Editing Places in Harry Potter (section)

=== Beauxbatons ===
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The Beauxbatons Academy of Magic is a French magic school. It is first introduced in ''Goblet of Fire'' when a delegation of students from Beauxbatons arrives at [[Hogwarts]] for the Triwizard Tournament. Beauxbatons is described as a [[boarding school]] located in the [[Pyrenees]] mountains. The school has a preponderance of French students, although students from Spain, Portugal, Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium also attend in large numbers.<ref name="Pottermore-Beauxbatons">{{cite web |last=Rowling |first=J. K. |date=10 August 2015 |title=Beauxbatons Academy of Magic |url=https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/beauxbatons-academy-of-magic |access-date=2016-08-07 |website=Wizarding World}}</ref> The headmistress of Beauxbatons is [[Olympe Maxime]], and the school's champion in the Triwizard Tournament is Fleur Delacour. In the film adaptation of ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Goblet of Fire]]'', all Beauxbatons students are female, while in the novel the school is [[Mixed-sex education|co-educational]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Otway |first=Jack |date=8 January 2020 |title=Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 10 Things The Movie Changed From The Book |url=https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-goblet-fire-movie-book-changes/ |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=ScreenRant}}</ref> ''Beauxbatons'' translates from French as "beautiful sticks".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Berger |first=Matt |date=12 August 2019 |title=Harry Potter: 10 Facts You Didn't Know About Beauxbatons Academy of Magic |url=https://screenrant.com/harry-potter-facts-didnt-know-beauxbatons-academy-magic/ |access-date=22 August 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref>

The depiction of French students in the ''Harry Potter'' series has been described as stereotypical by several scholars.{{efn|Attributed to multiple references:<br>
{{sfn|Oziewicz|2010}}{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|pp=329–330}}{{sfn|Moore|2000|p=177}}}} Marek Oziewicz has called the Beauxbatons delegation "homogeneous" and lacking the cultural diversity of Hogwarts.{{sfn|Oziewicz|2010|p=}} Christina Flotmann claimed that the contrast depicted between Beauxbatons and Hogwarts functions as an allusion to a historical competition between the "sober and proper" England and the "immoral and decadent" France.{{sfn|Flotmann|2014|p=330}}