Deleted ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Scene Belts Out School Song From American Hogwarts (Video)
When Rowling wasn’t taking heat for appropriating Native American culture and the real life tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials into her world of wizardry, she was raising the eyebrows of many Harry Potter fans with this little bit of information:
In the theatrical version, the scene ends there, but in the video above, you can see Tina and Queenie boast about their alma mater — which they claim blows Hogwarts out of the water — and sing the school’s official song.
According to the Harry Potter Wiki, Ilvermorny is an academy veiled by clouds on the peak of Mount Greylock in Massachusetts, originally founded by an Irish couple with the aim of homeschooling their children who wanted to go back to Europe so they could attend Hogwarts.