Featured Novel: Hogwarts
Hogwarts opened on November 15, 2001 as a collaborative effort under the leadership of Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Hermione Granger. Today, the novel is administered by Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Both Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall are no longer written by their original authors.
The story began in Harry's fifth year and uses the first four books in J.K. Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter series for its foundation. Despite the subsequent release of two more books in the series, the novel's existing storylines remain untouched; Hogwarts diverges from the series after Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Although the name is Hogwarts, the scope of the novel goes beyond the school of magic. In fact, half the novel membership consists of adults with no direct connection to the school. These adults work, live, and play in Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade village, the Ministry of Magic, St. Mungo's Hospital, and other places inside (and outside) the greater Wizarding World.
Currently at Hogwarts it is early summer 1999, one full year after the graduation of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. More students are set to graduate within the coming week and are faced with uncertain futures. Do they find jobs in the wizarding world? Do they take on apprenticeships in fields like Potions and Herbology? Now they have another option.
New to the magical world is St. Emrys University, a school of higher education for wizards. The university offers a number of majors, such as Muggle Studies, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Auror training, and Alchemy. These majors fall within eight separate colleges: Marjoribanks (biological sciences), Cliodna College of Healing, Agrippa (history, liberal arts, and communication), Blane (pure applied sciences), Fancourt (engineering), Merlin (political science and business), Vablatsky (divination), and Wright (sports and flying). St. Emrys also has six Quidditch teams: Basilisks, Chimaeras, Griffins, Fireballs, Manticores, and Phoenixs.
Hogwarts welcomes anyone interested in joining the novel either as a student or professor at St. Emrys, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, or as an adult in the greater wizarding world. For more information, please contact Hermione Granger or Harry Potter.
