All posts by Mystic Monkey

Thanks.

Yeah, but some have to wait longer than others, thus miss hanging out on the discussion boards.

Plus, I'm a wiki admin, I can't just go silent for over a month.

Old thread is old, but thanks.

@Passionlip

They might be agreeing with her, than just interrupting her. Maybe than interrupting her. SU giving that "Yes!" may indicate they favour Slythin and proud to hear they're fighting for Hogwarts cause than just being stereotypical baddies or cowards.

@Slyther1nFan1991

Yeah, I just didn't know the ratio or the canon at the time. I know not all Slytherins sided with Voldemort just as some other-house former students have. Such as Pettigrew or Quirrel.

I have noticed when it comes to cars, even some pure-blood wizards with anti-muggle stances have had interest and purchase in luxury cars. So it could be possible some muggle products are allowed on wizarding markets without objection from the anti-muggle community.

I simply imagine if Willy Wonka, or a Potterversion of Willy Wonka exist, he would sell confectionary products to both muggle and wizarding vendors. Though, maybe fizzy lifting drinks or three-course-meal gum would be reserved for wizarding market. Especially if Willy Wonka uses the same ingredients for his confectionaries that potioneers use.

I just don't get why 10 is the minimum when it could be 1. My guess there are other ways to earn and lose points other than goal and snitch that may deduct points by units but I dunno what these ways are.

"For the point of the snitch, without it how would the game end"

How bout:

• The first team to score 15 goals? (150 points in total)

• The game lasts for 80 or 90 minutes, like muggle sports.

Think about it, you spend 20 galleons (around £80) for a ticket to see the Chudley Cannons take on the Kenmare Kestrels. Biggest match of the year! Everyone is excited! Camps out the stadium for months! You get your snacks, find your seat and the match begins...

Snitch caught in 5-15 minutes or so. Go home now.

@Luuyuu

True. And while you can say the "flashy effects" from most of the spells could be the game itself showing off the special effects, it could be possible our student can see magic more clearly and visibly than others because they can see ancient magic.

Still I can see why those who grew up with such games as Phil's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prizoner of Azkaban feel a sense of nostalgia playing Hogwarts Legacy because these three particular games were partially inspired by the movies and mostly did it's own thing and had it's own "style" and "vibrancy" so to speak that the later Harry Potter games forgoes for movie-accuracy.

Hogwarts Legacy sort of in-captures that "style" and "vibrancy", as well as do so without needing to fit a dungeon-gauntlet in every classroom that we must do.

Because of that, I hope we get a sequel, as a fifth-year student we got two more years in Hogwarts after all. Or the very least "Legacy" games based on other schools or maybe Ministry careers such as aurors or curse-breakers.

I like the idea of "Hogwarts Legacy 2" where you get to explore mid-Victorian era London. You can travel amongst the main streets but must keep your magic hidden but also magical places like Diagon Alley and a few other magically concealed places around London could map out a "hidden London", such as secret alleyways or parts of the underground that only wizards can access.

The very least it would be cool if it was a Hogwarts Legacy expansion adventure where you take everything you learned from the main game and take the Hogwarts Express to London to assist aurors with something.

I believe it's its own continuity. Not to say the events of the books may not happen (game takes place just a year before Albus Dumbledore started his first year at Hogwarts) I simply believe "Legacy continuity" is different from the Movies continuity... if that makes any sense.

I mean, in the movie Order of the Phoenix, Professor Umbridge used a spell called "Bombarda Maxima" to blow clear a weakened wall. The Legacy version of the spell "Bombarda" looks the same in strength and blast to me despite no modifier-incantations.

Same goes for "Reparo" which in Legacy is used to restore rather large-scale constructions where I always thought the mending charm had a range of small to large objects to immediate surroundings.

If that's how you feel, I'll leave it at that then with my regards.

@Visiblegoat

My only debate with you was the whole wiccan thing.

Slytherin.Goddess said they would remove the "horrid representation" which I asked them about, which they said "racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia etc littered in the books and films"

In response I simply said I had no awareness of such things. I did say if it's to do with JKR twitter hate I don't want anything to do with that but I didn't out-right tell Slytherin.Goddess they were wrong.

Then you asked me my thoughts on three specific questions, which I answered. My conclusion to my thoughts is simply that if you hate something, do it honestly, not because someone told you to hate it.

I also said to Luuyuu "That's fine if that's how they feel on the matter. If those are the changes they want if they could then that's fine for them."

So just because I don't see or understand the way you or @Slytherin.Goddess.Of.The.Moon see these issues that need to be changed, doesn't mean I detest your opinions on such required changes. I myself don't understand or agree with them but I respect your opinions on the matter.

@Luuyuu

I stopped playing the Playstation Harry Potter games when Goblet of Fire went all "hack 'n' slash with magic" but Hogwarts Legacy bring back that nostalgia and joy of exploration and platforming that those games had. I find it hard to imagine a "Hogwarts Legacy 2" that isn't just a 1.5 with Hogwarts used again but I do hope we get a sequel of sorts.

But returning to the topic of my this thread, if you think the Wizarding World needs tweaks or fixes to it's lore what would it be? (Such as my examples 30 posts up.)

@Luuyuu

That's fine if that's how they feel on the matter. If those are the changes they want if they could then that's fine for them.

I just think most of the "hate" around JKR, whenever she deserves it or not is none of my business, is mostly spunned by twitter twits and... well, people like Rita Skeeter who twist the presented facts for more interesting drama around it. That people are told what to hate about her and what to hate about Harry Potter because of her.

And Harry Potter or it's media shouldn't have to suffer for that. Or how playing Hogwarts Legacy makes you "transphobic", "sadistic", "racist" or whatever... and I'm just enjoying the game as it is. Because it's a game and I find it a fun and good game, that's all.

@Visiblegoat - "What are your thoughts about her naming a Chinese character a stereotypical Korean name?"

Where in the books or movies was it ever stated she was Chinese? We dunno if she's a transfer student from Mahoutokoro but given it was never mentioned she was probably born in UK. Perhaps her parents or her parents parents are from Korea, we dunno.

Maybe it's the fact that Cho Chang was played by Katie Leung in the movies. Her parents were from Hong Kong but they moved to Scotland where she was born in Dundee.

FInally, if you just googled, Chang (/tʃɑːŋ/) is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames.

@Visiblegoat - "Or naming a black character Kingsley Shacklebolt.?"

Perhaps the name implies slavery, or that his ancestors were slaves.... but he clearly isn't a slave.... unless you count all that paperwork he has to do as the Minister for Magic.

You skipped over the fact his name was "Kingsley". Does it bother you a fictional someone who potentially descended from slaves is depicted in a position of political power?

@Visiblegoat - "Or maybe that the goblins are characterized in a very antisemetic stereotypical way (big noses, own all the banks/money, money hungry, etc)"

Goblins with big noses and ears?

I bet that's never been done before!

Not in the history of ever!

(19th century goblin illustration)

Also, yes, the goblins we are mostly familiar with are the bank goblins from Gringotts. But just because they're bank owners doesn't mean they're hording all them galleons to themselves, they're trusted by the wizarding community to hold their gold.

And given the absolute friction between the relations of goblinkind and wizardkind throughout history, can you imagine how much trust and responsibility wizardkind has given to the Goblins of Gringotts to manage their own economy? As we seen in Hogwarts Legacy, Gringotts goblins are killed by Ranrok because they insisted on Gringotts policies that Ranrok was breaching.

My conclusion-

J.K. Rowling tweeted on her opinions on trans and such and it blew up in her face. It spiraled more with people picking apart the Harry Potter books or boycotting those for playing Hogwarts Legacy, reading her book or watching the movies.

But at one point, before J.K. Rowling got a Twitter account... at one point, you all read the books or at least watch the movies at some point. You enjoyed this fantastic world she presented us with. And no, no it's not perfect, whenever ghosts, quidditch, incantations or perhaps other social injustices such as wiccan witches or wizards not allowed to attend Hogwarts. But you took it at face value and enjoyed the stories for what they were and because of that Harry Potter became just part of modern media culture such as Monty Python.

Just decide for yourself what you want to enjoy, or what to hate.

I dunno what books you've been reading but I never noticed any of such things in Harry Potter books. I mean yeah there's "pure-blood surpremecy" and muggle-hate which is an allegory of racism but that's about it.

If it's going to be about all those twitter controversies around JKR I'm straight-up not touching that.

The topic of this thread is if you can change the lore of Hogwarts and the Wizarding World what would it be.

@Slytherin.Goddess.Of.The.Moon

By horrid representation do you mean how the Hogwarts houses favour traits?

Not quite sure what you mean by the other stuff. Time travel is rather confusing and OP which is why JKR written the Ministry banned and collected all time turners for destruction or storage.

The maze I imagine used trans-dimensional magic, kind of like tents, Scamander's suitcase or the TARDIS.

The only "plot hole" I see with the full moon is that Remus seems to turn into a werewolf when he "sees" the full moon. Like, the whole point of the Shrieking Shack in his youth was a place where he could go and wolf out etc. But in the movie, the moment Remus left the willow's root and merely noticed the full moon he wolfed out.

So... just don't look at the moon Remus?

I believe in the book they made a bit more sense of it saying in Chapter 20 that Remus noticed the "full moon rising", as in the moon just peaking from the horizon.

Spells like the Trace as well as the Taboo jinx are perhaps the most powerful and confusing spells I know of. Britain is a fairly small island compared to other countries but a spell that covers an area of 209,331 km2... as I said while magic isn't magic if it has an explanation, I still think magic should at least have some reasonable limits such as range or certain exchanges (Gamp's Laws for example).

Maybe if the Ministry or Voldemort used ley lines as a means to transmit and spread out such spells across the UK, that make more sense? Or maybe throughout UK there are tall yet concealed totems or monoliths that serve as transmission towers for such spells?

@Dxvil.Charmss

What kind of courses?

I mean, muggle studies come to mind. I imagine muggleborns and half-bloods raised by muggles are perhaps excused from such lessons but given most wizards and witches were raised in the wizarding world, as well as blood-purist families that hate muggles, I imagine Muggle Studies is a course to encourage these wizards to understand and sympathize with muggles.

Well... that's kinda awful given the in-lore context of things. I guess another thing I would change if I could.

So you're saying muggleborns from families with wiccan beliefs are just flat-out not allowed to Hogwarts and ignored, despite the fact magic latency is a genetics thing, no exceptions? All because their parents have a different belief in magic over not believing it at all?

Not only is that just unfair, but extremely dangerous if their parents teach them "wrong magic" and their underage magic is directed through these practices.

Or maybe that's exactly what happens and these family blow up or something.

She probably meant "Wiccan muggles", muggles who believe they have magic.

That make more sense.

If Wiccan muggles give birth to a muggleborn witch or wizard I imagine it's the usual letter or messenger for them.

If what Hogwarts teaches contradicts what the muggle-raised young witch and wizard was taught to believe in they may refuse their acceptance to Hogwarts if they wanted to. But given the books or movies never tells us on religion and beliefs of the Wizarding World I imagine Hogwarts is an open-faith school. Magic is regarded a natural born ability than divine.