Hogwarts Legacy Secret Locations

Experience the Wizarding world of J.K Rowling like never before with Hogwarts Legacy. Developed by Avalanche Software, Hogwarts Legacy features a vast open world packed with action and RPG gameplay, set to captivate fans of the Harry Potter books and movies with its ambitious take on the lore of the franchise. The game is set almost a hundred years before the main events of the Harry Potter saga, somewhere in the late 1800s. Players take on the role of a fifth-year student at the school of Hogwarts where mysteries and magic await them at every corner.

Hogwarts Legacy received critical acclaim from fans and critics alike, solidifying its status as the best Harry Potter game ever created. It offers a magical experience like never before witnessed, filled with fantastic beasts, powerful spells, and secret locations waiting to be discovered. Hogwarts Legacy brings forth a wonderful open world brimming with things to do and places to find. Here are the most intriguing hidden locations in Hogwarts Legacy that players might have missed.

Updated May 19, 2023 by Gemma Johnson: Hogwarts Legacy contains many secret rooms for players to discover. Magical delights and wonders await around almost every corner of the vast open-world RPG, with many of Hogwarts Legacy's secrets hidden within the walls of its jaw-dropping beautiful re-creation of Hogwarts Castle and nearby.

The action-adventure game contains various magical puzzles to solve alongside optional side quests to complete, many of which lead players to hidden areas. However, often it's about spotting things out of the ordinary or hidden in plain sight, especially when repeatedly pressing Revelio doesn't do the trick. When players might think they've found all hidden locations, Hogwarts Legacy may surprise players with secrets many may have missed. This article updates the original entries and includes four additional entries.

Quill Of Acceptance And Book Of Admittance Secret Room

The Quill of Acceptance and Book of Admittance belong to one of Hogwarts Legacy's secret rooms near the Headmaster's Office that also doubles as a collectible field guide page location. To find this hidden area, players must unlock the tricky Hogwarts Legacy Headmaster's office door puzzle near the trophy room in the Grand Staircase area of the Hogwarts map.

It's a cool-looking Hogwarts secret area that's also very important, as the collectible field guide page explains the animated quill and book placed by Hogwarts' Founders and records every prospective Hogwarts student when they show signs of magic.

Hufflepuff Common Room's Secret Sweets Room

Players who chose Hufflepuff for their House may have missed one of Hogwarts Legacy's Hufflepuff common room secrets hidden in plain sight. A seemingly innocent Hufflepuff common room bookcase doubles as a hidden door, leading to an often overlooked Hufflepuff secret room - the perfect spot for a midnight snack!

Inside the small room, players unsurprisingly find sweets to consume and a level 2 locked chest. Although only a tiny space, it's an easily missable location for some players, given its inconspicuous entrance and small size on the map.

The One-Eyed Witch Secret Passage Leading To Honeydukes' Cellar

For players fond of sweets, what better place to explore than Honeydukes? However, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban fans may wonder if it's possible to journey into the One-Eyed Witch passage from the movie. Well, it is! In Hogwarts Legacy's "Descending for Sweets" side quest, players can open a hidden One-Eyed Witch statue doorway and travel the secret passage to an explorable Honeydukes' cellar in Hogsmeade.

Exploring the passage unseen in the Harry Potter movies and sneaking around Honeydukes for sweets feels magical, as a secret location that's easily missable if players don't complete this particular side quest.

The Hogsmeade Player Shop

Many players who explore the beautiful town of Hogsmeade may wonder how to enter its mysterious boarded-up building. However, it belongs to a PlayStation-exclusive Haunted shop quest called "Minding Your Own Business," where lucky players can get their hands on Hogwarts Legacy's Hogsmeade player shop.

Although it's one of the game's best side quests as a secret exclusive location, players needn't worry about shop FMO too much, as it's not possible to customize the shop in many ways, only choosing a name from a select few and essentially treating it like one of the game's many traders, albeit for selling items only.

The Viaduct Courtyard Bridge's Secrets

Hogwarts is bursting with puzzles that sometimes lead players to secret locations, like Hogwarts Legacy's viaduct courtyard bridge puzzle. Look for the bridge with braziers and several manholes near Central Hall. One is a hidden pathway to an underground chamber. However, players must solve the bridge puzzle to open it by lighting the braziers with a fire spell like Incendio and moving the symbols in the correct order.

Once the bridge puzzle solution is complete, the manhole opens, allowing players to dive into a secret sewer passageway beneath the bridge to find two collection chests and a legendary chest. It also completes one of Hogwarts Legacy's Hogwarts secrets challenges.

The Blocked Balcony

Flying around Hogwarts on one of Hogwarts Legacy's brooms leads players to encounter a tower with two chests and no direct way for players to land on its balcony. However, the key is to reach the location from inside Hogwarts elsewhere.

Enter the school from the main entrance behind the fountain, go up the right stairway, then take a left and go up the stairs to the top to reach the balcony from the inside. Once there, players will find a treasure chest containing a mysterious legendary item and a frog statue that transports them to the other side of the balcony to find more chests with a magnificent red wand handle inside.

The Mysterious Blue Door

Some players might have encountered a blue door above a corridor in Hogwarts that appears unreachable, and most players might even miss it altogether. However, it is possible to access it.

Players can find the door overlooking the stairs next to the base of the Faculty Tower in the South Wing, just in front of the bottom of Gryffindor Tower.

Players can find the blue frog statue on the corner of the curved stairwell at the top of the stairs. Interacting with the frog teleports players to the secret room behind the door, a small storeroom containing a chest with a wand handle inside.

The Secret Werewolf Tapestry Room

A little exploration along Hogwarts' stairways will lead players to a tapestry on a wall with a K. At first glance, this seems like an ordinary painting, so most players may likely miss it. However, the K is a door leading to Hogwarts Legacy's secret werewolf tapestry room.

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This werewolf will seem quite familiar to Harry Potter fans, as it looks similar to the one Professor Lupin transforms into in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. There is also a chest in the second room that players can claim to get a Royal Maroon Coat, along with interactable tapestries that tell a tragic werewolf tale.

The Hogwarts Kitchen

Have you ever wondered how all the delicious-looking food magically appears on the tables in the Great Hall? It is prepared by Hogwarts house elves in the kitchen below the Great Hall. However, finding Hogwarts Legacy's kitchen location can be tricky unless players know where to look for its fruity portrait secret entrance, where players must tickle the pear to enter.

Once inside Hogwarts kitchen, players can see elves washing up and preparing meals. The elves make the food and lay it on the tables below, which makes them magically appear on the tables above. Players can also collect field guide pages, revealing more about the house elves' lifestyles.

Hogwarts Legacy is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

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