u/Julius_Augustus_777

Garreth: Oh, my absolutely unbreakable companion, you've been such a huge help stealing things for me countless times, and who cares if I bother you just one more time with my oh-so-essential new concoction? Please, do indulge and take a sip of my latest masterpiece. Such a good boy!

(P.S. Just sharing a few random screenshots of Garreth brewing potions, and the combination of which makes him look a bit manipulative, lol)

You can create your MC with the same face shape and hairstyle as Lucan using in-game settings, no mods needed. I accidentally made my Gryffindor MC with a Lucan face.

Then I added a facial hair mod, and now it looks like Lucan's dad has come to Hogwarts to teach him sword fighting! You can see what the MC looks like without the facial hair in the last pic.

MC to Lucan: "Son, you must not only master dueling in Crossed Wands, but also embrace Crossed Swords — that’s the way you truly prevail over your muggle opponents."

MC is the Magic Man boxer whose spirit will inspire a muggle witch to stand up and punch a bully pure-blood wizard.

>No wand to cast? Hit hard and fast.
When the wand is gone, the brawl is on.

Magic, but make it Elvish fluency. Duolingo won’t help you casually insult an ancient demon.

Languages included:

• English
• Spanish (Spain)
• French (France)
• Japanese
• German (Germany)

Ominis's gaze makes you burn in a deadly fire.

Magic won’t save you from a Muggle who can swing a massive axe with crushing strength

Do you happen to know the bed number of the female Gryffindor?

A hand-fan shaped wand from the Far East, blowing gusty divine wind whenever you pop it. This Hufflepuff MC got this fan in Japan while he was training under sensei Kitana to become a Mortal Kombat fighter.

MC: Believe me, Sebastian, your secret is (not) safe with me. Oh, and Ominis, Headmaster is right here, and let's see how you can exploit that connection.

P.S. This is a rearrange of the conversation to make the plot funny, as if this Gryffindor MC has absolutely no intention of keeping the secret.

Thrilled to announce that I’ve officially survived my tenure as a Facilities & Operations Intern (aka. Janitor) on Azkaban Island affiliated to Ministry of Magic.

Nothing builds grit like sweeping and scrubbing maximum-security floors while your primary stakeholders, the Dementors, constantly drain your will to live. Truly a dynamic environment where "toxic workplace" is a literal weather forecast.

Key takeaways:

• Stakeholder Relations: Dementors share the exact same emotional availability as executive leadership.
• Extreme Resilience: If you can mop cursed basalt through sub-zero despair, Q4 burnout is nothing.
• Agility: Perfected wandless sanitation charms purely because frostbite took my fingers.

Grateful to the DMLE for this "transformative" sacrifice of my talent points. Ready to leverage the trauma in my next role. 🗝️💀

Now, I'm also pleased to tell you that applications for Azkaban's intern positions of the next summer are officially open. Apply via owl 🦉 to DMLE Talent Acquisition.

#Grindset #CompanyCulture #AzkabanAlum #Resilience #Blessed

(P.S. Word in the corridors is that the legendary janitor, Callum McClintock, cracks the entire Hogwarts Mystery in the 1980s-90s off the back of floor mopping alone. If a broom can deliver that kind of ROI, what’s your excuse? Fix your grindset;)

As we get ready to explore the dark magic of this autumn, it is "crucio"-ly important to wear dark outfits.

"A dark art without dark outfits is a dark art not worth having!" -- V for Vendetta

Next time your potion's about to explode, Garreth, use this water orb spell. It'll save you from another detention.

Oh, and I’m sure you've heard: a legendary kid named Albus Dumbledore is coming to your House next year. Make sure to teach Dumbledore this water orb spell; he will save the world with it someday.

Look! Skywalker!

(To get your character casually jogging across thin air, all you need is an invisible broom mod to hide your ride and a custom idle animation mod to swap out your idle poses.)

Hogwarts canonically operates in English, indeed. But imagine a translation charm existed that allowed everyone to understand different languages, then what language would your MC natively speak?

That's why I tried playing the game in my MCs' native languages (though I only understand English and French without using a Muggle-equivalent "translation charm" lol).

It's strange that while most localizations keep NPCs' names intact, French dub decided to overhaul everyone's last name. Why is that?

Here's the English version of the same line in the pics:

Pic 1 - MC: Let's go.

Pic 2 - Sebastian Sallow: See there? That's the door that we need to reach. (The French dub changed Sebastian's last name to "Pallow"; even the Japanese dub reads like "Sallow")

Pic 3 - Agnes Scribner: I had thought we were through with this mischief. Clearly detentions are insufficient. (The French dub changed Agnes's last name to "Scribe"; even the Japanese dub had an "n" sound)

Pic 4 - Professor Garlick: Class, please welcome the newest rose in our garden.(The French dub changed her name into Professeur "Bulbille", meaning bulblet in English; even the Japanese dub reads like "Garlic")

Pic 5 - ... (You don't need translation for that lol)

I can't think of a reason why only French dub runs a witness protection program that changed NPCs' last names. Anyone knows the lore behind this?

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And if you're interested, here are some short backstories of my MCs and their languages:

Slytherin - Julius Augustus;
Language - German;
Origin - Swiss Confederation;
Bio - Born in the 1970s (not 1870s) to an ancient Alpine dynasty claiming direct descent from Augustus Caesar, Julius inherited the rare ability to instantly win anyone's complete friendship. Attending Hogwarts in 1980s, he had successfully solved a Mystery of Hogwarts and freed his brother, Jacob, from an enchanted painting. After graduation, Julius was recruited by the Ministry of Magic as a secret agent, and he was sent back to the 1890s to investigate an ancient Legacy at Hogwarts. Disguised as a fifth-year student under Professor Fig's guidance, he concealed his magical prowess, strategically befriended useful allies, and prepared his tasks in the Room of Requirement to avoid attention. In secret, Julius harbored a greater ambition: to resurrect the Roman Empire as a magical civilization.

Gryffindor - Maximo Constantino;
Language - Spanish;
Origin - Argentine Republic;
Bio - Maximo was a muggle-born in the New World, whose family owned vast Andean silver mines. His idyllic childhood was filled with roses and fairies until a mystical piece of silverware was unearthed on his family's land. When his fingers brushed the relic, sculpted in the shape of ascending flames, an Ancient power surged through his blood, flashing a radiant vision of a towering highland castle across his mind. Recognizing the relic as masterwork goblin-wrought silver tied to ancient Scottish lore, Maximo then hopped on a transatlantic vessel to explore the origins behind his newfound power.

Hufflepuff - Ryuta Yoshikawa;
Language - Japanese;
Origin - Japanese Empire;
Bio - Ryuta was a half-blood kid with a samurai dad and a traditional Onmyoji sorceress mom. When the Meiji modernization hit, the government outlawed both the samurai class and traditional magic, and Ryuta's family hid into the "Japan Alps" mountains, surviving in exile to keep their forbidden arts alive. Years later, Ryuta's family forged an airborne skiff from the five elements and bound it to the divine winds. While his generation boarded steamships to the West to study modern science and industry, Ryuta took to the skies toward Hogwarts, determined to ensure his family's outlawed heritage survived.

Ravenclaw - Nasiru Egwu;
Language - French;
Origin - French West Africa;
Bio - Born into a magical beast-hunting family in West Africa that traded fur and leather across Europe and the Middle East, Nasiru was bred to be a dragon slayer. However, he chose runway glamor and rhythm, turning his back on the family trade for magical haute couture and underground dance battles. When he was studying at Beauxbatons, he was revered as the academy’s most stylish dragon dancer. Finding Beauxbatons oversaturated with cutthroat fashion critics, Nasiru transferred to Hogwarts to conquer the stylistically hopeless British market. A century later, his great-grandson, André Egwu, would rise as Hogwarts' resident style icon, though Nasiru’s ancestral portrait would often cringe at André's streetwear designs.

Ismelda’s pro tip: empathy is great in theory, but setting boundaries is what actually keeps you out of therapy. Know your limits, protect your energy, and respect your own boundaries first.

But of course, if our MC stopped playing unpaid therapist and miraculous problem-solver for five minutes, the entire Hogwarts Mystery economy would collapse lol.

Why gaze at the sky when the real stars are standing right in front of you?

Rule of today's improv drill: the MC has to copy Ominis move for move.

Lucan: Eww! Are you dancing or did a bug fly down your shirt?!

Thanks to the inspiration of this post, I confirmed the location of Slytherin Common Room. Of course, you need a mod to be a true explorer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HogwartsLegacyGaming/s/1soEsuJsos

Funny to see the glitch that if you use the "wait" in Hog's Head, there will be some patrons floating above the table.

Remind me of Nicole Kidman's "The Others", lol.