

“ Video games were one of the ways that I could experience things. “Having a disability, a lot of things that you get to experience are cut off,” says Ives-Rublee, who is the director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Centre for American Progress and was born with brittle bone disease. Plus, she has been a gamer since she was a child. As an adoptee, she has always felt a special connection with the series’ orphaned protagonist, Harry Potter himself. She went to the midnight premieres of four movies and queued for the midnight releases of three books. Ives-Rublee, 38, from Washington DC, has a long history with Potter. The role-playing video game is set in the magical Harry Potter universe that has captured screens, shops and souls for a quarter of a century – when the game is released on 10 February fans will be able to create their own characters to “attend” Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the first time.

In many ways, Hogwarts Legacy was made for Mia Ives-Rublee.
