Hogwarts Legacy Fans Can't Decide if the Game Breaks Harry Potter Lore
While Hogwarts Legacy keeps smashing sales records, the most hardcore portion of its player base has taken to social media to debate whether the hit action-RPG also breaks established Harry Potter lore. The humorous, yet polarizing, discussion arrives days after Avalanche Software's latest title debuted to rave reviews, with Hogwarts Legacy already being touted as the series' best-ever game.
Hogwarts Legacy takes place nearly a hundred years before the events of the hit book series. Since Harry Potter lore before the 1800s is fairly well-established, the game's choice of a setting was largely driven by the developer's desire to have some creative freedom while still delivering an authentically familiar world. Many among the fandom have extensively debated whether a completely lore-friendly experience is even possible in the run-up to the game's release, with that discourse still appearing far from over.
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Namely, a recent Reddit post that started out as a joking observation about how Harry Potter seems suspiciously oblivious to the Hogwarts Legacy protagonist's «legendary exploits» turned out into a somewhat divisive discussion about how Avalanche Software's latest RPG fits into the established Wizarding World. Within hours, the February 14 thread drew hundreds of responses from the series' fans, many of whom agreed with the notion that an «ancient magic-wielding» fifth-year student would have probably left some titular legacy had the game's story not been written years after the books. One fan summarized this apparent narrative dissonance by jokingly dubbing the main character «they who REALLY must not be named.»
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