he was forgetting that someone is most likely trying to kill his best friend again.
Even Hermione wasn't helping Harry because she didn't want to get involved in the fight between Ron and him. As a consequence of this fact even though he knew that he was facing a bloody dragon Harry had no idea about what he was going to do about it. Usually Harry would already have an answer about what to do by now because Hermione would have read every book about dragon's that the library had to offer. With that in mind Harry decided to go to the library maybe finding something about dragons would calm him enough to sleep.
Now if fate had played out the way it did in another reality Harry would have been caught by Professor Snape and lost 50 points from Gryffindor, marched back to his dorm, berated and given a week's worth of detention. However that isn't how fate is playing out this night. Because in the other reality Harry was so frustrated that he didn't bring either the marauders map or his invisibility cloak but in this reality Harry remembered to bring both. As a result everything changes because he went to the library when he was both alone and truly in need of guidance.
One of the well known but not really accounted for facts about the Hogwarts founders was the fact that they all had their own specialties and made portion's of the castle with that in mind. Godrick Gryffindor was a master warder and enchanter and so he made the sorting hat and the wards which were still some of the most powerful wards in the world today. Salazar Slytherin was a master potioneer and ritualist and so he used those to cast a ritual giving hogwarts a mild sentience over time as it absorbed the natural magic flowing through it. Helga Hufflepuff was a master healer and master herbologist and master magizoologist and her addition's excluding the great hall have been lost to time. However Rowena Ravenclaw was a master seer and master runewitch as well as someone who knew the power that lay in knowledge and the library was her masterpiece.
This is particularly important for Harry because Rowena enchanted the Library to have some of her precognizance as well as to provide those who truly needed it with the knowledge they needed to succeed. Normally the libraries enchantment could only just manage by subtly herding students to the aisle they needed to be in. However Harry was alone so Rowena's enchantment only had one target and Harry had more needs then he knew. So while Harry was busy grabbing books about dragons the library was using it's portion of hogwarts sentience to get a house elf to put books into Harry's trunk. This would change everything even if it was only discovered after Harry was returned to the Dursley's mildly traumatized by Cedric's death.
All Harry saw as he woke up with a gasp was a flash of green light. This summer with the Dursley's was the worst Harry had ever experienced, if Harry wasn't exhausted from not being able to sleep he was exhausted emotionally from coping with Cedric's death or exhausted physically from the Dursley's working him like a house elf. This type of treatment would eventually make anyone snap and decide to become stronger. So after doing about thirty push-ups Harry decided to look through his text books deciding that maybe studying them would help him get stronger.
In another reality this would just result in a sleep deprived teenager reading frantically for a few hours before his aunt came to knock on his door to make the Dursley's morning feast. In this reality however their was a pair of books in his trunk that weren't their before. The first was a long lost journal of a sixth year student sometime in the 1700's who transfered schools and how they did it under an assumed name. The second was a almanac of the worlds magical schools.
Normally Harry would not do anything so rash as to even think of changing schools after all he loved hogwarts and his friends. Normally Harry would skim the books and that would be that. Normally Harry wouldn't have read both books frantically and sent an emergency letter to gringotts asking how to transfer schools. However Harry is sleep deprived, short on Dursley free time and desperate and one thing even Dumbledore failed to account for is that desperate people do desperate things.
Of the schools listed in the book of schools each of them got progressively worse for Dumbledore's plans. Harry didn't know that of course he was just interested in going to a school that would teach him the skills necessary to survive and not have to let anyone else die for him. His only motivation was that no one else would have to be the spare ever again. With that in mind Harry opened the book and started his search for a school that would teach him what he needed to know to survive and maybe just maybe live.
Beauxbaton's Academy of Magic located in Pyrenees France. Featuring such prominent alumni as Nicolas Flamel, Beauxbaton's has a long history of excellence. Beauxbaton's curriculum is strongly oriented towards going above and beyond and every class is taught with the intention to not just learn the material but to master it and give it your own flair. Furthermore Beauxbatons teaches it's student's grace in all things and we offer classes in etiquette and dance as well as similar subjects to help achieve this goal.
Castelobruxo is a naturalist academy of magic located in the Amazon Rain forest. They have a strong emphasis on coexisting with nature and using magic only as a tool rather then using it for everything. Students are required to go on a hike every morning to promote student health and appreciation for nature. Featuring such notable alumni as Libatious Borage the famed potioneer.
The Durmstrang Institute of magic has a long history shrouded in secrets and mystery. One of the only things known publicly about the Durmstrang institute of magic is that they have a strong insistence in magical strength. This is further emphasized by the fact they offer classes on magical weaponry, war tactics, war magic, and combat training. The only known location for Durmstrang is that it's somewhere in the frozen north, they maintain there secrecy by portkeying students to the ship that takes them to school and have the ship equipped with befuddling runes to keep the student's from figuring out where they are as the ship sails.
After reading this Harry almost decided on Durmstrang but he read on anyways deciding that being reckless and not thinking things through was the reason Cedric was now six feet under.
The madame's school of mystical arts is a relatively new school of magic located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United Stated of America. Even though the Madame's school is only one hundred years old it has a bloody history to it. Founded and still run by the same ancient vampire The Madames school offers to teach anything at all. This has unfortunately led to tragedy a few times and created a very competitive and tight knit community among the students of this school. The madame's school of magic has a very loose admission policy only requiring that prospective students be intelligent, sentient, able to communicate effectively and magical.
While getting into the school is easy, staying is less so. Failing to make the minimum yearly grade gets you expelled and the higher your grade the better your personal comforts. All student quarters are enchanted to get progressively nicer as the students grades improve. Furthermore tutors and books are given based on who has the higher grade therefore if two students want the same book or tutor the student with higher grades will get first choice.
As such the school is highly competitive which has led to violence and even murder in it's past. However after the first incident The Madame made it so that anyone caught starting a violent encounter would be expelled. This coupled with the fact that the school would teach anything to anyone who had the aptitude created an environment that would either break it's student's or make them able to handle anything and thrive. Especially since by the time a student graduates they should become extremely adapt at handling any and all manner of underhanded tactics and coming out on top.
Officially sold Harry started putting his things away knowing his aunt would be coming to "wake" him soon, all he needed was for gringotts to reply so he could begin the process to transfer schools.