USAopoly, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Board Game, Ages 11+, 2-4 Players, 30-60 Minute Playing TIme

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I disliked the final couple of boxes because the fun, fairly quick game had disappeared and in its place was this 2-hour long slog through a bunch of villains I had already beaten several times over. Aberforth said that there was only one safe way into Hogwarts left that was unknown to the Death Eaters. Neville told everyone to calm down, and Harry saw that they were in an enormous room with many multicoloured hammocks strung from the ceiling.

However, Harry realised that Dumbledore had overestimated him and that Nagini, the last Horcrux, remained to bind Voldemort to the Earth even after Harry had been killed. Both of them could conceal themselves perfectly fine without the Cloak, and Dumb Dumbledore then left Harry Potter with a final task; to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes that Voldemort created at different points in his life to ensure his immortality.Ginny told him they were attending to something having to do with a bathroom, leaving Harry puzzled. Harry saw through the tiny gap between the crate and wall Nagini, swirling and coiling in her protective, floating enchanted sphere, and a long-fingered white hand toying with a wand. The Hogwarts defenders were able to fend off the Death Eaters using an array of tactics: Professor Sprout and Neville planned to use dangerous plants from the greenhouses against the Death Eaters, such as lobbying mandrakes over the walls, Devil's Snare, Venomous Tentaculas and Snargaluff pods, as well as the bewitched suits of armour and wand duels. This easily placed the Ministry of Magic under the secret influential control of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, who quickly replaced Scrimgeour with Pius Thicknesse, a corrupt politician under the Imperius Curse and a puppet of Voldemort. I also really enjoyed the fact that you replace Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville with older versions of themselves.

Harry told Aberforth that Albus had taught him how to finish You-Know-Who, and he was going to keep going until he succeeded, or died. Furthermore, the day before the battle, the trio succeeded in breaking into the vault belonging to Bellatrix Lestrange within Gringotts in Diagon Alley to obtain Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, another Horcrux. There, McGonagall and Kingsley Shacklebolt announced that the students old enough to fight (the students aged 17 or older) could stay if they wanted, while younger students (the students under the age of 17) would be evacuated by Poppy Pomfrey and Argus Filch by way of the passage through the Hog's Head Inn. Along the way, he was to dispose of Voldemort's remaining links to life, so that when at last he flung himself across Voldemort's path and did not raise a wand to defend himself, the end would be clean, and the job that out to have been done in Godric's Hollow would be finished: Neither would live, neither could survive.For example, the third level of the Memory charm lets you play a value five or less card twice on your turn. Pansy Parkinson, spotting Harry, stood and shrieked for someone to grab him; all of Gryffindor House rose in a mass, almost immediately followed by all of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, and as one drew their wands, indicating their willingness to fight for Harry. Of course, though, luck does play a big part in all of this, so while sometimes you’ll end up fighting against villains who bounce off of each other nicely you’ll also just battle ones who don’t. By box seven there are evil wizards, giant snakes and Death Eaters everywhere and the playtime jumps up to around 2-hours as you battle against the seemingly never-ending tide of villain cards. Two giants died during this onslaught, one throttled by Devil's Snare vines placed by Professor Sprout and the other felled by the suits of armour.