The Hogwarts Legacy trailer reveals a version of the Wizard World that, while set in the late 1800s, is clearly very closely based on the visual style established in the Harry Potter movies. There is one design detail in the trailer which is taken from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, however, which has some interesting implications for the new game.
One moment in the trailer shows a student cast a spell which transforms a mirror into a dueling dummy, and it resembles the Death Eater dummies in the fifth film. While there are some clear differences, the re-design of the dueling dummy could reveal something about the human villains of the upcoming game if dark wizards are included as enemies in Hogwarts Legacy.
The dueling dummy seen in the video is based on the training dummies used by Dumbledore’s army in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie. They appear when some students take to the Room of Requirements to practice defense against the dark arts, with the room magically providing these students with training dummies with redesigned Death Eater masks.
The training dummy from the teaser trailer clearly isn’t quite a Death Eater. There were no Death Eaters at the time that Hogwarts Legacy is set in the late 1800s, and there would not be until around the 1950s. Most notably, the dummy lacks the hood that the dummies had in the film. The face, however, is similar to the Death Eater mask and could have links to enemies in the upcoming games.
The dummies in the fifth film resembled the enemies that the students faced, which could mean that the dummy seen in the trailer somehow resembles one of the potential threats seen in the new game. While it lacks the hood of the Death Eaters, it is also distinct from the film series’ dummies in another way, with a blue symbol painted in its chest which is different to the gold circle on the chest of the Death Eater dummies. It’s possible that this symbol is connected to dark wizards operating at the time of Hogwarts Legacy, possibly even a precursor organization to what would become the Death Eaters when Voldemort rose to power.
It is very unlikely that the Death Eaters themselves will make an appearance in Hogwarts Legacy, but that doesn’t mean the game will not explore the dark wizards who were operating at the time. The dueling dummy and the differences between its design in the movies and the design seen in the trailer might give some hint to fans as to what organizations those wizards could belong to. It is also possible that the games’ dummies simply took visual influence from the movies, and while some features were changed. parts of the face remained the same simply to reference the films.
The Room of Requirement itself, if featured in the game, could also provide some big hints into the upcoming RPG’s villains, as it is possible that the dueling dummy featured is merely the standard one used to help students practice their spells in Hogwarts Legacy. Nonetheless, while not shown in the trailer, it does imply that players will be facing down other witches and wizards as well as the monsters and fantastic beasts shown so far, suggesting a more human threat may lie underneath the surface in the upcoming game.
Hogwarts Legacy is in development for the PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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