Hogwarts Legacy's Quidditch Brooms May Break Harry Potter Canon
Flying broomsticks appear to be a traversal method in Hogwarts Legacy, but they might end up contradicting established canon from Harry Potter reference texts. The open world action RPG will let players explore the eponymous school, its grounds, and the surrounding region in between classes as a fifth-year student. Footage from the recent Hogwarts Legacy gameplay preview shows the player flying on a broomstick over the Scottish countryside. Flying brooms have long been a preferred method of travel for wizarding folk, but HogwartsLegacy's might contradict information provided by Quidditch Through the Ages.
Brooms in the Harry Potter franchise are most closely associated with Quidditch, the dominant team sport in the global wizarding community. Harry's various brooms throughout the series, such as the Nimbus 2000 and the Firebolt, are frequently important elements of the mainline series' plot, but the history of brooms was expanded in Quidditch Through the Ages, a real-life version of the fictional textbook mentioned in the Harry Potter novels. Brooms are frequently used for transport outside of Quidditch, and since Hogwarts Legacy looks absolutely massive, this magical means of locomotion is the most obvious way to give players more speed. Unfortunately, during the game's time period in the late 1800s, broomsticks weren't all that fast.
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According to Quidditch Through the Ages, flying broomsticks were in use since at least the Middle Ages in Europe. The main caveat is that brooms were mostly handmade, rudimentary, uncomfortable, and relatively slow until the 20th century. Cushioning Charms were invented in 1820, which improved comfort, but the
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