(TW) P*dophilia in the community

This has been bugging me since 2024, especially given that a game based around Harry Potter- a series targetted towards kids and teenagers, has a mainly adult audience (and there's nothing wrong with that, I've met multiple users that are adults and seem very kind, however as adults shouldn't you be more responsible and actually try to do something about these freaks?) and it just blows my mind how I haven't seen a single person in the community questioning some of the things that occur on a daily basis. I made an alt on Ashwinder because my main server is pretty much empty and went in the world chat a couple of times to be met with grown men trying to defend themselves for having odd conversations with young girls and people straight up defending it?? Even on Zouwu which is pretty much almost completely dead I had strange interactions where I'd recieve friend requests and they'd almost immediately ask for my social media (which isn't inherently predatory obviously the chat filters are a pain in the ass so it would make sense to want to talk to a friend on a different platform, but what doesn't make sense is this specific user that added me, mentioned that they were 21 years old, asked for my age (all I said was that I was a few years younger than them and they guessed that I was 15 and then proceeded to ask if I had snapchat??)

Aside from in game predators I've also noticed the constant sexualization of underage characters (ESPECIALLY Daniel and Cassandra, who are both 14-15 in the game's current storyline but this has been occuring pretty much since it's release making them 11 years old) and these really weird yumeshippers that will ship the mc (who is the same age) with anybody including the adult characters.

Speaking of the adult characters this brings me to my final observation which is the developers feeding into this issue. Back in season 17 there was a scene in the first chapter where Shouren pins the underage mc to the wall in Borgin and Burkes. I don't think I need to explain how that's problematic and fanservice-ey but it sparked a big wave of people on tiktok making videos and comments shipping them. Even almost a full year before that when they added the Madam Puddifoot game mode where you could pretty much go on blind dates with other players- did they not consider that adding what's essentially an online dating mini game could harm their younger player base? They have chat warnings anytime you type a curse word saying "remember younger players play the game" but don't seem to remember it themselves. I love HPMA, the characters, the art style, and pretty much the whole game but you guys (especially the older players) genuinely need to do better because the community for a Harry Potter video game game should not be filled with predators and freaks that think it's morally ok to ship minors with grown men