Where Is 'The School for Good and Evil' in Real Life?
Netflix's 'The School for Good and Evil' was filmed on location in Northern Ireland, notably St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast (below via The National Churches Trust) Soman Chainani, author of "The School for Good and Evil," did not really have Hogwarts in mind when writing the 2013 novel. Instead, his love of Disney and female baddies propelled him to put the fictional school to paper. The seeds of "The School for Good and Evil" were planted at a real institution, Harvard. As a freshman at the university, Chainani took a seminar with folklorist Maria Tatar, under whom he discovered the darker origins of classic fairy tales. The experience led him to concentrate in English and American Literature and eventually inspired the world of his bestselling fantasy series. "I literally created my own major around fairy tales, with a focus on female villains," he told Cracking the Cover . "I wanted to understand: What makes a female villain so c...
