Game news Hogwarts Legacy: When does the game take place in the Harry Potter timeline?
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In the vast universe of Harry Potter, where exactly does Hogwarts Legacy fit in terms of timeline? Here is the answer.
As you know, the Harry Potter universe is as vast as it is abundant. Apart from the main saga, there is also that of Fantastic Beasts and the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. To this, we must now add the video game Hogwarts Legacy: The Legacy of Hogwarts. In order to find our way around, let’s take things in order.
Hogwarts Legacy – 1890s
The events of Hogwarts Legacy take place long before any works from the saga. A specific date was revealed in one of the game’s state of play trailers, when a companion of Professor Fig hands you a journal illustrating rumors of a goblin rebellion rising in the wizarding world. . : it is September 1, 1890 ; this corresponds to a back-to-school day for Hogwarts students. At that time, the famous school was certainly somewhat different.
Technically, the events of the game therefore take place about a century before those of the Harry Potter books and about 35 years before the Fantastic Beasts movies. It is a completely new period that we will be able to explore. For the anecdote, Dumbledore frequented the school benches in 1892. Perhaps it will be possible to meet him? You can in any case greet the director Phineas Nigellus Black, the director Matilda Weasley or even Nick-Quasi-Sans-Tête.
Fantastic Beasts – 1920s
Started in 2016, the Fantastic Beasts saga begins its adventures in 1920s New York and unfolds over ten years. Albus Dumbledore, key member of the plot, appears there in his young years, he who was a student at Hogwarts in 1892. The first film begins precisely in 1926, when the wizarding community is soon in danger of being at the mercy of the Faithful of Salem.
We follow the journey of Norbert Scamander, magizoologist and author of the book Life and Habitat of Fantastic Beasts, a Hogwarts manual that the first years must obtain in order to study the care of magical creatures. So far, three films titled Fantastic Beasts have been released. The first was released in 2016, followed by The Crimes of Grindelwald in 2018, and Dumbledore’s Secrets in 2022.
The Harry Potter saga – 1980s – 1990s
Harry Potter was born on July 31, 1980 and it was at the age of eleven that he returned to Hogwarts, on September 1, 1991.. The saga spans several years until 1998, the year of the final death of Lord Voldemort, then 71 years old. We are also treated to a quick epilogue on the day of September 1, 2017, when Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and their old enemy Draco Malfoy accompany their children, new students to Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – 2017
A four-act play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is set nineteen years after Voldemort’s defeat in 2017. Harry is now a successful father and has joined the office of the Aurors, those elite members who hunt down black magicians. We follow the journeys of the descendants of our heroes: the young Delphi Diggory joins forces with Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy to travel in time thanks to a time turner and avoid the death of Cédric Diggory. A story full of twists and turns.
