Just short of a year ago Saylah over at Mystic Worlds posed the idea of a Harry Potter MMORPG. I’ve read random and unconfirmed rumors that Warner Bros. had a “Hogwarts Online” concept but had been scrapped. EA has rights to Harry Potter video games, however I’ll point out that they also have rights to Lord of the Rings video games, yet Turbine did LOTRO. Was there a difference in licensing for MMORPG-only for Turbine whereas EA had rights for non-MMORPG games? I’m too lazy right now to research so I’ll just pose that question and leave it be.
Today the Hogwarts rumor mill is up in arms again, with owls of all variety delivering the same screamer letters of unconfirmed potential that Warner Bros. is indeed considering an MMOG based on J. K. Rowling’s work. MuggleNet posts the following quote, allegedly from a representative at Warner Bros.
The notion of creating a Harry Potter massively multi-player role playing game (MMORPG) is something that we’ve been discussing at Warner Bros. At this current stage, we are investigating the possibility of creating our own MMORPG.
The quote is lifted from Pottersphere, which is a French fan site, so you’ll need to either hit up Google Language Tools, Babelfish or go ask Brenden to teach you French since he spent all of April with it! 
So… LF tank/healer for Voldemort raid, anyone? 
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…and it only took 4 days for one of Massively’s writers to pull the same conclusion out of his ass too!
I would definitely play it and if it were ported to the Mac I would be extremely happy.
I’m not a Mac guy myself, but I would love if Turbine took some of their new money and added a Mac team for LOTRO, possibly DDO, then for all future titles as well. I raided with several Mac users back in WoW, people I’d never have known if Blizzard hadn’t made a Mac client.
I would love that also. I want to play LOTRO, but it’s not available for the Mac. I think Mac users will see even more games coming to the Mac thanks to the iPhone 3G some cool games are making its way to that I do believe more gaming developers will start looking at Macs for gaming.
I do have a Windows computer, but I prefer Macs. I’ve read LOTR many times, and I love the movies (first being my favorite) who knows I might eventually break down and buy the game for my Windows computer.
Yes, I met a lot of people who like myself played WOW on the Mac, even wrote an article about it for a website where I write.