Hogwarts Legacy Players Are Only Just Discovering This Creepy Detail

hides all manner of secrets around the castle but the community is only now discovering one of its most ominous hidden messages. Throughout players' journeys in, they'll be tasked with overcoming Keeper Trials: Deadly challenges that pit the user's skills against a tough opponent that can push them to the limit. These Trials are known for being an important test of one's ability, but it appears that they've been crafted to do more than simply put a student through the wringer.

Posted to Reddit by Gi_Panda, the user shared their discovery that the portals that lead to Keeper Trials can be heard to whisper «Avada Kedavra,» otherwise known as The Killing Curse used to instantly murder anyone struck by its green light.

The post managed to surprise the community, many of whom commented on the fact that they'd never noticed the audio before despite playing the game for over a year. Some users believed that the portals simply whispered random sounds, potentially even Parseltongue, before learning the creepy truth.

Hogwarts Legacy is a fairly immersive game by default, but there are plenty of roleplay techniques players can use to make it even more immersive.

As players progress through, they'll slowly learn more about the Keepers and how they shaped the school and the Wizarding World to be what's recognizable today. The revelation that the Trial portals are seemingly linked to The Killing Curse has players speculating on their nature with many insisting that the ethereal doorways bear a resemblance to the Veil in . The Veil represents a path to the afterlife as Sirius Black is instantly killed by making contact with it while Harry and Luna Lovegood can hear voices on the other side.

Some have suggested that the Keeper Trials portals work by «killing» one's character before reawakening them in a new location but this is just speculation. At the end of the day, and the wider Wizarding World are filled with strange secrets and hidden details that may never be explained.