Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery – the game which chokes your school-age avatar unless you wait hours for more energy or cough up money – has added pets.
Pets live in your dormitory, although you can also pick one to follow you around. They’re not just cosmetic additions, either – sleeping pets give you a drip feed of energy, that same currency which gates your progress through the game’s story unless you wait or pay.
But, of course, the pets themselves cost money. There doesn’t seem to be any way of unlocking one for free other than by grinding out the game’s premium gem currency through dozens of hours of regular play.
Source: Eurogamer Harry Potter mobile game now sells owls for £12