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Topic Started: Jul 25 2007, 08:58 AM (908 Views)
Tipsy
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Ok, I shall be working on this project from now on. The goal is to make a magic school in America, which will be the counterpart of Hogwarts across the Atlantic. I will be needing volunteers to help me out.
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Ultimate Danny
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kay what is America´s ideological enemy apart from Communism? I suggest it be a rebel guerrila semi-facist group, relying heavily on the dark arts.
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Tipsy
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Uh, no. You're blinded by your ethnic biases. :no:

We don't want to be political here. The group does not have to be ideologically against America. We're talking about wizards, not politicians. They will be after taking over the magic and the wizarding community, not America.
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Correction the American wizard community :p And I was being sarcastic, obviously they wouldn´t be political but they need some drive. The Death Eaters are al pure bloods that hate muggles and want to enslave them, thats pretty facist but aside that should be our evil organizations´s backing too.
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I think the anti muggle thing is old, and the setting here would be post Voldemort, so anti mudblood is cliche.
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¿Anti what then though?
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How about Anti Magic? Like in X-men, where the government found out about magic, and has wizards on their side as well?
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Ultimate Danny
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Interesting thought. The only problem I see there is that it would lose all its mystery. Also we don´t want to divert too much from the HP universe. And remember theres the International Statute of Secrecy, Muggles don´t know about magic.
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Ok, I've been reading all of this.

I don't like Anti Magic, because it would imply that your enemies had some resistance to it, which would be annoying.

I don't like the Hogwartsness, which seems very cliche to me and not particularly interesting. I think that this should be a lot like the original Nihil Academy, with each teacher making up his or her own class.

Furthermore, I don't see why "Muggles" can't know about magic. In fact, it'd be kind of cool if the U.S. Government and the "Wizards" had a relationship and the wizards held positions in the US Government, instead of just using another Harry Potter Rip Off.

In addition, why should the school need to exist in a real place? Why can't we just make up a fictional area, preferably, in my opinion, in Maine or that area. That gives it the creepy aspect that would be nice.
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Tipsy
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The real locations allows us to delve into the historical fantasy genre. It's why Harry Potter was successful, because it played on the British culture. In this case, we need to play on the American culture, and use its history and shape it accordingly.

We need to keep the Hogwartsness because we need to retain a lot of the Harry Potter universe in order to capture our target fanbase. We need the familiar subjects to keep the audience interested.

Ok, so before we discuss the plot, do we have a name yet? The name Hogwarts has nothing to do with anything, it's just a made-up name. How about Greylore? Fits the location of Pebble Beach and the Stone Temple in the picture I provided.
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"Greylore Academy of Magics" sounds good to me...

Hey I have an idea... so what if Volde whatever didn't die... let's say he won against THE harry potter, let's just make something up about how it was that he was able to defeat the Order. And the wizarding community in North America is just starting off, let's say about 200 years old [unlike in Britain wherein the community clearly is more than 1000 years old.] and so with almost all of the greatest wizards killed, injured or whatever, survivors of the Death Eater attacks ran to america to a not so well-known Greylore Academy of Magics, not even known to most death-eaters because this backwater community is comprised mostly of mudbloods and half-bloods. So we'll be training future witches and wizards on how to combat the ever growing dark army...

I just thought it up for about 5 minutes but i think this can stretch to large quests and such, plus we can use famous characters as NPCs like whoever lived after the final confrontation.

So any feedbacks?
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We need to close the books on Voldemort and the Death Eaters because we really have no idea on how to further develop Rowling's characters. We however can develop our own.
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Agreed with Tipsy. I think the American wizarding community should semi-reflect the American one, meaning its about 300 years old, but very populous and advanced.

Paps we know you hate rip offs, but Heroes is our most successful WP and it is a rip off. Clearly there is a correlation between rip offs and success, although I´m not saying originality is bad.

I have this list of a few letters I think should never begin names unless it fits perfectly G is one of them. Greylore sounds cool but why not a name that fits more with the ocean? AQlso I thought we were looking for a Spanishish name since it was founded by Spanish wizards.
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Paps we know you hate rip offs, but Heroes is our most successful WP and it is a rip off. Clearly there is a correlation between rip offs and success, although I´m not saying originality is bad.


I don't agree, but as far as posts and activity goes, a borrowed project gets the job done.

As for the name, it doesn't have to be related to anything, like Hogwarts isn't about anything. It's just a name, and we need one. If you can give more names, do so because we're wasting time.
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Ultimate Danny
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In terms of success I meant massive success, I know that non-rip offs can be successful obv.

Anyways I have a few words we can throw into the name

Columbia/Columbian Academy of Magic (Not the u to denote Columbus)
Mariposa
San ____

I like Columbia/Columbian, Greylore is fine I guess, I just wanted some Spanish flavor.

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Columbia? How unoriginal can you get? :no:
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