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As the series went along, the graphics became more photo-realistic until they reached the point where they started using digital scans of the actors. Hogwarts as well gradually evolved from not particularly looking anything like the castle of the films to being a seamless duplication of it. Some of the actors from the movies, mostly the cheaper ones, were eventually brought in to voice their characters for the games. Out of the central trio, [[Rupert Grint]] has voiced his character for the games, but [[Daniel Radcliffe]] and [[Emma Watson]] have not. The format also changed into more of a [[Wide Open Sandbox]] with various [[Mini Game|Mini Games]] such as dueling other students, playing Quidditch, and brewing potions.
The format changed again with the ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' games (two to go with the two movies), which shifted the gameplay into more of a [[Third-Person Shooter]]. The ''Hallows'' games do continue with basically the same "look" as the fifth and sixth games, however.
There are also two [[LEGO]] games, ''LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4'' and ''Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7''. This page, however, is dedicated strictly to the EA-produced ''Harry Potter'' games. ''The LEGO Harry Potter'' game is covered under the [[Lego Adaptation Game]] article. And there's the unofficial parody game, ''[[Warthogs]]''.
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* [[100% Completion]]: You can take time to collect all the "wizard cards" and other goodies or not.
** [[Lost Forever|But you ''really'' want to take your time]] in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' and the PC version of ''Philosopher's Stone.''
* [[Adapted Out]]: Since there's multiple version of each game for different platform, most of the non-major characters were absent in one game or another with little to no explanation, leading to too many cases of [[Remember the New Guy?]] in later games.
* [[All Myths Are True]]/[[Historical In-Joke]]: On the third game, the Chocolate Frog cards include a [[David And Goliath|an Israelite boy]] [[The Bible|who killed a Giant]], [[Jack the Giant Killer|another Giant who lived atop a beanstalk by the time of his death]], and [[wikipedia:Elizabeth B%C3%A1thory|a vampire who bathed on blood]]. All games also have [[King Arthur|Merlin]].
* [[All in a Row]]: Ron and Hermione trail after Harry in some of the games.
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* [[Chain of Deals]]: There are several of these in the Gameboy version of ''Chamber of Secrets''.
* [[Chaos Architecture]]: You think the movies were bad about keeping the layout of Hogwarts consistent? Well, the games are worse. The earlier ones went so far as to have different platforms for the same game each include a completely different version of Hogwarts. The fifth game adopts the movie version of Hogwarts, attempting to smooth over the films' [[Geographic Flexibility]]. The sixth game reuses the Hogwarts of the fifth game with some areas added and others removed.
* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]]: Said by Filch in the first game, at the part when you're sneaking past him with the invisibility cloak.
* [[Composite Character]]: In most versions of the second game, Lucius Malfoy takes over Cornelius Fudge's brif role in the story, making Lucius both the one who sends Hagrid to Azkaban and suspends Dumbledore. Also, Flitwick takes Binns's lecture on the Chamber, much as McGonagall did in the film.
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: In the Dueling Club section of the second game, the spell "mimblewimble" works on ''you'', causing you to mess up the next spell you cast, but it doesn't seem to work that way on your computer-controlled opponent.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: In the console version of ''Prisoner Of Azkaban'', Hermione can enter the boys' dormitory, but Harry and Ron can't enter the girls', just like in the books. [[
** On the first day in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', the fourth floor is supposed to be locked if you take a secret passage located on the seventh floor down to the fourth floor and then exit, one of the prefects will question how you got there.
* [[Dummied Out]]: The GBA version of ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' has remnants of a [[Tapper]] clone [http://tcrf.net/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_%28Game_Boy_Advance%29#Unused_Minigame floating about] in the data. You can cheat your way into it, but its [[Unwinnable]], as the "catch the mug" routine was either removed or never finished.
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** Also getting caught by Filch or Ms Norris in the PC version of Sorceror's Stone. More bizarre, perhaps, is that getting caught by Snape (or any prefect) in the sneaking sections of its GBA cousin will only lose you some points and force you to restart the area.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: When Harry fights the basilisk in the second game.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: The voice actors have changed a lot. For the first four games, Harry's voice actor changed with each game. Eventually, they settled on ''[[Grange Hill]]'''s Adam Sopp, who proved to be a very convincing sound-alike for [[Daniel Radcliffe]]. They could never seem to settle on a good voice actress for Hermione and so her voice changed constantly. In the case of Ron, Draco, and several other student characters, they eventually got the
* [[Player Character]]: You play as Harry, for the most part. In the third and fourth games, you play as Ron or Hermione at some points, but it's still mostly Harry. For the fifth game onward, you're Harry almost all the time and only play as other characters when they had a big action-y scene in the canon. For example, you get to be the Weasley twins when they escape Umbridge and Dumbledore when he fights Voldemort.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: In the second game, the character known in the books and films as "The Fat Lady" is instead called "The Pink Lady". Possibly [[Lampshaded]] in the fifth game, in which she is outraged at being called "The Fat Lady".
** Also, Ron's line after the Ford Anglia leaves for the Forbidden Forest in the book and film are respectively "Dad'll kill me" and "Dad's gonna kill me". In the game, it becomes "Great. My dad won't be happy that I lost his flying car." You know, in case people might [[Viewers are Morons|get confused]] and think Ron's father would actually kill him.
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Used in the ''
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Peeves, oddly enough since he wasn't in the films. Also a gargoyle boss makes various appearances in the Chamber of Secrets console game.
* [[Rewarding Vandalism]]:
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