There's a wizard school in the Berkshires, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says

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Hiking trails. Scenic views. A wizard school?

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, in a new piece of writing on the Pottermore website, has identified Mount Greylock in Adams as the site of the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- North America's answer to Hogwarts.

The new fiction comes before the November release of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," a film set in the Harry Potter universe but taking place in jazz-age America.

Rowling had teased information about the United States' wizard academy in January, but only announced Tuesday that the school is in Massachusetts -- which, given the past of Salem, has as good a claim on America's witching history as any state.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/06/theres_a_wizard_school_in_the.html

[jmowreader]

1. Is Rowling an X-Men fan, by any chance?

Her Ilvermorny School is only about a hundred miles from Professor Xavier's mutant school in the X-Men comics.

[Raster]

2. some of the faculty do double-duty.

[wysi]

3. OK then...

I'm from Berkshire County MA, and you can see Mt Greylock from my parents' house. Never knew that was there!

[pepperbear]

4. that's because muggles can't see it.

[wysi]

5. Nice one!