Hogwarts Legacy Cats May Not Be What They Seem

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A newspaper in Hogwarts Legacy suggests some of the cats in the game could actually be humans who have used magic to transform into cats. Hogwarts Legacy features a variety of animals for players to interact with, including some notable magical beasts.

Hogwarts Legacy magical beasts can be rescued from poachers and taken to vivariums where players can brush them, feed them, and gather resources that can then be used to upgrade their gear. Hogwarts Legacy players can even breed magical creatures if they so desire. Besides magical creatures, Hogwarts Legacy also has normal animals walking around its open world, with plenty of cats to be found.

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However, there is some evidence to suggest that at least some of the cats in the game may actually be animagi in disguise. In Harry Potter lore, an animagus is a witch or wizard that can transform into an animal. Becoming an animagus is exceptionally difficult and the Ministry of Magic keeps a registry of everyone that masters the power, so there aren't very many in the Wizarding World. Even so, some individuals learn how to be an animagus in secret, which is exactly what happened in the world of Hogwarts Legacy. A newspaper players can read in Hogsmeade reveals that an unregistered animagus was arrested after pretending to be their neighbor's cat for a whopping 15 years.

This, of course, opens the door to the possibility that some of the cats in Hogwarts Legacy are animagi, though that possibility always existed with or without this particular newspaper clipping. Hogwarts Legacy encourages players to pet the cats in the game, so the thought that some of them may secretly be animagi is rather creepy. While the player character in