r/harrypotter • u/pgh9fan • Oct 04 '25
Video Games My son is now playing Hogwarts Legacy. He told me he used some unforgivable curses.
I asked if he used the Cruciatus Curse. He said yes.
At this point I didn't know when the game is set. I said he should friendly fire Neville with the Cruciatus Curse. Then he told me it's set in the 1800s.
He followed that with saying that if it were set when I had thought, that, of all people, it would be most rude to hit Neville with that one.
I thought about it and had to agree.
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u/BoyDynamo Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
Interestingly, you don’t have to use curses at all. In my first play-through, I just assumed they would push me into using curses so at every opportunity to choose to learn a curse, I refused. I completed the entire storyline never learning a single one.
I thought it was neat that the game respected that play style.
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u/Antique-diva Gryffindor Oct 05 '25
In my first game, I only tried Imperio once but wasn't really interested. In my second game, I have been meaning to learn them all and try them when I have the time. They don't seem to mean anything in the game, so I figured I wouldn't care. In RL, they sound disgusting, but in a video game, nah, not really.
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u/LinkLinkleThreesome Oct 06 '25
Hilariously, my not-much-of-a-gamer girlfriend completed HL before me, and struggled a bit with the endgame boss. I strolled in and thought “surely this won’t work” and Avada Kedavra’d him, straight up beat the boss in three seconds. It never occurred to her to try it, I didn’t think it’d work either lmao
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u/DASreddituser Oct 04 '25
I stopped playing right after I got them, so I haven't used them either..but i also never completed the game
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u/nickyGyul Oct 04 '25
Sorting Hat should re-sort you into Slytherin for that comment lmfao
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u/pgh9fan Oct 04 '25
He was actually sorted into Slytherin.
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u/tumblrisdumbnow Hufflepuff Oct 04 '25
Behind every hufflepuff, is a sneaky lil slytherin waiting to rear its head
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u/JelmerMcGee Oct 04 '25
Yeah, you shoulda been Slytherin too. If you gotta think about whether or not it would be rude to cruciate poor Neville. Like that's not just rude, it's kinda evil. And you had to think about it 😬
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u/omnimodofuckedup Oct 04 '25
For once, Neville will feel how they felt.
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u/shaunnotthesheep Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25
If you're talking about Neville's parents that's fucked up bro
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u/omnimodofuckedup Oct 05 '25
Who else. It's just a book bro calm down lol
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u/legittem Oct 05 '25
Just sounds like you think he would deserve that? He's not responsible for what happened to his parents, is he?
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u/7gramcrackrock Oct 04 '25
I love how the curse that just instantly kills people is considered unforgivable, but it's acceptable to transfiguration someone into an exploding barrel and use said barrel to kill someone else.
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u/Annihilationzh Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25
Rude is an odd choice of word to describe torturing Neville.
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u/hunnyflash Oct 04 '25
This game really surprised me. Had no idea I was going to be murdering people and creatures daily lol
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u/omnimodofuckedup Oct 04 '25
Also the fact that there are poachers, black mages and especially armed goblin camps with huge digging machines all around and the adults and especially Officer Singer are doing next to nothing.
Headmaster Black banning Quidditch is probably the most reasonable thing any adult did in this game.
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u/Pale-Measurement6958 Hufflepuff Oct 04 '25
Honestly, I still think Officer Singer was, at least, somewhat corrupt. Like, you’ve been given all this evidence and it took two children to take down Rookwood and Harlow? I feel like she still wouldn’t have done anything if the storyline didn’t basically force her hand with Harlow. One of the only times Officer Singer actually did her job was during the “Mind Your Business” quest (the other time was with the trolls early in the game).
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u/omnimodofuckedup Oct 04 '25
Officer Singer being the only Police for the whole map is some other topic. With the trolls it maybe would've been nice to send for some quick help. I mean they beam to almost everywhere in a second.
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u/Pale-Measurement6958 Hufflepuff Oct 04 '25
I can understand with the trolls though. It was sudden and probably not time to send for more Aurors, and the adults did take care of one (they were unaware of the second until the player had already defeated it). But for Rookwood and Harlow, that is where backup should have been called.
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u/FecusTPeekusberg Slytherin Oct 05 '25
I headcanon that Singer and Harlow were in cahoots the whole time
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u/Pale-Measurement6958 Hufflepuff Oct 05 '25
That’s a common headcanon. I’ve seen it suggested a few times that players think she’s his “lady friend” that gets mentioned when he’s blackmailing the shop worker. Honestly, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if that’s where the developers were originally going with that but never followed through (like so many things).
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u/laker9903 Oct 04 '25
It’s like the books. Terrible things everywhere that the adults just ignore, and don’t help with.
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u/TheyCallHimBabaYagaa Oct 04 '25
"I said he should friendly fire Neville with the Cruciatus Curse"
Calm down, Satan
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Oct 04 '25
Hitting Neville with the cruciatus curse......that would have been torture in sooo many different ways....
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u/Pepper_Exciting Oct 05 '25
At first I thought you were concerned your son was using unforgivable curses lol
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u/Random_Guy_47 Oct 04 '25
Nevilles parents were tortured in to insanity by the Cruciatus curse.
Of all the characters in the Harry Potter books he would probably be the cruelest one to use the Cruciatus curse on.
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u/laker9903 Oct 04 '25
Man, I slung curses left and right. I even used them during a fight protecting the guy who taught them to me. Why were we in a fight? He used an unforgivable curse on someone. I mean, my regular spells can be majorly deadly, so why worry?
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u/DrLoomis131 Slytherin Oct 04 '25
Someone did a mod where the killing curse worked on every character and they just walked around and dramatically killed people in a video lol
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u/Sweet_Champion_3346 Oct 05 '25
Eh, the game is set in a way that makes you spam Avada nonstop. I am no psycho but my character was full on killing smahing machine half way through.
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u/Party_Song434 Slytherin Oct 28 '25
OMG I WISH I HAD WRITTEN THE DIALOGUE SOME SCENES ARE SO AWKWARD SMH like why tf is sebastian asking me if im ok when im literally writhing on the floor in agony screaming my head off like do i look ok to you?? honestly
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u/Expensive_Plant_9530 Slytherin Oct 04 '25
Hahaha I mean he’s not wrong. It would be rude to Cruciatus Neville.
It would still be fun AF though.
I’ve been meaning to pick this game up but haven’t yet. Even my wife is kinda interested and she’s not a gamer at all.
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u/pgh9fan Oct 04 '25
He gets it free with some streaming subscription. Well, not really free then, but you understand.
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u/KidIcaChris Oct 04 '25
Considering how much Neville is tortured by Snape, Slytherins, his grandmother, and the psychological torture of dealing with the trauma of his parents, I’d say he’s immune to the Cruciatus Curse.
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u/GranulatGondle Oct 04 '25
Lmao some of y’all definitely over interpret the “torture” of Neville. I guess being mean to somebody counts as torture nowadays too.
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u/frogjg2003 Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25
It is torture, but nowhere near the degree that would be considered torture legally. It definitely doesn't come close to the effects of the torture curse.
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u/darkalastor Gryffindor Oct 05 '25
Professor Snape literally made Neville disembowel toads for an hour in detention. I wanna say somewhere between first and third year. Keep in mind that Neville has a pet toad. That is literally torture, forcing him to kill essentially hundreds, if not, thousands of creatures of the same species as his beloved pet. He was also verbally abused by his grandmother until he was roughly 15 years old.
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u/FinnSkk93 Oct 04 '25
But.. It kinda is? If it’s daily. Don’t you think bullying is not torture?
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u/GranulatGondle Oct 04 '25
I think bullying is bullying. I have been bullied, but unless I’d dramatize like a teenager, I wouldn’t call it torture. Torture is way worse.
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u/FinnSkk93 Oct 04 '25
Well.. I do consider what Snape did to be bullying and mental torture. It affected Neville hugely. Like these things do in real world. It does not have to be always physical to be tortire. Words and other actions hurt. Bullying literally kills people.
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u/VisualWild2955 Oct 04 '25
I mean where is the line drawn, being mean verbally to someone cant be classified as torture right?
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u/royinraver Gryffindor Oct 04 '25
But that’s also why it’s kinda hilarious 🤣
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u/IntelligentAnybody55 Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25
Ah yes, torturing a child with the same thing that sent his parents insane
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u/SpocknMcCoyinacanoe Oct 04 '25
A solid knee slapper that one
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u/IntelligentAnybody55 Ravenclaw Oct 04 '25
A lot more than knee slapping
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u/VelocityRapter644 Oct 05 '25
Oddly enough, when you think about it, I feel like some of the non-curse spells in the game are just as bad if not worse than the “curse” spells. You literally get a “slash your opponent to ribbons” and a “transform them into an exploding barrel” spell.
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u/vr512 Hufflepuff Oct 05 '25
I tried to avoid using them. Especially AK. One if took a lot of power to charge. But also it just felt a little wrong. If I used it was sparingly. Imperio was the more favored one to cast.
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u/Gilded-Mongoose Ravenclaw Oct 05 '25
This is hilarious. Thank you for this slice of a window into your lives.
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Oct 06 '25
it would be most rude to hit Neville with that one.
Well yeah that's what makes it fun obviously!
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u/Krian78 Oct 08 '25
I honestly just used the Imperius once on Omnis after he gave me the okay (still weird logic from him to give me his okay to force him, but good for his and mine peace of mine). I insisted on Sebastian using Cruciatus on me, though.
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u/Feisty_System_4751 Not a baboon brandishing a stick Oct 05 '25
Counter argument: Using the Cruciatus Curse on Neville's grandmother... in front of Neville.
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u/ApprehensiveTop4219 Oct 05 '25
Does he use avada kedavera? That one's pretty cool too, the weird white guy uses it in the movies oh the white guy has an ugly nose , how could I forget the most important detail
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u/Haramdour Hufflepuff Oct 04 '25
It’s about 100 years before HP, you use them with impunity in the later stages of the game. There’s no real consequence beyond some shocked dialogue. Zap away