Amph Gaming Diagon Alley: The Official Harry Potter Thread/Hogwarts Legacy

Would you say it was an animajor screw up?

 

McGonnagal at least, suggests that Pettigrew was less talented that James and Sirius, and Lupin confirms that Pettigrew needed a lot of help from the other two to complete the Animagus process.

Still, he may have been only a tiny bit below them in talent, and way above average wizards of his age.

 

My headcannon suggests that James and Sirius were the top of their class in Transfiguration, so Peter needing a lot of help from them wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It might have been a case of him being good as opposed to them being great.

 

i know yours is a common complaint, and it's a point that i'm sure people have gone back and forth over at earlier points in this thread, but it's not a complaint i share. i guess i just don't need those details explicitly spelled out in the film because i have read the books, i know those details are there even if they're only barely mentioned. to me that history and lore still imbues the story even without a prologue or section of dialogue that explicitly references it on screen. i felt the first two films suffered from being too cookie cutter and trying to stick too closely to books, i thought cuaron's adaptation of poa was really a thing of beauty by comparison.

 

I didn't really like any of the films until Goblet, with PoA my least favourite, probably because it's also my favourite of the books.

But I am more forgiving of it now.

One thing I sorely missed from the books is S.P.E.W. I really wanted that in there.

 

Sorry to interrupt, but for those of you who are familiar with my posts, what house would you put me in?

Seriously asking for a friend. She's way into HP and we've been having a fun argument over it.

 

You posts are from the head rather than the heart, but you are not heartless or cold. Ravenclaw.

 

https://my.pottermore.com/sorting?utm_source=NextStep&utm_medium=Pottermore&utm_campaign=Experience

 

So, may be fake, may not be fake...

https://kotaku.com/leaked-video-seems-to-show-open-world-harry-potter-game-1829462702

 

Let's not forget S.P.E.W.'s successor organization, S.P.U.G. either.

 

Personally, I preferred Ron's suggestion: H.E.L.F. The House Elf Liberation Front.

 

Even ignoring Warner Bros. copyright take-down, it's seriously not fake. There are so many unique art assets in the footage that it would have to take a bloody dedicated team of trolls to put together a fake of that quality.

According to some reports it's the open world RPG that Avalanche Software put out job listings for a couple of years back, after Disney announced the cancellation of Disney Infinity. If the reports are true, the game is still a while off, and is either a next gen or cross gen title.

 

J.K. Rowling Needs To Stop Messing With Harry Potter

There are a lot of ... let's say revisions that come from J.K. Rowling ever since the last book hit the shelves. It is close to reaching Lucas Han Shot First. Not quite but close!

 

At least the Wand Order Problem was a legitimate thing to change.
Lily came out of the wand first then James in GOF.
Instead of the other way around.

 

I strongly disagree with most of the points in the article.

Firstly, half of the article is the authors problem that JK's political positions don't align perfectly with hers, and then being upset when she responds to fans who tried to use her characters against her. Somehow I don't think the author would be upset when JK uses the characters to the effect that she would agree with (like saying Voldemort is better than Trump).

Then she says that she's upset that more diverse characters weren't included in the books explicitly (which is a fair criticism) but then hand waves away the fact that some characters could be read as minorities. I'm not sure why Dumbledores sexuality was at all relevant to the character at that point in his story, or why it needed to be explained that a side character was Jewish... sometimes things lie this don't need to be explained in the story, especially when they aren't the focus.

Regarding the Nagini thing... I'm not sure what the problem is? There are other Asian characters who are portrayed completely differently, so it's not an issue of the series only having Asian characters in this position, and it's also clear the relationship isn't portrayed as a healthy one...

 

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Spoiler

 

Big Step Backward: J.K. Rowling Has Revealed That Dementors Are The Wizarding World’s Version Of Italians

 

I am....confused by this statement.

 

Clickhole is part of The Onion.

 

Oh, that does seem like the kind of thing that The Onion would come up with.

 

One problem I have with this article is that implies Rowling announced Dumbledore was homosexual on her own and without any context (the insinuation being she did so for no reason other than social brownie points). However, this not what happened. She was asked in an interview if Dumbledore has ever been in love. The answer to the question revealed more about the character. I’m not sure how this detail is a revision considering Dumbledore was never established as either gay or straight (unless the reader defaults a sexuality which is their problem). The article claims she should have been direct about it and maybe she should have. However, I wouldn’t qualify Dumbedore being gay post-release as messing or changing with the established story.

 

Gakk! Why is this not the biggest story?!!

 

Because it's fake...