Well it has been an eventful three days for Harry Potter fans. JK Rowling has just released her third short essay on the Wizarding World here in North America and I have to say, I love it. What are the biggest takeaways?

1-Where the Harry Potter (Europe) story served as a metaphor for the Nazis it feels like the story for Fantastic Beasts will be a metaphor for Jim Crowe Laws/segregation.

2-I can now understand how the release of a bunch of magical creatures over New York City will be a SEVERE problem in the films. Not just for exposure but because muggles (no-maj I know, but I’m just not there yet) will literally want to KILL them.

3- The location of Ilvermorny was exposed to the No-Maj community?! This is so difficult to process since we know all of the magical schools have such intense and powerful magic protecting them. Now, though the location was exposed, we don’t yet know if they were able to gain access. That will probably be clarified tomorrow.

4-Native Americans are PISSED. I have many thoughts regarding the first essay and the negative reactions but I will not turn those into opinions because I don’t think it’s my place to speak on what a group of people should or shouldn’t be upset about.

I WILL however express my concern for tomorrow’s final essay which will be about Ilvermorny. Some time ago, JK Rowling responded to a question on twitter that a fan had asked about the american school. Her response (paraphrased) was that the school was built with the help of a Native American tribe and that she could not say which tribe since it would give away location.

This does show that she has indeed researched some Native American history, but with there already being so much fire regarding the topic, I’m concerned how the final essay will address Native Americans and what there place was in the formation of the school and what their place was throughout its history.

I must also say… The final essay better be LONG. We get our own magic school? I want to know how it began, what classes, what wands, where do these kids buy their wands, uniforms, are there houses, do we use different wand cores or any additional ones to unicorn hair, phoenix feather, and dragon heartstrings, what tests do we take, what does that castle look like, what defenses does this school have from outsiders, is it in Canada or the US, do we share the school, do we play quidditch or strictly quodpot, and how do students find out they’re accepted into Ilvermorny?!

Fingers crossed we get all these answers and more tomorrow at 9 am