Chapter 2 - Magi Acadmey

Friday 6th November

The next three days were much like the time before Hogwarts this past summer. Lots of chores and little food. Harry could only hope that Hedwig returned soon or they caught the monster of Hogwarts. He didn't hold much hope on either. It was a long way to Romania and would probably take Hedwig a week there and another week back if he was lucky. As for Hogwarts, it had been 50 years since the monster had last roamed the school and they hadn't caught it last time and never found it since. It could be months or years before they caught the creature. Not to mention the board wanted to do a good search of the school and update the wards. Harry guessed it would be next September at the earliest the school re-opened.

It was because of this that Harry got quite a shock when he went into his room and saw a strange bird sitting on his desk. It wasn't an owl that he knew but he wasn't 100% what it was. If he had to hazard a guess he would say a small Eagle but that was strange. Whatever the creature was it had a letter tied to around its neck attached to some sort of collar. Wearily Harry approached and released the letter before looking at the bird.

"Do you need a response?" without a word the creature bobbed its head before looking at him again.

"OK" Harry strangely wondered if this was his reply from Se Ridica but if that was the case where was Hedwig. Without a word, he unrolled the letter and blinked as an orb fell out and landed in his hand. Instantly the mist inside the clear orb started to change colour cycling though grey, pink, blue, green, orange, purple and silver before finally turning gold. As it stopped writing started to appear on the formally blank parchment until he was holding a letter in his hand.

Magere Akademi
Headmistress Rosaland Cerishsil
Order of Merlin first class, Head of International School Board Standards

Dear Prospective Student

As a former student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry you already know the school has closed. What you may not know is about the different processes the different schools take for late admissions of students. Magere Akademi does not take any extra tests or procedures on admitting late students. We were contacted to say the school was closing and we may have students contacting us. In response we decided to send out our magisk Globus.

Magisk Globus is our version of a magical potential checker orb. To get into Magere Akademu you must have a magical potential above Magere or Magi which is an Orange colour on the international standard. If you want a look at what your colour means it is on the separate sheet at the back. You may or may not know that Magere Akademi is the only school in the world that has a magical potential requirement to enter the school.

Magere Akademi takes a maximum of 30 students every year from all over the world and from many different creature races. We have Humans, Elementals, Fauns, Satyrs, Nymphs, Merrow, Selkie, Dwarfs, Demons, Goblins and Centaurs along with many others. As long as you have the magical potential you may attend. What makes Magere Akademi so unique is it is built around one of the Repositories on Knowledge. It is the only school in the world to be so as while 4 have been found only one was built. The first Repository was found in Canada 200 years ago and has since been hidden by the natives. The second was found in Brazil 150 years ago and no one knows where that one is. The 3rd was found in Russia 100 years ago and they have moved their ministry over so their Department of Mysteries could take over. The 4th was found 40 years ago and when found by myself and several other scholars in Norway. We decided to open a school and allow students and Scholars access believing the knowledge should be shared and open to all.

Our school is new and doesn't have the history Hogwarts or other schools do. Therefore all our buildings are more modern but when building we did try to keep a traditional wizarding-style. We believe in preserving the old while also progressing towards the new. Part of this is the knowledge learned from the repository while the other part is our classes on both non-magical and magical culture. We observe both the new traditions of Halloween, as much as you can in a boarding school, and the old of Samhain. It is the students choice of which they observe. This means we have peace and harmony between those with non-magical parents and those born to magical parents and magical creatures.

There is more information and pictures of the school in the booklet you are holding.

If you should be interested in joining our school you should know that the magical potential check is only the first stage of admittance. The second stage is a visit from a member of staff or a visit to the school. The third stage is testing. We are aware that most students applying from Hogwarts have some magical education. We do in fact have a couple of tests that can be administered and are adapting them to the years of magical education or even education a student has had. The final stage of admittance is an interview and discussion on the rules and such of the school.

Should you wish to start down on this process please send a reply with the Eagle who brought this letter. If not please write your name on a piece of parchment and roll the Magisk Globus up inside and send it back so we can wipe it and use it again.

We look forward to hearing your reply
Headmistress Rosaland Cerishsil

Harry's eyes went wide as he read the information. He had enough magical potential to get into the school Hermione desperately wanted to. Quickly he flicked the letter over to see the list.

International Magical Potential Scale
(Please note the words on this list have been translated to your native tongue)
Grey – Non-magical
Pink – Squib
Blue – Witch/Wizard
Green – Spellbound
Orange – Magi
Purple – Warlock
Silver – Mage
Gold – Sorcerer

A student must have a Magi level potential to attend Magere Akademi and is where the school got its name from. Magi in Norwegian is Magere and Akademy is Akademi. You should also note that while you have the potential to reach this level you may not be able to. A student must have the potential to be a Magi to attend Magere Akademi due to the level of magic around the repository and the workload the students are put under. Other schools use other tests to see if the students will be able to handle the school.

Harry had to sit down on seeing he had the magical potential to be a Sorcerer. It was a lot to take in. Se Ridica was year around but didn't have anything like this and he didn't know anything else about the school other than what had been listed in the booklet they had been given.

Quietly he looked through the pictures and information about the school. The first picture was of a small hut with a person standing outside with a sledge and dog. The small caption said this was how you reached the school. The next picture was of several snow-covered buildings with walkways between them. The main building had 4 towers and Harry thought that while it wasn't the same beauty of Hogwarts it was still nice in a frozen, ice-covered way. The next few pictures showed the main dining room, the entrance to the repository and a classroom.

The next picture caught his eye as it was 2 smaller ones stuck to each other. The caption read that it was a first-year dorm. That most first yeas shared a dorm with 2 students to a room and 3 rooms to a small common area and bathroom. The common area had 2 sofas and 2 chairs, 1 large table with 6 chairs and 3 large bookcases around the room. The bedrooms each had two beds, two wardrobes and two chests of draws with a shelf each inside. The next picture was of a single senior dorm stating that all students 6th year and up had their own room. There was a bed, desk, wardrobe, chest of draws, side table, reading area and bookcase in the room. In all, it looked quite inviting.

The next few pictures were of areas in one of the dorms before the next showed what was clearly a shop and told that one of the outbuildings and been made into a shopping area that sold clothes, stationary, potions ingredients, food, games and other things along with having an area to sit and eat away from the main dining room. The last couple of pictures showed where the dogs lived, an ice skating rink with students skating and the owlery or post birdhouse as it was called that housed the school eagles and owls.

The final picture was of their flying area or Quidditch pitch. This was again two pictures and one showed a traditional quidditch pitch and the next showed the place filled with obstacles. Apparently, there was a trick flying team and several quidditch teams made up of students and at different times the whole flying area looked different depending on the needs of the students.

Harry couldn't believe what he was seeing. For a new school, it was amazing, the repository probably drew a lot of people and even the age or requirements didn't put him off. At the back was several small passages written by different students about the school.

First Year.
The school is amazing I couldn't believe it when I was told I had the potential to go. For classes, the teachers set reading and then in class you perform the magical spells before reading for the next class. Having access to the repository and the information is unbelievable. Some areas you need your wand to access so I worked hard to earn the ability to carry my wand outside the class. The teachers say this is to teach us responsibility and to cut down on fights outside of class. I think it is a good idea and makes me feel safe when walking around the school with the older students and other magical creatures. Overall I am glad me and my parents worked so hard on the process to get me here.

It was an interesting concept and idea making someone earn the right to carry their wand outside of class. Harry knew there really should be something like it at Hogwarts with all the fights that went on between the different houses. But then no one would be able to carry one with the way Snape went on and the other teachers trying to counter each other.

Second Year.
I really like the clubs. I'm in the art club and won a medal last year for one of my sculptures in the art competition. One day I hope to join the Repository Expedition Squad. You can't as a Scholar it has to be students and they go and make sure the different areas of the Repository are safe before opening them. Apparently, there are lots of tricks and traps. I study a lot because I want to join but you have to be at least a 5th year and if you are found trying to get into an unauthorized area before that you lose all right to join. The rules are strict but keep us safe and they aren't unfair either.

That was also interesting and intrigued him. The idea of there been other competitions then flying, Harry wondered what others there was. The Repository Expedition Squad also sounded cool and something like the thing everyone wants to do.

Third Year.
This year I focused on the dog sledging, next year I get my student or Little to mentor and I want to be able to bring them to the school myself. Everyone has the chance to learn but not everyone does. If you don't an older student brings you and your Liten on a two-seat sledge so you can be with them on the journey but if you learn yourself then you can bring them. I found it very impressive that my mentor could bring me themselves instead of needing help as some did. It's not easy and the dogs are hard to control and strong you have to get all the way to Beginner level 5. Some work on it for years so the fact I did it in one is really impressive.

Harry smiled at that. The idea of a mentor from the 4th year was a good one, another he wished they had had at Hogwarts.

Fourth Year.
This year I got my little and I was their big. In Norwegian that is Liten and Star. Mentors help with getting school supplies, decorating their room, finding their way around the school, protecting the dorm, advice on subjects and clubs and when you are stuck on school work. They could also just be someone to talk to. I still talk to my mentor and they helped me pick my fourth-year subjects when we can start taking optional subjects. My mentor is in their 7th year now and my Grand Store or G big is in their last year. It's nice having that chain of people to talk to and advice to draw upon. My mentor told me that they were very nervous about getting their own liten and that their mentor helped a lot. I hope I have been as good a mentor to my liten as my mentor was to me.

Fifth Year.
Where to start. Magere Akademi is a great school. I went to a magical primary school before this and it was nothing like what I was told to expect from a higher magical school. My primary school was a feeder school where we automatically got a place at a higher school and the higher school didn't have half the subjects or opportunities we do here. I love the recognition they give you. I like having a basic tie and then for different things like becoming a mentor or the best at Gobbstones in the school or a football captain you earn a tie you can wear. Then there are the pins so for every weapon you learn to use you get a pin, or if you have the ability of a potions master just without taking the test yet you earn a pin for it. This means that in your last year they set it up and you take that mastery. Some take four or five its insane. But those pins mean that if there is ever a problem those students are called on to help as they technically have a mastery. The Scholars can't, they can only go in certain areas and are just visiting. There is something major wrong if the scholars are allowed the help solve problems of the students. It's our school, our responsibility. That pride it stays with you.

Sixth Year.
So last year I took my international tests. L. or Lower Magical Tests. They weren't that hard actually but many say the school prepares you for it and I think they do. I'm on the Repository Expedition Squad and we use a lot of what we use in our lessons. There are all sorts in there as protections and it is an honour to be allowed to join. We're the best in the school but if you break the rules you get taken off and are never allowed back on. It's harsh but one mistake could put everyone at risk. Before I joined I always wondered why the other repositories were restricted access but now I know and understand. It makes you respect the rules and the way the school is run. If I had to pick one word to describe Magere Akademi it would be pride as everyone here is proud of the school and to be able to attend.

Seventh Year.
It is strange to think I am now a seventh year. This year I take my H.M.E.T or Higher Magically Exhausting Tests. There is a more basic national level you can take but everyone here takes the harder ones. The headmistress says we would be doing ourselves a disservice to our magic is we took the basic ones and didn't use our magic fully to reach the protentional we saw in that orb. I'm the second in my family to come here and my younger sister attends to. We live at one of the hostels since our mother died of dragon pox and our father couldn't look after us with his job. It isn't just us at the hostel either but other kids. Some have been removed due to abuse. Others abandoned for coming into a creature inheritance. But we all look out for each other and its better at the hostel then in an orphanage for foster care under the government. Some are adopted but many stay and then the hostel finds them a flat once they graduate the school. My older brother leaves this year and he says he's going to ask them to help him find a house so we can all live together. That would be nice. The hostel is great but none of us would pass up the chance to be a family.

Hostel, there was hostels you could stay at if you were abused. Harry wasn't sure if they would allow him to stay or how you could live it one but if he could stay there during the summers maybe he could attend Magere Akademi instead of Se Ridica it certainly sounded amazing.

Eighth Year
I can't believe I am a Senior. The top of the school. This year I have only optional subjects and I'm glad I got the grades to take the mastery class's I want. I'm studying for my Potions, Battle Magic and Blood Magic Mastery. Many of the classes have pre-requests and subjects you have to take at the same time but then you do uses them and bring everything together. The hard work the last few years really paid off. Clubs I'm in Repository Expedition Squad, Martial Arts, World Cultures and Dog Sledding.

Ninth Year
Next to last year. Next Year I become a Rist Grand Store as a new Liten joins the mentor family and our current one becomes a Stor. What to say clubs I'm in Skiing, Ice Skating, Debate and Music. I wanted to join to Repository Expedition Squad or RES but I was a naughty kid in my first year and went where I wasn't supposed to. I was glad they didn't kick me out and over the years have learned the consequences of that action. I came close to been expelled a couple of times my first two years here but since my third year, my mentor really helped me turn my life around so I could get my own Liten. Now I can pass that knowledge and experience onto others. While I missed out on some things because of who I was, I know when I graduate to follow the rules or you can miss out on things in life. Better learn that in school then when you are an adult.

Tenth Year
It's hard to think I am a senior and in my final year. This year I take all my mastery tests. I was one of the crazy ones that went for five, most do one or three. I am doing Healing, Potions, Animagus, Alchemy, and Battle Magics. The last one might seem strange but when I was in my third year our home was attacked and my parents and older brother were killed. The school really helped, moving me and my younger siblings into a hostel and helping with counselling. Since then I wanted to be a healer to help so others don't lose their parents but I also wanted to learn how to protect me and my younger siblings. All of us lived at the hostel together, even the others and John was only 7. They sent them to a school to learn close to the hostel before they took the test to come when they were 11. Susan didn't have the potential so she attends a different school and lives at the same hostel with us during the holidays. Its nice like that. But I can honestly say that Magere Akademi has been a ride and a journey I will never forget. The counselling, lessons, clubs, the Chinook shopping centre was opened just 3 years ago and now with the scholars, the school feels like a strange village. Its an experience I will treasure and remember for the rest of my life. I'll be back and visiting that for sure certainly as a scholar I'll never stop learning now. I entered Magere Akademi as a small boy and they made me into the man I am today. Thank You.

Harry smiled as he finished reading making up his mind. He would write to Magere Akademi and see what they say.