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An interesting thing that was happening sometime near the end of November was the sudden appearance of adverts in the Daily Prophet about schools other than Hogwarts.

The Brazilian Castelobruxo, the Russian Koldovstoretz, and the French Beauxbatons adverts were the most prominent, with flashy blue, violet and magenta letters flying across the school's emblems on the paper, highlighting phrases such as 'Safety is a wizarding school's first priority' and 'A day's hard work and a safe night's sleep for our students'.

Hermione had been quite puzzled about why these adverts had suddenly started appearing. "Why would they start advertising in Britain," she asked one day in the Great Hall, "when Castelobruxo and Koldovstoretz don't even accept European students usually?"

"They're trying to pull students away from Hogwarts Hermione," Terry replied in a subdued voice, "And from the looks of it, they aren't doing too badly."

Harry looked around at the rest of the tables at that. Three of the four house tables were abuzz with whispers and discussions about these other schools that a lot of the students had never even heard about.

"I can't believe they'd do that!" Hermione indignantly said, "Instead of helping the school, they are trying to steal students away from it. That's-"

"That's the expected thing to do," Harry cut her off, "Most of the students are scared that the heir is coming for them, and they want to get out of the school. This is the second year in a row students have been put into mortal danger. It makes sense to me that we know that there are other options if we want out."

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