History YMMV / HarryPotterHogwartsMystery

* DracoInLeatherPants: [[spoiler:Rakepick is the most prominent example in this game. Incidentally, in her character sheet, she's mentioned wearing leather gloves and [[LiteralMetaphor dragon-scale texture pants]].]]

* ArcFatigue: Year 5's release schedule lasted nearly a year in real time. Its sheer length, as well as the fact that updates only come periodically, meant that plot points dragged out for months and constantly came to a halt, with timed side quests (some of which are as long as Year 1 on their own) being released instead of plot content half the time. In other words, Year 5 literally mirrored a real-time academic year.
** Believe it or not, Year 6 moved at an even slower pace, lasting a year and a half in real time. In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5. Datamining indicated a total of 46 chapters.

** Believe it or not, Year 6 moved at an even slower pace, lasting a year and a half. In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5. Datamining indicated a total of 46 chapters.

** In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5. Datamining indicated a total of 46 chapters.

** When the game was officially released, Years 1, 2, and the beginning of 3 were already available, with the latter released in large portions within a month (each year relatively short with 10-11 chapters). In June 2018, Year 4 was released with 1-2 chapters per week, lasting throughout the summer, with 17 chapters. While this forced players, most who have caught up by now, to keep waiting every week for more, the process was at least consistent and all the chapters were laid out. When Year 5 was released in September, the chapter a week plan slowed down dramatically because of events and timed side quests being released AS OPPOSED to chapters instead of alongside them, as well as extending the number of chapters shown with with update, leaving players in the dark as to how many chapters there would actually be. Year 5 was finally completed in July 2019, lasting over 10 months with 34 chapters. Thanks to more timed side quests and the addition of Quidditch, Year 6 moved at an even slower pace until it was completed in January 2021 with 46 chapters.

** When the game was officially released, Years 1, 2, and the beginning of 3 were already available, with the latter released in large portions within a month (each year relatively short with 10-11 chapters). In June 2018, Year 4 was released with 1-2 chapters per week, lasting throughout the summer, with 17 chapters. While this forced players (most who have caught up by now) to keep hitting a wall and wait every week for more, the process was at least consistent. When Year 5 was released in September, the chapter a week plan slowed down dramatically because of events and timed side quests being released AS OPPOSED to chapters instead of alongside them. Year 5 was finally completed in July 2019, lasting over 10 months with 34 chapters. Year 6 is currently moving even slower with at least 45 chapters plus more side quests.

** In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5. Datamining indicates at least 45 chapters.

** Normally, you can choose to do your story classes at any point during a chapter. [[spoiler:In year 6 chapter 18, you have to do story classes first to progress. This foreshadows how Rowan is killed in that chapter, resulting in classes being cancelled. In year 6 chapter 42, this happens again, but is seemingly subverted in that while important things take place (you finally find the last vault and defeat Rakepick), there is seemingly no reason to make you do classes first.]]

** Many were intrigued by Talbott and Chiara, two characters from different timed sidequests the player meets and befriends. Though Talbott very briefly appears in a Year 5 chapter, and both appeared for the [=OWLs=] sidequest, many were disappointed when they didn't appear in the friends list after the quest, with no apparent further plans to develop them. Talbott was eventually released as a friend via a timed sidequest, while Chiara didn't become available until Halloween 2019.

** When the game was officially released, Years 1, 2, and the beginning of 3 were already available, with the latter released in large portions within a month (each year relatively short with 10-11 chapters). In June 2018, Year 4 was released with 1-2 chapters per week, lasting throughout the summer, with 17 chapters. While this forced players (most who have caught up by now) to keep hitting a wall and wait every week for more, the process was at least consistent. When Year 5 was released in September, the chapter a week plan slowed down dramatically because of events and timed side quests being released AS OPPOSED to chapters instead of alongside them. Year 5 was finally completed in July 2019, lasting over 10 months with 34 chapters. Year 6 is currently moving just as slow.

** 1984-1987 = Spring 2018
** 1987-1988 = Summer 2018
** 1988-1989 = 2018-2019

** One of Ismelda's lines while teaching a hex that gives the target a cold is "If you want to be evil, don't cover your mouth when you cough." This started sounding a lot worse when the coronavirus pandemic broke out.

** In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5. The interface currently lists at least 41 chapters, and the whole year is currently expected to last for 48/49 chapters.

* ArcFatigue: Year 5's release schedule lasted nearly a year in real time. Its sheer length, as well as the fact that updates only come periodically, meant that plot points dragged out for months and constantly came to a halt, with timed side quests being released instead of plot content half the time. In other words, Year 5 literally mirrored a real-time academic year.

** Going into pure non-canon shipping territory, the most notable would probable be "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Parkwood]]"[[note]](or "[[{{Pun}} Skype]]", if you will), or [[LesYay Skye Parkin/Penny Haywood]], due to Penny being a huge fangirl for the Quidditch player, and the loading screen featuring Skye hanging upside-down on her broom facing Penny which reminded fans of the "Spider-Man kiss" posture. However, it declined in popularity as the Quidditch storyline went on, and many players found Skye too bratty and obnoxious[[/note]] Chiara/Jae[[note]]they could be frequently seen together in background scenes, at least before Festival Fun; there is at least one interaction where Jae can be seen with the "lovestruck" animation, although Chiara had the "nervous" one[[/note]], as well as Chiara/Penny[[note]]due to their sweet personalities, [[spoiler:the angsty dramatic potential of them being close while Penny is deathly afriad of werewolves while Chiara ''is'' a werewolf]], and their HeldGaze and Penny wearing daisies in her hair with Chiara plucking one from the ground in the Festival Fun loading screen, which interestingly also has Jae looking at Chiara[[/note]].

** Going into pure non-canon shipping territory, the most notable would probable be "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Parkwood]]" (or "[[{{Pun}} Skype]]", if you will), or [[LesYay Skye Parkin/Penny Haywood]], due to Penny being a huge fangirl for the Quidditch player, and the loading screen featuring Skye hanging upside-down on her broom facing Penny which reminded fans of the "Spider-Man kiss" posture. However, it declined in popularity as the Quidditch storyline went on, and many players found Skye too bratty and obnoxious. Chiara/Jae has some support (they could be frequently seen together in background scenes, at least before Festival Fun), as well as Chiara/Penny (due to their sweet personalities, [[spoiler:the angsty dramatic potential of them being close while Penny is deathly afriad of werewolves while Chiara ''is'' a werewolf]], and their HeldGaze and Penny wearing daisies in her hair with Chiara plucking one from the ground in the Festival Fun loading screen, which interestingly also has Jae looking at Chiara).

** In October 2020, Year 6 Chapter 35 was released, officially making it longer than Year 5, taking over a year with no end in sight.