“Voldemort Had Posters of Me in His Orphanage Room Growing Up”: An Uncanny Comparison Shows Why Hogwarts Legacy Players Are Shockingly Less Merciless Than Voldemort

Published 04/01/2023, 8:00 AM EDT

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In 2023, one has witnessed the release of many prominent AAA titles. Among them, the title that shined brightly was Hogwarts Legacy. The wizarding wonder knitted RPG mechanisms with the intricacies of the Harry Potter universe to weave a fan-favorite title. Even though there were numerous criticisms associated surrounding its release, the game emerged victorious.

Now the game has completed two months since its release, and there are many interesting facts to talk about. The most intriguing aspect that is currently popularized among the Hogwarts Legacy community is the villainous arch of the protagonist. It seems the main character has done evil things even more than the dark lord.

The merciless Hogwarts Legacy protagonist

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In every game that one plays, one takes the role of a character through whom the narrative takes shape. Many titles restrict the actions of what the main character does, as the story goes in a linear fashion. But in the open-world and RPG games, things happen differently. Many titles offer players endless possibilities. Hogwarts Legacy offers just that to the players, and one has the freedom to do many interesting things in the game.

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Through the course of the narrative, players would surely have engaged in numerous fights and likely would have killed endless opponents. According to reports released by Hogwarts Legacy’s official page, players have defeated 2.25 billion Dark Wizards in just one month!

According to the wizards on the Reddit platform, the protagonists are eviler than the dark Lord Voldemort himself. The school-going protagonist breaks into forbidden areas, loots through other people’s stuff, and even uses unforgivable curses just for the fun of it.

Moreover, many players who love to do combo spells have created some mind-blowing combinations that will even scare Voldemort and his death-eaters. Wizards, when playing the latter part of the game, have found very deadly combos with Avada Kedavra, which even can kill more than 10 people at the same time, making the protagonist even more cunning. The hilarity in this is that the main character is still a school-going student.

There are more such ‘heinous’ actions associated with the main character. Through gameplay, one can become a poacher of mystical animals. Selling them at Hogsmeade provides one with the needed coins to buy in-game items.

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Newt Scamander would surely consider the players as the biggest threat to the fauna of the magical lands.

One can even, just for the fun of it, say that the main protagonist of Hogwarts Legacy is the role model of Voldemort.

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Jokes aside, these aspects of Hogwarts Legacy give the game its uniqueness. This is their USP, and it surely has worked wonders in garnering more people to try the game out.

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Aravind Menon

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Aravind Menon is an eSports content writer at EssentiallySports. With a graduate degree in English Honours and post graduate degree in Literary and Cultural Studies, writing has always been a passion for Aravind. He has a keen interest in sports and occasionally enjoys watching sporting events.
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Deepika Bhaduri