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=== Tropes exclusive or at least especially prominent to the video games: ===
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** [[Lost Forever|But you ''really'' want to take your time]] in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' and the PC version of ''Philosopher's Stone.''
* [[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]].
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* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare the [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Harry_790screen003.jpg cartoony look of the early games] to the [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Confringo!.jpg realistic look of the latter games].
** Pretty much [[Justified Trope|justified]] because the later books tend to be much [[Darker and Edgier|darker and more serious]] then the first ones.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The Quidditch matches in the second PC game, where Gryffindor will almost always go 0-110 down... or even more, and rely on you to catch the snitch.
** Averted in the [[PlayStation 2]] game, where there will only be ten or twenty points separating either side before the snitch is caught.
* [[Bag of Sharing]]: ''Prisoner of Azkaban''.
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* [[Heart Container]]: The wizard cards in the Chamber of Secrets worked this way: Collecting 10 of them would increase your stamina bar.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Harry hardly has any dialogue at all in the first PC game, except when he's casting spells and during a cutscene while climbing the tower at night.
* [[Hesitation Equals Dishonesty]]: Many examples, especially when Harry-as-Goyle tells Malfoy he has to go the hospital wing in the second game.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: When the Room of Requirement is discovered in the fifth game, Harry has to fight the entire Inquisitorial Squad. The fight is unwinnable -- you will lose and Harry will be brought to Dumbledore's Office as per the plot.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Professor Sprout in the second PC game: "Let's dig right in, shall we?", "Harry Potter, would you like to plant your feet in front of class?", "We've planted a seed of greatness here today."
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* [[Multiple-Tailed Beast]]: There are several references to the [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Gytrash Gytrash], which are ghostly dogs with forked tails. The gytrash is a creature in English folklore, though only the Harry Potter games describe it with a forked tail.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: In the earlier games, dying in-game is described as "fainting", e.g. "the game will restart from this point if you faint." So if Harry falls into a bottomless chasm, that only caused him to "faint". At the same time, however, the words "die" and "kill" are used in-story, e.g. "last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a Mudblood girl died."
* [[New Game+]]: I don't know about the others, but the Sorcerer's Stone game for the [[Game Boy]] just starts over at the end of the year. You keep all your stats and wizard cards, although strangely, you forget all your spells if you didn't win the house cup, meaning that you are stuck using only high level spells.
** This also applies to the Gameboy Color version of Chamber of Secrets and the GBA version of Prisoner of Azkaban.
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Presumably why Ginny Weasley and Lucius Malfoy have short hair in the second game while otherwise duplicating the general look of their filmic counterparts. Hermione got her (badly animated) long hair, though.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]/[[He Knows About Timed Hits]]: Characters, especially the teachers in the earlier games, are always telling Harry which keys to press and so forth. You can't help but think of how completely nonsensical that would be in-universe.
* [[No Problem With Licensed Games]]: The games based on the second, third and fourth movies had good reviews. While the first had a mixed response, and the ones from the fifth onward [[The Problem with Licensed Games|were not well received]].
* [[Nobody Poops]]: In Half-Blood Prince, the boys' restroom is full of urinals but has no stalls.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Ocurrs in the second PC game should Harry be caught escaping from the Slytherin common room.
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** 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 ''[[Half Blood Prince]]'' game when Harry and Ginny start to have a "moment", but then Ginny mentions she's going to Hogsmeade with Dean. [[Mood Whiplash|Yes, really.]]
* [[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]]:
** Inverted in the fifth game, which rewards tidying up Hogwarts.
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