Post by Isobel Carter on Dec 30, 2010 15:25:08 GMT -5
Beauxbatons is one of the oldest and finest schools of magic. It is a proud and noble institute, rife with traditions and values. Beauxbatons students are typically French, but it is not unheard of for Swiss and Belgians to attend the academy. The school is the second largest in Europe, right after Hogwarts and is well known for its rather gentle attitude and focus on the arts. The teaching methods of Beauxbatons differ greatly from those employed in Hogwarts and Durmstrang. The staff places great emphasis on teaching interpersonal skills and encourages their students to learn as much about other cultures and viewpoints as possible. Beauxbatons is currently lead by its famous headmistress Olympe Maxime.
Despite students coming from different countries, the official language in Beauxbatons is French. It is spoken inside and outside class. The Beauxbatons staff is very strict about everyone speaking French at all times. It is perceived as rude to communicate in a language that isn't understood by everybody in the school. Beauxbatons proudly follows French customs and traditions and students attending the school will often feel a strong bond to the French culture and language regardless of where they are from. The study of foreign languages is often perceived as unecessary as obviously the French language and culture is superior.
Like the other two great European schools Beauxbatons is split into different houses. There are three different houses in Beauxbatons called Papillonlisse, Bellefeuille and Ombrelune. Each house has roughly an equal number of students. Similar as in Hogwarts the students of each house compete for the House Cup every year. Points are awarded to every house based on their participation in class and in extra curricular activites. The house with the most points awarded wins the house cup.
Unlike Hogwarts, Beauxbatons students take their O.W.L. exams at the end of their sixth year, only one year before they take their N.E.W.T.s.
At Beauxbaton they teach a variety of classes. Such as;
Divination
Learn to master the skill that is Divination. Gaze into the future and create prophecy's.
Hypnosis
Learn to master the power of hypnotation. This is a rare gift and is rarely learnable.
Herbology
The love one can have for the nature and it's glory can best be used in this class. To care for plants - wether they be magical or not - is something truly wonderful.
Ancient Runes
The art of the runes is a powerful way of sorcery. It can be used for many things and is fairly hard to master.
Musical art's
The use and manipulation of magic and magical things through music is an old and sacred art. You could sing your way into the hearts of the people or play a song so magical it can move objects around. This is a form of wandless magic that you have to have real talent in the art's to master.
Creative Art's
The ability to chanel your magical ability through your hand's to create an object of mind. With a brush in your hand you could paint a picture from your mind through magic. With a small pice of wood you can form a statue from your memmory. And with a quil you could create a poem of love reciting your exact feelings. This may be a hard art to accomplish but it is rewarding.
(seers can do this easily if they train)
Dance Art's
The ability to be able to stun and wow every crowd with your sequenced steps. To flow and twirl through the air in a light and beautiful maner is a great one. Learn the grace of a ballerina, or the stealth and flexibility of a gymnist, Take the hand of your partner and make the crowd desire love or master the strength and beauty of a figure skater.
Defencive Spells
Everyone need's to be able to protect themselves in this world we live in. This class is manditory. No one want's you to end up dead.
Potions
Everyone needs to be able to brew a potion properly. But the talent to be able to brew some of the hardest potions in the world with ease is something that can't be learned.
Transfiguration
To be able to turn anything and anyone into what the caster wills is a hard but convenient task.
Care of Magical Creatures
The care and compassion you can show a magical creature is amazing. However bare in mind that most of them are extreamly dangerus or hostile.
Animagus Transformation
The ability to shift into a animal at will is a gift that can be learned but you can also be born with it. There are few who are allowed to enter this class and even fewer who can master the art of shifting into a animal.
Magical Healer
To become a magical healer is very rewarding. You get to heal those who have been hurt and give back to society.
Magical Architecture
To create new things has always been an inspiering thought for the young mind. Wether it be to create new houses or clothes or objects.
Magical Photography
In this carrier you get to capture a few second moment on a film and make it last forever and give other's the chance to see what you have seen.
Houses
Papillonlisse
Students that are sorted into this house are naturally gifted in the arts they are thoughtful of all others around them as well as kind and gentle. Some students of this house have a tendency to have a fluttery personality and are very social people. Those sorted into this house have a tendency to be quite spur of the moment and unpredictable people. Students selected in this house are prized for their sophistication and surprising maturity at all ages, they prize beauty of the mind and beauty of appearance above many other characteristics and are always striving to improve aesthetic qualities of life.
Students of Papillonlisse are often daydreamers, hopeless romantics, those that want to change the world with their idealism and undying love. They often fail to see things for what there are as they are not the most analytical of all people. Those sorted into this house value the humanist approach through to the world, they don't learn to gather knowledge but learn to become a better person. They are introvert focused on their own internal state. Papillonlisse students are often very emotional, bring strong feelings and strong dedication into their work.
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Ombrelune
The members of this house are very often those that prescribe to the concept of “the end justifies the means” they can be manipulative and cunning. They are very cool and calculating students who are very adverse to irrationality and prize people for making well thought-out and logical decisions.
Ombrelune students are cold, rarely display emotion openly unless they see some direct gain in doing so. They are in the most ambitious of the Beauxbatons houses. They are very smart, logical and structured. They are very curious interested int he world and the intricate way it works in. Ombrelune students often strive for power and perfection more than anything else.
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Bellefeuille
The students that are members of this house are lovers of nature with a strong sense of bravery and loyalty to all they hold dear to them. These students are caring and sensitive to peoples needs around them. They are hard and efficient workers and are characteristically book smart. The students sorted into this house think the necessities of life are what is important they prize family and friends above all else.
Bellefeuille students often feel a strong connection with nature, are caring and kind to animals and respect all aspects of flora and fauna. They often have a good and quick perception of the emotions around them, know how to act accordingly in most situations. Bellefeuille students are realists through and through. May it be that they are not the smartest, they surely get their work done. Those of Bellefeuille usually find physical activities more enjoyful than those that require logical thinking, are often skilled with their hands knowing how to craft different things.
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Despite students coming from different countries, the official language in Beauxbatons is French. It is spoken inside and outside class. The Beauxbatons staff is very strict about everyone speaking French at all times. It is perceived as rude to communicate in a language that isn't understood by everybody in the school. Beauxbatons proudly follows French customs and traditions and students attending the school will often feel a strong bond to the French culture and language regardless of where they are from. The study of foreign languages is often perceived as unecessary as obviously the French language and culture is superior.
Like the other two great European schools Beauxbatons is split into different houses. There are three different houses in Beauxbatons called Papillonlisse, Bellefeuille and Ombrelune. Each house has roughly an equal number of students. Similar as in Hogwarts the students of each house compete for the House Cup every year. Points are awarded to every house based on their participation in class and in extra curricular activites. The house with the most points awarded wins the house cup.
Unlike Hogwarts, Beauxbatons students take their O.W.L. exams at the end of their sixth year, only one year before they take their N.E.W.T.s.
At Beauxbaton they teach a variety of classes. Such as;
Divination
Learn to master the skill that is Divination. Gaze into the future and create prophecy's.
Hypnosis
Learn to master the power of hypnotation. This is a rare gift and is rarely learnable.
Herbology
The love one can have for the nature and it's glory can best be used in this class. To care for plants - wether they be magical or not - is something truly wonderful.
Ancient Runes
The art of the runes is a powerful way of sorcery. It can be used for many things and is fairly hard to master.
Musical art's
The use and manipulation of magic and magical things through music is an old and sacred art. You could sing your way into the hearts of the people or play a song so magical it can move objects around. This is a form of wandless magic that you have to have real talent in the art's to master.
Creative Art's
The ability to chanel your magical ability through your hand's to create an object of mind. With a brush in your hand you could paint a picture from your mind through magic. With a small pice of wood you can form a statue from your memmory. And with a quil you could create a poem of love reciting your exact feelings. This may be a hard art to accomplish but it is rewarding.
(seers can do this easily if they train)
Dance Art's
The ability to be able to stun and wow every crowd with your sequenced steps. To flow and twirl through the air in a light and beautiful maner is a great one. Learn the grace of a ballerina, or the stealth and flexibility of a gymnist, Take the hand of your partner and make the crowd desire love or master the strength and beauty of a figure skater.
Defencive Spells
Everyone need's to be able to protect themselves in this world we live in. This class is manditory. No one want's you to end up dead.
Potions
Everyone needs to be able to brew a potion properly. But the talent to be able to brew some of the hardest potions in the world with ease is something that can't be learned.
Transfiguration
To be able to turn anything and anyone into what the caster wills is a hard but convenient task.
Care of Magical Creatures
The care and compassion you can show a magical creature is amazing. However bare in mind that most of them are extreamly dangerus or hostile.
Animagus Transformation
The ability to shift into a animal at will is a gift that can be learned but you can also be born with it. There are few who are allowed to enter this class and even fewer who can master the art of shifting into a animal.
Magical Healer
To become a magical healer is very rewarding. You get to heal those who have been hurt and give back to society.
Magical Architecture
To create new things has always been an inspiering thought for the young mind. Wether it be to create new houses or clothes or objects.
Magical Photography
In this carrier you get to capture a few second moment on a film and make it last forever and give other's the chance to see what you have seen.
Houses
Papillonlisse
Students that are sorted into this house are naturally gifted in the arts they are thoughtful of all others around them as well as kind and gentle. Some students of this house have a tendency to have a fluttery personality and are very social people. Those sorted into this house have a tendency to be quite spur of the moment and unpredictable people. Students selected in this house are prized for their sophistication and surprising maturity at all ages, they prize beauty of the mind and beauty of appearance above many other characteristics and are always striving to improve aesthetic qualities of life.
Students of Papillonlisse are often daydreamers, hopeless romantics, those that want to change the world with their idealism and undying love. They often fail to see things for what there are as they are not the most analytical of all people. Those sorted into this house value the humanist approach through to the world, they don't learn to gather knowledge but learn to become a better person. They are introvert focused on their own internal state. Papillonlisse students are often very emotional, bring strong feelings and strong dedication into their work.
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Ombrelune
The members of this house are very often those that prescribe to the concept of “the end justifies the means” they can be manipulative and cunning. They are very cool and calculating students who are very adverse to irrationality and prize people for making well thought-out and logical decisions.
Ombrelune students are cold, rarely display emotion openly unless they see some direct gain in doing so. They are in the most ambitious of the Beauxbatons houses. They are very smart, logical and structured. They are very curious interested int he world and the intricate way it works in. Ombrelune students often strive for power and perfection more than anything else.
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Bellefeuille
The students that are members of this house are lovers of nature with a strong sense of bravery and loyalty to all they hold dear to them. These students are caring and sensitive to peoples needs around them. They are hard and efficient workers and are characteristically book smart. The students sorted into this house think the necessities of life are what is important they prize family and friends above all else.
Bellefeuille students often feel a strong connection with nature, are caring and kind to animals and respect all aspects of flora and fauna. They often have a good and quick perception of the emotions around them, know how to act accordingly in most situations. Bellefeuille students are realists through and through. May it be that they are not the smartest, they surely get their work done. Those of Bellefeuille usually find physical activities more enjoyful than those that require logical thinking, are often skilled with their hands knowing how to craft different things.
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