There's no romance in Hogwarts Legacy, so why do I feel like I'm third-wheeling?
Pacing along the cold stone corridors outside the Slytherin common room in Hogwarts Legacy, a sealed passage seems to call to one of my companions. Ominis Gaunt, much like the rest of his prestigious family lineage, happens to be a parselmouth. He hesitantly whispers a reply in the snake language, and a secret passageway slowly creaks open before us. But as I exclaim in wonder, impressed by his rare ability, someone mutters darkly from behind us.
"Between the two of you, I'm starting to feel left out."
Ominis pauses, then turns back. "Between the two of us?"
"I - never mind," Sebastian says hurriedly, and we enter the scriptorium without another word.
Goblin rebellions and ancient magic aside, one relationship is far more compelling to me than anything else in this game. I can't help feeling like I'm playing a supporting role in a very different story simultaneously to my own, and in this one, I'm the bad guy.
Hogwarts Legacy review: "Tries to do too much all at once"
Ominis Gaunt and Sebastian Sallow have a complex relationship. Its unrelenting strength is a central plot device in Hogwarts Legacy, upping the stakes of certain missions or changing the dynamics of others entirely. Where nobody stops me from entering an Ashwinder lair with Hufflepuff darling Poppy, Ominis tries repeatedly to keep me and Sebastian from destroying our lives with dark magic – or maybe, from destroying the life they had together. Their combined backstory is what makes them unique, and it's why they're so fascinating to me.
Playing through Sebastian's side quests, we learn more about their devotion to one another. Seb explains that when Ominis drifted apart from his family, estranged by their use of Unforgivable Curses and tortured by
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