Fans of books about Harry Potter are looking forward to the release of a new video game Hogwarts Legacy. Recently it became known that the creators of RPG have expanded opportunities for individualization of characters: for example, users will be able to create transgender characters.
The release of Hogwarts Legacy is engaged in the Warner Bros division. INTERACTIVE ENTERTINMENT INC. And developers of Avalanche Software. The role-playing game should go out in 2022.
Insiders told Bloomberg that in the game you can choose the exact gender of the hero, its body and voice. At the same time, the character of any sex can be both female and male voice.
Such a step of the creators of the game about Harry Potter is associated with recent scandals around the author of this series of books, Joan Rowling. At first she was accused of transfobia because of the ironic writing on Twitter. For this, Rowling criticized not only Internet users, but also the main stars "Poteriana" - Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.
The second wave of Heita fell on Rowling after the release of her new detective "bad blood" (she writes this series under the pseudonym Robert Galbreit). The main villain in the book was a man who sleeved in women's dresses. Some readers considered that in this way the writer tries to inspire them distrust of transgender men.
Against the background of these scandals, Twitter users even launched the #Ripjkrowling hashtag ("Rest with the world, Joan Rowling").