Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world RPG (no trannies allowed)

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There is no way loading screens are worse in this game than in Starfield(which, I should add, is supposed to be a crown jewel in Microsoft's library and be a selling point to sell more Xbox consoles)
 
anustart76 said:
I can forgive a lot of things about Harry Potter but the one thing that will always annoy the shit out of me is the whole "mom died to save him and gave him magical protections" thing. His dad died to save him first.
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Nah, but you see, Voldemort gave her a choice. And her refusing is what fundamentally undid all laws of magic. Because that makes sense somehow.

That's actually the reason Rowling gave in one of her old interviews.
30+GameOvers said:
There is no way loading screens are worse in this game than in Starfield
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Is Starfield's loading screens worse than Fallout 4's at launch?
 
anustart76 said:
I can forgive a lot of things about Harry Potter but the one thing that will always annoy the shit out of me is the whole "mom died to save him and gave him magical protections" thing. His dad died to save him first.
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The books were written by a Westerner and a woman to boot so men don't matter. It's why Harry was rather worthless as a character and the only female that he had chemistry with went to his friend instead.
 
Useful_Mistake said:
Is Starfield's loading screens worse than Fallout 4's at launch?
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In Starfield, loading screens ARE the game. You cannot travel to a planet directly, you got a loading screen. When you exit your ship, you got a loading screen. Whenever you enter an interior, that's a loading screen. Got to travel back to my ship, that's another loading screen. Time to enter my ship, loading screen! Now I'm in space, got to fast-travel to another solar system because I don't have enough fuel to make the entire journey in one go, LOADING SCREEN! Alright, I can see the planet I need to get to now, let's just fly towa-oh wait, I can't, LOADING SCREEN!
These loading screens aren't quick either btw
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
The books were written by a Westerner and a woman to boot so men don't matter. It's why Harry was rather worthless as a character and the only female that he had chemistry with went to his friend instead.
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Didn't JK Rowling say even she regrets not having Hermione end up with Harry?

Altho I feel like multiple of the adult male characters were pretty important, maybe she's only interested in men who are legal
 
SpiderBitch said:
Didn't JK Rowling say even she regrets not having Hermione end up with Harry?

Altho I feel like multiple of the adult male characters were pretty important, maybe she's only interested in men who are legal
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Arthur Weasley, Lupin, Hagrid and even Dumbledore for all the manipulation he put Harry through. He might not have had a dad, but he had plenty of masculine figures in his life.
 
SpiderBitch said:
Didn't JK Rowling say even she regrets not having Hermione end up with Harry?

Altho I feel like multiple of the adult male characters were pretty important, maybe she's only interested in men who are legal
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She could just hate kids because she was a teacher or just didn't know how to write children. Most of her adult characters were written on par with other young adult books instead of a children's book.
 
SpiderBitch said:
Didn't JK Rowling say even she regrets not having Hermione end up with Harry?
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I think what she said was that she regrets having her end up with Ron. And I agree. They're a terrible match-up as adults. Hermione is driven, ambitious, intellectual and very pro-active. Ron was brave on occasion but always reactive. As adults they're never going to share goals and values. Rowling had this idea that they'd end up together when she started the books and said that what she regrets is sticking to that even though the characters evolved different ways.

What I would have done, if I chose to pair characters off, would be to have her end up with Draco. This completes Draco's redemption arc of moving away from his father's prejudices, he is himself driven and ambitious. Hermione and Ron's homelife would be him watching the Quidditch and complaining about Hermione spending all evening staying on top of her Ministry work. Hermione and Draco's homelife would be them discussing plans and ministry politics over a glass of wine. They'd complement each other in exactly the ways both needs - humanising and dilligence from Hermione; connections and people-savvy from Malfoy. And occasional jokes about when she punched him when they were fourteen.

As much as I'm invested in the Harry Potter story (which isn't that much), I really dislike that Hermione got paired off with Ron.
 
Overly Serious said:
I think what she said was that she regrets having her end up with Ron. And I agree. They're a terrible match-up as adults. Hermione is driven, ambitious, intellectual and very pro-active. Ron was brave on occasion but always reactive. As adults they're never going to share goals and values. Rowling had this idea that they'd end up together when she started the books and said that what she regrets is sticking to that even though the characters evolved different ways.

What I would have done, if I chose to pair characters off, would be to have her end up with Draco. This completes Draco's redemption arc of moving away from his father's prejudices, he is himself driven and ambitious. Hermione and Ron's homelife would be him watching the Quidditch and complaining about Hermione spending all evening staying on top of her Ministry work. Hermione and Draco's homelife would be them discussing plans and ministry politics over a glass of wine. They'd complement each other in exactly the ways both needs - humanising and dilligence from Hermione; connections and people-savvy from Malfoy. And occasional jokes about when she punched him when they were fourteen.

As much as I'm invested in the Harry Potter story (which isn't that much), I really dislike that Hermione got paired off with Ron.
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I honestly think that Hermione and Ron works fine. Hermione is too high strung, that's her thing, and Ron brings her down to earth. The movies were made by Hollywood neurotics so they portray being high-strung as a good thing, but in the books up until around book 5 Ron is shown to be the only one who can bring Hermione down off of her hysteria. JKR flubbed it in the last few books, but she fucked pretty much everything up in those books so it's no wonder the ships didn't work out.

Hermione and Malfoy would just be a nightmare, they're both so anxious and high-strung that neither of them would have room to breathe. And Harry and Hermione is a fucking joke, Harry is a giant ball of ego and he needs someone passive like Ginny or Cho to worship him so he doesn't get pouty. Hermione has too much agency for that.
 
People develop in various ways as they grow older. There are flaws you learn how to mitigate like being high-strung, there are things you rarely change because they're a deeprooted part of how you see yourself. Like ambition or desire to be popular. High-strung people, if smart, tend to learn how to change that about themselves because they recognise it as getting in the way of what they want to achieve. Someone who wants to sit in the pub on a Saturday afternoon tends not to change that because that is what they want to achieve.

Well, we can agree to disagree but I personally see Hermione and Ron as a terrible pairing and whilst I never read the later books, Rowling agreed with me so I'm not sure they'd change that view if I did.

I'll confess though that I just don't actually like Ron and wouldn't wish him on many people. He's a hero of circumstance, not effort. Hermione is the opposite from the start.

X Prime said:
Can't say I expected honest-to-God shipping discussion.
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