Salem Institute

Salem Institute of Magic
Location	Boston, MA, United States of America
Founded	1699
President	F. Benjamin Winthrop

History

The Salem Institute for Young Wizards and Witches is the premier magical school in North America. Students from Canada, the United States, as well as Mexico are accepted into its programs, which range from Business to Magical Law, Wizarding Politics, and Alchemy. Located in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, the Salem Institute (colloquially called the 'Institute') has produced some of the greatest wizards and witches since the late 1600s.

Entrance to the Institute is marked by steel double doors of an old cannery on the north side of the city. Access is strictly regulated to current students of the Institute, as well as faculty and assorted staff - parents are not permitted within the walls of the Institute during normal operating hours. Once inside, there is a long hallway leading to the outdoors, which deposits students on the sprawling stone steps of the Quad. From there, students can see the main hall as well as the Salem houses, the gymnasium, and the Quodpot field. The weather inside the Institute reflects the weather in Boston, and on sunny days, students can be seen studying or trading chocolate frogs on the lawn.

Salem Institute was founded by Thomas Alcott - an ex-Hogwarts professor - in 1699 as a safe place for true wizards and witches to convene and study as the panic of the Salem witch trials subsided. There he along with his wife, Hannah Alcott, built and concealed a one-room schoolhouse, transforming the interior into a multi-roomed space with alchemy labs, storerooms, and living quarters, should they become necessary. For the better part of two centuries this worked quite well, as Alcott and his school expanded to implement regimented testing procedures and mimicked their sister school, Hogwarts, in their class structures and graduation requirements.

As the school grew, so did the need for space, and in 1842, current President Josiah Combe relocated the school from its founding place to its current location in Boston. Enrollment boomed as tales of the state-of-the-art alchemy labs and medical advances came in (Skele-Gro was initially developed with a grant from Salem Institute), making the Institute the foremost medical preparatory school in the world today.

Layout

The Grounds:

The School:

Curriculum

Students enroll at age 11 and take a standardized course load of Charms, Conjuring/Summoning, Divination, History of Magic,Transfiguration, Magic & Ethics, Potions, and Flying Lessons until their third year, at which time they select a Society in which to be housed and pursue a specialized focus within the institute. Societies (and their focuses) are listed below:

• Rook Society
  • Academia
  • Humanities
  • Divination
• Bishop Society
  • Wizarding Economics
  • Business
• Pawn Society
  • Magical Law
  • Wizarding Politics
• Knight Society
  • Alchemy
  • Healing
  • Science

Working within Societies, students are able to develop a closely-knit group of like-minded peers in a cooperative educational environment. Students are encouraged to take summer internships, and must gain two semesters of practical experience (f.ex. Healing students could intern at Endsworth-Laurie Hospital, business students could work for a local company) prior to graduation. This combination of hands-on and textbook learning leads to Salem Institute having the highest post-graduate placement of all wizarding schools, and gains it great accolades throughout medical, political, and private research.

Presidents and Professors

Presidents

• 1699-1725: Thomas Alcott
• 1725-1747: Francis Williams
• 1747-1748: Leonard Davis
• 1748-1763: Alexander Williams
• 1763-1801: Gregory Walsh
• 1801-1852: Walter Burns
• 1852-1889: Josiah Combe
• 1889-1904: Arthur Anderson
• 1904-1962: Isaac Johnson
• 1962-1937: James Winchester
• 1937-????: F. Benjamin Winthrop

Staff

President............................. F. Benjamin Winthrop
Vice President............................. [[ ]]
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Bishop Society Head............................. Augustus Pura
Knight Society Head............................. Sidney Yale
Pawn Society Head............................. Margery Thistleberry
Rook Society Head............................. Delany Jane Roberts
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Alchemy............................. Sidney Yale
Charms/Dueling............................. Angeline Dupont
Charms............................. Mara Felix*
Conjuring-Summoning............................. Casey Alvarez*
Business............................. Derek Eastler*
Defense Against The Dark Arts............................. Augustus Pura
Divination ............................. Peregrine Samuels *
Flying/Quodpot............................. Delany Jane Roberts
Healing............................. Drake Maplebee *
History of Magic............................. Oliver Ollie*
Magic & Ethics............................. Milvann Marble *
Magical Law............................. Melissa Reynolds*
Magical Zoology............................. Hester Winthrop*
Potions............................. William Worstley *
Wizarding Anthropology............................. Margery Thistleberry
Wizarding Economics............................. Septimus Yewridge *
Wizarding Politics............................. Nigel Huntingdon
Science............................. Adrian Abbott *
Transfiguration/Intern Supervisor............................. Ophelie Lecuyier
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Barista............................. Esmeralda Ensbury*
Cafeteria Supervisors ............................. Nina & Jake Parrish *
Grounds Keeper............................. Jackson Kearney*
Hospital Ward Supervisor ............................. Sophia Lebovitz
Librarian............................. Laurin Magnan *
Staff Research ............................. Grace Nesbitt*

Past Professors

• Havelock Ellis