The Salem Academy of Magical Arts is an American wizarding boarding school teaching the magical arts, located in Salem, Massachusetts inside Salem Castle. The castle is in the Salem Woods. The precise location of the school can never be uncovered because it has been rendered Unplottable. Similarly, most wizarding schools locations are protected in order to prevent their ways of teaching being revealed, as well as protect the students and schools themselves from any harm.
Established around the 16th, The Salem Academy is considered to be one of the finest magical institutions in the wizarding world, though other notable schools include Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, the Durmstrang Institute, and most notably, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Children with magical abilities may be enrolled at birth, and acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven.
The school's motto is Ratio autem est, spe metu and is in Latin, which translates to "the basis of optimism is sheer terror".
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Location
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The Salem Academy is located in Salem Castle, a large castle in the Salem Woods of Massachusetts. The castle has extensive grounds with sloping lawns, flowerbeds and vegtable patches, a lagoon (called Silverwater Lagood), a small wood (called the Salem Woods), several greenhouses and other outbuildings, a full-size Quidditch Pitch. There is also an owelry, which houses all the owls owned by the school and those owned by students.
The school has numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a Muggle to locate it. If anyone enters the Salem Woods, they are led in circles until they find their way out of the wood. Elecricity and electronic devices are not found at the Salem Academy due to the high levels of magic that make them go haywire.
There seem to be various ways of entering the school such as via brooms or Floo powder, apparating to a nearby location, locomotive, and more.
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School Layout
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Main Building -
1st Floor - Lobby, Banquet Hall, Caretaker’s office, staircases, elevator shaft
2nd Floor - Nurse’s ward and office, History of Magic classroom
3rd Floor - Headmaster/mistress office, Transfiguration classroom, Arithmancy Classroom, Muggle Studies classroom
4th floor - Charms classroom, potions classroom
Roof - Herbology Greenhouse
2nd Building - Student Housing
1st floor Main Lobby - Lounge/Common room, Prefect Dorm
1st and 2nd Floor West Wing - Wisteria 1st - 3rd year
1st and 2nd floor East Wing - Gladium 1st - 3rd year
3rd and 4th floor West Wing - Foxglove 1st - 3rd year
3rd and 4th floor East Wing - Viserious 1st - 3rd year
3rd Building - Student Housing
1st floor Main Lobby, Lounge/Common room, Prefect Dorm
1st Floor East Wing - Veserious 6th - 7th year
2nd Floor West Wing - Wisteria 4th - 5th year
2nd Floor East Wing - Gladium 4th - 5th year
3rd Floor West Wing Foxglove 4th - 5th year
3rd Floor East Wing Veserious 4th - 5th year
4th Floor West Wing - Wisteria 6th - 7th year
4th Floor East Wing - Gladium 6th - 7th year
Northern Tower - Foxglove 6th - 7th year
4th Building - Bell Tower
1st Floor - Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom
2nd Floor - Ancient Runes Classroom, Divination classroom
Bell Tower - Astronomy
Grounds -
The Quidditch Pitch
Stables for Care of Magical Creatures Class
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School Year
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The Salem Academy’s school year is structured in a similar way to other non-magical schools and colleges in the United States, with a two-semester year punctuated by Winter and Simmer holidays. Students have the option of staying at the academy for the winter and spring holidays. Those who choose to stay at the castle do not have lessons and attend a feast on Christmas Day. Students also do no have classes the week during Easter, but this is much less enjoyable due to the large amount of work the teachers assign students at this time in preparation for final exams.
Other than the breaks and weekends, students do not receive holidats. There are normally four feasts per year: the start-of-term feast at the beginning of the school year, end-of-term feast at the end of the school year, and feasts at Halloween and Christmas. Feasts are also called to mark special occasions.
Quidditch tryouts for house Quidditch teams happens at the very beginning of the school year. Quidditch matches usually start during the first weeks of Novemeber. In the second week of December, the Deputy Head takes names of those who are staying at the Salem Academy over the Christmas holidays. The first term usually ends about a week before Christmas.
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Houses
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Students at the Salem Academy are divided into four houses: Gladium, Wisteria, Foxglove, and Viserious.
- Gladium: Gladium is well known for bravery, daring, nerve, and chivalry. The house colours bright red and white, and the house is sumbolized by a phoenix. Notable students- Lacey Marie Roberts , Matrim Lautrec.
- Wisteria: Wisteria is well known for loyalty, fair play, honesty, and tolerance. The house is symbolized by a Pegasus, and the house colours are light brown and black. Notable students- Fane Asher.
- Foxglove: Foxglove values wit, creativity, and wisdom. The house is symbolized by a kitsune and the house colours are purple and silver. Notable students-Tai Lun, Felix Ryder.
- Viserious: Viserious vlasues ambition, cleverness, cunning, and resourcefulness. The house is sumbolized by a kraken, and the house colors are a deep blue and light gray. Notable students- Jacob Jaymison, Camriska Dobrynin, Ailsa Carrow.
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Administration
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Headmistress- Evelyn Reed
Deputy Headmaster- Barnabas Maximilian Alman
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Support Staff
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Caretaker:
Matron:
Healers:
Gamekeeper:
Referee: Leonard Gifford
Chief Attendant of Witchcraft Provisions:
Librarian:
Various other staff
Heads of Houses:
-Gladium: Barnabas Maximilian Alman
-Wisteria: Kari Cartwrite
-Foxglove: Thestia Merridew
-Viserious: Undetermined
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Subjects and teachers
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The Salem Academy of Magical Arts has in its faculty an abundance of wise and talented professors. Each specializes in a specific subject. There are a variety of classes taught at the Salem Academy. These include both the core curriculum and the electives, available from third year forward. Some classes may be dropped in sixth year.
Numerious lessons are described, instructing the students in various branches of magic. Transfiguration, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions, Astronomy, History of Magic, and Herbology are compulsory subjects for the first five years. At the end of their second year, students are required to add at least two optional subjects to their syllabus for the start of the third year. The five choices are Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, and Muggle Studies.
- Transfiguration- Professor N/A: Transfiguration is the art of changing the form or appearance of an object, and hence this is a what this class teaches. Transfiguration is a theory-based subject, including topics such as “Switching Spells” (altering only a part of some object, such as giving a human rabbit’s ears); Vanishing Spells (causing an object to completely disappear); and Conjuring Spells (creating objects out of thin air). It is possible to change inanimate objects into animate ones and vice versa.
- Defense Against the Dark Arts: Barnabas Maximilian Alman: Defense against the Dark Arts, commonly shortened to DADA is the class that teaches students defensive techniques to defend against the Dark Arts, and to be protected from Dark creatures.
- Charms- Professor Thestia Merridew: Charms the type of spell concerned with giving an object new and unexpected propertied, and hence this class mainly consists on learning those sorts of spells. Charms classes are notoriously noise and chaotic, as the lessons are largely practical.
- Potions- Professor Kari Cartwrite: Potions is described as the art of creating mixtures with magical effects. It requires the correct mixing and stirring of ingredients at the right times and temperatures.
- Astronomy- Professor N/A: Astronomy is the only field of study at the academy that has a direct equivalent in the Muggle world. Lessons involve observations of the night skies with telescopes. Lessons include learning the names of the stars, constellations and planets, and their location, movements, and environments, and much more.
- Arithmancy- Professor Esther Ayala: Arithmancy is a branch of magic concerned with the magical properties of numbers. Arithmancy lessons often include the memorizing or working with various charts and equations.
- Study of Ancient Ruins- Professor N/A: he Study of Ancient Runes is a generally theoretical subject that studies the ancient runic scripts.
- History of Magic- Professor N/A: History of Magic is the study of magical history. Topics have included goblin rebellions, giant wars, and the origins of wizarding secrecy.
- Herbology- Professor N/A: Herbology is the study of magical plants and how to take care of, utilise and combat them. There are at least three greenhouses holding a variety of magical plants of varying degrees of lethality.
- Divination- Professor N/A: Divination is the art of predicting the future. Various methods include tea leaves, Fire-omens, Crystal balls, Palmistry, Cartomancy (including the reading of conventional playing cards and the tarot), astrology, and Dream interpretations. Divination is often described as one of the most imprecise branches of magic. Supporters of the subject claim that it is an inexact science that requires innate gifts like the "Inner Eye". Those opposed claim that the subject is irrelevant and fraudulent.
- Care of Magical Creatures- Leonard Gifford: Care of Magical Creatures is the class which instructs students on how to care for magical beasts.
- Muggle Studies- Professor N/A: Muggle Studies is a class which involves the study of the Muggle (non-magical) culture "from a wizarding point of view." It also includes Muggle Art and Muggle Music. The only need for witches and wizards to learn about Muggle ways and means, is to ensure they can blend in with Muggles while needing to do so.
- Flying- Professor N/A: Flying is the class that teaches the use of broomsticks made for the use of flying and is taught only to Salem Academy first years. The subject is the only one that requires physicality.
- Ghoul Studies- Professor N/A: Students in Ghoul Studies learn about ghouls like poltergeists, vampires, veela, etc. and how to defend themselves from these creatures.
- Alchemy- Professor N/A: Alchemy is a sort of composite subject between Transfiguration, Potions and Muggle Chemistry, focused roughly on the transmutation of substances into other forms. It is an elective, only offered to NEWT level students if the demand is sufficient.
- Apparition- Professor N/A: Apparition is the magical form of teleportation in the wizarding world. Lessons are optional to those in the sixth and seventh years. In the wizarding world, performing Apparition requires a licence and may only be legally performed by people over seventeen years of age. The reason for the restriction is that Apparition is dangerous if done improperly: insufficient concentration may lead to body parts being left behind in an unfortunate side-effect known as splinching.
- Art- Professor N/A: Art is a class where students paint, draw, and otherwise depict artistic things by controlling the paint and pencils with either a spell that repeats the same thing over and over or a spell that stands upright over the paper / canvas and draws in the direction that the wand moves. (Also includes Muggle Art)
- Music- Professor N/A: Music is a class in which students are taught musical instruments and possibly sing in the Choir.
- Magical Theory- Professor N/A: A subject taught to at least first years. It covers magic from a purely theoretical view.
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Fifth Year Students
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Fifth years are typically fifteen to sixteen years of age. The fifth year is enormously important for students, due to the fact that it is the year in which they must sit their O.W.L. exams, which will determine what N.E.W.T. courses they will be permitted to take later on in their education. O.W.L.s determine what jobs they can apply for in their future careers. The fifth year is also the year in which students receive career counseling from their Heads of House. It is during this meeting that they will be advised as to what N.E.W.T.-level classes they should take in order to qualify for their desired career. Fifth year classes consist of Potions, Herbology, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Astronomy, Charms, and two or more electives. Before the beginning of the year, one boy and one girl are selected by the Headmaster from each house to become prefects.
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Daily Routines
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The day begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast in the Great Hall. During breakfast, the mail arrives in a flurry of hundreds of owls. A bell chime signals the start of the first class at 9 a.m. The bell chimes again in one hour to signal the start of the next class.
There are four class periods before lunch (though NEWT student may have breaks during some of these), scheduled according to house. After lunch, there is another break and two more classes.[5]
Dinner is served in the Great Hall toward evening, after which the students are expected to be in their house common rooms for studying and socializing.
The students must be in bed or in the common rooms by a certain time, after which is called after hours. The times are different for different years (for example, fifth years are allowed to be in the halls until 9:00)
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RP STUFF!
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If you couldn’t already tell this is an alternate universe Harry Potter RP that takes place at a unique school in Salem, Massachusetts. Players can role-play as professors and/or fifth year students attending the school. As time goes on a foul plot will unfold and the players will face unexpected perils. Though, let’s not worry about that. First, tell us who you are!
Character Sheet for Student
Username: (Your RPG name… for reference sake)
Character Name: (If you prefer a nick name, please provide your character’s real name as well)
Age: (How old are ya?)
Gender: (Biological please)
Appearance: (Pictures are fine. Please avoid anything unrealistic)
Personality: (What kind of person are you? Fun, shy, intelligent, etc)
House: (Gladium, Wisteria, Foxglove, or Viserious? Keep in midn that being sorted into these houses is related to your values and not your personality.)
Bio: (Tell us about your history. What’s made you who you are today?)
Skills: (Please include strengths AND weaknesses. I may ask you to add more strengths and weaknesses as I see fit)
Classes: (Keep in mind there are specific required classes. Times are not necessary)
Character Sheet for Professor
Username: (Your RPG name… for reference sake)
Character Name: (If you prefer a nick name, please provide your character’s real name as well)
Age: (Please remember 5th year students are ages 15-16)
Gender: (Biological please)
Appearance: (Pictures are fine. Please avoid anything unrealistic)
Personality: (What kind of person are you? Fun, shy, intelligent, etc)
Bio: (Tell us about your history. What’s made you who you are today?)
Skills: (Please include strengths AND weaknesses. I may ask you to add more strengths and weaknesses as I see fit)
Classes: (What class do you teach? Times are necessary)
All Accepted Applications:
Evelyn Reed (Headmaster) (IInflex)
Barnabas Maximilian Alman (Defense against the Dark Arts professor, Head of Gladium, and Deputy Headmaster) (betelgeuse)
Thestia Merridew (Charms professor, Head of House Foxglove) (Stitches)
Kari Cartwrite (Potions professor, Head of House Wisteria) (Serinaty)
Leonard Gifford (Caring for Magical Creatures, Referee) (Work_U_Dumb)
Esther Ayala (Arithmancy professor) (Memories of Conquest)
Lacey Marie Roberts (Gladium student) (RumikoOhara)
Matrim Lautrec (Gladium student) (IInflex)
Jacob Jaymison (Viserious student) (Work_U_Dumb)
Camriska Dobrynin (Viserious student) (Serinaty)
Ailsa Carrow (Viserious Student) (NarcissisticPotato)
Fane Asher (Wisteria student) (Daemyn Sterk)
Tai Lun (Foxglove student) (Stitches)
Felix Ryder (Foxglove student) (betelgeuse)
Rules:
- Please follow typical RPG rules.
- Please do not be mean, rude, or in any way an asshole.
- Please mind your grammar.
- Please, no one liners. A paragraph minimum is required.
- Please at least attempt to post a least once/seven days. If you are unable to do this, please let us know and we will discuss autopilot options. If you gone MIA and have not posted in over seven days, your character will automatically be put into autopilot.
- Please do not over-post. Allow all players to contribute to the game.
- Please remember that the creation of spells, charms, potions, artifacts, etc is allowed. However, please be aware that if deemed unfair or too strong, you will be asked to change your post.
- Student characters must be in their fifth year.
- Please keep in that I, as the DM, have the last say in any matter. I will, however, try to hear what everyone has to say before using this power.
- Please remember to have fun!
- I reserve the right to edit these rules as I see fit.
Lastly, here are some helpful links for the game:
Harry Potter Lexicon
List of Spells
List of Potions
List of Creatures
Wandlore
LET THE MAGIC BEGIN!
(Credit for helping put this RP together goes to Stitches, RumikoOhara, betelgeuse, Serinaty, Shadowcatcher, Work_U_Dumb, and Eveekitten you know who you are! Thanks for all the help and making this RP come to life!)
