Aside from my long list of gripes below, I think the game was charming and Hogwarts itself was brilliantly executed. Cozy vibe execution was spot on. Warts to follow: 1. Why can people send me owls but I need to travel half-way across the world to talk with someone? 2. My familiar is an owl that sits in my room all day… yet I pay more attention to animals I've poached from poachers. 3. Why can’t I give Deek clothing? Is he my slave? Am I a slave owner? 4. It's impossible to avoid Sebastian's evil tendencies. He is a bad influence and I'm prevented from saying no! What if I want to be an innocent student? 5. I saw Amit face-to-face in the astronomy tower as I hovered there with a broom. But I can’t enter while mounted? What? 6. The teacher gave me a field guide book, which is nice and all, except for the fact that it contains pages for Salazar Slytherin's room. Did they know I'd need to learn the cruciatus curse? Why are there pages for the teacher's lounge? Or behind locked doors? Surely a school approved field guide book wouldn't contain dangerous and off-limits areas. 7. I have multiple issues with the Merlin trials: 1. How does completing these trials physically give me more gear slots 2. Speaking of gear slots, where do I even hold my gear? I just have a robe and wand... 3. Couldn't I just have a bag of holding, and if so, why would it be limited in size? 4. Why was Merlin setting up trials so long ago? Just for fun? Knowing that whoever completed them would get inventory space? 5. Why did he make so many?? Is he insane??? 8. Can’t I just buy Zenobia more gobstones? Surely if it's a kid's game it can't be that expensive? 9. There are student's clothes in chests in the Keeper trials. Isn’t that creepy? Who’s putting the clothes there? Why are students clothes in random caves?? 10. Why can I fit a full grown hippogriff in my magical animal vacuum bag but can’t find room for an extra pair of mittens? 11. I enter a room that’s been abandoned for years… I see an empty tea cup, I can drink from it? Who let me be so disgusting?? Also wouldn't the tea have evaporated? 12. I’m at school and I can’t romance anybody? No flirting? No friends? No… talking to strangers? 13. Wizards are the bad guys… preventing goblins from using wands, apparently. But Natsai said she doesn’t even use a wand in Uganda. The elves don’t need wands. So how can wizards stop the goblins from using magic? 14. Potions is a missed opportunity. There’s no skill… Skyrim did better more than a decade ago… yet potions is like a huge part of HL lore? Why can I not discover new potions? Or make mistakes and blow things up?  15. I can’t earn points for my house? Even with the sand glasses for the house points? 16. I never see anyone else, ever on a broom? Except racing? Yet I see plenty of people walking? Why would you ever walk if you were a wizard? 17. 50% of puzzles could be solved if I was just allowed to use my broom. Or conjure stairs.  18. I have literally murdered hundreds of goblins. How have I not started an international wizarding incident? Also… can’t I tell my teachers I’m trying to be murdered every single day? That I don’t have time for classes on top of the brutal bloodshed? 19. What’s the point of locks? And why is a professor teaching me to lock pick? Shouldn’t someone like Sebastian be teaching me about lock picking, rather than torture and murder? 20. Are using enormous drills the best way to find things? Won’t people notice the ground shaking? Couldn’t you enlist your fellow wizard villains to use magic to help find your repositories? 21. How do brooms have a speed burst? And why doesn’t it last? Like magically, does it have a speed battery or something? And why when I’m close to the ground does it recharge?? Isn’t it magic? Shouldn’t I be able to go fast all the time? 22. I can’t fly around without self-proclaimed assassins trying to murder me in air? How are the teachers fine with me wandering around without a body guard? 23. I died easily in the Keeper trials (save scum that I am). Professor Fig doesn’t seem to care about the risk. He could have a dead student but he’s just like … “I’ll meet you in the map room”… really? I have like 3 months of experience with magic and you trust me to defeat hulking monolith guardians? 24. Some of the outfits are so hideous as to break immersion. Am I really going to wear an asylum mask or dragon glasses during class and not have a teacher tell me to take them off? Yikes I look like a freak. 25. If the goblins didn’t hate wizards, they sure do now that I've murdered literally 500 of them. 26. Are there no female goblins? At all? Do they reproduce asexually? 27. I wish the spell system was a bit better. For example, instead of having bombarda, confringo, and incendio all be different spells, I could: 1. Have them as one spell that either has upgrades 2. I tap a second button as a modifier 3. It’s smart in that if people are close, it uses incendio, and if far, confringo, etc 28. For the pushing and pulling spells, I could press a button and then move a stick. Lock on the enemy and then push them away, or pull them closer, or click stick to move them down. Would prevent the constant spell slot switching. 29. Why does my wand have a cooldown for one spell?? Yet I can cast any number of other spells? It’s almost like my wand won’t work. No upgrades here? Why not? 30. Why can’t I get drunk? I mean I’m a fifth year and I'm at a pub? 31. Why is a killing curse unforgivable but actual mass murder via exploding or using my awesome lightning not at least a little jail time? 32. There is no RPG system at all. I can customize my clothes and face, but otherwise the story plays out exactly the same. 33. I can’t do tricks on my broom? Like loop-de-loops? Or hanging from the edge, or standing on it?  34. So I sleep on a mud floor when waiting for the day to change? Worse, I can’t sleep in my actual bed? 35. When making soup at home, I can make a small amount, medium amount, or large amount. It all takes the same time. Why can’t I do batch cooking for potions?? It’s so tedious. I mean the pot is as big as my head… 36. Why do I sleep on the floor when waiting for Professor Fig? And then he just walks in the room without asking what I'm doing? 37. Since I’m polyjuice Professor Black, why don’t I say I want to reinstate quidditch? 38. Proceeds to brutally spam explosions and powerful magical lightning at the graphorn. Then says - "I need your help, friend" after kneeling?? 39. Okay I can fit a graphorn in my bag but not an extra pair of gloves! 40. The fact that we open the door for Ranrok to walk in… 🤦‍♂️ 41. No mini games like wizards' chess. 42. I sneak up on creatures, paralyze them, suck them into a bag, separate them from their family, put them in a zoo, force them to breed, and then proceed to harvest them for their materials. Wait… am I a poacher? 43. I only get 100 points for saving Hogwarts?