Hi, I'm wondering do you have the floorplan's available for download anywhere?

YES I was coming to comment this. They masterfully married Hogwarts from all of the films to the way it is described in the books and came up with something truly amazing

The only thing I would add structure wise to the Legacy version would have been the tower inspired by Alnwick castle where the West Tower and Care for Magical Creatures class is. It would have been a welcome addition to the castle

For the horrible bastardisation of the best part of the castle - the clock tower, no it is not so in my opinion. Actually ruins any leftovers of my willingness to some day play this game.

@Halo_Legend Wait... what? The clock tower is in there. Theres actually something you have to do with it for a side quest

@@toriandtillyhe said it was bastardized, not that it wasn’t there.

Yes exactly, that's why the long bridge scenes looked weird to me and couldn't pin pointed where.

I saw more are the magic of Hogwarts was disappearing and lost of innocence , because of the dark days

@@michaelrodriguez8581 Not only loss of innocence, but loss of actual buildings ;)

I think that was a different staircase

I loved what the Grand Staircase looked like in DH. The rigid structure to the mirrored the rigid authoritarianism brought on by the Death Eaters.

And maybe they had to soothe it to sleep like Fluffy

And Dumbledore had to intervene in a massive ugly brawl between the construction union tackling all the castle remodeling and Professor Sprout & Madam Hooch that resulted in his face, vocal chords, and robes being fucked up so badly he needed drastic reconstructive surgery over the summer, which was why he looked and sounded different from PoA onwards.

​@@skinnysnorlax9356 And Madam Hooch died

Then you remember there is also a secret passage below its roots that has been there for 40 years...

​@@skinnysnorlax9356 still not as bad as Professor Flitwick quietly being replaced by a guy less than half his age...

The terrain, the ambience, the music, the color palette… Everything changed in that film and forward

@@SEELE-ONE Yes! Everything. At first I thought the composer changed too but it was still the same John Williams from the two previous movies. So even those who were already involved in the previous movies had a part in the change, not only the new director. Prisoner of Azkaban was a reimagination of the saga. Like an alternate world of Harry Potter in a multiverse. I like to imagine how would it be if all of the movies were directed by Alfonso Cuaron, especially the first two movies but also the subsequent ones. The next directors tried to keep most of the changes made by Alfonso Cuaron but they also left their marks. Every director of Harry Potter movies promoted their own particular vision of the wizarding world.

@@eduardosantinfinatto6611 to be honest, I never liked the direction Cuarón gave. I would’ve rather preferred they stick to what was being established in the first two films or made a slower transition into the darker tones of subsequent books. As it is, it felt more like a tonal whiplash

@@SEELE-ONE It was always the plan that the movies would get darker, and you can see a difference in tone between the first two films. But I agree Film 3 went too far, so they actually had to reverse direction and get a bit lighter for the later films. I wasn't a fan of the silent movie touches, which added nothing and didn't fit. Also, Cuaron failed to give Michael Gambon good direction as Dumbledore, and it wasn't until Order of the Phoenix that he was properly reined in.

@@ThreadBomb Prisoner of Azkaban was the only film in which Dumbledore was accurate to his characterization in the source material the whole way through (with the exception of the gag where he taps Ron's broken leg...which is minor and excusable).

I like little head cannons, but I always found it easier to imagine that the last version we met of Hogwarts just override the previous versions. I like the thought though that the castle somehow may just mess with the students/faculty every year by changing the placement of some classrooms, bathrooms, and dorms.

wasnt it also mentioned in the books that Hogwarts is always forever slightly changing and morphing

canon is the spelling

@@DefenestrateYourself whoops lol

If the castle changes through years then how would maruders map would work ? Will it change to

With all those old Scottish stones sticking out the ground, and all the amazing lighting they used. I agree

Fun fact: Azkaban made the least money out of all the films.

@@ttt-id9oo we may not have gotten a second Cuaron Harry Potter (I don't think he was really interested in doing another one either), but the producers clearly liked the direction he took the series in because pretty much all the films that follow take after Azkaban in their tone and production design far moreso than the two Chris Columbus films.

It might not be the best straight adaptation, but Prisoner of Azkaban nailed the aesthetics in a way that none of the other films ever did. It toned down the overly whimsical and almost artificial look and design of the first 2 movies and made everything feel more grounded and lived in whiles still feeling plenty magical and mysterious, unlike the later films that got rid of too many of the fantastical aspects and made everything in the wizarding world feel far too modern.

Yeah if you can get away with it in any movie it would be the one with the Magical school that’s almost sentient.

Makes it a bit annoying though. Imagine spending a whole year adapting to the layout of the castle, only to come back the next year and no longer know where everything is.

@@TyrantJaeger its probably why ron and harry get lost all the time

So Hogwarts is a "Castle of Requirement"?

@@LinkTheFusky They only got lost the first month or so.

Thats stupid

That's a good idea!

Thank you 😊

No problem, glad you've enjoyed the channel!

Thanks!

Glad to hear it! Yeah I've tied myself up in knots in the past about inconsistencies too, like how often the interior doesn't match the exterior or changes are made. But the magic excuse is what you have to fall back on 😂

You've been a great deal of help in helping me chart inconsistencies to make an unofficial grand map of Hogwarts that takes into account all the film ret-cons. Wish me luck! 🤞🏾

Thanks!

Thanks, glad you've enjoyed them! Some of the blueprints were released online and some are on display at the Warner bros studio tour. A guy who is building hogwarts in 3d made a really handy blog where he found some of them. If you Google Hogwarts in 3d floorplans then it might come up. I just then filled in the gaps and drew on top of them to create a clean layer.

Thanks, I really appreciate that!! Fingers crossed

Thanks!

Glad you liked them, really appreciate that!

That's really nice, thanks!!

I looked into this once but I never realised the pc games were completely different than console and it all got super complicated 😂

@@hogwartsexpert Yeah, which is why it's better to stick to the console versions since they actually follow the movie external model lol

@@yrooxrksvi7142 that might be the way to go then! I'll have to credit you 😂

@@hogwartsexpert Hahaha Thanks

Thanks, that's true, it does force the channel to be only hogwarts content which could be tricky! The moving staircases could be the same above yeah but originally they went all the way down to the great hall, whereas in deathly hallows there are the new large staircases going up from the great hall

@@hogwartsexpert yeah I noticed that, one of the many minor changes in the series. Luckily it worked for the film.

@@AustinNGrayson Perhaps you could name your channel after the cult horror film Castle Freak :)

Yeah if all the books had already been released then we probably would have got something closer to HBP at the beginning, true. It's definitely a fun topic even though it's niche hahah!

@@hogwartsexpert Niche things are usually the most fun! It attracts people who are properly interested/engaged, so you're rarely gonna get someone who doesn't pay attention. They did the best they could with the information they had, definitely. Hogwarts' design is fantastic.

Thanks! My favourite incarnation is definitely Half Blood Prince, it kind of replaced my vision of hogwarts from the books so I find it hard to picture any other version. Hogwarts legacy could change that because the interpretation in that game looks amazing. Hbu?

@@hogwartsexpert | Sounds good! As controversial as this may be, the DHp2 version of Hogwarts is my favourite, albiet my personal changes would be: (DANGER: LONG AND OBNOXIOUS COMMENT) 1) The Viaduct - There are 2 of them; the old viaduct from PS to HBP, and the new one with a pathway leading to Hogsmede Station and perimeter walls so that it's not just a flawed defense mechanism for the plot convenience of DHp2. 🤣 The Training Grounds - While partially swallowed up by the hills, the CoS version of this area and its corresponding tower remain in my ideal Hogwarts, but with small gothic features to match the rest of the school (e.g., the turrets becoming more spiked). The Quad - A theory going around is that the Quad was sunken to basement level in the first 3 movies. I think this is a really unique idea and want to include it. The only difference is the second Boathouse pathway seen in the OotP and HBP games. The Bell Towers and Greenhouses - The greenhouses are moved to the side of the Long Gallery and take on how they will look in Hogwarts Legacy, while the bell towers obtain their own courtyard, with curvy pathways leading back into the Training Grounds. The DADA/Astronomy Tower - The books mention 5th Years witnessing Hagrid being attacked from the Astronomy Tower by members of the Ministry (I could be wrong), so the entire thing is inverted for that to happen. Also, the Chamber House from Durham Cathedral (where the Transfiguration lessons were filmed) is situated at the bottom of this tower since I couldn't plot the room anywhere else. The Lookout Tower - Remember that wide tower on the corner of the Quad, connected to the Stone Bridge? Given the description of Ravenclaw Tower, I personally think the DHp2 version of the Lookout Tower is where that is. With the exterior done, not much really changes on the interior except for the Grand/Marble Staircase. My headcanon would be that the Grand Staircase looks how they do from PS - HBP and they just stopped moving for the Battle, so extra steps were added to get around easier. Long? Yes. Imaginative? Yep. That's my dream Hogwarts. lol

It was an honest question 😭I want to buy it

The game is still far from book accurate.

@@korvo3427 the biggest difference is that in the book, the entrance hall opens straight out to the grassy grounds!

@@willemmmmm I disagree. The biggest is the Geography and where hogsmeade & the Forbidden forest are in relation to the castle. Then there's some smaller ones that nevertheless still straight up contradict the books like the owlery & quidditch pitch being outside castle walls and the greenhouses connecting directly to the castle to name only a few. For this to be a definitive visual representation of Hogwarts its too different imo

Yeah I agree, first two films feel cosy and warm and everything after feels more gothic!