Also the
name of the
first Harry Potter computer game released by
Electronic Arts in the
UK.
The game is
surprisingly playable and has been put together well, rather than
rushed out to
coincide with the
release of the
movie. Noteably, although the
game uses the faces of the
movie characters as
skins, it does not
butcher the
storyline from the
book as the movie was
forced to do. For example, early in the
game Hagrid will ask you (
Harry) to
collect him some
fireseeds in order to
hatch his
dragon egg (in the film, Norbert was given to Hagrid by the Dark Lord, rather than his egg!) and will reward
Harry with a
flute (which is later used to put
Fluffy to sleep) - another
detail which required the
film to insert a
ridiculous enchanted harp.
The
highlight of the
game as far as I've personally played it so far is to be able to play
Quidditch as
Gryffindor seeker myself. I've dreamed of playing
Quidditch since
reading the books and this is the closest you could come with
recourse to
magic.
Definitely a good buy for
avid Harry Potter fans.