Alvis Valentine is an up-and-coming politician who is fully supporting TWK and the magical rebellion. He strongly believes that it is time for wizards and witches to come out of their traditional ways and embrace a life where magical creatures, muggles, and wizards live side by side. Not only are his opinions strong and from an open-minded standpoint, he is extremely charismatic with a swaggering confidence that causes ladies to swoon.


Heimdall Abbing is Alvis Valentine’s main competitor due to his strict, aggressive way of politics. He is a crude man with a short temper who is loyal to traditions. He believes that muggles would become frightened by wizards and would cause war between the two vastly different species of human. His popularity stems from his fierce speeches that echo speeches of Puritans years and years ago.

The Rebellion began on December 15, 2014, when a centaur by the name of Alphard was shot and killed by an Auror named Etamin Fomalhaut. Fomalhaut had reported that Alphard was attacking him and he was proven innocent at his trial despite evidence suggesting that Alphard had just been walking through the woods. This caused a huge stir in the magical creatures community and they begun to riot and protest, demanding the prosecution of Fomalhaut. Many claimed it was an injustice and that pure prejudice was the reason behind Fomalhaut’s actions. As of now, there are riots erupting every day and peaceful protests being held. The magical creatures community is at war with not only the wizards, but with themselves – some believe violence is the only way and others believe peaceful protesting is best.

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First and Second Year students will have eight periods each day. Third years and up will have ten classes, seven core and three electives, and will be split into block days – on Blue days, students will have first period through fifth period, and on Red days, students will have sixth period through tenth period. The first day of school will always be a Blue day and a Red day is always after a Blue day, repeating the pattern until the last day of school.

SCHOOL DAY: 7:40 am – 3:20 pm
BREAKFAST: Starts to serve at 5:20 am and ends at 7:35 am
DINNER: Starts to serve at 6:00 pm and ends at 8:00 pm

CURFEW: 10:00 pm


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Third through Seventh Years Schedule

SORTING CEREMONY
Salem Witches’ Institute uses a colonial candle holder in order to determine a student’s house. This candle holder once belonged to Sarah Good, one of the three founders of Salem Witches’ Institute. The candle holder has been enchanted to detect the inner most desires and thoughts of the person who holds it. The sorting ceremony is simple enough: the first year student holds the candle holder with their left hand and lights the candle with a match given to them by the sorting master, Professor Endymion. The flame takes to the candle quickly and sparks into the colors of the house the child is sorted into. This candle holder is known as the Sifting Lamp.



TRANSPORTATION
The Peregrine is an old Peugeot that travels unexpectedly 270 mph. It is driven by Mercury and Pluto; Mercury drives and Pluto navigates. Mercury is notorious for her bad directions and Pluto is infamous for her bad driving; unfortunately, at night when Mercury is too tired, Pluto drives and Mercury navigates. As such, what would usually be a four day trip for The Peregrine becomes a seven day long journey. The Peregrine makes its trip all around the United States, it even goes underwater in order to get to Hawaii and travels through Canada to Alaska, stopping at bus stops in the capitals of each state. The bus stops are usually enchanted so passers-by don’t see multiple kids climbing into the tiny car.

Pluto usually hands out room numbers to every student that gets in the car before they enter the back of the car. In the back of the car, there are no seats, but a staircase leading downwards. When you go down the staircase, you enter the stairwell of the Peregrine Hotel. There are forty floors of the Peregrine Hotel with forty rooms on each floor; usually the number rooms will have the floor first and the room number second. The floor that the student is on when they first enter the hotel is floor 40 and it counts backwards from there. The rooms are simple and small with all the furniture nailed down due to the fact that Mercury is a bit of a crazy driver and speeds severely. Each room has its own bathroom and a mini fridge as well as a small bed, a dresser, and a small TV. The hotel has managed to have wifi connection despite having been charmed since magic usually messes with electronics. Many students have tried to figure out how this is so they can replicate the solution at Salem Witches’ Institute which has no wifi and the only TVs that work there are the ones installed by the teachers. Every room has a window that shows the road and the scenery as well as blinds. The rooms also have intercoms that are used to ask Mercury and Pluto questions when they need help or need to know the distance; however, most students just keep it on so they can listen to the vulgar old women fighting and arguing, which they do nonstop. After the first floor, there is a ground floor which contains a hangout area for the students as well as a cafeteria and an arcade.

Note: The Peregrine is known by many other nicknames such as The Horse, The Cheetah, The Ugly Tan Thing (or King Tutt for short), and many more

DELIVERY SYSTEM
While their European brethren prefer owls, out of American pride, the witches and wizards of America prefer to use eagles. This change happened in 1782 and, as such, Salem Witches’ Institute immediately chose the eagle for their delivery system. A falcon can be used in place of an eagle as well as an owl, but generally, owls are looked down upon due to the stigma of denying American heritage.
Most eagles are provided to students and kept in the aviary, but as such, students are allowed to bring their own eagle or falcon.

SCHOOL RULES
1. Forbidden Areas

2. No wondering outside of the common room after 10:00 pm

3. Prohibition of Certain Items/Activities

4. Formal Disciplinary Action

The school was founded in 1665, twenty-seven years before the Salem Witch Trials. It was founded by three women: Sarah Good, Tituba, and Sarah Warren. As such, the three houses were named after the three.
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TITUBA



WARREN

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Due to the large size of the population of those attending Salem Witches’ Institute, the Houses’ dormitories have several rooms where the students can sit and rest in.



To get into the Good dormitories, a student must press the Portrait of Anne Jones by Joseph Blackburn into the wall located on the top floor of the Institute and towards the back of the building, triggering the stairs near the portrait into lifting up. The stairs open up towards the Good Parlor. A white door near the entrance opens into Good Den, a common area where the Good students lounge during the winter. On the left side of the Good Parlor, there are two doors, one leads to the Good Study, a room where students usually do their homework. The right door further from the staircase entrance opens to the Good Drawing Room. The Drawing Room is where most socializing happens or where the students go to participate in their particular hobbies, such as painting and of the like. The Good Lavatories are connected to the Good Den, the male and female lavatory being nearly identical. Next to the doors to the lavatories is another door that leads to a spiral staircase that leads to the male and female dorms.

The Good dormitories are known for the stars that blanket over the ceilings and the windows. They glitter always, dazzling the room with the tiny lights. If a student so wishes, they may open a window and even stick a hand out and touch the stars without burning themselves. Every night, a new constellation is seen in a different room. Anything dropped into the stars will float for a little bit before disappearing it for years. It is not odd for a student to randomly find an object a hundred years old, floating past the window or bobbing near the ceiling. It is a traditional practice for students to write letters or notes and stick them into the stars and the biggest rule is to never pull a current student’s note out of the stars. The letters and notes are usually placed through the windows, but there are always the ambitious ones who climb on top of things in order to throw them into the ceiling.



The Tituba students are the most unfortunate of all when it comes to hidden dormitories. The entrance to the Tituba Dorms happens to be a floor cabinet located in a stray hallway near the History of Magic classrooms that leads to a staircase that twists downwards. This, regrettably, means that the Tituba students must get on hands and knees in order to crawl through the cabinet hole and into the Tituba Parlor Room. There is also a more handicapped-friendly entrance around the corner, through a hidden doorway inside a broom closet. The Tituba Parlor leads to all the other rooms, the Tituba Lavatories being located to the left of the couches and fireplace, identical in appearance while the Tituba Den is through the archway and to the left. Next to the Tituba Den is an archway to the Tituba Drawing Room and the Tituba Study is located on the opposite wall of the Tituba Den and Drawing Room. An adjacent hall connected to the Parlor is lined with the dorms of the Tituba students; blue doors with white swirls carved into it belong to girls while white doors with blue swirls carved into it belong to boys and the opposite gender of the door cannot open it or their hand will be zapped.

The Tituba dorms happen to be located underneath The Great Lake and can see into the lake water through their windows as well as the floor. At night, they can sometimes see a flicker of a siren passing by in the water, but will never fully see their body. They are protected from the Siren’s Song through a soundproof from the water and thus are impervious to such things. Because of this, the sirens keep away from the students and refrain from bothering them. However, time to time, students will knock a rhythm onto the window and if a Siren particularly likes the beat, she will flicker by quickly, her tail thumping against the window in approval.



The Warren Dormitories are entered through a full-length mirror on the ground floor of the building in the very back of the building. It enters into the Warren Parlor which is surrounded with glass windows. However, on the outside, no windows are seen. In order to get to the other rooms, the student simply has to walk into the windows, despite it seeming like they will walk on to the ground. The left window leads to the Warren Drawing Room and the student seems to come out of mirror above the fireplace. To the right of the Warren Drawing Room, are the girls’ dorms and, if boys try to enter, will only appear back in the Warren Parlor. The rightmost window of the Warren Parlor leads to the Warren Study where the student comes out of the reflection of the picture frames. To the left of the Warren Study is a door that leads to the boys’ dorm and, just like with the Warren Drawing Room, if a girl tries to enter the boys’ dorm, she will reappear in the Warren Parlor. The right window of the Warren Parlor, next to the door, leads to the Warren Den, the student typically dropping to the floor in the middle of the sofas, from the chandelier. The doorway of the Warren Parlor’s doorway leads to the identical Warren Lavatories, instantly transporting the student to their gender-specific bathroom. The Warren Dormitories are a maze and it is extremely difficult to get back to the Parlor on purpose. In the study, it is mostly a guess on which picture a student must press their hand into in order to go back to the Parlor as it is random. Any reflection in the rooms, if a body part is placed into the reflection, can transport the student into a random available room as long as they are allowed into it. Many refer to the Warren Dormitories of the Warren Maze.

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Langley is a simple street in the wizarding side of Salem. The entrance to Langley is by crawling into a magical garbage can – that is completely clean – that will transport one into Langley. Langley is one long street that connects with another street horizontally going through it at the end. Most students, if not all, buy their supplies at Langley because of the great quality and cheapness of the products.

Guinevere Kaiser is the Editor-in-Chief for The Telling Stars and is known for her being extremely stubborn, opinionated, and cynical when it comes to politics and of the like. She is the youngest Editor-in-Chief of The Telling Stars ever.


Eurydice Baggio is a famous journalist for The Telling Stars and is one of the most popular political journalist of all time. She is known for her exuberant personality and general kindness to strangers; she was previously a columnist for a fashion magazine before her political father was murdered. After that, Eurydice indulged in politics in order to understand her father better and has since found a passion for it.


Israfil Dahlman is a famous journalist for The Telling Stars and an active republican who often preaches about religion. He is known for being a bit of a homophobe and a masochist, but is kept around for his insightful delving into the Republic of Magic.





Olwen Akker is the Editor-in-Chief of The Weekly Witching who is also a previous business owner of a popular shop until a little girl disappeared, last seen in her shop. The little girl was never found and due to this, Akker became aware of the dangers of unknowing what is out there and decided to become a journalist. She comes from a rich family and is an extreme perfectionist.


Jocasta Pryce is a famous journalist, working for The Weekly Witching. She is a columnist and runs the column The Witching Hour. The Witching Hour covers several things, such as controversial issues, psychological delving, and answers letters from fans. Jocasta Pryce, while not totally the brightest of the bunch, is known for her amazing researching abilities and her ability to apply her research to her argument.


Agni D’Antonio is a journalist at The Weekly Witching who is a rising star in the journalism business. He is new to The Weekly Witching, previously working at a local newspaper in Florida. D’Antonio’s blunt attitude and realism is what draws people to his writing as well as his sophisticated writing that gets his point across perfectly.





Sheila Herschel is the Editor-in-Chief of Magic Daily and an open supporter of TWK, believing that it is time that the muggle world and the wizarding world merge. She fights for the freedom for magical creatures and is also famous in the muggle world as an activist and member of PEETA. She is a muggleborn and runs no-kill shelters in the muggle world as well as safe havens for magical creatures who have been abused and mistreated by muggles.


Martin Wieland is a columnist for Magic Daily that answers letters from readers, most of them asking about TWK and the muggle world in general. Martin Wieland, though a pureblood, had renounced his wizardry heritage when he was younger and fully accepted the muggle way of living until Sheila Herschel recruited him for Magic Daily and he was brought back into the wizarding world. While he may come off as arrogant and pretentious, he is not and he believes that humans are the sole saviors of the world.


Gawain Wagner is a political cartoonist for Magic Daily and is known for his twisted and sardonic sense of humor. His cartoon style draws in the readers and is often ridiculing the Republic of Magic, a government that boasts about its freedom, for restricting the freedom of others, such as muggles right to know and magical creatures. He can be a little arrogant and piggish, but his intentions are good.


Damon Yount is a journalist for Daily Magic who mostly reports the happenings of TWK’s movements and the magical creature rebellions. Damon Yount is the only journalist in Daily Magic who has reservations regarding the issue of TWK. Damon Yount has written that, while muggles have a right to be exposed to magic, there might be a backlash in the form of discrimination on either side and Yount has done strenuous research on society and reaction to change and has used that to support both claims.

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