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Balthazar Hall
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Balthazar Hall, named after the eldest Thurkell son, is one of the original nine buildings built when the school was founded. He was always interested in architecture — he was the one that put together the plans for the buildings and helped all of them enormously during the building process. It made him realize that it was what he wanted to do with his life, and Balthazar Hall has been the castle for architecture majors from the school’s opening.
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Boleyn Library
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Did you know that Anne Boleyn was thought to be a Squib? Well, she was. So when Gráinneog Institute was founded, and the library was built, it was Anne Boleyn that they named it after. It is a quiet castle, filled with books and places to read and study. It is open at all hours of the day and night, in case someone needs to study late into the night or early in the morning.
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Corvus Hall
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The youngest son of Thaddeus Thurkell was named Corvus, and as such Corvus Hall was named. It is the home to all history majors, and is also one of the original structures on campus. Corvus worked as a professor and taught in Corvus Hall until his death in 1766, at the age of one hundred and two.
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Derwent Hall
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Derwent Hall is probably one of the bigger castles on campus, at least of the ones built for majors. It hosts all of the classrooms for law majors. It will teach you everything that you need to know in order to perform law in both the Muggle and magical world — and of course, there are different specialties of law to focus on as well. How can you get a job in the Muggle world with a degree from a university the Muggle world doesn’t know about, you ask? Any graduate who wants to work in the Muggle world gets a special diploma charmed by law professor staff that has magic. This is the same for anyone else who wants to graduate and work in the Muggle world!
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Egmont Center for Engineering
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Egmont Center for Engineering is the castle where all of the engineer majors are taught. There are numerous different engineering specialties that can be focused on — civil, electrical, geological, mechanical, chemical, etc. This is one of the most difficult majors for students to get into at Gráinneog Institute.
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Montague School of Medicine
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Montague School of Medicine is a very successful program that produces fantastic doctors in the Muggle world. Some do stay in the magical world, and make their own practices or work in some other aspect of medicine, but most do end up working in the Muggle world in some way, shape, or form, since Squibs cannot really be healers in the traditional sense.
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Norvel Commons
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Norvel Twonk, another one of the few magical folks to have a building named after them at the Institute, was a wizard who died saving a Muggle child from a manticore. When the school decided to build a student center, there were dozens of name choices for the castle, and eventually they settled on Norvel Commons. It has numerous places to relax, a coffee shop, a restaurant, pool tables, televisions, and more!
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Oscir Hall
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Oscir Hall hosts all of the classes for Muggle Studies majors, which is a very popular major at Gráinneog Institute. There are also general education classes that are a requirement for all students at the school, in order to graduate. These help them to survive in the Muggle world if they do so choose. There are also just fun elective classes to take for those who want to learn more about the Muggle world.
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The Angus Buchanan Athletic Center
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Angus Buchanan is an incredibly well known Squib, made famous by his book — My Life As A Squib. He also became quite famous playing rugby in the magical world. As such, when the athletic center was built in the late 1950s, it was Angus Buchanan that it was named after. It is the school’s gym, with equipment to work out on, a track upstairs that overlooks the indoor pool, and of course, a field for rugby outside.
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The Fideos Center of Mathematics
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The Fideos Center of Mathematics was, as you obviously can expect by now, named for the third son of Thaddeus. All math majors will find their classes here. Of course, there are some courses that all majors have to take that also take place in this building — Muggle taxes are a a real hassle, after all! Taking some economics classes are necessary too, to make sure every graduate knows how to save and spend money in both the Muggle and magical world!
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Thurkell Quad
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A lovely bit of green space in the middle of campus, there is a fountain with the school mascot — a hedgehog. There are plenty of benches to sit on, but people are far more likely to drop a blanket down on the grass and sit there to study. There are also occasionally events that take place on the quad. Each founders’ birthday is still celebrated with a daylong festival each year, even the ones in the summer months. They take them very seriously.
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Toke Dormitory
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Although the dormitory was one of the original buildings made on campus, it was renamed after Tilly Toke in an unanimous vote in 1933. She was a woman that saved the lives of numerous Muggles when a Common Welsh Green dragon swooped down on a beach. It seemed only right to name the dormitory after a woman who risked her own life to save Muggles. Something that the Thurkell brothers would have wanted, they said. So, Toke Dormitory is one of the few coed dormitories on campus.
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Everyone knows the story of Thaddeus Thurkell — the man that was so appalled by his seven sons that turned out to be Squibs, that he turned them all into hedgehogs. He’s got a chocolate frog card and everything, but what happened to his seven sons, you ask?
After they were eventually turned back into humans, they left home. Who wouldn’t, after their father turned them all into hedgehogs? They left England, and moved to Galway, Ireland. They settled in and then they got talking. What did they want to do now that they were free from their father’s disapproving grasp?
That was how Gráinneog Institute was founded. Seven majors, for each of the sons’ seven passions: History, Law, Medicine, Mathematics, Engineering, Architecture, Muggle Studies.
Stone by stone, castles were built. It took them years to build up the original nine buildings that make up Gráinneog Institute.
Throughout the years, more buildings have been built to add onto the campus. There is now an athletic center and a student commons. As a university founded by Squibs, they have adapted with the times, with computers in the library and commons, and Muggle technology everywhere.
For more than half of their long history, they only accepted Squibs into their midst, but in the last hundred years, any student willing to learn is now admitted into the school.
After they were eventually turned back into humans, they left home. Who wouldn’t, after their father turned them all into hedgehogs? They left England, and moved to Galway, Ireland. They settled in and then they got talking. What did they want to do now that they were free from their father’s disapproving grasp?
That was how Gráinneog Institute was founded. Seven majors, for each of the sons’ seven passions: History, Law, Medicine, Mathematics, Engineering, Architecture, Muggle Studies.
Stone by stone, castles were built. It took them years to build up the original nine buildings that make up Gráinneog Institute.
Throughout the years, more buildings have been built to add onto the campus. There is now an athletic center and a student commons. As a university founded by Squibs, they have adapted with the times, with computers in the library and commons, and Muggle technology everywhere.
For more than half of their long history, they only accepted Squibs into their midst, but in the last hundred years, any student willing to learn is now admitted into the school.
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