New Status Idea: Foreign Exchange Student/Foreign Education

New Status Idea: Foreign Exchange Student/Foreign Education

I don’t have an exact name for it; though I see this occasionally in backstories: Some writers have their characters previously attend another school like Durmstrang, Ilvermorny, or Beauxbatons.

This, naturally, would follow the idea of Foreign Exchange Students at Hogwarts, which has been mentioned in Harry Potter lore and games.

A foreign exhange student would not mean a student for another country who enrolled in Hogwarts and goes back home every summer. It refers to a student who holds allegiance to another school, has attended another school, and is more or less studying for a period of time at Hogwarts.

Description: With this status, the user will be allowed to claim that their student attends/attended another wizarding school, though they will study at Hogwarts for their duration of the school year. A graduate with this status will be allowed to claim that they spent their entire tutelage at another Wizarding School.

Normal Student Profile Card Hover:

Gender: Male

Age: 11

Year: 1

House: Slytherin

Ilvermorny Foreign Exchange Student Profile Card Hover:

Gender: Male

Age: 11

Year: 1

House: Wampus Cat

Foreign Exchange Student

Other Foreign Exchange Student Profile Card Hover:

Gender: Male

Age: 11

Year: 1

School: Mahoutokoro

Foreign Exchange Student

For Adults, it would be Foreign Education as the status, instead of Foreign Education Student.

Unlike other statuses, this one can be stacked on top of any other status, Metamorphmagus, Animagus, Half-Giant, etc, and is considered a passive status, allowing for a maximum of three statuses (species/career, item, and passive).

Example:

Gender: Female

Age: 44

Year: Graduated

School: Durmstrang

Foreign Education

Werewolf

Owner of a Phoenix

Of course, this can also simply be a Graduate only status, though I find that there is a lot more joy for some when they get to write the confusion and excitement of attending Hogwarts from a foreigner’s perspective

Drawbacks:

At Uagadou, students typically master self-transfiguration by 14. This would, of course, not be allowed to be roleplayed, and they would have to have the status of an Animagus to do so. However, if a student has already bought the animagus status and also is a student from Uagadou, this would be allowed.

Graduates of Beauxbatons would be allowed to claim they have taken classes in Alchemy and have some familiarity, though they would not be allowed to claim to be Alchemists without the status.

Realistically must stick to the ethnicity of the country that they are an exchange student from, unless canon lore says otherwise (Durmstrang accepts students from other countries).

EX: Given that Uagadou is in Africa, it would not be realistic to be a Korean character who was born in Korea to claim to have been visited through a dream message to attend.

Durmstrang students would likely not be muggle-born.

Unique School Benefits:

Uagadou:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of wandless magic as well as transfiguration spells that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Curse-Breaking or Magizoology course

Beauxbatons:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of divination, astronomy, and healing spells that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Wand-Making or Healing course

Durmstrang:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of dueling and jinxes and hexes that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Dark Arts course

Castelobruxo:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of potions and herbology that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Advanced Potions or Ministry Interdepartmentals course

Mahoutokoro:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of charms and flying tricks that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Magical Sports and Magical Business courses

Ilvermorny:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of dueling and defensive spells that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Auror or Magical Law course

Koldovstoretz:

Student: Allowed to claim more in-depth understanding of Arithmancy and Magical History that are one year above their current year as a student.

Adult: Status allows them to skip one year of IG-training in classes that require the Dragonology or Curse-Breaking course