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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   2246 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 29, 2025

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I didn't finish Hogwarts Legacy because it turned out not to be my type of game, but I also recall that the student body seemed rather more diverse than what one would expect there in the early 20th century, with one student who was a major supporting character coming from some wizarding school in Africa.

Wizards can teleport at will and express their ethnic bigotry towards muggles/muggle-borns and sentient magical creatures. Also, African wizards would have the oldest magical tradition and probably live like Wakandans. If they have a negative stereotype in the wizarding world, it'd be being a bit full of themselves.

Maybe current-day hogwarts is a second-tier School and doesn't attract as many international students as it used to. It'd fit thematically with the general decline of Britain, many of the old pureblood families have fallen on a hard times by the time we reach the late 90s.

Also the game depicted Slytherins that weren't evil, and added lore that Merlin was in Slytherin house.

I was always annoyed that in the final book the entirety of Slytherin house sided with the Voldies.

Also, African wizards would have the oldest magical tradition and probably live like Wakandans.

African-American wizards, on the other hand...

Wizards aren't going to get enslaved by black muggles and sold to white muggles to pick muggle cotton.

Nor were there wizard dutchmen involuntarily transporting African wizards to the Caribbean.

There wasn't a parallel wizard British empire that established a wizard Raj in wizard india, and German wizards didn't holocaust Jewish wizards during Wizard War 2, wizards iraelis arent currently genociding wizard Palestinians in an open-air wizard prison. Wizards have their own history, they dont just ape muggle history but with wands and silly names.

I suppose that most african-american wizards would be muggle-born, and thus would carry with them whatever dysfunctions an 11-year-old African American would have.

Was there a wave of ellis-island wizard european immigration to the Americas? Or would almost all American wizards be WASPs?

This also brought me completely out of the experience. There are mods to fix it but I haven’t got around to trying them.

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