‘Hogwarts Legacy’ story and ending, explained
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Hogwarts Legacy is a bit of a different beast. You see, while nearly all the mainline Harry Potter video games have simply adapted a storyline from the

Not tagging this spoiler cause fuck TERFs, don't buy the game, uphold TC69 Thought etc. Have gotten this all from the above article and reviews that support it.

Yep, anti-semitic, slave-owning, Protocols of Zion plagiarising, let's join the anti-goblin pogrom game.

Yes the MacGuffin unambiguously belongs to the Goblins, who have a labour theory of ownership. No you can't join the Goblins. Yes you kill a bunch of them. Yes, there is a fucking quisling that's seen as good actually. Yes, every teacher thinks fighting the goblins is a good thing, despite a few token missions that apparently show how oppressed they are.

No, you never critique that this and every other aspect of the wizard world might be a bad thing.

I am once again calling for the House Elves to rise up, slit every slaver-wizard throat in Hogwarts, and place their heads on pikes outside the entrance as a warning to the others.

Don't. Buy. The TERF. Game.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I find The Worse Witch, let alone Narnia or The Dark is Rising to have generally better world building, all predate Rowling so she has no excuse.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Narnia was another series with a very strong start and a wet fart of an ending. The Last Battle was awful. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader literally went nowhere. There's a reason they gave up making those movies halfway through.

      Dark is Rising was cliche and boring compared to the LotR source material it desperately wanted to be.

      Never read the Worse Witch so, shrug

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I agree (though I really like Dawn Treader, actually. It's not very filmable though, given it getting increasingly less adventure tale and more introspective. Also Horse and his Boy despite it being deeply, deeply problematic is a genuinely fun book)

        Dark is Rising...I always thought it took more from Dunsany and Poe and maybe Walton than Tolkien. Certainly it's not as derivative as GG Kay's work

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Also Horse and his Boy despite it being deeply, deeply problematic is a genuinely fun book

          It's a textbook case of why you need to set aside being Woke sometimes and just enjoy things. Probably the best book in the series, even if Magician's Nephew is kinda my favorite.

          Dark is Rising…I always thought it took more from Dunsany and Poe and maybe Walton than Tolkien. Certainly it’s not as derivative as GG Kay’s work

          I mean, what do I know? I never made it past the first book.

          Maybe I'd just been too heavy on high fantasy at that point and just couldn't stomach the tropes.