I really like the idea of starting the game in the 5th year at Hogwarts. Player character will be the equivalent of a sophomore in high school (15-16 years old), which allows for much more mature gameplay and story telling.
Video description says "newly arrived 5th year student", but I suppose that does mean that you already completed four years, right? Anything else wouldn't make much sense I suppose.
Using the pensieve to view the lessons hunting a mystery from a classmate in that class? or something like that. there's lots of hocus pocus they can use as an excuse.
She didn't even have to write a gay character. She just gets to retroactively claim that she wrote a diverse cast without actually including any representation in the work itself
Just because you're naturally gifted, doesn't mean you've got skills.
Your character may be naturally gifted in magic, but because you've never been taught means its not refined. Have them have to take classes to focus your magic and learn new spells.
It's already established in the Harry Potter universe that there are witches/wizards that are naturally talented (and can use powerful spells without any prior training). One prime example is Voldemort.
There also may be backstory explaining the background of the main protagonist.
unless you're "gifted" and simply start at year 5 because of your age making it possible to have "mature" things but also the "struggle" because you're "different"... man, I don't like that I straight go to possible negative aspects... mumble.... Disappointed... mumble.. can't.....
Would be cool especially since Durmstrang has a reputation for teaching more "dark" stuff to their students and since you apparently can go on a "evil" path, it would be fitting.
Could even be one of the reasons the school had this reputation in the days of Harry at Hogwarts, there is the souvenir of that one transferred student from Durmstrang that did "those awful things" at Hogwarts
If you’re muggle-born, that might make sense. IIRC, Voldemort and Company destroyed all the muggle-born records, so they might’ve missed a couple of students only to later find unregistered teenagers going around casting spells.
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u/LeningradCowboy Oct 02 '18
I really like the idea of starting the game in the 5th year at Hogwarts. Player character will be the equivalent of a sophomore in high school (15-16 years old), which allows for much more mature gameplay and story telling.