Are you in the market for a wizarding school game - without the baggage? A game where you can create your own character, go to classes, learn spells, join clubs, explore dungeons, flirt with demons and fairies, serve detention with a cranky professor, and find a romantic date for the May Day ball - if you don’t lose your soul first?

Check out the Magical Diary series!

(There are two games so far, Horse Hall with a female protagonist and Wolf Hall with a male one. Both games allow you to date either male or female characters; this is pretty much an EveryoneIsBi setting.)

Children of the Red King series by Jenny Nimmo

Trans Wizard Harriet Porber series by Dr. Chuck Tingle

Earthsea Cycle series by Ursula K. Le Guin

Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

The Numair Chronicles by Tamora Pierce

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan

Mother of Learning series by Domagoj Kurmaić

Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (I'm counting it and you can't stop me)

Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell

The Atlas Series by Olivia Blake

The Legendborn Cycle series by Tracy Deonn

The School for Good and Evil series by Soman Chainani

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Supernatural Investigations series by B.B. Alston

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Book of the Ancestor Trilogy by Mark Lawrence

Magic for Liars by Sarah Grey

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros

The Medoran Chronicles by Lynette Noni

Heir Chronicles by Cinda Williams Chima

Summoner Series by Taran Matharu

Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead

The Black Witch Chronicles by Laurie Forest

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

Supernatural Beasts and Bullies series by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

The Culling Trials series by K.F. Breene and Shannon Mayer

Zero Sight series by Justin Shier

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast

The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy

School for Unusual Magic series by Liz Montague

Alex Stern series by Leigh Bardugo

Note that this is not a full list. If you have other magic school books to recommend, feel free!

so, if you have any headcanons about wizarding schools and wouldn’t mind if they work their way into my marauders fanfic (with credit in the notes sections of course), can you please share? I’ve been browsing the wizarding schools tag on here and seen some genuinely fascinating headcanons and schools from people wanting their countries and cultures to be properly represented, and I don’t want to steal any ideas of course! it’s just such a shame we know so much on hogwarts, a little on ilvermorny and beauxbatons, and basically nothing on the others. like, there’s allegedly three schools we’re missing! that’s insane right????!

"It has been two days since Armiger House Headmaster Hiro Maroi was killed by a rogue, shapeshifting Harbinger Knight named Erilan, who had been masquerading as the beloved professor and mentor Alorius Janway in the Bloodweaver's Academy. The goal of this Knight? To rid Erat of all of her magic and the dead Gods' influence, and to end the reign of the immortal empress Artura.

Hiro Maroi just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On the night of the Bloodweaver's Ball he came upon Erlian cornering two students, Teyla Porcos and Rose Kane, who had found the shapeshifter rifling through Grandmaster Kuto's laboratory, looking for something seemingly important. Unfortunately for Maroi, he knew not that he was facing a Harbinger Knight, one of the most powerful mages in the history of Erat, and fell to a web of lightning.

While the kids were capable of necromancy at the time, in canon, they chose not to revive their Headmaster. This story explores the alternative - what if they did? What would the emotional cost be? The physical? Who hurts the most, and who benefits?"

Magizoology student in Castelobruxo Moodboard

"Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of witchcraft."