MAP RELEASE #19. HARRY POTTER-BASED MAP KZ_POTTAH!

Good day to all of you!

 

Today we're releasing something very special - a monumental work: kz_pottah by edZika and sekai. It is the first Harry Potter-themed KZ map, originally inspired by the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001 PC video game.

 

 

 

Difficulty: Hard

 Type: Mix

 Length: Very Long

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Work on the map first began in 2023, with edZika initially planning to stay true to the concept and surroundings of the original PC game she held very dear.

 

❝I've always loved the 2001 Harry Potter game. It was the first game I ever played, I was around 5-6 years old back then. After revisiting it many years later, I thought it was visually close to a GoldSource-based game, just a tad bit better. That's how the idea of kz_pottah was born. Initially, I planned to recreate several quests and locations from the original game (not exactly, but keeping them approximately the same), until sekai joined the project. It was a good thing, but it undeniably changed the direction of the map's development, which is why the latter parts of it hardly resemble the game. By the way, I'm just speaking from my heart right now, with no structure in mind. Don't you dare just copy-paste all of this. (I'm gonna die laughing if you end up including the last two sentences as well).❞

 

Such a moving and emotionally charged statement, especially the last few sentences!

 

It's a funny story, actually. Before I joined, that map project had been collecting dust for a few years, with only the beginning sections finished. Then, one evening in late October 2025 (almost a year ago!), edZika offered to let me test one of her unfinished projects. I agreed, since I remembered seeing screenshots of it in the XJ Discord's mapping channel a long time ago, and it looked absolutely dope.

 

She mentioned that she didn't have many ideas for the jumps, so the work had been on hiatus for a long time. By the end of that testing session, I decided to lend a hand with making the jumps, and edZika accepted the offer. That's how our fruitful cooperation came to be.

 

We worked on the map very actively from October 2025 to January 2026, managing to get most of it done during that period. Then the whole process slowed down because, as it turns out, it's not a good idea to combine incredibly detailed visual design with a big length - who could've known! (We did, but we did it anyway! XD). So, by the end of it, work on the map became an absolute shitshow of constantly battling the engine limits, relentlessly optimizing every pixel of the map to get it to compile and run successfully.

 

In fact, the map was supposed to be a lot shorter and easier. When making it in 2023, edZika had an average-difficulty middle-length speed-map in mind. But once I joined in 2025, the focus began shifting gradually: first to a long average-hard map, and then to a very long hard to hard-extreme map (definitely not my fault XDDD). Regardless, both of us believe we ended up making the best version of it, and we're thrilled for you to try the map for yourselves! See if you can graduate the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

You can try it right now, it's already available on RJ server:
KZ - RJ | BHOP Hard/Extreme, IP: hard.romanian-jumpers.com:27015

 

P.S.: There are several secrets hidden on the map for you to find. And for the grindy part of the community - if you want some extra challenge - the map is completable with all the heavy magical wands - uhhh, I mean, the weapons -, including the AWP, so have at it!