Interdisciplinary Studies

"Hello class. My name is Professor Nebulosa, and I have been granted the honor of reintroducing interdisciplinary witchcraft to the formal education curriculum in the British Isles. Welcome to the first lesson held in Hogwarts in 3 centuries." Professor Nebulosa paused, and distantly noted a few uneasy students glancing towards the door, and even more gaping at the ornate room. Bookshelves scraped the ceiling, mirrored china cabinets filled with knick knacks, trinkets, odds and ends, and shiny baubles caught the eye and trapped it there. Posters covered every inch of wall, detailed star charts and scientific anatomy diagrams, runic tables and obscure diagrams of what looked like circles and squiggles. She glided to the center of the room, an invisible wind ruffling her loose, layered robes.AU In which the dark side is comprised of obscure, arcane rituals and the proponents thereof are less like wizard nazis and more like magical anarchists. Mostly focused on worldbuilding and magical theory in the modern day, through the lens of a newly introduced class. Less racism, more cross cultural magical theory.

This is set in an AU where Voldemort does not manage to return to his body during the Triwizard tournament. Dumbledore, using the context Harry gave him from his failed attempt, discovered the secret of the Horcruxes and destroyed most of them, and died in the process. Cut to a few years later and the hysteria has died down and the wizarding world is more open to reclaiming traditions stamped out by years of anglicizing colonizers and missionaries. This work aims to look past the sanitized version of magic seen in the children's books. It will contain controversial and occasionally dark magics.The characters are secondary to the magical theory being developed in this wider universe. I'm not gonna pay much attention to the war and all that jazz, but politics might come into play later on when the distinctions between light and dark get blurry and gradient. We'll see how far this plot bunny drags me.