History YMMV / HarryPotterHogwartsMystery

*** The game takes it UpToEleven in Year 6, when Ben's experiences at the end of Year 5 push him straight into being a reckless, obnoxious edgelord. So, he goes from being unlikeable because he's a one-note coward to being unlikeable because he's a one-note {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Then in Year 6 Chapter 18, Rowan [[HeroicSacrifice takes the Killing Curse for him]], which outraged even those who hated Rowan and firmly believed [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead Ben should have died instead]].]]

* UncannyValley: Some of the character models look... off, such as when you're eating lunch with Ben.
** Jane Court, the Hufflepuff prefect, takes the cake with [[https://imgur.com/a/sZTEn4s her blank expressions]]. [[MemeticMutation Whether she is an Eldritch Abomination or Satan herself, is up to you to decide.]] Her patronus is a Dementor and this is a fact!
** Penny's blue eyes normally have a shadowing effect that darkens the top halves of her irises. However, from Valentine's Day onward, her new models all have her irises as uniform, bright blue rings, which many players have found off-putting.

* FoeYay: Merula's obsessiveness with dominating the player character, the fact that she's usually at the same table in shared classes, seems to seek out the player character out of class, and some of her lines about how things will "never be over between us" after being defeated in a duel definitely verges on this. The fandom, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/zRWwc7b.jpg has gone wild with it]].
** There's even a mission where you have to recruit Merula by showering her with praise. Her response is teasing the player character, saying she always knew they were infatuated with her.

** Going into pure non-canon shipping territory, a few common ones include "[[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]], Chiara/Penny [[note]]due to their sweet personalities, [[spoiler:the angsty dramatic potential of them being close while Penny is deathly afraid 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]], and Tonks/Tulip [[note]]due to them being best pals with shared interests and hanging out together all the time, despite being DoomedByCanon[[/note]].

* BreatherLevel: It takes an ever-increasing number of points to gain Attribute levels 2-30, with level 30 requiring a mind-bending 17,275 points to achieve. After that, it only takes 1,890 per level to get 31-46. [[note]]Attribute points accumulate 2-40 per activity. A full day of grinding Attribute points in 8-hour classes (where they accumulate the fastest) will typically get a player 400-500 points. 17,275 points is ''over a month'' of grinding all day, every day, and more like two months on a realistic play schedule.[[/note]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A couple of these in light of some events.

* HarsherInHindsight: In year 4 there is a Aging Potion class and Snape [[spoiler: says he doesn't want to do the same class when he is old and gray. Remember what happens in Deathly Hallows?]]

* WhatAnIdiot:
** You have to find a black quill hidden in another house's common room.
--> '''You would expect''': your character to simply ask someone from that house to find it for you or let you in.
--> '''Instead''': you shrink and unshrink yourself to sneak in yourself, despite being told how dangerous that is and having just learned that charm.
--> '''Result''': you attract unwanted attention and get in trouble after distracting the prefect with a prank.
** Penny needs someone to impersonate Snape and get Merula caught.
--> '''You would expect''': her to ask Tonks, the metamorphmagus, who probably already has practice at similar pranks.
--> '''Instead''': she has '''you''' use polyjuice and bumble through it.
--> '''Result''': Hagrid falls for it, [=McGonagall=] is suspicious, Dumbledore is onto you and has his own fun playing along and lowkey messing with you.
** A valuable flying broom goes missing, and Skye Parkin accuses a rival House's Beater of stealing it. She decides to take the player character along to search for the broom in the other House's common room.
--> '''You would expect''': Skye Parkin to search '''quietly''', peeking under the furniture '''without''' moving it, to avoid being heard by the Head of House.
--> '''Instead''': She starts flipping furniture and making a huge racket.
--> '''Result''': She and the player character gets caught and landed in detention.

** 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 the chapters shown with each update, leaving players in the dark as to how many 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.

* IdiotPlot: The Chiara Lobosca sidequest spirals into a cavalcade of stupidity in the back half. It transpires that Chiara has been covertly giving her supply of Wolfsbane potion to Remus Lupin, who rightfully calls her out for leaving herself to dry. However, he then asks the protagonist, a ''twelve-year-old child'', to keep Chiara company right before she goes ''rabidly insane'', and the protagonist ''agrees'' rather than bite the bullet and warn a teacher of what's been happening. Chiara herself earns no points for wasting time playing Gobstones in the courtyard and risking going rabidly insane in a castle full of children rather than find an isolated spot to ride out the transformation like the Forbidden Forest. Finally, the fact that the staff doesn't have any contingency protocols in case something goes wrong with the Wolfsbane potion is extremely suspect ([[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban and they haven't learned their lesson when Lupin is hired as a teacher in 1993]]). The result of all this is the protagonist thrown into a frantic duel with a cannibalistic beast that wants to rip their throat out. The fact that you don't end up dead or infected is a miracle.

--> '''Snape''': How many more years will I be forced to tolerate your presence, [MC]?
--> '''You''': I'm a fifth-year, so two more.
--> '''Snape''': Two too many.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story was pretty tame for the first five years. Then the Year 5 finale happened with [[spoiler:Rakepick's betrayal and her using Crucio on Merula]] and then went even ''more'' darker in Year 6 [[spoiler:with [[DeathOfAChild Rowan's murder]]]]. By the time Year 7 lightens up a bit (for now), but shows much more serious undertones [[spoiler:as [[GreaterScopeVillain 'R']], who are arguably more ruthless and dangerous than Rakepick ever was, gets more and more involved in the main plot]].
** The completely [[GoodIsNotNice metal decision]] to [[spoiler:trap Rakepick in the [[PsychologicalTormentZone Sunken Vault]] so she is [[AndIMustScream psychologically]] [[DrivenToMadness tortured]] for the rest of her waking life in revenge for what she did]] is one of the more [[GoodIsNotSoft darker decisions]] the Player is allowed to make.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story was pretty tame for the first five years. Then the Year 5 finale happened with [[spoiler:Rakepick's betrayal and her using Crucio on Merula]] and then went even ''more'' darker in Year 6 [[spoiler:with [[DeathOfAChild Rowan's murder]]]]. By the time Year 7 lightens up a bit (for now), but shows much more serious undertonse [[spoiler:as 'R', who are arguably more ruthless and dangerous than Rakepick ever was, gets more and more involved in the main plot]].
** The completely metal decision to [[spoiler:trap Rakepick in the [[PsychologicalTormentZone Sunken Vault]] so she is [[AndIMustScream psychologically]] [[DrivenToMadness tortured]] for the rest of her waking life in revenge for what she did]] is one of the more darker decisions the Player is allowed to make.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story was pretty tame for the first five years. Then the Year 5 finale happened with [[spoiler:Rakepick's betrayal and her using Crucio on Merula]] and then went even ''more'' darker in Year 6 [[spoiler:with [[DeathOfAChild Rowan's murder]]]]. By the time Year 7 lightens up a bit (for now), but shows much more serious undertonse [[spoiler:as 'R' gets more and more involved in the main plot now that Raekpick is dealt with]].

** Choosing Ben for the mission late in Year 2 shows his HiddenDepths and allows the player to get away without losing house points, which warmed a few players up to him.

** If you don't take Rowan with you when Rakepick calls the Player out for asking around about her, they say this
funny line which does not age well at all considering what happens in Year 6.

*** Merula also jokes later that she'll wear something nice to [[spoiler:the Player's funeral after Rakepick kills them after they tell on Rakepick to Dumbledore]].

** If you don't take Rowan with you when Rakepick calls the Player out for asking around about her, they say this line which does not age well at all considering what happens in Year 6.
--->'''Rowan:'' You're a good friend, (Player). I'll miss you when Madam Rakepick kills you.

** Merula jokes that the good news the Player wants to share with everyone in the 'Adventures in Curse-breaking' is that they're leaving Hogwarts, with the Player answering with a very deadpan 'No'. Hilarious at the time, but [[spoiler:which doesn't feel so good after realizing that later the Player tries to run away from Hogwarts because they're terrified R might kill one of their friends and Merula being one of the people trying to convince them no to leave.]]

** He even has his own ''sidequest'' as of July 2021, where not only do we learn his name ([[PunnyName Levi Kidd]]) and he finally gets some time to shine.

* OvershadowedByControversyy: People outside of the ''Harry Potter'' and mobile gaming fandoms probably know of this game because of the criticism it received for its Devil's Snare scene, and the image of the player's avatar being strangled being a great picture to show the horrors of micro-transactions.

* NeverLiveItDown: Whatever reputation this game has is ignored thanks in part to the Devil's Snare scene and the image of the player's avatar being strangled being a great picture to show the horrors of micro-transactions.

*** The game takes it UpToEleven in Year 6, when Ben's experiences at the end of Year 5 push him straight into being a reckless, obnoxious edgelord. So, he goes from being unlikeable because he's a one-note coward to being unlikeable because he's a one-note {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:Then in Year 6 Chapter 18, Rowan [[HeroicSacrifice takes the Killing Curse for him]], which outraged even those who hated Rowan and firmly believed Ben should have died instead.]]

* {{Woolseyism}}
** An Enchanted Kiss: The name of the play, ''Equinox Enchanted'', is 愛在夢幻春分時 in Chinese ("Love at a dreamy moment of the equinox"), fitting how Chinese translation of popular western titles tend to be a little "extra", as with the translations of the original books (albeit to a greater extent).