The residents of Hogwarts Floating City had not grown tense because of the little clash playing out at Ilvermorny. The constant news from the front about yet another part of the American Magical World being occupied had even given the wizards up there a touch of aesthetic fatigue. Still, those reports had indeed helped spread the influence of the United Magical Kingdom through other magical communities. Since the Floating City had first risen into the air, it had developed from an empty shell into a place that, at least by the standards of the Wizarding World, could be called packed with people.
And now, the people on the Floating City who cared least about the war were undoubtedly the young wizards from the several magic schools. At the moment, no young wizard had the mood or leisure to stroll by the Black Lake or go shopping on the commercial street to relax.
Final exams had arrived. Recently, they had all been trapped indoors revising, trudging wearily in and out of the library. This was especially true for the upper-year students who had to deal with O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. This time, it was not just a matter for the original Hogwarts in Britain. Students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, as well as Ilvermorny students who had still been in the United States before the school rose into the air, would all be arranged to take their exams on Hogwarts Floating City, with officials sent by the new Ministry of Magic of the United Kingdom responsible for coordinating the arrangements.
This was not easy for students from the other schools. For example, Beauxbatons's O.W.L.s were arranged in sixth year rather than fifth year, and because there were still some differences between the schools' subjects, courses like Alchemy had to be specially scheduled and