We're being sorted into a house and buying a wand as a 5th year?

[HotSnow50]

[The spoiler warning for subjects from the books, not the game]

I realize that we are being given a book to "catch us up" on our education that we have missed out on by starting as a 5th year. But, what does it mean to be a "late admission!?" I mean, assuming the Acceptance and Admission Book and Quill aren't being submerged in Butterbeer barrels every night, shouldn't we have had 4 years of acceptance letters by owl by now? We can't be growing up in magically hostile homes, as that would be too close to "why aren't we an Obscurial" territory. Also, going back to that whole "book to catch you up" thing... If it were so simple as to buy a book and teach a student all they need to bypass 4 years of education and exams, why don't Pureblood families like the Blacks and the Malfoys (for instance) who think Hogwarts is a school filled with Professors and students alike that are beneath them just BUY those books or acquire them through illicit means (like Lucius Malfoy threatening to curse Ministry Member's families, etc.) and educate their children from home? Or, for that matter, start their own Pureblood school? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense! Thoughts?

[Machika]

Only thing going on with Malfoy's is money. They are more for abusive racism and fear over anything else. There is already a school for their kind anyways. Hogwarts just happens to be the closest. Seeing at the end of Deathly Hallows pt.2 money can't buy everything which is one of the reasons they ran away from the rest of Tom's followers. Other than the developers nobody knows why the main character is a very late bloomer.

[Wanderer]

Well from the playstation blog, "Players will get to experience what it was like for Harry starting at a new wizarding school and knowing no one at all. And, like Harry, the player’s character is a bit of a celebrity from the outset due to the fact that they are starting as a fifth-year and because they survived a—” Sorry Moira, no spoilers! Let’s just say your arrival to Hogwarts is rather eventful. "

My assumption is your character has natural magic talent that's rare that allows them to skip years of study, and it was released due to whatever they survived. It's possible their parents were muggles and the ministry (if they exist in the 1800s) had no idea they were a witch/wizard. Harry only received those letters because he was already known as a young babe due to his parents. It's possible you're more of a Hermione.

Though, Mcgonagall had a magical pen that wrote down the name of every wizard/witch as they were born...

Edit: Reading more into it, some Wizards and Witches are actually homeschooled, and they could have been invited in 5th years to take their OWLS.

[Cú/Moon]

Originally posted by HotSnow50:

it just doesn't make any sense! Thoughts?

Unfortunately this

Originally posted by Wanderer:

My assumption is your character has natural magic talent that's rare that allows them to skip years of study, and it was released due to whatever they survived.

Seems to be whats happening, though I would like to be wrong. The most simplest and logical way to do this is to have the student be a tranfer from another school, hell you don't even have to mention the school in game just say from an unamed school.
Unfortunately they seem to be going with you're a super special gary/mary sue.

[Dragon Master]

I personally think that our character had NO magical talent before they survive whatever they survive, and they survived by tapping into Ancient Magic, or whatever they survived linked the character to Ancient Magic.

I'm thinking we start the game as either a muggle or a squib, or had such weak magical power that no one took our character seriously until we could start using and manipulating ancient magic.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by CR/Moon:

Seems to be whats happening, though I would like to be wrong. The most simplest and logical way to do this is to have the student be a tranfer from another school, hell you don't even have to mention the school in game just say from an unamed school.
Unfortunately they seem to be going with you're a super special gary/mary sue.

The black Gryffindor girl is already a transfer student from the Ugandan school of Uagadou. Which explains her thick accent for a school that's supposed to be located in Scotland.

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by CR/Moon:

Seems to be whats happening, though I would like to be wrong. The most simplest and logical way to do this is to have the student be a tranfer from another school, hell you don't even have to mention the school in game just say from an unamed school.
Unfortunately they seem to be going with you're a super special gary/mary sue.

The black Gryffindor girl is already a transfer student from the Ugandan school of Uagadou. Which explains her thick accent for a school that's supposed to be located in Scotland.

Yup.

Her character card says she only came to Hogwarts recently herself when her mother was hired to be the Divination teacher.

[Doomlord Soul]

Originally posted by CR/Moon:

Originally posted by HotSnow50:

it just doesn't make any sense! Thoughts?

Unfortunately this

Originally posted by Wanderer:

My assumption is your character has natural magic talent that's rare that allows them to skip years of study, and it was released due to whatever they survived.

Seems to be whats happening, though I would like to be wrong. The most simplest and logical way to do this is to have the student be a tranfer from another school, hell you don't even have to mention the school in game just say from an unamed school.
Unfortunately they seem to be going with you're a super special gary/mary sue.

You know that Home Schooling is a pretty common thing in the Wizard World, don't forget there are only 11 big Magical Schools and some smal ones that didn't exist too long or some that are just specialized on just one aspect, like the Academy of Broom Flying, Charm School, Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages, Merge School of Under-Water Spellage, The Naaszcademy of Magizoology and the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts. And for the Known 11 Big Schools (where we only know the names of 8) are, Beauxbatons(France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium), Castelobruxo(South America), Durmstrang(Northern and East Europe), Hogwarts(Scotland, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales), Ilvermorny(North America), Koldovstoretz(Russia), Mahoutokoro(Japan) and Uagadou(Africa), +3 Unkown big Schools, and they should take every Magical Student, I would say it is way more likely that you where Home schooled but something happend that you had to go to Hogwarts.

Other Possible way, is that you are a late Wizard, your magical ability just developed, maybe we play a Squib who got his magical ability (the only reason why Filch works for Hogwarts, he hopes that some magical abilitys would evoke in him), you could have been weak in magic like Neville who was accepted for Hogwarts after his Uncle throw him out the Window, wher neville turned him self into a "Gummibear"... yeah I know that he just made a spell to bounce of the street like Gummi and that he didn't really turned into a Gummibear...

Last possible way would be similar like the Neville one... the Book and the Quill aren't perfect, the quill would write names right in the moment where a Wizzard is born, but the Book waits for a sign of the magic (And I don't belive that the book and Quill can detect Ancient Magic), now for the question if thats the case "why isn't he an Obscurial", easy, you turn into an obscurial if you activly trys to keep your magic abillity back, that only happens if you know what you are doing, and maybe we don't know that we have magical abillitys until some time before the game...

As you can see there are 3 possible ways for the story to work

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

Yup.

Her character card says she only came to Hogwarts recently herself when her mother was hired to be the Divination teacher.

Her presence in the game gives me hope that we might have the chance to become an animagus at some point. Like, if you build up your relationship with her, she may teach you some of her homeland's secrets.

Uagadou is kind of famous for its mastery of transfiguration, and its students often succeed in becoming animagi at incredibly young ages.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Originally posted by HotSnow50:

[The spoiler warning for subjects from the books, not the game]

I realize that we are being given a book to "catch us up" on our education that we have missed out on by starting as a 5th year. But, what does it mean to be a "late admission!?" I mean, assuming the Acceptance and Admission Book and Quill aren't being submerged in Butterbeer barrels every night, shouldn't we have had 4 years of acceptance letters by owl by now? We can't be growing up in magically hostile homes, as that would be too close to "why aren't we an Obscurial" territory. Also, going back to that whole "book to catch you up" thing... If it were so simple as to buy a book and teach a student all they need to bypass 4 years of education and exams, why don't Pureblood families like the Blacks and the Malfoys (for instance) who think Hogwarts is a school filled with Professors and students alike that are beneath them just BUY those books or acquire them through illicit means (like Lucius Malfoy threatening to curse Ministry Member's families, etc.) and educate their children from home? Or, for that matter, start their own Pureblood school? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense! Thoughts?

I think you're worrying about this too much

[Doomlord Soul]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

Yup.

Her character card says she only came to Hogwarts recently herself when her mother was hired to be the Divination teacher.

Her presence in the game gives me hope that we might have the chance to become an animagus at some point. Like, if you build up your relationship with her, she may teach you some of her homeland's secrets.

Uagadou is kind of famous for its mastery of transfiguration, and its students often succeed in becoming animagi at incredibly young ages.

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

Yup.

Her character card says she only came to Hogwarts recently herself when her mother was hired to be the Divination teacher.

Her presence in the game gives me hope that we might have the chance to become an animagus at some point. Like, if you build up your relationship with her, she may teach you some of her homeland's secrets.

Uagadou is kind of famous for its mastery of transfiguration, and its students often succeed in becoming animagi at incredibly young ages.

And in Astronomy and Alchemy... and also in Wandless magic, because they don't use wands down there in Africa

[paganSK]

playable person propably "switch school" and beign sorted.
Personally i use official HP {Wizarding World} quiz where u reply to questions and depend on your answers u are sorted - iam in Hufflepuff plus get some skins , Pantronus and special wand for Hogwarts Legacy - u need connect account game + HP website.
https://imgur.com/a/xtuTOxh

[Apollyon]

The blunt answer is, it was simply a convenient way for Avalanche to throw us right into a more mature age bracket. They couldn't have made the game contain what they claim it will contain if they had us start as a literal child in year 1. It's basic common sense from that standpoint. As to how they'll justify it within lore context, you're right to express skepticism. We'll just have to wait for the answer when the game releases.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Vanity Fiend:

The blunt answer is, it was simply a convenient way for Avalanche to throw us right into a more mature age bracket. They couldn't have made the game contain what they claim it will contain if they had us start as a literal child in year 1. It's basic common sense from that standpoint. As to how they'll justify it within lore context, you're right to express skepticism. We'll just have to wait for the answer when the game releases.

They hell they couldn't. Harry and friends were already placing themselves in mortal peril in their first year on numerous occasions.

Harry was only 11 - 12 years old, when he killed his first human; and it was one of his own teachers!

[Apollyon]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Vanity Fiend:

The blunt answer is, it was simply a convenient way for Avalanche to throw us right into a more mature age bracket. They couldn't have made the game contain what they claim it will contain if they had us start as a literal child in year 1. It's basic common sense from that standpoint. As to how they'll justify it within lore context, you're right to express skepticism. We'll just have to wait for the answer when the game releases.

They hell they couldn't. Harry and friends were already placing themselves in mortal peril in their first year on numerous occasions.

Harry was only 11 - 12 years old, when he killed his first human; and it was one of his own teachers!

Apples to oranges. You can't compare a movie to a video game, different rules apply. You're delusional if you think they could allow using unforgivable curses and whatnot as an 11 year old in a game.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Vanity Fiend:

Apples to oranges. You can't compare a movie to a video game, different rules apply. You're delusional if you think they could allow using unforgivable curses and whatnot as an 11 year old in a game.

As opposed to what? 15 year olds?

You know that a spell is powered by more than just fancy gestures and incantations, right? You need to put intent behind it.

Meaning in order to use the killing curse, or the cruciatus curse, our character needs to cast it with the full intent of inflicting death or mind rending agony upon the recipient!