Even after the original book series ended, as Potter has waned in popularity, it remains a cultural touchstone. People still casually drop their Hogwarts house in their dating profiles proper nouns like “Voldemort” have been adopted into our language as shorthand for a tyrant or proto-fascist who comes into power god knows how many people have Deathly Hallows tattoos. We were all reading the damn books.ĭescribing my fandom for the series is telling the story of an entire generation. I was 11, the same age as Harry when he first went to Hogwarts.
When the series began in my youth, whether I would be into it was not really a question. It would make her richer than most people in the world. Joanne Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, famously, as a single mother struggling in poverty. Hogwarts Legacy is not so much a video game as it is an attempt to resolve what was a particular writer’s very specific point of view into a “universe” that will please everyone, regardless of whether that ever coheres into something that makes sense.
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