Any consequences to your decisions?

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Just got the game and being playing for a couple of hours now

Do your choices affect the game story at all? I chose Slytherin and blackmailed the flying book girl and I feel dirty inside

[Harris]

No consequences whatsoever.

Do whatever you want to poor Zenobia - your choice only exists in a vacuum and will not hit you back 10 hours later.

[Gaz]

No, its a linear story.

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Somewhat disappointed to hear that. There's so much to like about this game, it's a pity they couldn't round it out with a more dynamic story.

[Skungis]

Literally nothing. It's weird they were saying "you can be as dark as you want" but your Slytherin will always say "Excuse me sir" to any authority and kiss their asses even when I don't tell him to.
The whole selling point of being as dark as you want was literally just that you can choose to learn dark arts or not. All of them are optional spells and that's your only decision. I wouldn't have minded if they didn't act like this was the Witcher for Harry Potter. It's incredibly linear and you can unlock basically all of the upgrades by the end.

[Kritter]

there kind of is.... if you choose the 'mean' option every time you get more money...

"I'll return your necklace.... for a price"

"That seems fair. We'll call it a reward"

Wait? whut? I'm being eeeevil!

[MugHug]

WB being the publishers I am not surprise.

It was clearly a theme park RPG-lite for the masses.

[Danceofmasks]

There is only really 1 choice that matters, and it's not in the main story.

[Skungis]

Originally posted by Kritter:

there kind of is.... if you choose the 'mean' option every time you get more money...

"I'll return your necklace.... for a price"

"That seems fair. We'll call it a reward"

Wait? whut? I'm being eeeevil!

Oh my god you're right the message of this game is being evil has no drawbacks and will make you rich. Like no sarcasm, you solved it.

[Skungis]

Also should be noted, don't worry about "losing points" for your house, you literally can't lose the house cup. I'm pretty sure you can only lose points once in the game and it's unavoidable. Thought it mattered on my first playthrough, on my second noticed it's impossible to lose.

[Qubert]

I do believe when it comes to the dark arts there will be the option to learn them or avoid them depending on how you respond.

[Halfalfasleep]

You can be as bipolar and sociopathic as you want with almost no consequences, don't worry. Some of the NPCs will ♥♥♥♥-talk you as you pass by but that's it.

I stole from one hogsmeade vendor as part of a revenge quest from another and every so often I get some NPC whining about it, but they still all sell to me at the same prices so I guess they didn't care THAT much.

[[neab] GLAzedFAith]

Originally posted by Skungis:

Literally nothing. It's weird they were saying "you can be as dark as you want" but your Slytherin will always say "Excuse me sir" to any authority and kiss their asses even when I don't tell him to.
The whole selling point of being as dark as you want was literally just that you can choose to learn dark arts or not. All of them are optional spells and that's your only decision. I wouldn't have minded if they didn't act like this was the Witcher for Harry Potter. It's incredibly linear and you can unlock basically all of the upgrades by the end.

The storyline is very much on rails, except of course for occasional dialog changes in follow-up conversations i.e. "They are the nasty student that held my diary hostage“ followed by no change in course. However, in your example of saying" excuse me" around authority figures, it would be pretty lame if they added a thousand additional ways to encounter "your journey has ended" because you got yourself expelled. Even Voldemort was shown to be extremely manipulative and polite with faculty while at Hogwarts. It's just passing for good while you practice evil.

I do wish there was more flexibility throughout the story aside from whether to take which side quests, but I AM glad that they didn't add a recurring canned detention cutscene or mini game every time you get caught breaking a rule, though it might have been fun to have optional side-quests as a result of bad behavior, a la "detention" with a particular professor doing some additional quest related to their specialty. Like you messed up so now you've got to collect certain herbs for potions with Professor Sharp.