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Salem Academy Mods (![[info]](http://www.inksome.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} salem_mods) wrote,@ 2009-03-16 14:37:00 |
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Salem Academy - Premise
Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches... --Rob Zombie In 1693, the Salem Witch trials came to a gruesome conclusion with the arrest of over 150 people, 29 of whom were convicted, and at least 25 died. All had been accused of witchcraft. Most were hanged, some died in prison. Contrary to popular belief, none were actually burned. It was a sign to witches and wizards everywhere that the Muggle world was not prepared to deal with the presence of magic, of things they could neither control nor understand. But Muggles knew nothing true, nothing real about witches. Few of the men and women killed had any magical ability at all, but it still served as a lesson. The true witches and wizards of pre-Revolutionary America retreated, hiding in the midst of those that had hunted them. Salem. Roanoke. Sleepy Hollow. All of them home to a hidden Wizarding culture. But the Salem witches and wizards were the ones who knew the best way to avoid a repetition of the past was to teach, to learn. So by the end of 1693, the Salem Academy of Magical Edification was founded, nestled and hidden within the Salem woods. Housing students from junior high up through high school, SAME followed in the footsteps of the magical schools that had come before it. Hogwarts. Beauxbatons. Durmstang. These schools already had long and successful careers. The founders of Salem Academy were determined to accomplish the same on the other side of the Atlantic. Over four hundred years later, SAME is still matriculating. Some of its graduates in the past few decades left America to join the war in Europe, most to fight on the side of the Order of the Phoenix, and Dumbledore's Army. But most of the student body, and American witches and wizards in general, were left unscathed by war. Until now. News of the war spread from country to country, and when the newest president of the United States was sworn in, the first thing he learned of was the existence of the American Bureau of Magic, and its leader, Daniel Burroughs. President Obama was clued into the biggest secret in American and world history: the presence of witches and wizards. But he isn't the only one who knows. There's a traitor in his cabinet, one who's uncovered information about the ABM and is spreading the word about magic to Muggles. Right now, students at Salem Academy are still safe. No one has revealed the school's location, but that may be only a matter of time. The Muggles aren't happy, and history may repeat itself. And maybe this time, they will burn the witches.
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