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So as I was thinking of a few things, I watched the Chamber of Secrets (yet again) yesterday and I will be watching the Prisoner of Azkaban tomorrow. It is something I do at times and as I have watched Project Hail Mary 5 times in the last month, I needed to clean the palette. As I was doing this, I realised something. I basically thought of a new way of using NPC’s in a game. As such the idea I am giving Avalanche Software here. 

Because it could be tested as an additional download for Hogwarts Legacy, it could be the foundational setting for Hogwarts Legacy 2 in some form or another. So we have (at present) two settings, the first one are the NPC’s so we have 

Imelda Reyes – Slytherin 
Adelaide Oakes – Hufflepuff 
Leander Prewitt – Gryffindor 
Samantha Sale – Ravenclaw

And you replace the one whose house you are. The second one is the room and here there are two settings, one a room is added to each of the 4 houses, it is an unplottable room, so you need to go there via your house, as such you have 4 more reasons to play the game. The room is ‘dressed’ up in the house style that is currently has and finding it is a new challenge, or basically, a challenge that you get when you roam Hogwarts. My preference is one of these rooms that are gotten to via a frog (Hufflepuff), or like the room behind the fireplace in the library (Ravenclaw), or the Werewolf Tapestry Room (Slytherin) or the Mysterious Map Room (Gryffindor) and these rooms all have a similar book. This book alerts you to 4 adept students, which thought it was essential that in times of need or crises, the houses could talk to each other. And each house has its own seating, but you will only ever find the your house book (the premise that only a house student could find that book) and that sets in motion the course of finding the 3 port-keys, the port-key comes with a empty painting and that painting is placed in the room and whoever has the port-key will appear in the empty painting and they can communicate to you directly. And there is a setting where one can come, where two could come and where all three are there and that could open all kinds of new missions. And as we get these missions, they might be linked to achievements. For example Imelda gives you the broom challenges, as you make these challenges. She will offer new missions, the same for the others and there is a setting where both must be completed for Samantha Sale, she only comes vested if you completed ‘Beeting’ a Curse. And Leader Prewitt must be beaten in the first Summoner’s Court Match. The next ‘complication’ is how to set it up whilst one is removed (your house) but it is easily programmed. And these challenges could go on for some time and as the ‘addition’ works out, we get an additional side of the game. Now only does things hinge on certain abilities the option might be out there that Poppy (Hufflepuff) will not join you if you were mean to any animals. In this setting I used Adelaide Oakes when you completed The Tale of Rowland Oakes, soother are a few sides to it all and it makes for a much more challenging game (as I see it) because choices are key here and you might not chose that setting. 

So we have a challenge factor and a choice factor. The game gets a lot more playability in this case and as you find another person to hold the port-key and they will get their own room, the fourth painting is you (in the other rooms) and that makes for a rather large setting overall, all whilst the rooms are the same, the view from the painting shows these rooms, but you cannot interact there. You merely watch and that makes for all the difference. 

Still there is more to be done (as I see it) and that part is largely on Avalanche Software and there is always the chance that they reject the idea. Anyway, it is theirs now (and co owned by JK Rowling) because she holds all the IP on the Wizarding World, I merely abide by this and hand her the idea as co-owner and optionally Avalanche is the other co-owner, although I have no idea how these rights play between the two owners. I merely stretched my creativity muscles and created an idea out of thin air (the air is not that thin in Sydney)

And as Hogwarts legacy 2 is expected to come 2027/2028, there is plenty of time to add something to the original Hogwarts legacy and give the gamers something to live for. Isn’t that a nice setting whilst they optionally evolve the game and add new ideas to this whilst they work on the sequel? 

Just my way to be not so useless a person. We all need to do this at times. Have a great day.