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have spent all weekend holed up in a cabin working on my novel and while it’s been very creatively fulfilling i’m left feeling very very [emotion] about the whole thing overall

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The Laveau Academy

“D’un flux pour un grand fleuve.”

As is true with most of her life, scholars who study the life of the legendary Marie Laveau fiercely debate whether or not the Voudon Queen of New Orleans ever really intended to open a school when she retired to the manor house that became her home in the wild swamps of Louisiana. She had, after all, been a leader in all other respects, bearing the standard of an influential business woman, a spiritual guide, a society dame, a political dynamo, and both a natural and adoptive mother in her own time. There is little reason to suspect that she desired to add “founder and headmistress of a renowned center of magical education” to that list.

But then again there is little reason to think a woman as ambitious and civically minded as Marie would not.

Regardless, the Laveau Academy opened its door in 1875, less than a year after the magical-society pages claimed Marie had entered self-proclaimed retirement from public life. She hand-selected a faculty that largely consisted of witches and wizards whom Marie had tutored or taken on as apprentices during her own career. She was equally selective in choosing her student body. A half-blood herself, Marie held no pretensions about the importance of blood status in determining how powerful or successful a student would be, and she held even less regard to the question of race. The former Voudon Queen judged her pupils entirely on some other trait, known only to her, a “sliver of excellence” as she called it, that set them apart from others. Utilizing a broad network of agents and allies up and down the Mississippi, and throughout the American south, Marie tracked down those pupils who, but for her interference, may not have had a chance for an official education. Throughout the Winter of 1875, Marie traveled in person to meet her prospective pupils and make a final decision on their potential. When all was said and done, the Laveau Academy opened with fewer than 25 full-time pupils of various races, bloodlines, and regional origins.

Since then, the Laveau Academy has grown little. The smallest of all eight major American wizarding schools, the Academy accepts fewer than 50 new pupils every year. Though many of these students come from the South, the Laveau Academy still seeks out students with that “sliver of excellence” that can be fostered into full potential. This quest for distinction amongst its students is reflected in the school’s motto, “D’un flux pour un grand fleuve,” or “From a stream flows a mighty river.”

The Laveau Academy holds class from Winter to Summer, giving students a breaks in the middle of Autumn. The school’s end of the year feast is held on Halloween night, and restarts January 21st. The schedule was established by Marie herself, and remains largely out of a sense of proud tradition rather than for any practical purpose. The school itself in hosted in a large manor house that relocates on a regular basis through the Atchafalaya Basin, sometimes floating on the dark waters of a Mississippi bog, and sometimes looking over an otherwise hidden branch of the mighty river itself. Students are warned of an impending jump by the tolling of phantom church bells, and every student is issued a small charm to help locate them should the school accidentally leave them behind.

Student housing is based predominantly on their year and their gender. First year students are housed in communal rooms of 12-14 students, situated in bunk beds. The beds come with privacy curtains, but are otherwise communal in their space, with a single fire place on either side of the room and several armchairs. Despite the nod to equality, however, the beds are not equally spaced, and some are more comfortable than others, while others have thicker curtains or slightly more space. Control over the fireplaces and windows are also up for students to decides on their own, and they are encouraged to compete and bargain with each other for control. This is most students’ introduction to the Laveau Academy’s belief that competition fosters excellence, and that every student must find their own path to power.

In the 2nd and 3rd year, students are divided into smaller groups of 3-4 students with a single room. As this core group will be a student’s roommates for the rest of their stay at the Laveau Academy, students are encouraged to make the choice on their own with regards to whom they will live with. Since 2005, the faculty has allowed non-traditional pairings on a case-by-case basis. Between the fourth and sixth years, students are moved into more luxurious rooms, and, finally, in the 7th year, select groups are moved into fourth-floor suites with a private bathroom and living room. These suits are highly sought by students, and they work hard to jockey favor with the faculty members responsible for making the rooming appointments.

The Manor House is, of course, spatially warped in its interior to make room for so many, but students can always find their way to bathrooms and the dining hall, regardless of where they are in the building, despite the fact the most students prefer to take their meals in one of the many private salons hidden throughout the building, or, in the warmer months, in the gardens that follow the house like a faithful puppy as it teleports throughout the swamps. Other rooms, including class rooms and libraries, require that the student use their own ingenuity and wit to find.  Faculty rooms are sequestered in the attic, which can only be reached by students who have been summoned there. Indeed, a summons from the Headmistress will result in students arriving at her door no matter how hard they try to avoid such a fate.

Unlike most schools, the faculty of the Laveau Academy takes a special hand in guiding each of their students towards a particular field of magical study with which they show the greatest promise. All base-courses are taught in two tiers. First-tier instruction provides only the basic necessities of the course that students need to pass their LAMP and SALEM exams. The Second-tier, however, is designed to give students with a talent in that particular field a more rigorous and intensive education. Students can move between the two classes based on their proficiency in a given year, and for the first year all students share a single course in a particular field (giving the faculty a chance to examine their talents and proclivities.) Every student must have at least two classes at the advanced level, but they may have more. Having numerous advanced classes is a mark of honor amongst the students, and working to maintain those levels is part of the competitiveness natural to the Laveau Academy’s philosophy of education. There are two instructors for everyone of the core-courses, providing enough staff for both the basic and advanced courses.

To say the Laveau Academy promotes bullying, social-jockeying, or enmity between its students is not entirely correct. To say it turns a blind-eye to what it sees as the natural and necessary act of students honing their social skills to a dagger’s edge would be more accurate. The Laveau Academy believes every student has their own, personal path to power, and that it is good for them to learn that while alliances and friendships are absolutely vital on that path, one’s peers will never simply clear the path to your success. Marie Laveau was a Queen long before she was a teacher, after all, and those who have taken over her Academy follow her instinct that every student has it in them to achieve similar greatness. Friendships between students in different years is promoted by the faculty, and in the 6th and 7th years, students with time can follow in the long tradition of the school that students of the Academy become teachers themselves. By applying to a professor a student of the Academy can become a teaching assistant for younger classmen training for their LAMP exams. Extra credit is the general rule for 3rd years and above who tutor younger students in a subject. Finding a good tutor is considered an excellent idea to jockey for both better grades and influence with the professors, so younger students often compete for those tutors rumored to be the highest scoring or the most beloved by instructors.

The official animal of Laveau Academy is the alligator, and the school crest consists of three harsh, black X’s surrounded by a black circle in which six silver pins are stuck on a field of dark purple. There are three recognized school-ghosts, though rumors abound that Marie Laveau herself is the unofficial fourth. Countless students and visitors to the school have claimed to have seen her since her apparent death in the early 1900s. Faculty members, strangely enough, never claim such sightings, at least publicly. All in all, the original Headmistress’ voice is only ever evoked with respect, and her portrait hangs in the place of highest honor directly behind the seat of the current Headmistress.

The school has an excellent Charms and Potions curriculum, and flavors much of its magical education with the sort of cultural diversity that defined Marie Laveau’s own powers. Voudon and Native American practices often work their way into the class rooms. The school has been more or less the official training ground for Seers and Prophets since the early 1900s.

Posted originally on @americanwizarding, which has since distanced itself from any information outside of the original books, with some minor modifications by Prefect Selwyn to fit it in with the rest of canon and this blog

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