Beauxbatons
Beauxbatons Academy of Magic is a French magic school in the fictional universe of Harry Potter created by the British author J. K. Rowling. Beauxbatons [bo.ba.tɔ̃] translates from French as "beautiful sticks".[1]
Description[edit]
In the fourth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), students from Beauxbatons arrive at Hogwarts to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. They arrive in a carriage, pulled by winged Palomino horses.[2]
Beauxbatons is described as a boarding school located in the Pyrenees mountains of southern France, full of ice sculptures and forest nymphs.[3] The school has a preponderance of French students, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Luxembourgians, and Belgians also attending in large numbers.[4]
The delegation is led by headmistress Madame Olympe Maxime, a half-giantess, who is beautiful, graceful, and well-dressed.[2] Also notable is Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons champion in the Triwizard Tournament, a beautiful girl with silvery hair[5] who is a quarter-veela.
Students[edit]
Students of Beauxbatons are described as beautiful long-haired girls and attractive boys, contrasting with the serious and surly students from the Eastern European school Durmstrang.[2] They exhibit good manners and positivity, while the unpleasant appearance of Durmstrang students implies dishonesty.[5] The carriage of Beauxbatons is well-lit and nice, unlike the gloomy ship of Durmstrang.[5]
They speak French and heavily accented English.[3][6] The translator of Harry Potter into French, Jean-François Ménard, portrayed Madame Maxime as arrogant with aristocratic speech, and Fleur's tone as more distrustful.[7]
Criticism[edit]
The portrayal of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang has been criticized as stereotypical.[2] Both schools lack the cultural diversity found at Hogwarts.[8] The contrast between Durmstrang and Hogwarts reflects the gothic fiction theme of the West versus the East, while the contrast between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts mirrors the competition between Great Britain and France.[6] This allows J.K. Rowling to sublimate these old conflicts and make them irrelevant to modern readers.[6]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ↑ Berger, Matt (12 August 2019). "Harry Potter: 10 Facts You Didn't Know About Beauxbatons Academy Of Magic". ScreenRant. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Flotmann 2014, p. 329.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Oziewicz 2010, p. 13.
- ↑ "Beauxbatons Academy of Magic". Wizarding World. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Flotmann 2014, p. 330.
- ↑ Moore 2000, p. 177.
- ↑ Oziewicz 2010, p. 11.
Works cited[edit]
- Eccleshare, Julia (2002). Guide to the Harry Potter Novels. A&C Black. pp. 81–82. ISBN 9780826453174. Search this book on
- Flotmann, Christina (2014). Ambiguity in "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter": A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths. Verlag. pp. 328–331. ISBN 9783839421482. Search this book on
- Moore, Miranda (2000). "Translatability of "Harry Potter"". The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists. 39 (6): 176–177.
- Oziewicz, Marek (2010). "Representations of Eastern Europe in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Jonathan Stroud's The Bartimaeus Trilogy, and JK Rowling's Harry Potter Series". International Research in Children's Literature (International Research in Children's Literature ed.). 3 (1): 1–14. doi:10.3366/ircl.2010.0002.
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