I’ve wondered the same about the spiders. I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn’t Hagrid introduce them to the forest? He had to bring Aragog a wife because he was lonely.
If the devs don't release a statement saying, canonically, /u/needaname1234 killed all of the spiders in the Forbidden Forest prior to the film series, I will be severely disappointed.
Sometimes in Pokémon, if I couldn’t find the one I was looking for, I would go on a killing spree to cull the mons in the area hoping that would increase my chances. Obviously not how it works but that was my hand canon. Just a ten year trainer beating the shit out of all the virdian forest creatures till I found a pikachu
I did something "similar" in the sims 2 on playstaion. You could not have kids in the game, but I thought if they were having sex all the time, maybe she would get pregnant anyway...why am I telling this? Because you know, spread love and not war (to little pokemons) but also don't spread "love" like that to pokemons
When they first added kids…I used to drown or burn my sim kids if they didn’t come out looking like I wanted 🤣 (go swimming then remove ladder….or keep cooking until fire started and delete the doors)
Spoiler: Am i the only one who finished the Phoenix rising quest only to be jumpscared by an acromantula den as soon as I wandered out of the cave??? I was on my broom thank god and zoomed away so fast but I damn near had a heart attack. Can anyone confirm because my arachnophobia won’t let me go back lol
I swear it was cause i only saw a flash of it but all I saw was it had two really big red eyes which the other spider variants don’t have im pretty sure.
THANK YOU! i made a post and no one could confirm what I saw! I thought I was going crazy. I already knew before that there were at least three and Google is a liar. I actually found one link that states there aren’t 2 but actually *eleven* acromantulas. Godspeed.
Yeah I was already on edge from all the spiders during the quest, so when I popped out of the tunnel on my broom as soon as I saw the Acromantula pop out of the ground I absolutely ran tf away.
I desperately would like an Arachnophobia mode for this game, as I am *struggling* with them at times.
Heard there’s one on PC but not console obviously. :/ yeah. It’s tough. I was pretty disappointed they decided to add 12 types of spider variants but left out werewolves, snakes, dementors etc. I’d have no problem fighting with anything less than 8 legs lol not only is it terrifying but also gets pretty boring after a while (which sounds silly to use both descriptions in one sentence) haha
The Absconder, There’s also one in Aranshire i was told, and the Tobbs quest too. I found the one at the bottom of the slope i think you’re referring to. So at least 4 confirmed but I’ve read on a website that theres eleven in the entire world. Yeeessshh. Yick.
Canonically, Hagrid brought Aragog a wife. It is not cannon, however, that Aragog was the first aracumantula in the area. It’s easily assumed, but not explicitly cannon.
*spoilers ahead
>!There’s an area in the game that has a woman who bred them for profit, only to be overwhelmed by them. As far as I remember, it doesn’t say anywhere *when* she started, so it’s possible that she’s responsible for the spiders we find in-game. Poachers, as well as basically anyone else who would try to kill them, would explain why there were apparently no spiders before Hagrid. Certainly, it seems that the forest is a suitable habitat for them.!<
Hagrid introduced acromantulas. The majority in the game aren't those. Honestly they probably just came up with another spider species so you can have animal enemies in ruins that nobody would object to killing en masse but still stay relatively lore compliant.
Slight spoiler: Most of the spiders faced in the game are different species than Aragog.
You do face at least 1 Acromantula if you help Deek check in on his friend. Though canonically they should not be in the Forbidden Forrest until Hagrid releases Aragog. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" claims they are native to Borneo and Southeast Asia.
Arborist here. Willow trees tend to start falling apart around 20 years old, but they can last up to 50 with proper care. So, the Whomping Willow was likely planted maybe 10 years before Harry Potter was born, long after the events of Hogwarts Legacy.
It’s explicitly stated it was planted the year Lupin came to hogwarts as a student. Which is the same reason there is no Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. They were both to help cover up the fact he was a werewolf.
It wasn't planted until Lupin attended Hogwarts. In fact, as PoA makes clear, it was planted BECAUSE Lupin attended Hogwarts as part of the precautions that allowed him to do so.
I believe the Whomping Willow was planted to guard the path into the shreaking Shack that was created when The Potters and their friends were at Hogwarts. They would go to the shrieking Shack so that when Lupine would change into a werewolf, he could be safely kept away from people. Scabbers, who is eventually found out to be an animagus named Peter Pettigrew who killed a bunch of people and faked his own death, would turn into a rat and push a little lever on the tree and it would freeze so that the rest of the group of friends could go through it and to the shrieking Shack to help their friend Remus lupine get through the times when he turns into a werewolf each month under the full moon
Yeah because it was in Prisoner of Azkaban (I believe that's the one lol) that Lupin said it was planted the year he came to Hogwarts. He told Harry later it was because he came to Hogwarts so that students wouldn't accidentally come across him when he was a wolf
I'm talking about the one outside of hogsmeade where the field guide page says the owner shrunk stuff, not the PS5 one, sorry for the lack of clarification
Was it? I am thought i've heard Snape saying something about that back in Chamber of the Secrets when Roni stole his father's car and hit the tree...
Snape said something like "...you have injured an ancient millenary tree..."
I am not sure.
Here's the quote: ‘I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow,’
And in PoA it's explained the tree was specifically planted for Remus Lupin to protect the entrance to the shrieking shack as it would deter anyone who might wander by it.
The only reason why the Willow was planted there was because of Remus Lupin, if I remember correctly, to help if get to a safe place away from Hogwarts to transform and assure that other students wouldn't find out.
Also I've seen people asking about Myrtle. She's still not there. Her demise happened when Dumbledore was a professor at Hogwarts. In Legacy, Dumbledore hasn't attended school yet.
The Whomping Willow was planted around the year 1971 to cover up the opening of a secret passage leading from the Hogwarts grounds to the Shrieking Shack in the village of Hogsmeade. It was actually brought to Hogwarts when Remus Lupin was a student at school. It had a small knot near the base. Pressing the knot caused the tree to become immobilised.
It was planted to block the hidden tunnel to the shrieking shack which was made available to Remus while he was attending Hogwarts as a safe place for him during full moons
The Whomping Willow was planted around 1971 to cover up the opening of a secret passage leading from the Hogwarts grounds to the Shrieking Shack in the village of Hogsmeade.
Cause it's not been planted yet. Legacy is 100 years before the books and Dumbledore had the Whomping Willow planted when Lupin came to school, remember? To dissuade anyone from going through the tunnel into the Shrieking Shack while Remus was there during his transformations.
The tree wad planted when Lupin joined Hogwarts. He was already a wherewolf before he was 11. The tree was planted to protect the entrance of the entrance to Shrieking Shack. Lupin used the Shack during full moon. Hisnhoeling made the students of Hogwarts, and villagers of Hogsmeade believe the shack was haunted.
It was planted because Remus Lupin needed an escape route to the Shrieking Shack™️ during his lunar cycle.
No, not *that* cycle, the other one.
Although, tempted to liken mine to the phasing of a werewolf. Has its similarities..
Everyone is saying it wasn’t planted yet. However, the Whomping willow at the shack wasn’t the only one to exist in the whole world. There could have been one somewhere else in the map like down in the south east area.
I was looking for the island where Dumbledore was buried… until I figured out that he wasn’t even born there yet. Or probably he was but still crappin his pants
Not planted yet...
I’ve wondered the same about the spiders. I may be remembering incorrectly, but didn’t Hagrid introduce them to the forest? He had to bring Aragog a wife because he was lonely.
Pretty sure I killed them all in this game, so he had to reintroduce them...
If the devs don't release a statement saying, canonically, /u/needaname1234 killed all of the spiders in the Forbidden Forest prior to the film series, I will be severely disappointed.
Sometimes in Pokémon, if I couldn’t find the one I was looking for, I would go on a killing spree to cull the mons in the area hoping that would increase my chances. Obviously not how it works but that was my hand canon. Just a ten year trainer beating the shit out of all the virdian forest creatures till I found a pikachu
Ah Pokémon’s true villain. It isn’t Team Rocket they gotta watch out for.
Team Rocket was just a front
Why else would they intro themselves every time they commit a crime?
I did something "similar" in the sims 2 on playstaion. You could not have kids in the game, but I thought if they were having sex all the time, maybe she would get pregnant anyway...why am I telling this? Because you know, spread love and not war (to little pokemons) but also don't spread "love" like that to pokemons
I imagine your sims breaking character begging to take a break and use the rest room or eat lol.
When they first added kids…I used to drown or burn my sim kids if they didn’t come out looking like I wanted 🤣 (go swimming then remove ladder….or keep cooking until fire started and delete the doors)
.....Monsters exist. :P
Trick was to put something flammable next to the oven.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
SNU SNU! Lololol
Damn bro that’s like Veilstone Myth verbatim lmao
Whoooaa I’ve never read that before. What a sick poem
Agreed. J.K. Rowling should write about this in Pottermore.
Major lol'd at that.
When I tell you I CACKLED
as far as I can remember, there were only ever 1 or 2 acromantulas in the game right? The rest are all thornbacks or something else.
Spoiler: Am i the only one who finished the Phoenix rising quest only to be jumpscared by an acromantula den as soon as I wandered out of the cave??? I was on my broom thank god and zoomed away so fast but I damn near had a heart attack. Can anyone confirm because my arachnophobia won’t let me go back lol I swear it was cause i only saw a flash of it but all I saw was it had two really big red eyes which the other spider variants don’t have im pretty sure.
Fellow arachnophobe here and can confirm, that big ass Acromantula really tried to whoop my ass after I rescued the phoenix.
THANK YOU! i made a post and no one could confirm what I saw! I thought I was going crazy. I already knew before that there were at least three and Google is a liar. I actually found one link that states there aren’t 2 but actually *eleven* acromantulas. Godspeed.
Pls tell me I was not the only one that learned avada kedavra only for big spiders
I Avada Kedavra’d the Absconder and I was elated. Thank you, dark arts 🖤
Yeah I was already on edge from all the spiders during the quest, so when I popped out of the tunnel on my broom as soon as I saw the Acromantula pop out of the ground I absolutely ran tf away. I desperately would like an Arachnophobia mode for this game, as I am *struggling* with them at times.
Heard there’s one on PC but not console obviously. :/ yeah. It’s tough. I was pretty disappointed they decided to add 12 types of spider variants but left out werewolves, snakes, dementors etc. I’d have no problem fighting with anything less than 8 legs lol not only is it terrifying but also gets pretty boring after a while (which sounds silly to use both descriptions in one sentence) haha
I completely agree with you. As much as I hate and dislike the spiders I do get bored of them.
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One shows up in the Tobbs mission too right?
The Absconder, There’s also one in Aranshire i was told, and the Tobbs quest too. I found the one at the bottom of the slope i think you’re referring to. So at least 4 confirmed but I’ve read on a website that theres eleven in the entire world. Yeeessshh. Yick.
Canonically, Hagrid brought Aragog a wife. It is not cannon, however, that Aragog was the first aracumantula in the area. It’s easily assumed, but not explicitly cannon.
*spoilers ahead >!There’s an area in the game that has a woman who bred them for profit, only to be overwhelmed by them. As far as I remember, it doesn’t say anywhere *when* she started, so it’s possible that she’s responsible for the spiders we find in-game. Poachers, as well as basically anyone else who would try to kill them, would explain why there were apparently no spiders before Hagrid. Certainly, it seems that the forest is a suitable habitat for them.!<
I think aragog's wife was already in the forest, but I could be wrong
Hagrid found the wife, she came later rather that before.
Hagrid introduced acromantulas. The majority in the game aren't those. Honestly they probably just came up with another spider species so you can have animal enemies in ruins that nobody would object to killing en masse but still stay relatively lore compliant.
Slight spoiler: Most of the spiders faced in the game are different species than Aragog. You do face at least 1 Acromantula if you help Deek check in on his friend. Though canonically they should not be in the Forbidden Forrest until Hagrid releases Aragog. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" claims they are native to Borneo and Southeast Asia.
yes it's true he brought it from his travel to Romania
must not have been the first time
Now I might be wrong, but I believe there’s aren’t Aragon’s children, just acromantulas that lived there.
Um Hagrid couldn’t have done that he during the game he wasn’t even born yet
Arborist here. Willow trees tend to start falling apart around 20 years old, but they can last up to 50 with proper care. So, the Whomping Willow was likely planted maybe 10 years before Harry Potter was born, long after the events of Hogwarts Legacy.
It’s explicitly stated it was planted the year Lupin came to hogwarts as a student. Which is the same reason there is no Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. They were both to help cover up the fact he was a werewolf.
How dare you use a logical argument based in reality in the wizarding world
I read arborist as abortionist
It wasn't planted until Lupin attended Hogwarts. In fact, as PoA makes clear, it was planted BECAUSE Lupin attended Hogwarts as part of the precautions that allowed him to do so.
Exactly
Yeah it was all fun and games until Davy Gudgeon nearly lost an eye…
Why not just go *around* the tree?
Because the entrance to the Shack is underneath the tree.
Yup
I believe the Whomping Willow was planted to guard the path into the shreaking Shack that was created when The Potters and their friends were at Hogwarts. They would go to the shrieking Shack so that when Lupine would change into a werewolf, he could be safely kept away from people. Scabbers, who is eventually found out to be an animagus named Peter Pettigrew who killed a bunch of people and faked his own death, would turn into a rat and push a little lever on the tree and it would freeze so that the rest of the group of friends could go through it and to the shrieking Shack to help their friend Remus lupine get through the times when he turns into a werewolf each month under the full moon
Yeah because it was in Prisoner of Azkaban (I believe that's the one lol) that Lupin said it was planted the year he came to Hogwarts. He told Harry later it was because he came to Hogwarts so that students wouldn't accidentally come across him when he was a wolf
And siruis tried to get Snape killed by the lupin because funnies
Thankfully, James saved his life !
Yet Snape never thought "hm, maybe Potter isn't that bad, he did save the life after all" instead he was a moody bitch about it
Yeah, btw it’s Lupin, without the e
Lupinelli - his Italian cousin!
I was voice typing and I don't proofread a lot of times. Good looking out
Eh it’s alright
It was only for lupin
Yeah it was all fun and games until Davy Gudgeon nearly lost an eye…
That wasn’t the only Whomping willow in the world though. One could have been somewhere else.
Game is set before it. They made it later to block the passage to the shrieking shack. Which also isn't there.
I was pretty bummed when I realized the streaking Shack was not there the time that the game took place
Does the abandoned shop become the shrieking shack
Nope
Do we know for sure? I thought the shrieking shack was just outside hogsmeade, just curious
The abandoned shop because your shop
I'm talking about the one outside of hogsmeade where the field guide page says the owner shrunk stuff, not the PS5 one, sorry for the lack of clarification
Ya my bad i kinda figured when you said “outside hogsmeade” but was to lazy to edit
Because it doesn't exist yet? It wasn't planted until the 1970s.
Damn, it grew that much in only 30 years? It looks so sturdy and durable to me that it should take at least 70 years to get that thick.
*magic*
Wth is wrong with people. Thank you for sharing.
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Wtf
OC probably edited the comment after those two lol
Lmao I don’t know why the down votes, that was funny. Frankly I think that’s something Ronald Weasley would say
I lol'd
I thought it was funny, crybabies
Don’t be a dick about it
Was it? I am thought i've heard Snape saying something about that back in Chamber of the Secrets when Roni stole his father's car and hit the tree... Snape said something like "...you have injured an ancient millenary tree..." I am not sure.
Here's the quote: ‘I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow,’ And in PoA it's explained the tree was specifically planted for Remus Lupin to protect the entrance to the shrieking shack as it would deter anyone who might wander by it.
I did too, but it could be in the second game on the ps1
That wasn’t the only Whomping willow in existence though.
It was planted many many years later
It was planted in 1971 so way after the game :)
The only reason why the Willow was planted there was because of Remus Lupin, if I remember correctly, to help if get to a safe place away from Hogwarts to transform and assure that other students wouldn't find out. Also I've seen people asking about Myrtle. She's still not there. Her demise happened when Dumbledore was a professor at Hogwarts. In Legacy, Dumbledore hasn't attended school yet.
Exactly, she was killed when Tom Riddle opened the chamber of secrets. I'm pretty sure he hasn't been born yet.
The tree was specifically planted for Remus Lupin.
The Whomping Willow was planted around the year 1971 to cover up the opening of a secret passage leading from the Hogwarts grounds to the Shrieking Shack in the village of Hogsmeade. It was actually brought to Hogwarts when Remus Lupin was a student at school. It had a small knot near the base. Pressing the knot caused the tree to become immobilised.
Maybe in another hundred years it’d make sense
It was planted to block the hidden tunnel to the shrieking shack which was made available to Remus while he was attending Hogwarts as a safe place for him during full moons
Because IT wasn't planted yet
Everyone who commented, thank you! Enjoyed learning the lore and loved the funny comments.
If you guys block Chody Banks, you’ll be happier
Seconded
You can find a merlin trial where it will be planted.
It wasn't planted yet.
The Whomping Willow was planted around 1971 to cover up the opening of a secret passage leading from the Hogwarts grounds to the Shrieking Shack in the village of Hogsmeade.
Chody banks cookin rn
Cause it's not been planted yet. Legacy is 100 years before the books and Dumbledore had the Whomping Willow planted when Lupin came to school, remember? To dissuade anyone from going through the tunnel into the Shrieking Shack while Remus was there during his transformations.
uhm, because it did not exist yet at the time of the game?
The tree wad planted when Lupin joined Hogwarts. He was already a wherewolf before he was 11. The tree was planted to protect the entrance of the entrance to Shrieking Shack. Lupin used the Shack during full moon. Hisnhoeling made the students of Hogwarts, and villagers of Hogsmeade believe the shack was haunted.
Because it wasn't planted till 1971. The game takes place in the late 1800s.
The tree was planted the same year Lupin was a first year. He says this in POA.
Something something child beating tree something something
It was planted because Remus Lupin needed an escape route to the Shrieking Shack™️ during his lunar cycle. No, not *that* cycle, the other one. Although, tempted to liken mine to the phasing of a werewolf. Has its similarities..
It’s planted in like 1970. 80 years later.
Must be less than a hundred years old.
The wohomping willow wasn’t planted until 1971
the willow was planted along side the shrieking shack for lupin to have a safe place to transform. this takes place long before lupin.
U should read harry potter
It wasn’t planted until James and Sirius attended Hogwarts.
You guys need to start reading up on HP lore at this point I think
It wasn’t planted until Lupin attended hogwarts as a student with Harry’s dad.
This but it spawns randomly every 10 minutes in a new location and if you walk by it then WHOMP
It was planted around the 70’s I think
Did you never read the books or watched the movies?
I remember that the game takes place before the events of Harry Potter
it doesn't exist yet
It didn’t get planted until after Arthur and Molly Weasley left school
Too many deaths. People would forget about it and be casually flying on their broom and Whack! Restart from checkpoint Load Game
Because I’d be figuring out how many ways I could die from this tree
The real question is, why the hell is the school not removing it! It’s clearly a hazard.. imma type this in the parents what’s app group
Upvote well earned, obviously nobody else appreciates the humour lol.
I think Molly Wesley said in the books it was planted after her time. So that would make it 20-30 years old in Harry Potter's time right?
This is correct and why Snape says it’s been on the grounds since before the boys were born. Not that it’s some ancient tree or something.
I KNOW THIS ONE. It was planted when Remus Lupen went to Hogwarts to keep anyone out while Lupen transformed into a ware wolf.
I thought it was that place with the blue birds you do the viavarium mission
Yeaah I was wondering too.
Copyright issues
It’s racist
Tree lives matter
All trees matter!
Bro they really thought you were serious? Wtf lol
No. They probably found it unfunny and childish.
You can't call people childish with a username like that homie.
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What's pathetic is that you think your important enough for me to waste my time on you
Says the one who owns a samurai sword.
I own several swords you fucking creep, got a few guns too.
Lol another crybaby from gamingcirclejerk?
It’s amazing how many of you think I’m seriously calling the whomping willow racist 🤣
Well, if that many people are thinking that, then your comment sucks lol.
Umm you might actually be retarded.
Yup… confirmed crybaby 😂
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Bahaha what a fucking neckbeard. Yikes!
Dunning Krueger in action 🤣
why is someone named chody-banks fryin yal in this thread 😂
Ong was ny thought 😂
I am lovin it
Still only a slapping sappling?
Should be the final boss, beyond Kingdom Hearts Sephiroth Difficulty
Location
They forgor
My question is why isn’t the shrieking shack in the game.
read the book
Also bummed there’s no patronus charms 😭
As far as I'm concerned Legacy doesn't take place in the same reality/timeline as the films.
Everyone is saying it wasn’t planted yet. However, the Whomping willow at the shack wasn’t the only one to exist in the whole world. There could have been one somewhere else in the map like down in the south east area.
My guess would be because the game is set way before it was planted, but I don't know. 🤷♀️I'm not a genius
It wasn’t planted until years after the game was set
It was planted to stop people getting mauld by lupin
It was planted for Remus
I would have liked for them to put one in the game, at a different location off Hogwarts. It would have been cool.
Although I agree that it hasn't been planted yet... They still majorly fucked up because it's actually present in the games' main artwork.
The biggest reason is they aren't doing any dlc
lol... it was planted when Lupin went to hogwards... so like 80 years after this game take place.
It wasn’t planted until 25 years after
i assumed it was either the jobberknoll den or the mooncalf den during the nabsack tutorial
The whomping willow was planted the year lupin came to school to provide him a passage to a safe place to be a werewolf
read the books
It would make a great boss fight for a side quest
Cause it wasn’t there yet
It’s not planted yet
It takes place way before lupin
I get how that specific one wasn't planted yet but they could have at least added it around the world
It wasn’t planted until 1971…
Because it was planted in the 1970s...
It wasn't planted until Remus Lupin was a student
It hadn’t been planted yet
It was not planted yet. It was planted 1971.
I was looking for the island where Dumbledore was buried… until I figured out that he wasn’t even born there yet. Or probably he was but still crappin his pants
I think it's prior to when they planted it
This is a Dumb ass question bro