Hogwarts Legacy is (as of writing this) the latest video game based on the Harry Potter universe. Officially it's not intended to be a direct part of the official canon stories, ie. an official prequel, instead being a kind of alternative story within the same universe, but it's still very faithful to the official lore and does not contradict almost any of it, and while it has no direct references to almost any of the characters in the books, many of the historic characters from the books are heavily referenced. Set in 1890, it effectively acts as a prequel to all the other official Harry Potter stories.
As a game it's mostly innocent and charming (although enemies do literally die, they aren't eg. just rendered unconscious or transported to a prison or another dimension; they are literally killed by the playable character and others; but their corpses do not stay around, and instead vanish.) The British accents and polite British demeanor of both the playable character and most NPCs are charming, and overall the game is innocent fun, with occasional peaks in difficulty.
The innocent nature of the game is, however, slightly marred by a couple of artificial insertions of forced modern "diversity", which are not only jarring, but in fact break willing suspension of disbelief. After all, the game is set in 1890, making these things anachronistic.
One (slightly older) female side character, when spoken to, will refer to her "wife" several times. You can also talk to this "wife" of hers at a different part of the game. The 1890's England did not have a concept of same-sex marriage (and, in fact, it was probably outright illegal), so this makes it completely anachronistic. One could argue that this is "the wizarding world", which is a bit like a parallel universe of sorts to the real world, and different rules apply. However, there is no reason to believe why the otherwise extremely-British culture of the "wizarding world" of the Harry Potter universe would be different in this regard from the real world (as established by the original book series).
What's especially jarring is that this is about the only reference to anybody's spouse in the entire game that I could find. Nobody else in the entire game talks about their husbands or wives. This is about the only such reference in the entire game, and it just had to be an "inclusive" one. This just hammers in how artificially and forcefully inserted it is.
And if that wasn't bad enough, one more major side character in the game is very heavily implied to be "transgender". Said character even alludes to how "difficult" her life had been in the past (while not saying exactly why, it's quite clearly implied why.)
There's absolutely no reason for either of these to be in the game, other than to virtue-signal. Neither thing has any significance whatsoever to anything that happens in the game, they have no storywise reason to be so, and they are there as purely cosmetic, but rather in-your-face, reasons. It's purely social engineering of the player, and nothing else. There's absolutely no storywise nor gamewise reason for that dialogue to be there, as it plays no role on anything nor affects anything.
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