Your Rival
Your Rival is an optional story character with letters and a weekly wand duel. It is separate from Chocolate Frog Card Duels and the Wizard Card Contest. Every student at Hogwarts is assigned a rival. Nobody assigns them. They volunteer and remember your milestones, mostly so they can be unimpressed by them in the correct order. You may pause the feature completely.
Pause or Resume
Choose Pause rival completely on the Your Rival page, or set My rival is to paused in the Rival Who Remembers section of Preferences. This stops new letters, village remarks, milestone checks, duels and rematch purchases. Your assigned rival, saved letters, badges and duel record stay saved. The village link disappears while paused; use Preferences to switch it back on, or choose Resume rival on the rival page.
Resuming starts milestone checks from where you are now. Progress made while paused does not produce catch-up letters.
Muting only the owls or village remarks is still available separately: set Letters from my rival to stay in my rival's file, or My rival's remarks on the village screen to hidden. Those settings leave the rest of the feature running.
Where to Find Them
On the village screen, under the marketplace nav, look for "Your Rival". Your rival also turns up on the village screen itself, about once a day, doing something pointed in your general direction.
Who They Are
Your rival comes from the House your House least enjoys: Gryffindor and Slytherin are matched against each other, and so are Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Students not yet sorted get whoever was free. There are twelve rivals in all, and yours is yours for good. Changing House does not change your rival. Facing Voldemort does not change your rival. Your rival has checked.
The Letters
A new Bestiary card can prompt a letter. That is the only card connection: your rival does not take cards, award contest points or act as an opponent in the card game.
Your rival writes when you do something worth resenting: a new level, a Voldemort Encounter, a new badge, a new Bestiary card, or a perfect week of lessons. They notice by your next new day, which they would like you to believe is a coincidence.
They write at most once a day and at most three times a week, and the owls land in your Notices. Every letter is also kept in your rival's file (village, Your Rival), long after the owl has expired. To stop the owls, or to stop the village remarks, tick the boxes under Preferences. Your rival will pretend not to have noticed.
You can make any letter shareable. Until you do, nobody else can read it. After you do, anyone with the link can.
The Weekly Duel
Once a week (the week turns over on Monday at 00:00 UTC, which is Mon 12:00am UTC on your clock) you may challenge your rival. The duel scales to you, so it is always a fair fight, which your rival considers unfair. You cannot run away. Losing leaves you at 1 hit point and costs nothing else. Winning pays 40 gold per level and one charm, and VIP members get half as much gold again. No House points change hands either way: this is personal.
After the week's duel you can buy a rematch slip for 25 donator points, good for one more duel that week.
| Wins | Badge |
|---|---|
| 1 | Rival Bested |
| 5 | Persistent Nuisance |
| 25 | Nemesis of Record |
| 100 | The One They Write About |
Your rival's mood follows your winning streak: smug when you have not beaten them lately, rattled after one or two wins in a row, and quietly furious after three. It affects the tone of the letters. It does not affect the duel, which your rival would like noted is the only fair thing about any of this.
Lifetime wins are ranked on Hogwarts Champions under Rivals Bested.