Hogwarts Legacy Should Avoid This Controversial Harry Potter Item

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Hogwarts Legacy has a lot of source material it can consider when deciding what items to include. Certain iconography would still pair well to Hogwarts Legacy’s 1800s setting at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, while a lot will likely be left to the modern era in terms of environmental design. For example, it would be fascinating to see the potential addition of Polyjuice in Hogwarts Legacy’s gameplay.

However, one item could be left to the original books and movies as it could potentially stir more controversy in Hogwarts Legacy. The item in question is the time-turner, which is infamously regarded as one of the worst inclusions to the franchise. Interestingly, one of the few reasons it was ever difficult to comprehend was due to the author, who decided to make changes that stifled them and ultimately eradicated them from the canon. For this reason and more, Hogwarts Legacy would do well to distance itself from the time-turner.

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Harry Potter’s author decided to change the rules on some of their fiction after the fact, including the logic behind time-turners. The use of Hermione Granger’s time-turner made sense within the parameters of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but the item’s extrapolated lore and origins are not as pertinent to its appearance in the book or movie. Hogwarts Legacy would be no different.

The time-turner essentially allows its user to travel a few hours backward in time by turning an hourglass attached to a necklace. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione had used this item in order to double-down on her studies with a much higher workload, and she and Harry later use it to prevent the death of Buckbeak and