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[topaz dagger]

?

What do you mean?

[hasty steppe]

just buggin out

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I'd be interested to see it. owo

[hasty steppe]

nevermind

I know what happened lmao

[dull canyon]

JKR co-wrote them and treats them as canon. She has final say on canon as the IP owner.

[topaz dagger]

Yeah, well, JKR seems to think Cursed Child is Canon too.

[dull canyon]

I mean if she says it is, then it is until she says otherwise or sells/lose the IP ownership. That's just how it is.

[topaz dagger]

Nope. Not in my world it’s not.

[graceful cloud]

yeah cursed child is a weird take but it's as canon as canon goes

[dull canyon]

Yah thats ur mental canon, fine. Its mine aswell but just don't go into a debate on forums about what is and isn't canon and say its not canon in an unironic or serious way, else you'll just be spreading misinformation.

[dull canyon]

Yah like it or not, its canon till JKR says otherwise.

[graceful cloud]

atp any hp related media is canon to me even if they clash 😆 more material to write with

[hot lark]

TRUE

[hasty steppe]

lmaoo

[hot lark]

Headcanon, there was a squib in the Granger bloodline and that’s why Hermione is a muggleborn

[hasty steppe]

Hermione don’t play for a muggleborn I’m gonna be deadass

She straight running the 1’s 😭

[dull canyon]

I'm pretty sure its already said by JK or some other HP lore, there has to be a squib or magical relative somewhere in her ancestral line for her to be witch in a family of muggles or with muggle parents

[shut marlin]

Literally what source is there on that. It defeats the entire message of the Muggle-born struggle. The entire point is that Muggle-borns just happen, there's no rhyme or reason for it and no secret magical relative, it's just normal and witches and wizards from historically magical families need to learn and accept it

[dull canyon]

Magic is genetic based in HP verse, so the magic gene has to exist somewhere in Hermione's bloodline for her to be a witch.

Like its the same as SW. Its random from the pov of people but there is a genetic component in who gets magic and who doesn't.

Magic genes were described as being "dominant and resilient". The descendants of squibs who instead integrated into the Muggle world and married would usually be Muggles, although the magical abilities occasionally resurfaced in later generations, producing a Muggle-born witch or wizard.

If Hermione's entire bloodline/ancestry was all muggles, she's never be a witch.

[still heron]

this guy is a geneticist

[dull canyon]

So she has to have a squib somewhere in her lineage. Its just how it is.

[shut marlin]

Are you legitimately trying to apply science to magic

[still heron]

magical genes

[shut marlin]

Give me a source. A canonical, tangible source. Not just speculation. Magic is hereditary, yes, but nothing ever said jack about genes. It's hereditary AND random.

[still heron]

ohh is it random

like a fickle power

is that why random people get awesome magical powers

dang

[hot lark]

We ARE still talking about this???

[still heron]

lol has this been going on for a while or something

[shut marlin]

Yes, it's simply more likely to occur in children to magical parents, but it's not guaranteed (see Squibs), and it's also not impossible for it to just randomly occur in Muggle families. THAT is what Muggle-borns are. They're not all secretly descendants of Squibs or otherwise magical people. Again I say, that would defeat the entire purpose of the narrative.

[hot lark]

I find it funny that we’re still trying to legitimately connect my HL character to Hermione

[still heron]

man and i thought a magical gene would make sense

and if two of these genes are inherited from both parents then the offspring will be the greatest witch/wizard ever!!!

and that is why pure-bloods are the best

am i right or am i right

[hot lark]

Draco before book 6 or 7 every time he sees Hermione: f*cking mudblood

[topaz dagger]

Tru.

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Nope.

[silk lava]

No not really. The point of that "pureblood supremacy" is mostly a critique on real world eugenics beliefs and aristocratic vanity alongside racial supremacy. But truthfully any witch and wizard are born with varying degrees of talents based on how much magic they can harness. Voldemort is pretty powerful but he's a half-blood

[still heron]

mari-chan i was just joking 😝

[silk lava]

Mari-chan...?

[hot lark]

Ancient Magic users:

Isidora Morganach.

The Player

Lily Evans/Potter (unintentionally)

Percival Rackham

Charles Rookwood

San Bakar

Niamh Fitzgerald

[silk lava]

That's a first...

[still heron]

who the hell is lily

[topaz dagger]

You forgot Percival Rackham, Niamh Fitzgerald, Charles Rookwood, and San Bakar.

[dull canyon]

Its literally a thing in the lore, what can it tell ya.

[silk lava]

No you forgot Albus Dumbledore as well

[topaz dagger]

When?

[silk lava]

He's been known to use magic from the Elder Wand afaik and truthfully Ancient Magic isn't as special as HL makes it out to be

[topaz dagger]

Okay, but just using the Elder Wand doesn't mean you're using ancient magic.

[silk lava]

It's just catalyst magic that anyone can tap into

[still heron]

the keepers could use ancient magic???

[topaz dagger]

Yes?

[still heron]

i never knew wth

[silk lava]

Have you not been paying attention to the cutscenes?

[still heron]

no i skipped all of them

[hot lark]

I say unintentionally for Lily because of the sacrificial protection she put on Harry

[topaz dagger]

This is why you don't skip the cutscenes.

[topaz dagger]

How do you know it wasn't intentional? jw

[still heron]

me when i dont understand the plot because i skip all the cutscenes 😝

ok well i figured percival could use silly magic but not the other keepers

i thought they were just his pals

[silk lava]

The point of it all is that Ancient Magic exists and can be tapped into without needing to have special circumstances tbh

[topaz dagger]

Percival was the only one who could see the ancient magic, but the others used it as well.

[hot lark]

She protected him out of motherly instinct, I don’t think she knew that she was using ancient magic to protect him

[dull canyon]

http://web.archive.org/web/20120208051328/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=19 http://web.archive.org/web/20120214193422/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=26 http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html - Having linked all that, I will say that I also read, that JK may have gotten how genes actually work incorrect or not not fully correct when applying it to her lore.

[silk lava]

Which is why I have issues with the Keepers' storyline in HL because it violates canon lore

[topaz dagger]

She might have.

[silk lava]

But luckily it's written in a way I can easily disregard so the MC is safely not canon by the lore

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I choose to believe they are. 😌

[still heron]

the mc is not canon????!!!!

NOOOOOOO MY LORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[silk lava]

I choose to believe my MC is not canon

[still heron]

🪦

here lies mc

[hot lark]

They are but they never f*cked anyone so the bloodline doesn’t exist in the present time

[silk lava]

They're not canon

[topaz dagger]

Lies. Effie married Sebastian. ;-;

[still heron]

vow of chastity or something 😭 🔥

[silk lava]

Unlike the Cursed Child, HL doesn't really have the JKR stamp of approval

[hot lark]

And Ludwig married Poppy

[silk lava]

So yeah it's like Hogwarts Mystery, it's not part of the canon lore

[dull canyon]

Il take HL over CC any day

[hot lark]

How was that wedding from the Azkaban jail cell

[silk lava]

Ooof lol

[topaz dagger]

Sebastian is being sent to Azkaban over Effie's dead body.

[silk lava]

But eh idgaf about my MC anymore

[hot lark]

Juliana, Anne, and Ominis beg to differ

[shut marlin]

Huh. I stand corrected via WoG then, but I still say it's stupid.

[still heron]

bro came in wit da fax machine 😭 🔥 💯 📠

[shut marlin]

But then again we know how Rowling feels about biology she doesn't understand and about so-called 'heritage'.

[still heron]

magic gene

[hasty steppe]

man who would even turn sebastian in

I would've avada'd his uncle too he just pmo lmao

[graceful cloud]

sweats

[silk lava]

All my friends in Hufflepuff for some reason kekw

[blazing grotto]

They know nothing of loyalty!

[hasty steppe]

traitors rs

I couldn't betray sebastian not even once because as much as I was helping him he was helping me (I mean apart from the time I used crucio on him instead of letting him do it to me but that's pretty fair) 💀

[hot lark]

My four HL characters on if they would turn Sebastian in:

Ludwig (Slytherin): Absolutely not, he helped me, I helped him, it was a heat of the moment reaction

Juliana (Ravenclaw): Absolutely, I know his uncle is a bad man, but he still used an unforgivable curse on him!

Fredrick (Gryffindor) (Upcoming): If I were in the same spot as Sebastian I think I would have the same reaction, like him, I’d also immediately regret using the curse but I wouldn’t turn him in

Erika (Hufflepuff) (Upcoming): I absolutely would, killing someone at any age is wrong, regardless of the fact that he was a bad man

[hasty steppe]

it's pretty obvious but both of my HL characters being Slytherin for one 😭

Niklaus: Absolutely not he would've done the same thing had he known how to use the Killing Curse sooner, but he wouldn't feel regret to it as he despised his Uncle.

Lillith: She would've done the same being put in Sebastian's Position but she wouldn't take his Uncle from him, regret her actions? She wouldn't as she only fought his uncle in attempts to protect Sebastian as she seems to have a soft spot for him.

lilli on point w protecting big sebas rs

gryffindor is the only other house I actually like, huffle and raven just pmo asides from poppy 😭

[topaz dagger]

;-; Hufflepuff is best house.

[hasty steppe]

yall dont su

I need a silencing curse fr

[topaz dagger]

Agreed.

[hasty steppe]

AVADA KE- my fault

[hot lark]

https://tenor.com/view/voldemort-harry-potter-avada-kedavra-gif-12401009

Jk

[hasty steppe]

justttt kidddin :)

cruciatus at most its the kinder option

💀

[hot lark]

Iirc doesn’t The Cursed Child take place like 130 years after HL

[hasty steppe]

something like that

I'm fairly certain everything played out happens AFTER HL

[hot lark]

Someone better make a Malfoy so we can have a pureblood Bloodline go from HL to The Cursed Child

[topaz dagger]

Why don't you make one, then?

[topaz dagger]

"to The Cursed Child" Also, ew.

[hot lark]

Fredrick Malfoy—Poppy Sweeting

Abraxas Malfoy—-???

Lucius Malfoy—Narcissa Black/Malfoy

Draco Malfoy—-Astoria Greengrass

Scorpius Malfoy

Done

[topaz dagger]

Abraxas Malfoy.

[hot lark]

I just read Narcissa’s wiki and no shot my Slytherin character ties into this bloodline

[hasty steppe]

ngl people actually neglecting the unforgivable curses and imprisoning sebastian js pmo

[hasty steppe]

LOVELY

[hot lark]

I am way to lazy to add all these schmucks

[hasty steppe]

😭

[hot lark]

Excluding Narcissa, Lucius, Scorpius, and Draco

[hot lark]

Imagine Draco reading his family tree for the heck of it and seeing one of his ancestors was a Gryffindor and married a Hufflepuff

[topaz dagger]

Draco would probably have to memorize his family tree from the time he was, like, 5.

[hot lark]

Bro would be disgusted with his great grandparents with them being a Gryffindor and Hufflepuff

[topaz dagger]

They're only his great-grandparents.

[hot lark]

I think Draco would be intrigued now, but back in his school days (excluding year 7) he’d be disgusted

[hasty steppe]

man would spit it rs

[topaz dagger]

@hot lark In my headcanon, Anne is Molly's grandmother. 😌

[hot lark]

My new headcanon with the Malfoys, Ludwig is somehow tied to the line thanks to Narcissa (yeah, I made his last name Black)

[topaz dagger]

I know. c:

[hot lark]

The Black line wasn’t racist right?

[hot lark]

Molly?

[topaz dagger]

Molly Prewett-Weasley.

[hot lark]

So Ron’s mom is Molly Weasley Jr or II?

[topaz dagger]

No, Molly is Anne's granddaughter in my universe.

[hot lark]

Also imagine naming your kid Ginerva 💀

[topaz dagger]

I like the name Ginevra, actually.

[hot lark]

I don’t think Ginny did

Seeing as she goes by Ginny

[topaz dagger]

Yeah. :c Tru.

I remember when the fanbase thought her real name was Virginia.

[hot lark]

Ginny can come from Virginia

[topaz dagger]

I know. c: That's why people thought so.

[hot lark]

Imagine being the most kind and and helpful student in Hogwarts only to tell Professor Fig that you want all that power that’s tucked away underneath the school to yourself

[topaz dagger]

ikr

I never tell him that, tho. So, hard for me to imagine.

[hot lark]

Now that I have the secret Honeydukes passage available I think I’m just going to use that to get to Hogsmeade instead of the normal way

[topaz dagger]

But....you can't get out of the cellar except by going back the way you came.

[cloud wave]

That is what I did. I imagined that my character would be manipulative and pretending to be the perfect student while having dark wishes underneath.

I imagine she knew Fig would die or she wouldn't have told him she was keeping it for herself.

[hot lark]

Juliana: meeting Amit in Hogsmeade for a “date” hey, sorry I’m late but I made it!

Amit: No issue but why are you drenched?

Juliana who missed a jump and fell into the pond within the secret passageway: Oh, no reason

[cloud wave]

Haha

[hot lark]

She would miss a jump

First and last names for all my characters

Ludwig Hector Black (Slytherin)

Juliana Rosè Granger (Ravenclaw)

Fredrick Jackson Malfoy (Griffyndor)

Erika Virginia Longbottom (Hufflepuff)

[still heron]

this guy needs to learn on how to google surnames 😭 🔥

[topaz dagger]

?

[still heron]

this guy shares surnames with other people in the series

[topaz dagger]

Yes, and....?

[still heron]

nothign wrong with it ofc but i just find it funny

[cloud wave]

My character's name in the game is Eleanore Avery but she is pretending to be Gwen Fawley. It is a long story xD

I liked picking big names as well but in the sense of looking up pure-blood families

Did you play the story entirely with all?

[hot lark]

Not Gryffindor or Hufflepuff yet

I’m done with Slytherin and in the middle of Ravenclaw

[cloud wave]

Oooh fun

I did Slytherin and plan on doimg Hufflepuff after

I want that house specific quest

And my plan is to focus on combat with plants

[frail wedge]

I am almost done with my first play through with my slytherin character. Her name is Kylie Snape.

[frail wedge]

So question. Which house should i do next? Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw?

[topaz dagger]

Hufflepuff, obvs.

[graceful cloud]

puff seems to be a favorite bcs of their jackdaw quest

[frail wedge]

Cool! Definitely doing that then! It was honestly a toss up between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

[topaz dagger]

Puff is a favorite because we're awesome. c:

[hot lark]

Ravenclaw has the best Jackdaw quest (no)

[topaz dagger]

I'm sure it does in some possible universe.

[hot lark]

Ma’am, you can’t tie Kylie to Serverus, he’s known as The Half Blood Prince

[frail wedge]

Valid! Slytherin and Hufflepuffs are buddies so that makes sense.

[hot lark]

https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-harry-potter-memes-potter-puppet-pals-expecto-gif-7271085382071114494

[frail wedge]

And why can't I? Just because he's known as The Half Blood Prince. Besides it's a game and my character can be whoever i want her to be.

[graceful cloud]

the ollivanders quest is interesting too tbh

[topaz dagger]

If the alternative is watching paint dry.

[hot lark]

Oh wait, it can, the Snape side is pure blood, the Prince line was muggleborn

[topaz dagger]

No.

[graceful cloud]

i'm romanticising it bcs of how utterly boring the headless hunt was for us gryffs

[topaz dagger]

😂 True, the Gryffindor quest wasn't much better.

[hot lark]

Was it the Prince side that was pureblood and the Snape side muggleborn?

[topaz dagger]

Eileen Prince was pureblood, and Tobias Snape was a muggle.

[hot lark]

Yup and like Juliana, unfortunately for @frail wedge, there needs to be a squib somewhere in the Snape line to reach Tobias

[topaz dagger]

Er...? Tobias wasn't muggleborn.

[hot lark]

THEN HOW DOES SNAPE’S LINE WORK

[topaz dagger]

Tobias is a muggle. Eileen is a pureblood.

Severus is half-blood.

[hot lark]

Is Tobias a squib then or was the Snape line strictly muggleborn

[topaz dagger]

No. The Snape line is muggle.

[cloud wave]

So....can't the character be a Snape and have had a child that was a squib later on (or in a different generation)?

[topaz dagger]

Only if that person had a squib child with a witch or wizard, because they themselves are not a witch or wizard.

[cloud wave]

And due to the squib shame, the name is not in records

[hot lark]

What I’m saying is for Kylie Snape to reach Serverus, there needs to be a squib somewhere in the Snape line and no magic anywhere else

[cloud wave]

So it can work

[topaz dagger]

I suppose Kylie could've had a squib child, who mated with a muggle, and Tobias was their child or grandchild.

But. Her husband would've had to take her last name, or else she would've had to give her child her last name.

[hot lark]

We basically determined that for Juliana to reach Hermione, somewhere in the Granger line there had to be a squib that reaches down to Mr. Granger with no magic in between

[hot lark]

Could happen

[cloud wave]

Mhm

[frail wedge]

I keep forgetting that Hogwarts Legacy is before Harry Potter.

[topaz dagger]

lol

[hot lark]

It’s 120 years before so that’s why we’re making Headcannon lines for our characters

[topaz dagger]

Only about 100 years before.

[hot lark]

Oh right

I was thinking HL to The Cursed Child

[graceful cloud]

it's cool that you guys put a lot of effort into building your chars

[topaz dagger]

:3 ty.

[hot lark]

I’ve come up with first, middle, and last name linages for each house 💀

[topaz dagger]

c:

[graceful cloud]

they're all connected to canon lineages?

[hot lark]

Black, Granger, Malfoy, Longbottom

[graceful cloud]

hoo boy 😆 where do you even get the brain juice to think of 4 separate lores

mine's just a random muggleborn

[hot lark]

I came up with the brainchild that Ludwig Black connects to Fredrick Malfoy thanks to Narcissa Black

Later Malfoy when she married Lucius

[hot lark]

Imagine I make a Longbottom story where Erika’s wand is passed down through generations after the repository is sealed and the wand goes from her to her child, then to Augusta, then to Frank or Alice, once they get tortured into insanity by the Lestranges it goes back to Augusta to keep it out of the Death Eaters hands and then it gets given to Neville by Augusta when she believes he’s ready (he never uses it but holds on to it as an heirloom, then him and Hannah pass that wand to their kid (when they have one) when they believe the child is ready

[still heron]

his bottom... is long 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣

[silk lava]

You're reaching. Ravenclaw's quest was boring asf

A nothingburger that had nothing going on about the bigger arc. No lore, no plot, no purpose.

Easily the worst quest in the game

You could write it out of the story and nothing will change.

At least the other three had a purpose to the Jackdaw narrative

[woeful garden]

really? and a quest about toast isnt as pointless? lol

[silk lava]

That quest sucked too but narratively it still had a purpose even if explained off screen. At least you know why Jackdaw met his terrible demise: He was two timing the girls. One got horribly jealous and framed the other for murder.

[graceful cloud]

true, in hindsight i just remembered how the wand wasn't even recovered and nothing happened after 🤔

[silk lava]

The Ravenclaw quest added nothing of value to the whole larger narrative

[woeful garden]

i dont get why that particular route was accessible without ability to see/use ancient magic

you could get all the way to the pensive guardians without it

if not, how would jackdaw get decapitated by one of them?

[topaz dagger]

Yep, no ancient magic required.

[woeful garden]

every other route and trial and thing was protected by ancient magic doorways/traces/puzzles

even the one in gringotts

[silk lava]

Truthfully it could be explained by developer oversight tbh although the doors themselves don't need AM to get into. Fig could only go as far as the entrance

The story was written in a style over substance way

[woeful garden]

the story is awesome though

[silk lava]

"What's cool?" "Does it feel Harry Potter?"

These were what I felt were the focus during the writing

[graceful cloud]

they evidently did good tying off-game lore together but not so much in-game sadly

[silk lava]

It wasn't written to be consistent for gameplay reasons

I get it but at the time it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of quality

[woeful garden]

to be honest... the story of harry potter is pretty much generic rags to riches story, the world behind it, its peoples, places and history thats where the fascinating fun is imho

and having good games that expand it, is great

instead of games that just mimic the books or movies

[silk lava]

I wouldn't say rags to riches per se but moreso Arthurian Legends but Wizards

[woeful garden]

exactly as same as star wars: boy discovers secret powers and embarks on a quest of self discovery to save the world

[graceful cloud]

yeah i like the direction they're going for but it defo needs polishing

[silk lava]

Harry being a Chosen One and having a great destiny is just parallels to Arthur. His mentor figure being a really old guy kinda gives it away

[woeful garden]

yeah

[graceful cloud]

i swear i saw a skit saying something similar about hp and lotr

[woeful garden]

its inspired by arthurian legend and many of the ancient japanese stories too iirc

[silk lava]

The Sword of Gryffindor is just Excalibur lol

[woeful garden]

ok now you got me thinking of holy grail

[silk lava]

Gawain >>>> Lancelot

[woeful garden]

"if i declared myself king because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me..."

"help help im being opressed come see the hypocrisy inherent in the system!"

[silk lava]

Ah yes the Monty Python version

[woeful garden]

yeah the only true version lol

[silk lava]

Sir Robin the Not-So-Brave

[woeful garden]

"he turned and run away!" 🎵
"i didnt!"

one of my friends had a pair of killer rabbit of caerbannog slippers 😄

[woeful garden]

i think lotr is inspired by something else entirely, but i get the feeling JKR was inspired by the one ring with horcruxes

theyre exactly the same thing, i vessel for part of your self, soul and power, in an object created by hatred

[silk lava]

And Narnia with the Founders eerily mirroring the four siblings

[woeful garden]

you know a bunch of those authors all used to get together in a pub in the south of england

they had a writers club where theyd sit and have a beer together

[silk lava]

But Tolkien's lore is mostly based on Norse mythos

[woeful garden]

CS Lewis, J R R Tolkien and a few others

apparently christopher lee saw them there once and was one of the few in the LOTR movies to have actually met tolkien

if not the only one

[silk lava]

Huh I didn't know that Christopher Lee actually met them

[woeful garden]

yup

and do you know the story of sarumans death scene

[silk lava]

So he had input in that scene?

[woeful garden]

the director said "so wormtongue will stab you from behind and you gotta go AAAGH and die loudly"... christopher lee said "no ive heard what happens wen someone dies of being stabbed from behind, its like THIS..." and you got the gasp and die bit

apparently he worked for the naval secret service or something in WW2

and he saw some messed up real life james bond stuff

[silk lava]

Ahhh I see

I have heard that the movies did do some liberties in fleshing out some minor characters

[woeful garden]

yeah

[silk lava]

Like Boromir was made more tragic than his book counterpart

[woeful garden]

have you read the books?

[silk lava]

A little bit when I was younger for cram school

[woeful garden]

definitely worth a read

[silk lava]

Mostly The Hobbit since it was part of the curriculum

[woeful garden]

some day i'd like to have time to read game of thrones, also heavily inspired by tolkien

the author openly admits it, and considers it a good thing, i agree, its a great source material to be inspired by

[silk lava]

I am going to the bookstores at the start of the New Year to fetch LOTR tho

Going to pick up a copy of Dune too

[woeful garden]

if you have seen the hobbit, and read the books, youll be shocked

[topaz dagger]

The GoT books are excellent. Even the boring chapters.

[silk lava]

I have actually

[woeful garden]

the hobbit is like 120 pages long, its massively fleshed out to make 3 movies

i havent read hobbit since i was like 11

[silk lava]

The movies and the books. Quite different in some ways

[woeful garden]

tolkien, steve jackson and ian livingstone inspired me to become the person i am today

i used to read a lot of high fantasy, and sj/il fighting fantasy books, it inspired me to create my own, and from there into game development

i was in my 20s before HP became a big thing

[silk lava]

I was born after the first book

But I am collecting a lot of fantasy books myself tbh

[woeful garden]

the characters in HP were in school at the same time, in the same years i would have been in school

[topaz dagger]

👀

-# you're old

[woeful garden]

so if it was in real life, they'd be same age as me

yeah im 44

[silk lava]

I see

I'm trying to build a collection of fantasy books. Trying to look at Ursula K Le Guin's stuff too

[woeful garden]

interesting

[silk lava]

I can't stomach the Booktok recommendations though

[woeful garden]

do you also like sci fi?

[silk lava]

I can't read Sarah J Maas for example

[silk lava]

Yes I do

[woeful garden]

i would also like to read the dune series

and one of my favourite books as a kid was hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, and restaraunt at the end of the universe

[silk lava]

I've heard of the first book but not the second one

[frail wedge]

Can someone help me come up with a last name for my character? Crucius is his first name.

[silk lava]

What's his background?

If I wanted to be edgy I'd name him Crucius Erasmus

[frail wedge]

He's a hufflepuff.

[woeful garden]

crucius malitiae

[frail wedge]

Ooh! Two great last names. Which families do they go with?

[woeful garden]

i had no imagination and called my character Brain Brain, as im not used to games forcing me to choose a first and surname

it worked fine

[blazing grotto]

Sounds like a smart character

[woeful garden]

as teachers/professors call him brain and so do his friends

[woeful garden]

smart and manipulative, loves to gaslight his friends into teaching him unforgivable curses

but never just outright evil, hes the sort who would snitch on you to appear the goody two shoes in class

so that nobody would suspect him of anything bad ever

[silk lava]

I usually make up my own lore. Like perhaps one of the extinct Pureblood families that did not make it to when the Sacred 28 were listed in the 1930s

[woeful garden]

i mean he ||promised to keep AM contained and keep it a secret|| but he had his fingers crossed behind his back

[silk lava]

Because there were many more bloodlines before then but went extinct due to intermarriage with half-bloods/other families or they become Squibs

[woeful garden]

do wizarding families become squibs?

[topaz dagger]

No?

[woeful garden]

i didnt think that was how it worked, its like a regressive gene isnt it, the wizarding powers resurface later in families that were considered to be muggles

[silk lava]

They could. Some do depending on how the bloodline could thin out in terms of Magical potential if they all married Muggles

[woeful garden]

hence muggle born wizards

[silk lava]

I'd like to think that's how Muggleborns are a concept

So the Muggles become the dominant gene then suddenly a witch/wizard in the family due to recessive genes

[woeful garden]

yeah, that would make sense

perhaps its not genetic at all, its more ....magical... than that.... its just thats only way us muggles can perceive it

[silk lava]

Mayhaps

Either way the science based reasoning or a magical reasoning are both acceptable

[graceful cloud]

this was said jokingly by jkr but i like the idea of a gene that completely nullifies the magic gene

[hot lark]

I was thinking maybe Moon or Ferguson

[topaz dagger]

Name him Yera Wizardharry.

[hot lark]

The Wizardharry bloodline will go beyond TCC

[topaz dagger]

:3

[hot lark]

Why do I come up with better lore for my characters’ bloodlines in HL than some authors do with their own characters

💀

[hasty steppe]

ngl you heavy on it aswell

this might be your profession atp 😭

[hot lark]

Naaaah 😭

[hasty steppe]

bro just casually roleplaying every character he makes

[hot lark]

I came up with the whole wand inheritance for Erika before I even made her 😭

[silk lava]

I mean what else are you gonna do? HL doesn't have much room for RP compared to KOTOR

[hot lark]

True

[hasty steppe]

wtf is kotor

[silk lava]

So it's mostly up to the player to craft lore for themselves since you practically get next to nothing in game

[silk lava]

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR)

[hasty steppe]

nvm i know what that is

[frail wedge]

Ooh!

[hasty steppe]

I did the same thing with my sibling mcs in HL

[fleet fjord]

hey, just finished the game for my first time, and I have a question, how many endings are there, and are they different by a lot?

[silk lava]

There's actually only one ending that stays relatively the same just different cutscene outcomes and they don't impact gameplay

[fleet fjord]

so, if in my cutscene there Fig died, any chance if I do something different during my 2nd playthrough he wouldnt die, for example? or does like his death still stays no matter what i do?

[topaz dagger]

He dies no matter what.

[fleet fjord]

oh, alright. Ty for info

[tender wolf]

It's such a tragic plot choice 😭

[hot lark]

Poppy is best girl and you can’t tell me otherwise

[topaz dagger]

Poppy is indeed best girl.

[iron flax]

indeed

[honest fern]

I prefer Natty personally, but I also really enjoyed Poppy's plot line.

[hot lark]

Poppy should’ve gone to Hogsmeade with you if Hufflepuff was selected

[topaz dagger]

She should've been an option, anyway. Although to be honest, Effie would probably still go with Sebastian every time.

[hot lark]

Would Effie use Avada Kedavra to protect Sebastian?

[tender wolf]

Who's Effie again

Or is this a player name

[hot lark]

Juliana: I’ve been running around Hogwarts helping everyone! Poor Sebastian’s being waiting in Feldcroft for Merlin knows how long now! I hope Effie’s not too upset that I forgot about meeting him @topaz dagger

[topaz dagger]

Effie is my Hufflepuff.

[topaz dagger]

Yes, she absolutely would. Effie's magic is strongest when she's protecting others.

[topaz dagger]

Effie would be pissed that you stood him up. :c

[tender wolf]

Ahh ok

[feral locust]

I’m back to rant

Someone listen

[honest fern]

No.

[feral locust]

Why not

[feral locust]

We can rant tg

[honest fern]

I wasn't saying no to you ranting. I was just not going to listen. 🙂

[feral locust]

So why respond

Skibidi

[honest fern]

Just joking around. You hadn't ranted and you asked someone to listen. Just wanted to be difficult.

[feral locust]

We should be friends

[honest fern]

If you want, feel free to dm me.

[feral locust]

nah i wanna rant here

[honest fern]

Don't do it.

[feral locust]

why?

[honest fern]

Still being difficult.

[feral locust]

😭

im jus gonna rant

i rlly like the first game and it was well received at release (apparent from the sales)

but there are so many things that i feel like would have been better if they'd been done differently

dont get me wrong, the game is great and they did a ton of good stuff

i think something that a ton of fans wanted was to receive their hogwarts letter, y'know - it being one of the most iconic moments in the series

we missed diagon alley, we missed the experience of being a first year.

I know that it's difficult to have such a young kid be the protag of a video game considering they're not very powerful...

but i think we could have gone to classes as a first year, acting like a tutorial almost. then we shift to our 5th year experience for the main game

[hasty steppe]

no

[feral locust]

no?

[hasty steppe]

no

[feral locust]

no

[hasty steppe]

yes

[feral locust]

yes

[hasty steppe]

I read absolutely nothing you said but I agree

[feral locust]

read it, im not sure if its any good...

[hasty steppe]

okay

no

thats literally ac3 😭

[feral locust]

whats ac3

[hasty steppe]

assassins creed 3

[feral locust]

never played it

also, considering its such a different genre, it wouldn't be a direct copy

[hasty steppe]

like itd be a good idea but that would take a while ngl

[feral locust]

certainly yea

[hasty steppe]

one of the reasons people love hl imo is they get to experience it from the get go

being sorted, the combat, hogwarts etc

[feral locust]

hm

[hasty steppe]

i think having to progress up to your 5th year would cancel out a lot of things to make it work

[feral locust]

oh no no no

[hasty steppe]

okay no

[feral locust]

not progress, you'd go through a few classes as a first year to serve as a tutorial

but then you'd timeskip to 5th year

not have to progress through it

[hasty steppe]

im a sped i see

[feral locust]

LMAO

[hasty steppe]

LMAO

[feral locust]

im not great at typing anyway 😪

also, i hate that we spend almost no time in hogwarts

[hasty steppe]

i fw the forest a lot

[feral locust]

i love that the game gets us to go out and explore the world but i'd be perfectly fine if there were more missions in the castle

[feral locust]

no so do i

[hasty steppe]

but i think a missed oppurtunity was use of the expecto patronum spell considering its kinda iconic

[feral locust]

yes...100%

[hasty steppe]

i think dementors wouldve been a cool enemy

[feral locust]

REALNESS

also

why wouldnt ragnarok control dementors like voldemort did?

voldemart gained control of the dementors through an offer of more oppurtunity to feed on ppl

[hasty steppe]

no

[feral locust]

oh.

[hasty steppe]

i feel like if ragna could control dementors itd be alittle weird

[feral locust]

howcome?

[hasty steppe]

fair

[feral locust]

the dementors didnt serve voldemort cuz he was voldemort, they served him cuz voldemort offered them sumn

[hasty steppe]

he was kinda all in on the chaos him and his skinhead lookin ah

[feral locust]

he sorta looked like an old mans thumb

[hasty steppe]

its just a different magic and it wouldnt really fit him as a character

[hasty steppe]

😭

[feral locust]

i guess so yea

[hasty steppe]

like he was manipulating emotion he wasnt really a magic being due to using goblins armor as a way to harness it

[feral locust]

fair fair

[hasty steppe]

or metal or wtv

[feral locust]

idrk too much ab that

[hasty steppe]

tom was the darklord because he genuinely had a connection to the dark arts and dark magic a like being the heir to slytherin so he was born into it, he had a connection to it from almost the start and ragnarok was just a scam

[feral locust]

right, yea

[hasty steppe]

like for someone who was that "strong" dude legit got bodied and he turned into a whole on dragon

i think victor rookwood was the coolest fight

[feral locust]

can i be true

[hasty steppe]

i hope if they make a hl2 they involve spell clashing

[feral locust]

i never finished the game, havent even fought him

[hasty steppe]

LMAO

my fault g

[feral locust]

nah i knew

i watched radbrad play

[hasty steppe]

i knew what the final boss was before anything because it got spoiled by a random yt video popping up

RAD IS FIRE LMAO

[feral locust]

i love his vids

i was just watching his indiana jones

[hasty steppe]

i havent watched him in years tbh i js fw his horror playthroughs

hes funny 😭

[feral locust]

i watch him when a new game i like comes out

[feral locust]

realness

anyway, back on topic

i think they did great for a first open-world triple A harry potter game

[hasty steppe]

fr

are you going for the 3 curses or denying them

[feral locust]

nah i never learned em

[hasty steppe]

ill be brutally honest with you from what I know learning them doesnt do sh

[feral locust]

yea...

[hasty steppe]

i suppose its just if you want your character to be more on the good side when it comes to personal thought

[feral locust]

i lit didnt learn them cuz i knew that there isnt a morality system

[hasty steppe]

i learnt them as soon as i could and started spamming avada lmao

[feral locust]

i 100% think they're going to implement a moral system in the new game tho

[feral locust]

i feel bad for doing it

[hasty steppe]

rip ima be worse then voldemort

[feral locust]

did u play ghosts of tsushima

[hasty steppe]

both of my mcs are just brutal

[feral locust]

😭

[hasty steppe]

yes

[feral locust]

i always play games like shimura wants me to

i do it with honour, I always make sure its a decently fair battle

thats why i hate stealth

[hasty steppe]

..

[feral locust]

it makes them a lil harder

[hasty steppe]

"decently fair battle"

[feral locust]

well i know it wasnt in hl

[hasty steppe]

proceeds to get shot ts out of by a random arrow launching thing

[feral locust]

pardon?

[hasty steppe]

those stupid ballista launcher things

they just mow you down mid fight its a pain

thats why I always disabled traps before any standoff if i saw them in view

[feral locust]

eh not too much if you deal with them correctly

i always let an enemy attempt to hit me first

[hasty steppe]

how I played ghost was really high speed and brutal imo

i always had ghost stance and i always relied on parkour

[feral locust]

i did it slow *pause)

[feral locust]

i only used the first stance

[hasty steppe]

id pick a route jump down stab someone hit a chain, smoke kill the rest and hit the next area and if i got in a big fight id chop em down real quick with ghost stance

i just love high speed fast pace in ghost

[feral locust]

i think its cool

[hasty steppe]

fair enough traditional samurai style

[feral locust]

was it? I just didnt see a reason to use another

ANYWAY this is a hl server, les keep it that way

[hasty steppe]

yes

[feral locust]

y'know what i wanted?

[hasty steppe]

but just so you know switching stance mid combos does some pretty cool stuff and the reason for switching stances is to help you with spear enemies, shield enemies etc

[hasty steppe]

CO-OP

[feral locust]

i was about to say that..

[hasty steppe]

WHYYY NO COOP

[feral locust]

are you in my head?

[hasty steppe]

yes

[feral locust]

I think its ridiculous that they didnt add co-op

[hasty steppe]

imagine just standing there with your mate after wiping out a whole area and then avadaing ts out of him 😭

[feral locust]

considering that the movies had the golden trio you'd think they'd let us sort of make our own

[hasty steppe]

my main mc character: "ayo ion care about plants they can die for all i care"

his sister: "flowerrr preeetttty flower ;3"

[hasty steppe]

true

[feral locust]

oh

[hasty steppe]

basically thats Sebastian ominis and the mc being said you do the questline

if you turn in sebastian lowkey ima crucio you

[feral locust]

like i would have loved to play with a friend, it feels super lonely - especially with the sheer scale of the castle, it feels empty

[hasty steppe]

well there is one way but if you say it in the server the community or the staff has a cry at you

[feral locust]

what? mods?

[hasty steppe]

legit mods go dms ill send it

ive never tried it myself

[feral locust]

i play on ps5

cant use mods

[hasty steppe]

[feral locust]

skibidi

[feral locust]

anyway

i also think if they added co-op, we could have used the dueling thing more, to 1v1 with friends

[hasty steppe]

..

"AVADA KEDAV-"

[feral locust]

of course with restricted spells

[hasty steppe]

yeah 😭

if you get avada early game its restricted to use the 3 curses without a way to bypass it anyway, for exampling the opening duel with sebastian

[feral locust]

dang

i need to go to bed

[hasty steppe]

night night

[feral locust]

bye

[hasty steppe]

bai bai

[silk lava]

Not really Fallout 3 did it way back in 2008 and it's just like you want it to be: a tutorial sequence that gets timeskipped until you reach adulthood when the game really begins.

I feel like they could have made it so that you were a First Year in Hogwarts in the tutorial segment then the main game begins in Fifth Year rather than an uber special Mary Sue

I'm personally not a fan of this "le special ever student to ever exist" trope. Even Harry felt like he was more human and practically followed the Chosen One trope to a tee

[hot lark]

Juliana;accepts Deek’s quest to find Tobbs

Also Juliana the moment she steps in the cave:Oh f*** you Deek!

[hot lark]

She’d be even more pissed that Juliana completely agrees with Anne, Ominus, and Solomon on that idea of what Sebastian is doing is a terrible idea

[hot lark]

The moment that Juliana saw the Acromantuala’s leg she nearly went “F*** this, I’m out” but she knew she had to press on for Deek, and by extension, Professor Weasley

[topaz dagger]

Quite possibly. nods

[dull canyon]

Happy new year all

[hot lark]

@topaz dagger
Sebastian meeting up with Effie and feeling nauseous from the guilt of nearly killing Juliana outside the Slytherin scriptorium with the Cruciatus curse

Sebastian: I-I had to do it, I really didn’t want to hurt Juliana that badly, but we needed to get that door open to the scriptorium by using the Cruciatus Curse, I won’t be able to forget the pain she was in

Effie: But she stood you up and left you waiting in Feldcroft for a long time sooooooo

Sebastian: EFFIE! NOW’S NOT THE TIME!

[topaz dagger]

lol, Effie's not petty enough to say that....out loud.

[hot lark]

Lmao

[feral locust]

i agree with this

[thin bramble]

Who is Effie?

Nvm I scrolled up

Effie seems cool @topaz dagger

[topaz dagger]

:3 Effie appreciates that.

[hot lark]

@topaz dagger

A few days after the death of Solomon and Juliana and Ominus meet outside the undercroft

Ominus: I never wanted to do it but we had to, he murdered his uncle

Juliana:I know, I really didn’t want to but I believe we did the right thing

Effie bumping into them while looking for Sebastian: Hey guys! You haven’t seen Sebastian have you?

Juliana: trying to come up with a way to break the news that Sebastian was sent to Azkaban

Ominus: Well Effie, you see-

Juliana: Hey, I’m sorry and we didn’t want to do this either but we turned Sebastian in, we just couldn’t bare letting someone who murdered his own family walk free

I feel like Effie would try and attack them out of sorrow and rage but Juliana would launch her into a wall with either Depulso or Bombarda out of protective instinct

[blazing grotto]

That’s definitely not the right thing. Solomon needed to die/I would only wish Azkaban on my worst enemy. And Effie would be able to reign in her rage until the opportune moment for revenge. She’s not an assassin for nothing.

[topaz dagger]

I dunno. She might attack them...or she might just storm out of there and plot the first-ever breakout from Azkaban.

[topaz dagger]

Effie the character. Not Me-Effie.

[hot lark]

Juliana would probably defend Ominus and probably instantly regret nearly or actually breaking Effie’s back when launching her into a wall with Bombarda or Depulso

[topaz dagger]

ANCIENT MAGIC FIIIIIIGHT.

[topaz dagger]

Effie: "I'm gonna' break Sebastian out of jail, but first, I'm gonna break your face!"

[blazing grotto]

I see. I see. Keeping the character’s assassin skills on the down low. Your secret is safe.

[topaz dagger]

lol.

[brave torrent]

to get to the map chaimber

each house has a unique quest, ive done all aside from slytherin so far

hufflepuf has the most fun quest out of the lot there i have to say

but who knows maybe slytherin has something even better

[brave torrent]

no it was not

better than the one from gryffindor which was boring at best

[polar briar]

Hufflepuff’s was the best by far

I thought the toast thing for Slytherin was so random

[brave torrent]

yeah it was a bit odd

[polar briar]

Like how would the giant squid know it likes toast, it would get soggy the second it touched the water 💀

[brave torrent]

maybe thats exactly the way it likes its toast

[polar briar]

That’s gross 😭

I don’t even want to think about how that would taste

[brave torrent]

hufflepuff also has one of the nicer common rooms

slytherin second, main downside is that it looks like they live in the sewers

and thats all of them

[shut marlin]

NICE

[shut marlin]

Excuse me, we most certainly do not

[brave torrent]

i mean it looks like it

[shut marlin]

Are you referring to the waterways beneath the dorms?????

[brave torrent]

no just the dorms themselves and the general vibe

i like the windows to the lake those are a nice touch

thats why its my 2nd fav, but the general look is way too sewer-y to be no.1

[topaz dagger]

Noah is weird.

[brave torrent]

https://tenor.com/tWj3l6vSi6m.gif

[polar briar]

Hufflepuff’s common room is my favorite

[brave torrent]

same

[polar briar]

That’s actually my favorite part, that and the windows, the only thing I don’t like is the giant columns, with how tall the ceilings are it feels so cold and intimidating

[brave torrent]

its just a bit too sewer-y to me

but its my second fav

[polar briar]

Yeah I get that

I love all the common rooms, except Gryffindor’s is just too small for my taste

[brave torrent]

yeah agreed, although ravenclaw isnt much better

[tender wolf]

I like Ravenclaw's common room, it's quite pretty, but i wish it were more open/allowed more natural light

[topaz dagger]

Same.

[polar briar]

Me too! It’s super pretty, I think it would be cool if there was like a balcony or something, but I guess since you’re in the astronomy tower it’s not that big of a deal 🤷🏽‍♀️

[hot lark]

LMAOOOOOOOO

Professor Binns bored Juliana to sleep

[cold sinew]

Profesor figggg nooooooo

[cold sinew]

WHY CANT I SAVE HIM

[graceful cloud]

devs want us to have our uncle ben moment 😔

[blazing grotto]

“With great power comes great numbers of dead poachers!”

[stoic thorn]

and Ominis peacefully chilling next to you 😁

[shut marlin]

HE'S SO ADORABLE

[topaz dagger]

I wonder what he's dreaming about... 🫶

[stoic thorn]

I’ve seen video about guy who was born blind. And he said he can’t see in his dreams either. that’s cool, he only hears, smell etc. but can’t see anything…

[topaz dagger]

Yeah, I figured he wouldn't see anything. But I still wonder what he's dreaming about. It looks like a nice dream. :3

[stoic thorn]

yup, true

But the best moment here was, when professor Bins brings the class to the hall and tell them to look for something… Ominis sits down in the middle of the floor and eats an apple 😂 guess that’s what you get when telling the blind kid to look for something 🤣🤣🤣

[topaz dagger]

😂 omg, best response.

[topaz dagger]

I still facepalm at MC telling imperio'd Ominis not to move until they and Sebastian are "out of sight."

[stoic thorn]

Only a heartless would cast imperio on Ominis 😭😭😭

You can easily find a compromise with him 😭

Srsly, casting Imperio on blind kid who already has been through Cruciatus is so damn cruel and heartless...

[topaz dagger]

To be fair, MC just makes him stand there.

[stoic thorn]

Still not enough reason to do so...

[topaz dagger]

Just saying, it could've been a lot worse.

[stoic thorn]

He can be easily convinced

[stoic thorn]

I honestly was scared to finish Sebastians questline, because I thought he will cast avada on Ominis, because he would try to stop him... Then Imperio was definitely the better option...

[topaz dagger]

That would've been so damn sad.

[stoic thorn]

Yeah... glad it wasn't him... still terrible things to happen. I didn't finish the questline on my first run, because I believe that's the only truly good decision to make...

[topaz dagger]

Ominis lives happily ever after, and nobody can tell me otherwise. 😤

[stoic thorn]

@feral locust that is also answer for our previous conversation as well...

[stoic thorn]

Well according to a canon story Ominis most likely couldn't live longer than 30, because is brother Marvolo and Marvolo's children were the only Gaunts left in that years...
My personal idea is, Ominis is smart enough and disagree with his family, so he could also erase memories of him being a Gaunt and thus be free of the name and disappear to live far away from all of this... I hope he did that. He definitely is smart enough to do so...

[topaz dagger]

Marvolo being his brother isn't Canon, so...

[feral locust]

I never had to use imperio on Ominis, he did nothing wrong. But if I had to choose a side to defend because things got worse and Sebastian would have not listen to reason, I would have sided with Ominis

[feral locust]

That's what I think too. He really did not want anything to do with his family anymore...

[blazing grotto]

More likely Ominis could end up blasted off the family tree and thus not considered a Gaunt anymore.

[stoic thorn]

Agreed

[stoic thorn]

It's most likely true... it fits the timeline

[topaz dagger]

It’s possible. I’m just saying, it isn’t a fact.

[stoic thorn]

I know, but is very probable... there wasn't much Gaunts left this timeline either...

[topaz dagger]

Marvolo could also have been one of Ominis’ uncles or cousins.

[stoic thorn]

Well, considering his siblings were raw enough to cast cruciatus on him, it's quite probable one of them was Marvolo... described as "violent, bigoted, mindless old fool"

[topaz dagger]

Hey, I am a big subscriber to the “Marvolo is Ominis’ big bro” theory. :3

[stoic thorn]

Stupid enough to do that and violent that much he couldn't even attend Hogwarts

Ominis is probably last pure blooded Gaunt attending Hogwarts... So it also means he is most likely also the most skilled and smartest of the Gaunts left...

[hot lark]

He’s dreaming about the girl next to him

[stoic thorn]

I’ve been thinking…
What appearance you guys think would boggart take in front of Ominis? Like… he is blind and boggarts take an appearance of the ones biggest fear, but since Ominis has never seen anything before, he can’t even imagine it 🤯

[shadow oyster]

the screams of tortured innocents?

[stoic thorn]

Might be... but my friend thinks you have to be able to see the boggart for it to get any form, so it would mean Ominis would be immune 🤷🏻‍♀️

It would definitely probably doesn't have any form, just sounds. But boggarts are not about sounds...

[frail basalt]

i wonder if ominis would die if he made eye contact with a basilisk snake thing

since hes blind

[graceful cloud]

sounds like he'd make the perfect heir to control the basilisk

[stoic thorn]

I don't think so. He would be immune as well, you have to look into it's eyes 🤷🏻‍♀️

[graceful cloud]

this one's also an interesting take. the way boggarts work, they must have some ability to read minds though idk if eye contact is necessary.

[feral locust]

True. But from what I've understood he doesn't like to be able to speak parselmouth, being a descendant from Salazar himself and worse just part of the Gaunt family. The only good thing he had from his lineage was Aunt Noctua. Now that she's gone, I tend to think he would leave his so called family as soon as he's able to...

[stoic thorn]

Probably true, still he would be able to do so

[graceful cloud]

agreed! i like to think his family probably was trying to shape him up to be the heir given his circumstances but it only resulted in him despising everything that has to do with the dark arts

[stoic thorn]

That's what makes him so interesting... he would be perfect heir of Salazar, but he doesn't want to... I believe he could have been the reason why Gaunts fall so deep... he was most likely last pure blooded member who attended Hogwarts and refused all that came with it.

[feral locust]

Why control a basilisk if you don't want to have anything to do with Salazar ? You can't have it as a pet and his only utility would be to "kill" mudbloods. Wich is against everything Ominis believe in

[stoic thorn]

But he can't even imagine anything. He never see anything in his life. He can't even see in his dreams

[stoic thorn]

I meant it in a way I mentioned above.

[feral locust]

Just imagine if it was Tom Riddle in Ominis' place, what he could've done ? Crazy

[stoic thorn]

He has all the potential to be such a heir, but refuses it, which is what makes him such amazing character

[stoic thorn]

Exactly

[feral locust]

Totally !

[graceful cloud]

right, which must be pretty mindboggling for a boggart. we've only seen it take the form of visual fears so the question is whether it can also mimic other stimuli 🤔

[frail basalt]

i hope we get a second part of sebastians storyline in the second game, not just because of sebastian but because his storyline was more interesting than the main one

the main one was so boring to me

and i hope we get more of ominis because he has SO much potential

[stoic thorn]

Exactly what I meant...

[feral locust]

It would probably affect his other senses so it could still be a thing he were most afraid of. Voices of family members and so on...

[graceful cloud]

i like to think so too. since boggarts are manifestations of emotions and not a being, i think they'd be a bit more versatile in nature.

[feral locust]

For exemple if he was tortured by Marvolo, he would hear his voice taunting him, sense the cold room he was in when it was happenning, the smell around him (marvolo's perfume) and other things. It would be enough to be scared I think...

[stoic thorn]

but whe Neville was scared of professor Snape, the boggart didn’t say the word…

[feral locust]

Maybe he was scared more of his presence, him being in the same room ?

Wait, wasn't Hermione's boggart Professor McGonagall telling her she failed all of her exams ? Wich include talking ? Or can you hear the voices in your head perhaps ? It is never stated that they absolutely don't speak

Third book I do believe so

[graceful cloud]

yes i believe that's correct

[stoic thorn]

Ok, I didn't know that... 🤔

[feral locust]

That would explain what Ominis would feel if it does happen to him

[stoic thorn]

Yup, it would probably doesn't have any form, but only sounds then🤷🏻‍♀️

[graceful cloud]

now i'm just thinking about how to cast riddikulus at disembodied voices 😆

[feral locust]

From the book, if you don't mind of course "Hermione did everything perfectly until she reached the trunk with the Boggart in it. After about a minute inside it, she burst out again, screaming.
“Hermione!” said Lupin, startled. “What’s the matter?”
“P-P-Professor McGonagall!” Hermione gasped, pointing into the trunk. “Sh-she said I’d failed everything!”
It took a little while to calm Hermione down. When at last she had regained a grip on herself, she, Harry, and Ron went back to the castle. Ron was still slightly inclined to laugh at Hermione’s Boggart, but an argument was averted by the sight that met them on the top of the steps."

Other people can't hear, but you can if it is your boggart I think

[stoic thorn]

Cool

How would he cast ridiculous then?

[graceful cloud]

i gotta hit the sack but you two carry on 🙂 fun discussion, i'll catch up in the morn

[feral locust]

Like any other spell, and it would transform the voices and ambience to I don't know, Sebastian doing/talking funny things ?

[feral locust]

Okay, take care !

[hot lark]

Why does the Japanese dub have more emotion behind the MC yelling “ロドゴク！！” (Lodgok) when he dies than the English dub with the MC yells “No!”

[silk lava]

I disagree tbh

The Japanese voice acting for the female MC was not that great imho

The voice actress' voice is also distorted when you mess with the pitch

[hot lark]

The male was better

[silk lava]

Tho the male Japanese MC has more emotions

I haven't heard most of the cast but Fig was decent for the elderly sensei type

I think only other character I heard was Sebastian and he fr be sounding like a shounen anime character

What ruins the immersion for me is that all the spells remain voiced in English

[hot lark]

https://youtu.be/TrD2DlPVuB0?si=CFlpIl140vQcBo4C Garlick Sensei has mommy vibes in her Japanese voice

[winged rampart]

the japanese dub is kinda a hit or miss, great on some parts, but not the others

kinda sad they turned natty into a really generic character

[topaz dagger]

Generic how?

[winged rampart]

like you can't discern her with other characters

[topaz dagger]

What do you mean? How so?

[winged rampart]

https://youtu.be/LJo6Rt_U9yk?si=ze19SNPTDw-gzq6s
Maybe it's just me, I feel like she's turned to some regular anime character

[tender wolf]

It's kinda hard to carry over ethnic accents to different languages, especially ones as strong as Natty's.

[winged rampart]

yet funny enough, I don't feel that with ronen at all

[tender wolf]

Probably due to language/accent structure.

[hot lark]

It’s probably pretty hard to match a Zimbabwean accent while speaking Japanese so that’s probably why Natty sounds pretty generic

[brave torrent]

ravenclaw did get kinda forgotten with the whole "companion" part, only one that doesnt really have a questline

also all others have parent issues in one form or another

[still heron]

fr lol

amit kinda just noped out of the plot

[brave torrent]

yeah he only has 2 quests, the rest have quite a lot

[winged rampart]

tbf he was never part of the plot to begin with

[brave torrent]

he speaks gobbledigook (or however you spell that)

so he is in 1 of the quests

[winged rampart]

honestly if I were given a choice I'd pick rowland over amit

[brave torrent]

too bad companions arent really companions

[winged rampart]

at some points I'd prefer them to stay back and let me handle the fights instead of ruining my feats

they could've make it better but... oh well

[brave torrent]

yes but aside from that

they only join you in some missions and have little in the way of actual dialogue beside those missions

[topaz dagger]

Me too. We know he can speak fluently.

[cold sinew]

I feel so empty without profesor fig

Thought about hik for hours

Him

But atleast the snowy theme is gone

[tender wolf]

Oh goody time to play again. I liked it without the snow

[cold sinew]

Btw, my brother stupidly didnt get the Avada Kedavra curse lol

[tender wolf]

Breh

[topaz dagger]

How did you get the snow to go away?

[topaz dagger]

Stupidly? Why stupidly?

[tender wolf]

System update?

[cold sinew]

It is not like that, it is progression based, so when you get to a certain point of the game it starts and after the story line end it is gone

At least that what happened to me

[topaz dagger]

Not in my experience. Weird.

[tender wolf]

Ah that kinda makes sense

[cold sinew]

Let me check

I have a guy who has snow but is still in early progression

[winged rampart]

iirc shouldn't it be spring/summer when it's time for OWL?

[cold sinew]

Yes

[topaz dagger]

Yep.

[tender wolf]

Is it based on real life seasons then?

[winged rampart]

it was a long while ago for me, but I think it does change to that at the end

[cold sinew]

And yes it is progression based seasons, because in this account that I still dont have it completed it is still snowy

[tender wolf]

I don't wanna be stuck in perpetual winter after completing the Christmas time end of semester stuff

[topaz dagger]

😂

[cold sinew]

.

The snow will be gone when you finish the game

[tender wolf]

Ah ok

[topaz dagger]

That's 255 days. 🤣

[cold sinew]

So just get better

[topaz dagger]

At least it should be.

It doesn't go away for me.

[cold sinew]

Yeah made a new account at around october 2024 because I thought the snow is forever lol

[winged rampart]

though in exchange I was trapped in eternal daytime

[hot lark]

Just saying

[topaz dagger]

Yes they did. This makes no sense, unless Victor Rookwood just happens to have a wand core from the exact same animal as the MC.

[stoic thorn]

It's just for a game effect 🤷🏻‍♀️

[topaz dagger]

It's not lore-accurate.

[hot lark]

@topaz dagger Effie’s not going to be happy

[tender wolf]

Didn't MC also break a few laws /hj

[hot lark]

But they didn't get caught

[tender wolf]

Sebastian technically didn't either but some people decided to turn him in therefore making him guilty

[topaz dagger]

Unfortunately for them, Effie knows Avada Kedavra too. O-O

[hot lark]

Dang

I’m glad Juliana got to celebrate Ravenclaw winning the House Cup but deep down she feels it’s not the same without Sebastian (who’s rotting away in Azkaban for Avunculicide), and Professor Fig there to cheer her on

[silk lava]

He won't cheer with you even if you spared him if you're a Slytherin lol

[still heron]

Do you think there's a plot reason he sits it out or do you think the devs got lazy because they didn't want to code him in and out depending on whether the player sent him away

HL2 will answer that!!

[short walrus]

Don’t know what they’re fighting abt but… 😅

[graceful cloud]

wonder what kind of ghost i'd be if i haunt hogwarts

[short walrus]

😭

[cold sinew]

Just saw this lol

[feral locust]

lmao probably the dumbest way i could have gotten this chest

i don't even know what the proper solution is, and i was getting pissed off

[random bloom]

😭 BRUH

[tender wolf]

Love when ya get too mad to properly solve a problem but you end up fixing it somehow XD

Wait is that in the weird Room of Requirement maze thing

[topaz dagger]

The "proper" solution is pulling the front crate aside, then dragging the back crate (with the chest on top of it) forward.

[random bloom]

I just want to ask, HOW did you do this 🤦‍♀️

[shut marlin]

Same

[feral locust]

i leviated the crate with the chest, acciod it on top of the other crate in that small room, and then i accioed the lower crate a bunch and leviated the chest crate and it did this

[feral locust]

yeah

[tender wolf]

Oh damn

I hated that version of the room

[random bloom]

And I thought I got mad when I was trying to figure out Stupefy 😂

[feral locust]

whatchu mean

as in figure out spotify

lmao nvm

[random bloom]

I had a hard time understanding what the game meant by holding down the button

[feral locust]

yeye i misread stupefy as spotify

[random bloom]

because nothing was happening, and then I understood after I messed up 3 times

[feral locust]

i too didn't get how to do stupefy until a bit of trial and error

i was letting it go too soon

[random bloom]

same

my husband thought me and him had the same quests, because when he mentioned the mirror paintings with the moths on it, I had no clue what he was talking about, and then I met someone who informed me about it literally a day after my husband told me about the quest

[graceful cloud]

at least you noticed them 🥲 i p much speedran this part and missed everythinggg

[cold sinew]

Why your bio immedatly say married lol

[short walrus]

Umm…. A bit unnecessary 😅

[winged rampart]

so yeah, violence also runs in your homies :v

[short walrus]

They were just play fighting

I think

[feral locust]

what are the dark arts anyway? like what does the concept entail? is it when a wizard/witch uses any magic for evil purposes? is it specific spells that are deemed evil on their own?

can a dark arts user be a decent person?

[still heron]

good question i too am curious

[tender wolf]

I would consider Sebastian both a Dark Arts user and a decent person

[stoic thorn]

they are forbidden for a reason. Ominis tells you more about that since he is from the family of dark arts users… forbidden curses are forbidden, because you have to truly mean them for them to work. So for example cruciatus work properly only if you truly want to torture the person.

avada kedavra is damaging the caster souls.

[shut marlin]

Well, not so much Avada Kedavra specifically as the act of killing in general

[still heron]

what if someone who is good went about using avada kedavra on bad people

does that make them bad

[stoic thorn]

Ominis said it nicely:
"The Dark Arts seem harmless until it's too late."

[stoic thorn]

yes

[shut marlin]

That's extremely murky territory because what exactly are the criteria to determine a 'bad person'

[still heron]

so vigilantes are bad?!?!?!

what about my boy behind bars uhhh i forgot his name

he shot some ceo

[shut marlin]

Allegedly.

[still heron]

Allegedly indeed!!

[shut marlin]

And that's a whole ass converstion that doesn't belong in this server since it's not a hypothetical

[still heron]

your blood is on ranroks hands!!

he said after murdering the entire poaching camp

[feral locust]

there should be more interhouse rivalry in this game

i hate seeing these gryffindors and slytherins getting along

and ravenclaws and slytherins

and hufflepuffs and slytherins

and slytherins and slytherins

[shut marlin]

That's cool, we on the other hand are tired.

[feral locust]

tired of what

[still heron]

deez

[feral locust]

deez what

[feral locust]

if you mean house discussion in the server i don't mean that tho, i mean in game

there is canonically rivalry between houses in HP and i feel like that's missing from the game

[shut marlin]

Yes, I know.

[feral locust]

maybe things were different in the time period the game takes place in to a degree

[shut marlin]

And the absolute severity of that rivalry was completely stupid in canon, not to mention exacerbated by the events of the war, so it makes sense that there wouldn't be such a wide rift between Slytherin and every single other House during the time of Legacy.

[feral locust]

Lol I agree that it was dumb to dub Slytherin "the evil house" like JK did, feels off

makes sense that Voldemort's presence and actions would exacerbate the rift between houses

since there was an active war going on 10ish years before the events of the first game and most dark wizards were from slytherin thesmelves/had relatives in slytherin

[random bloom]

Theres something called discord creeps
but that's extremely irrelevant to this server.

[feral locust]

what subject does fig teachg

[shut marlin]

Magical Theory.

[feral locust]

huh, did harry ever take that subject

[shut marlin]

Yes, it's a mandatory subject for first-years. We just never saw it

[topaz dagger]

Or heard any mention of it.

[shut marlin]

Not in the books at least

Only through WoG/on Pottermore

[topaz dagger]

Luckily for Professor Fig's first-years, they almost never have to actually come to class.

[shut marlin]

Pffft

[tender wolf]

deez nuts

[feral locust]

ffs when do i learn alohomora

[random bloom]

I wanna learn Bombarda

[winged rampart]

right after rackham's trial for alohomora

[random bloom]

OH??
I literally took a break from Rackhams trial

[feral locust]

ohhh that's my next mission finally

thanls

[random bloom]

I bought my broom

I got the black one that costs 2k xD

ngl i probably should start back up on fighting enemies, just to get galleons, im broke

[winged rampart]

have you been opening chests with eye on them? they're a good source early on

[random bloom]

I still havent figured out how to open them yet

[winged rampart]

||approach them while in disillusionment||

[tender wolf]

||Make sure to disillusion yourself out of sight of the chests||

[random bloom]

Ohhhhh that makes so much more sense now

[winged rampart]

also bombarda won't be until much later on winter

[tender wolf]

Selling all gear except ones with the highest stats is a great way to get galleons too

[random bloom]

yeah

[feral locust]

tbh it's not that getting galleons is hard, it's that spending them is easy

especially on spellcrafts

[random bloom]

Oh my god, i just discovered something on accident

||I literally held O on my ps4 controller and I turned into this blue glowing ball and I fast for like a second||

😭 I didnt know that was a thing

[winged rampart]

that's from talent

[feral locust]

that's a talent

[shut marlin]

Swift dodge, it's a core talent

[feral locust]

this one

[random bloom]

Im just gonna keep expecting the unexpected

[winged rampart]

ngl it feels like a semi-apparition to me

[random bloom]

it does

[feral locust]

what are these balls

[random bloom]

speed

[winged rampart]

speed boosts

[feral locust]

ahhh makes sense

[random bloom]

Ngl I ran past like 90% of them and still won
I only took 1 speed boost from each set and took 2 from the last set

[winged rampart]

like those rings from older harry potter games

[feral locust]

i'm fairly sure i have ptsd from the ring minigame from PoA

[random bloom]

bro, my character Scarlett, just said "Your bloods on Ranroks hands" that was a wicked line

[feral locust]

which particular spell is required to solve these merlins trials

[winged rampart]

look for blue butterflies and guide them with lumos

[feral locust]

oh thanks

[winged rampart]

they sometimes do that after killing certain enemies

"eight legs is simply too many" is what I hear often

[random bloom]

I only heard that 2 times

[graceful cloud]

i giggle a bit every time i hear that line 😆

[winged rampart]

just means you haven't seen that many spiders yet

[random bloom]

I already did Richard Jackdaws quest
Ive seen a lot of spiders, its just she didnt say it a lot

[graceful cloud]

there's a lottt of spider lairs coming your wayy

[winged rampart]

way more than in jackdaw's

I swear they give us more spiders than goblins or dark wizards

[graceful cloud]

fr

[random bloom]

My husband has arachnophobia and ||didnt turn off the mode, so when it zoomed in on that purple thronback spider, he turned his head and said|| "Can you not zoom in like that?" it genuinely made me laugh because theyre not real

[graceful cloud]

oh dear 😅

idk if you've met the matriarch and the acromantula but those are a few times worse

i don't even have the phobia but mantulas creep me tf out

[random bloom]

acromantula sounds familiar

oh its that giant spider that hagrid was friends with in the movie, i havent seen that one yet in the game

[winged rampart]

aragog, yeah

[graceful cloud]

it's a fun boss to fight but boi do i have jeebies after that

and i already have the heebies

[random bloom]

i love spiders, so this is something i look forward to

[graceful cloud]

nice

[glacial oyster]

im still bad at them..

[random bloom]

It took me 3 tries

Imelda reminds me of how I used to act in school xD

||Just saw a ravenclaw walking on the side of the wall, of the castle..glad to know we can just do that||

[hot lark]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-it-with-fire-gif-21949796

[feral locust]

i have to say, room of requirement is very cool

i love that you can decorate it a lot

bro really asking me to pay for this even though it was with my contributions he was able to sell this

he looks like he would be active in 4 different fantasy football leagues if he was a muggle ngl

[topaz dagger]

Just imagine how much he's charging everyone else.

[tender wolf]

Isn't the last broom upgrade like 7.5k galleons

[random bloom]

...youre telling me that the last broom upgrade, ONE of the upgrades are almost 8k galleons? Who's got that much 😭

[tender wolf]

Pretty sure it's 7.5k it was aj exorbitant ampunt for sure

[random bloom]

Wanna know who doesnt have that much galleons? Everett Clopton. Doesnt even have a broom /jk

[tender wolf]

Lmao

I forgot about the third upgrade until near endgame when i had like over 20k from fodder gear and chests

[feral locust]

is anyone just constantly lost in the castle? i generally have pretty bad pathfinding and hogwarts is particularly confusing

since the map isn't very instructive

[tender wolf]

the mini map can be helpful at times, you can also push a certain button (idk what it is for different platforms) that will create a little shimmery path to your next objective

[cold sinew]

Imagine being scared from a video game (Horror games?!)

[cold sinew]

Yeah some times, but after some time you get used to seeing patterns and recognise rooms

[feral locust]

it's not that i can't find the objectives(minimap just shows the way anyway) but if i don't have a particular objective it's hard to find my way

[tender wolf]

oh makes sense lol

[cold sinew]

Me? Like it is pretty easy to get, give me an hour and the map of every poacher/goblin camp and I get that and more.

Yall me and my brother finished the game at the same day

And the first thing I thought is noooo profesor fig, and my brother noooo no more story line

[topaz dagger]

Nah, I memorized the layout a long time ago.

[feral locust]

i have pretty severe aphantasia, hogwarts does not bode well

[brave torrent]

what even happens when you turn it on

[shut marlin]

Just removes dead spider clutter from the environment and changes the spider enemy models to something less scary-looking

[tender wolf]

It 'casts a Ridikulus spell' on them so they look goofy with detached boots for feet instead of terrifying to us arachnophobic folks

[graceful cloud]

looks a lot scarier to me somehow 😓

[dreamy dove]

why did i always think he looked like DanTDM 💀

[feral locust]

I think I accidently just made katniss everdeen

[feral locust]

i have 0 regrets with looking up demiguise locatinos ngl

it was so annoying not being able to open locks

[topaz dagger]

locatinos

[feral locust]

https://tenor.com/view/spelling-mistake-minor-spelling-mistake-meme-gif-23650588

damn i'm guessing no embeds

[tender wolf]

aw sadge

[tender wolf]

Prolly the most annoying part of the game for me

[feral locust]

please feel free to take your pick

[feral locust]

real

[feral locust]

How about Merlin trials ?

if i ever replay the game i'm 100% doing a certain action that WB don't want us to talk about here but will enable alohomora from the start

[feral locust]

their sheer amount is a bit staggering but at least they're easy and don't lock you out of areas

doing the rolling stone one was a pain before i unlocked depulso though because sometimes accio doesn't work, especially on flat surfaces

[feral locust]

The number you have to finish to get the 100% of the game was way more annoying to me than to find a few demiguise....