Harry Potter: 12 Fantastic Beasts Confirmed For Hogwarts Legacy

Given its popularity, the team over at Portkey Games simply has to include it. Older Potter games did this, allowing players to become heroes of the castle in the process. The chance to bring home Quidditch Cup glory is simply too good an opportunity to turn d


If fans are going to have to be real students during their time playing Hogwarts Legacy then they should also be able to customize their schedule. As pupils get older, they are normally allowed to drop subjects and pick up new areas of inter


The game should make the place similarly deadly. Students should be able to explore but keep their wits about them in case something scary comes their way, while entry could also lead to punishments like house points being docked or even detention. Adding consequence would up the risk and, therefore, excitement

There was perhaps a time when JK Rowling could have been reached. There was a more reasonable way out of this for all of us. Now? Probably not. But we don’t need to act like everything she says is the end of the world. She wasn’t included in the Harry Potter special - aside from archive footage - because of how controversial she is. How you feel about her views on trans people is irrelevant; she is controversial. In some ways, she has deliberately made herself controversial, leaning into what is now her brand.


Hogwarts also has a bad record when it comes to caretakers, at least in the form of Argus Filch . He’s a squib jealous of every single student allowed into the castle, and, like Umbridge and Snape, he does everything in his power to throw his weight around and make pupils at the school misera


Phineas’ backstory may be more fleshed out in Hogwarts Legacy , potentially explaining why he was so unpopular. In the source material, he ends up helping Albus Dumbledore and even Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger when they go on the run. It would be curious to see him finally in the flesh instead of being a mere portrait hanging on a w

It’s exhausting being trans. There’s the beautiful side of finally embracing who you want to be, finding a sense of euphoria and belonging that had been missing for far too long. When you finally figure out your identity it can mean the world, it’s just a shame that so much of that very same world seems dead set against our existence. Please, just leave us alone.

We’ve seen transphobic institutions make progress in the wake of Rowling’s support, and this being brought into the timelines of even well-meaning individuals only serve to spread them further and wider. I understand the noble intention, and figures like this should be demonised and called out where appropriate, but I fear we’re forgetting about the echochamber we exist within and how substantial Rowling and Harry Potter are in the cultural zeitgeist. Fantastic Beasts is still getting a third film, The Cursed Child is still killing it on the West End, and I bet the films will be all over television during the Christmas period. Harry Potter isn’t going anywhere, it’s eternally relevant and will be read to generations of children to come. For the absolute worst, it’s here to stay, and Rowling’s pockets will be continually lined with profit regardless of how loud we manage to get.


Yet, while that’s the case, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Many of Harry’s teachers are just as intriguing as the Boy Who Lived himself, and it would be great for Hogwarts Legacy to include a similar bunch of characters with questionable approaches to the education sector. If not, then things could get rather bland and make the world less interesting as a res

She will maintain a fanbase. She will still be voted as person of the year by white, middle class Guardian readers whose biggest problem is those trans they’ve read so much about. But she will be forgotten, if we forget her. Trans art is on the rise. Laverne Cox, Kim Petras, Mj Rodriquez, Nikita Dragun, Elliot Page, Hunter Schafer, Jazz Jennings, Indya Moore, Chella Man, Elliot Fletcher… this is who the future belongs to . Let JK Rowling have the past. Leave her there.


Animals are a large part of everyday life in the Wizarding World. Often useful as part of the curriculum at Hogwarts Legacy updates, animals have very different abilities. It seems only logical that players should be able to choose the pet they have by their s


Dementors Considered one of the foulest creatures to traverse the wizarding world, Dementors are known for feeding on a person's happiness or even sucking out the very soul from a body. They can be seen eerily floating through what is most likely Azka

Of course, Rowling has also pointed out the more personal, more misogynist abuse she has received. Again, I don’t think Rowling is an irredeemable monster. I don’t think anything is solved by calling her a bitch, or worse. The problem is that this is a verbally violent issue on both sides.

Rowling has also been quick to point out the amount of abuse she receives, complaining that one man told her he was going to compost her books. Other people have burned them. Because transphobes - whether you think JKR is one or not, clearly they exist - love to rush to extremes, the idea that someone has burned a Harry Potter book means we’re returning to Nazi Germany. Not only is this offensive on the level of anti-vaxxers comparing themselves to Jews with the yellow star, it’s also monumentally stupid. That famous photo of the Nazis buring a huge pile of books? It’s outside the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft - they were burning the books specifically to destroy decades of research into trans people.