History TearJerker / HogwartsLegacy

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LikeASonToMe We were more than just a student]]]]

* Small but notable, sometimes when exploring dive spot treasure vaults, you find corpses. One of them is of a werewolf who was exiled from his home. Another you find just a piece of paper on the body of a wizard that just says MUDBLOOD on it, implying they died of a hate crime.

* Ominis's backstory and the reason why he's so averse to the Dark Arts. His parents and older brothers loved to use ''Crucio'' on random muggles and he couldn't stand their screams of agony and was unwilling to do the same. His parents then cast the spell on him and it was so painful that he decided to do what they said and tortured a random muggle. And he never forgave himself for that.

* It turns out that Lodgok is Ranrok's younger brother, and the reason why he was trying so ''hard'' to reason with him is because he still cared about him. But Ranrok still kills him in cold blood because he disagreed. The reason why Lodgok was helping the protagonist is because Miriam had shown him such kindness with no discrimination. The encounter was so profound, that it made Lodgok question his entire worldview of Wizardkind. And because of him, Miriam was killed.

** If you decide to turn him in, it is likely that he will be in Azakaban for life and we will likely never see him again. According to Ominis, prison life has been poor to him and it seems like it will only go downhill for him. The news that Rookwood was the one who cursed his sister, not goblins, only seems to make him angrier and he is unable to go through the CharacterDevelopment on his anti-goblin stance.

* The reason why Natsai is so hellbent on taking down Harlow is that she's trying to make up for the SurvivorsGuilt she feels when her father [[TakingTheBullet took a literal bullet]] to save her while they were out galloping as Animagi. She never forgave herself for his death. In a blink and you miss it scene, Natty's boggart is the man who killed her father, as shown in the epilogue cutscene.

* What really happened to Claire Beaumont's brother, who had become an Inferius due to himself being involved in the wrong crowd in effort to take them down from the inside. The protagonist ends up killing him to put an end to his misery and they can tell Claire the truth or a lie. If they tell her the truth, she understandably is upset, bursting into tears. The only thing the protagonist can give her is the tattered remains of the sweater she had knitted for him. The protagonist themselves seems traumatized by the event, as indicated from their journal entry in the quest log:

* Ominis' backstory and the reason why he's so averse to the Dark Arts. His parents and older brothers loved to use ''Crucio'' on random muggles and he couldn't stand their screams of agony and was unwilling to do the same. His parents then casted the spell on him and it was so painful that he decided to do what they said and tortured a random muggle. And he never forgave himself for that.
* One of the Infamous Foes is a woman from the Ministry who had been blackmailed and forced to join the Ashwinders to provide for her family. And if you kill her, well...who knows what will happened to them now.

** She was accused of Jackdaw's death by Apollonia Black and was sent to Azkaban based on that testimony alone (and the fact that she was just a muggleborn). But the thing is, she ''didn't'' kill Jackdaw, she had never solved his puzzle. Thisbe had rotted in Azkaban for ''no'' reason and will never be the same, even after she had been exonerated from her crimes. Her whole life had been taken from her, and she was just a student too.

** What of her parents? Do they know their daughter went to Azkaban and why she never came home? Or were the kept in the dark, wondering for the rest of their lives where she had gone?

* It turns out that Lodgok is Ranrok's younger brother, and the reason why he was trying so ''hard'' to reason with him is because he still cared about him. But Ranrok still kills him in cold blood because he disagreed. The reason why Lodgok was helping the protagonist is because Miriam had showed him such kindness with no discrimination. The encounter was so profound, that it made Lodgok question his entire worldview of Wizardkind. And because of him, Miriam was killed.
* Professor Fig's death. No matter which ending chosen, Professor Fig still dies in the end and each are heartbreaking in it's on way (though one is clearly more of a tearjerker than the other).
** In the RedEyesTakeWarning ending, the repository cavern starts to collapse and the protagonist locks eyes with the professor before he is presumably crushed to death. And this is the last time they'll ever see him. The implication that the reason he dies in this ending is because he was so shocked by the protagonist's choice to open the repository, he couldn't find the willpower to work through his injuries. He would have died thinking that he might have failed as a mentor, wondering what would what happened to them and Wizardkind with him no longer there.
** In the SecretKeeper ending, it turns out Professor Fig survived the fall somehow and comes to help the protagonist contain the corrupted ancient magic. He gives them the last emotional boost they need to accomplish such a feat, only to start succumbing to his wounds straight after. He hallucinates his dead wife and when he sees his student by his side, he tells them that 'Miriam would have loved them' solidifying that he had seen the protagonist more like his on son / daughter than just another student. The protagonist clutching their professor's hands as the life drains from his eyes is heartbreaking. When they realize he's dead, they seemingly start crying. Another sad part about this ending, if the protagonist says that they're going to remain the sole Keeper of the repository alone, Professor Fig tells them that he will still be by their side to help them, but he dies. Now that he's gone, the protagonist really ''is'' alone now as [[LastOfHisKind the last of their kind]].
** In the memorial for him after, the protagonist can be seen the most upset out of all the students, looking like they're constantly on the verge of tears. It's clear that they really cared about their mentor than just that. Very notably, this is the only time the protagonist shows a strong emotion besides anger regarding anything that happened over the course of the game.

* Poor Sebastian. His entire sidequest is just mission after mission of him getting deeper and deeper into the Dark Arts despite the worry of his best friend Ominis, his twin sister Anne, and the protagonist. It's clear that he's been deprived of support by his uncle and had been more or less isolated from the family due to Solomon's distaste of him. The end of his sidequest is a DownerEnding no matter what ending he gets, one is only just slightly better than the other.

* Poppy despises poachers and dislikes humans, and the reason behind that is because she had grown up in a family of them. She had watched her parents and others torture and kill beasts for most of her life until she felt forced to run away to live with her grandmother. She lives a happier life now, especially after the protagonist gets her to open up more to others, buts no wonder she had resented other people (besides her gran) for so long. In one of the poacher camps, you can find a letter that is likely from Poppy's parents, talking about how they 'don't feel weighed down' anymore now that Poppy was gone. Looks like no love was lost there.

* Oh, [[TheWoobie Tobbs]]. Poor, poor Tobbs. He was one of Deek's friends, having been sent to a cruel master by the Ministry after their previous one died. His task as set by his master, who was a potioneer, was to basically collect leech juice in a dank cave filled with loads of spiders. If he falls short by even ''three bottles'', he gets beaten, told to self mutilate and denied food privileges, then ordered to get the same amount plus five extra bottles unless he wants to lose ''more''. After Tobbs got as much as he could from the first part of the cave, he delved deeper into the more spider infested parts just to please his master! And after you fight a boss level acromantula, you predictably find his corpse slumped over with a note apologizing to his master for not getting enough juice and dying from his spider bite. It ''really'' hammers in how horrible wizards can be to their house elves and Deeks is completely devastated to get the news.
* What really happened to Claire Beaumont's brother, who had become an Inferius due to himself involved in the wrong crowd in effort to take them down from the inside. The protagonist ends up killing him to put an end to his misery and they can tell Claire the truth or a lie. If they tell her the truth, she understandably be upset, bursting into tears. The only thing the protagonist can give her is the tattered remains of the sweater she had knitted for him. The protagonist themselves seems traumatized by the event, as indicated from their journal entry in the quest log:

* Small but notable, sometimes when exploring dive spot treasure vaults, you find corpses. One of them is of a werewolf who was exiled from his home. Another you find just a piece of paper on the body of a wizard that just says MUDBLOOD on it, implying they died to a hate crime.

* The reason why Natsai is so hellbent on taking down Harlow is that she's trying to make up for the SurvivorsGuilt she feels when her father [[TakingTheBullet took a literal bullet]] to save her while they were out galloping as Animagi. She never forgave herself for his death. In a blink and you miss it scene, Natty's boggart is her father, as shown in the epilogue cutscene.

* The whole Rebellion takes place from 1 September until sometime around July (as the game spans the four seasons; starting with summer, then fall, then winter, then spring, then back to summer), meaning all of the traumatic events of the game happen in ''a period of about nine months''.

* The whole Rebellion takes place from 1 September until sometime around Christmas (going off the castle's decorations), meaning all of the traumatic events of the game happen in a ''very'' short space of time.

* Oh, [[TheWoobie Tobbs]]. Poor, poor Tobbs. He was Deek's friends, having been sent to a cruel master by the Ministry after their previous one died. His master mistreated him and sent him into a spider cave to collect their venom. Along the way, you can find heartbreaking message of Tobbs' abuse. And at the end of it all, he is found dead in a campsite, having died all alone.

* The whole Rebellion takes place from 1 September until sometime before Christmas (going off the castle's decorations), placing almost the whole plot of the game in just four months. Considering the springtime part of the game is devoted to tying up loose ends rather than anything new to the plot, canonically all of the traumatic events of the game happen in a ''very'' short space of time.

** In the memorial for him after, the protagonist can be seen the most upset out of all the students, looking like they're constantly on the verge of tears. It's clear that they really cared about their mentor than just that. Very notably, this is the only time the protagonist shows a strong emotion besides anger regarding the going's on in the past ''half year''.

* This game takes place over a little less than half a year (starting sometime in September and ending sometime in Spring, which in Scotland would be sometime in March). It's never drawn attention to, but you don't even make it to Christmas before the end of the Rebellion, based on the decorations around the castle.

** In the SecretKeeper ending, it turns out Professor Fig survived the fall somehow and comes to help the protagonist contain the corrupted ancient magic. He gives them the last emotional boost they need to accomplish such a feet, only to start succumbing to his wounds straight after. He hallucinates his dead wife and when he sees his student by his side, he tells them that 'Miriam would have loved them' solidifying that he had seen the protagonist more like his on son / daughter than just a student. The protagonist clutching their professor's hands as the life drains from his eyes is heartbreaking. When they realize he's dead, they seemingly start crying. Another sad part about this ending, if the protagonist says that they're going to remain the sole Keeper of the repository alone, Professor Fig tells them that he will still be by their side to help them, but he dies. Now that he's gone, the protagonist really ''is'' alone now as [[LastOfHisKind the last of their kind]].

** While not turning him in is technically a mercy as he won't have to spend the rest of his life locked up in one of the worst prisons in the world, Sebastian has to live the rest of his life with the guilt that he killed his uncle and that his sister may never forgive him for what he's done.
*** He also has no home to go back to, having been thrown out of Feldcroft by his uncle and Anne cutting ties with him.

* What really happened to Claire Beaumont's brother, who had become an Inferius due to himself involved in the wrong crowd in effort to take them down from the inside. The protagonist ends up killing him to put an end to his misery and they can tell Claire the truth or a lie. If they tell her the truth, she understandably be upset, bursting into tears. The only thing the protagonist can give her is the tattered remains of the sweater she had knitted for him.
** The protagonist themselves seems traumatized by the event, as indicated from their journal entry in the quest log:

** The sheer magnitude of how many sidequests are like Tobbs and the Beaumonts. It's a good 75/25 chance if you're sent to look for someone that they are likely dead and you stray across their remains. This does a surprisingly good job of making it feel like AnyoneCanDie.

** In the SecretKeeper ending, it turns out Professor Fig survived the fall somehow and comes to help the protagonist contain the corrupted ancient magic. He gives them the last emotional boost they need to accomplish such a feet, only to start succumbing to his wounds straight after. He hallucinates his dead wife and when he sees his student by his side, he tells them that 'Miriam would have loved them' solidifying that he had seen the protagonist more like his on son / daughter than just a student. The protagonist clutching their professor's hands as the life drains from his eyes is heartbreaking. When they realize he's dead, they seemingly start crying. Another sad part about this ending, if the protagonist says that they're going to remain the sole Keeper of the repository alone, Professor Fig tells them that he will be by their side. Now that he was gone, the protagonist really ''is'' alone now.
** In the memorial for him after, the protagonist can be seen the most upset out of all the students, looking like they're constantly on the verge of tears. It's clear that they really cared about their mentor than just that.
*** Very notably, this is the only time the protagonist shows emotion besides anger regarding the going's on of, it cannot be understaded, the past ''three months''.

* This game takes place over three months. It's never drawn attention to, but you don't even make it to Christmas before the end of the Rebellion, based on the decorations around the castle.

*** Very notably, this is the only time the protagonist shows emotion regarding the going's on of, it cannot be understaded, the past ''three months''.

* When casting ''Crucio'' on enemies, they will get frozen in place, screaming in pain and begging for it all to stop.

** If you decide to turn him in, it is likely that he will be in Azakaban for life and we will likely never see him again. According to Ominis, prison life has been poor to him and it seems like it will only go downhill for him.

** In the SecretKeeper ending, it turns out Professor Fig survived the fall somehow and comes to help the protagonist contain the corrupted ancient magic. He gives them the last emotional boost they need to accomplish such a feet, only to start succumbing to his wounds straight after. He hallucinates his dead wife and when he sees his student by his side, he tells them that 'Miriam would have loved them' solidifying that he had seen the protagonist more like his on son / daughter than just a student. The protagonist clutching their professor's hands as the life drains from his eyes is heartbreaking. When they realize he's dead, they seemingly start crying.
** Another sad part about this ending, if the protagonist says that they're going to remain the sole Keeper of the repository alone, Professor Fig tells them that he will be by their side. Now that he was gone, the protagonist really ''is'' alone now.

** While not turning him in is technically a mercy, Sebastian has to live the rest of his life with the guilt that he killed his uncle and that his sister may never forgive him for what he's done.

* The story of Anne Thisbe in the Hufflepuff exclusive main mission. She was accused of Jackdaw's death by Apollonia Black and was sent to Azkaban based on that testimony alone (and the fact that she was just a muggleborn). But the thing is, she ''didn't'' kill Jackdaw, she had never solved his puzzle. Thisbe had rotted in Azkaban for ''no'' reason and will never be the same, even after she had been exonerated from her crimes. Her whole life had been taken from her, and she was just a student too.

* It turns out that Lodgok is Ranrok's younger brother, and the reason why he was trying so ''hard'' to reason with him is because he still cared about him. But Ranrok still kills him in cold blood because he disagreed.
** The reason why Lodgok was helping the protagonist is because Miriam had showed him such kindness with no discrimination. The encounter was so profound, that it made Lodgok question his entire worldview of Wizardkind. And because of him, Miriam was killed.

** In the RedEyesTakeWarning ending, the repository cavern starts to collapse and the protagonist locks eyes with the professor before he is presumably crushed to death. And this is the last time they'll ever see him.
*** The implication that the reason he dies in this ending is because he was so shocked by the protagonist's choice to open the repository, he couldn't find the willpower to work through his injuries. He would have died thinking that he might have failed as a mentor, wondering what would what happened to them and Wizardkind with him no longer there.

*** Another sad part about this ending, if the protagonist says that they're going to remain the sole Keeper of the repository alone, Professor Fig tells them that he will be by their side. Now that he was gone, the protagonist really ''is'' alone now.

* The reason why Natsai is so hellbent on taking down Harlow is that she's trying to make up for the SurvivorsGuilt she feels when her father [[TakingTheBullet took a literal bullet]] to save her while they were out galloping as Animagi. She never forgave herself for his death.
** In a blink and you miss it scene, Natty's boggart is her father, as shown in the epilogue cutscene.
* Poppy despises poachers and dislikes humans, and the reason behind that is because she had grown up in a family of them. She had watched her parents and others torture and kill beasts for most of her life until she felt forced to run away to live with her grandmother. She lives a happier life now, especially after the protagonist gets her to open up more to others, buts no wonder she had resented other people (besides her gran) for so long.
** In one of the poacher camps, you can find a letter that is likely from Poppy's parents, talking about how they 'don't feel weighed down' anymore now that Poppy was gone. Looks like no love was lost there.

*** The implication that the reason he dies in this ending is because he was so shocked by the protagonist's choice to open the repository, he could find the willpower to work through his injuries. He would have died thinking that he might have failed as a mentor, wondering what would what happened to them and Wizardkind with him no longer there.

** In the RedEyesTakeWarning ending, the repository cavern starts to collapse and the protagonist locks eyes with the professor before he is presumably crushed to death. And this is the last time they'll ever see them.

* Ominis' backstory and the reason why he's so averse to the Dark Arts. His parents and older brothers loved to use ''Crucio'' on random muggles and he couldn't stand their screams of agony and was unwilling to do the same. His parents then casted the spell on him and it was so painful that he decided to do what he says, and he never forgave himself for that.

* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Enemies will react harshly to you killing their allies]]. Loyalists especially, swearing revenge on the protagonist for taking the life of their friends. Sometimes Ashwinders / Poachers claim the reason they're attacking the protagonist is that they took the life of several good friends. Makes you wonder whether or not we've gone too far.