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My personal tinfoil hat theory is that this game was meant as a way to test if the Harry Potter franchise was still commercially viable, like Shadows of the Empire was for the Star Wars franchise in the 90s (except that one has been confirmed, of course). It's speculation, of course, but considering how badly the second Fantastic Beasts movie did, it'd make sense for them to go after the millennial nostalgia market.
I haven't seen the movie, but I've read parts of the book, and it's incredibly funny to me that they had to make the references more recent because the people who'd be nostalgic for 80s pop culture were too old when the movie came out.
I saw the book at the store and thought the cover looked neat, so I picked it up to skim a few pages. Holy fuck was the writing bad. I chuckled and threw it back on the shelf.
I was taken completely by surprise to later learn it was a bestseller and being made into a movie. "50 Shades of Grey" for 30-somethings.
There's the weird chapter intro about masturbation or the one scene where they rehearse line-for-line a Monty python movie.
The movie removes these scenes and is better than the book, which is not hard. I would not call it good.
I wonder if either could be worth a dunk read
Hated that movie