We are still five months for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’s November 18th premiere. The promotion for this movie is not only inventive but completely addicting. In addition to the usual stills and announcement trailer, J.K. Rowling has written four-part original series for her site, Pottermore, called The History of Magic in North America. Not only can you read of the harsh conditions wizards and witches met once they made their way to the New World’s shores but you can find out about the formation of the Magical Congress of the United States of America. In her latest post, she gives the detailed history of Ilvermorny, the North American version of Hogworts.

Forget Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff; it’s time to meet their non-Union American equivalents.

Those would be “Wampus,” “Thunderbird,” “Horned Serpent,” and “Pukwudgie”—yes, “Pukwudgie.” They’re the four houses of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the stateside institute that will be formally introduced in Warner Bros.’s upcoming Harry Potter spin-off franchise, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

The school gets its very own backstory in a new post that went live on Pottermore Tuesday morning—written, naturally, by J.K. Rowling herself. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the academy was apparently founded by a character who sounds an awful lot like Harry himself—an orphan with murdered parents, raised by a cruel aunt for 12 years before escaping into a wild and magical adventure, then eventually defeating her mother and father’s killer with the secret ingredient: love. Oh, and she can also talk to snakes. (Of course there’s a large emphasis on strange, mysterious, fantastic beasts in this story; you remember the title of the next movie, right?)

[From Vanity Fair]

The Ilvermorny post also discusses how their version of the sorting process varies from Hogworts’ Sorting Hat. At Ilvermorny, the House’s symbol selects the student. If you can’t wait for your House to choose you, you can take the quiz here. I ended up in Thunderbird, who’s with me?

Vanity Fair points out later in the article that Pottermore was originally designed for J.K. to walk out a few characters that didn’t make it into her books but has evolved into this inspired promotion both for Fantastic Beasts and the play Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. I am nervous about admitting this but I am very new to the Harry Potter world. As a result, I’m a few books away from reading Fantastic Beasts making the Pottermore site perfect for me – I have gone down an absolute rabbit hole. When the teaser trailer hit, I knew nothing about the story and was only thinking about seeing it because of Colin Farrell. Now? I will pummel the muggle that gets in my way to the ticket counter.

Here is the latest Teaser Trailer:

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