Brazil

• Type: Country
• Location: South America
• Notable Institutions/Wizards: Castelobruxo (Wizarding School), Vicência Santos (Minister for Magic)
• Key Features: Contains a significant portion of the Amazon rainforest, home to numerous magical creatures and plants.

Brazil is a large country in South America with a noted wizarding community and its own Ministry of Magic. The country is the native habitat of creatures such as the boa constrictor. The Brazilian wizarding school, Castelobruxo, is located deep within the rainforest. It is described as an impressive square edifice of golden rock, often compared to a temple. The school is protected by the Caipora, small, furry spirit-beings who are extraordinarily mischievous and tricky (Pottermore). Castelobruxo students wear bright green robes and are particularly advanced in Herbology and Magizoology (Pottermore). The school offers a popular exchange program for students from European schools who wish to study South American magical flora and fauna (Pottermore). During the 1980s or early 1990s, Bill Weasley had a pen-friend who attended Castelobruxo. When Bill was unable to go on an exchange trip to Brazil, his pen-friend took offence and sent him a cursed hat that caused his ears to shrivel.

Brazil is first mentioned as the homeland of a boa constrictor that Harry Potter encounters at the zoo on Dudley Dursley's eleventh birthday. After the glass of its enclosure vanishes, Harry speaks to the snake using Parseltongue for the first time, though he is unaware of it. The snake, which was bred in captivity, thanks Harry and expresses its desire to go to Brazil, a place it has never seen. This event is one of the earliest clear manifestations of Harry's unusual magical abilities. The country is mentioned again in the context of Bill Weasley's pen-friend from Castelobruxo. This detail serves to broaden the reader's understanding of the global wizarding world, confirming the existence of other wizarding schools and international relationships between young witches and wizards.

• Castelobruxo: The Brazilian school of magic, renowned for its expertise in Herbology and Magizoology. It is concealed in the rainforest and appears as a ruin to Muggle eyes (Pottermore).

• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the snake at the zoo is a Burmese Python, not a boa constrictor, but it still expresses its desire to travel to Brazil.
• The Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore film introduces Vicência Santos as the Brazilian Minister for Magic. She runs as a candidate for the position of Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards (film).