![]() ‘Bu-bu-bu-bu-but wait, aren’t you the racist here? JK Rowling never said they were Jews, that’s you!’ Nice try, but hooked noses and beady eyes are very well-known racist depictions of Jewish people, popularised by the Nazis but dating back much further. Why can’t we just fight a Munglebunglefunglebeak in the forest? Why does it have to be the obviously racist goblins? Instead, we’re seeing cartoonishly Jewish antagonists that we will need to mercilessly slay as they stage an uprising. The goblin bankers are a wildly anti-Semitic caricature, and while I suppose the house elves are a somewhat avoidable inclusion - and at the very least are beloved characters by everyone who will overlook the fact they’re slaves - the goblins could have been left out completely. Don’t worry though, they like being slaves. Good looks are frequently associated with beauty, while ugliness of evil characters is repeatedly overemphasised, several women (and zero men) are constantly negatively defined by their emotions, and then there’s the literal slaves in the form of house elves. ![]() A Black female wizard’s skin tone changes dramatically across the movies as she’s recast with very little regard for authenticity, and the weird views on gender are clear to see with the fact the magic stairs stop boys from going to the girls’ dorm but do not stop girls from going into the boys’. Even white characters aren’t spared this - just ask background characters Anthony Goldstein and Seamus Finnigan, the latter of whom is very stupid and likes to blow things up. There are very few people of colour in the books, and those who do exist are often relegated to the background and given ridiculously stereotypical names: for example Cho Chang, whose major qualities are being good at school and… oh that’s it. I understand there’s the obvious context of JK Rowling - and have written as much previously - but it’s easy to forget everything else in the novels that’s suspect. Hog’s Head refers to the other, more ill-reputed inn located in the village and Zonko’s refers to Zonko’s joke shop, the local purveyor of novelty tricks.Conversations around Harry Potter, and therefore the upcoming open world adventure Hogwarts Legacy, tend to be dominated by transphobia, which is weird when you consider that transphobia is one of the few pieces of discrimination not included in the original novels. In the foreground, we can see a signpost, indicating two nearby locations as well: Hog’s Head and Zonko’s. In the background, we can see The Three Broomsticks Inn, which acts as a social gathering point for students and locals and will likely play a central location when visiting the village in the open world. The second half of the ASMR video goes a bit further afield, with some more shots of the nearby village of Hogsmeade. Read more: Here’s when you can play the Harry Potter game on Switch, Xbox, PS5 and PC But not only does the dark and rainy shots give us a look at the school grounds, it also hints at a dynamic weather system within the game. The first ten minutes of the video gives us plenty of wide shots of the school’s exterior as part of a timelapse, with the looming architecture looking more detailed than we’ve seen previously. ![]() Titled “A Rainy Spring Night ” it’s not the most exciting in-game footage that could have been shown off, but it does give us a much better idea of some of the game’s locales set to make an appearance.
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