Highlights

• Hogwarts Legacy, developed by Avalanche Software, offers a magical experience with a vast open world and action-packed RPG gameplay, set in the beloved Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
• The game takes place almost a hundred years before the events of the Harry Potter saga, allowing players to explore the mysteries and magic of Hogwarts as a fifth-year student.
• Hogwarts Legacy is filled with hidden locations, from secret rooms and passages within the walls of Hogwarts Castle to unique areas in Hogsmeade, offering players countless opportunities for discovery.

Experience the Wizarding world 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 one of the best Harry Potter games 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 March 10, 2024, by Gemma Johnson: Players who've spent many hours exploring the intricacies of Hogwarts and other stunning locations in Hogwarts Legacy will know there are a bunch of delightful details to discover. In a magical recreation of the Harry Potter world, there are many Hogwarts Legacy secrets to find across various locations in the vast open-world RPG. Many of these secret locations are also cleverly disguised or hidden in plain sight, so players might casually stroll past some of them blissfully unaware of their secrets, especially when there's much to take in. However, it's worth players taking the time to check if they've tracked down all of Hogwarts Legacy's secret rooms or other kinds of locations, especially with the popular once-exclusive quest 'Minding Your Own Business' said to be coming to more platforms in the future. This article has been updated to add more information to the original entries and features three new locations for players to find.

15 Secret Fireplace Room

Professor Sharp's Surprisingly Well-Hidden Recreational Room

• Location - behind the fireplace inside Professor Sharp's room on the second floor of the Faculty Tower near the Hospital Wing.

Sometimes, Hogwarts Legacy's secrets hide in plain sight. At least, that's the case with the seemingly normal-looking fireplace inside Professor Sharp's living quarters. However, if players cast Glacius on the large fireplace, the spell freezes the flames, enabling them to creep inside to find a secret room filled with wood crafting tools and drawings.

Various sketches adorn the room, and players can activate the gramophone to hear the clock chime. It's also worth studying the drawings of various Hogwarts Legacy locations. This is one of the few fireplaces in the castle that holds this neat trick.

14 Secret Death Day Party Room

Offers A Brief Look Into What The Ghosts Of Hogwarts Get Up To

• Location - Behind a level 1 locked door in the Slytherin Dungeons below the stairway entrance to the Great Hall.

The Death Day Party room is another of Hogwarts Legacy's secret rooms that's easy to miss. It's a blue, candle-lit room full of ghosts dancing and chatting, giving players a little behind-the-scenes snippet of ghost life in Hogwarts Castle and a field guide page.

One of the best ways to find this well-hidden secret room is to travel to the Viaduct Courtyard Floo Flame, enter the Grant Staircase entrance, and take a right down the narrow spiral stairs leading to the Slytherin Dungeon. Players can follow the path left until they find a locked level one Alohomora gate on the left side of the corridor leading to the room.

13 Statue Storage Room

A Small Room With A Potentially Dangerous Painting

• Location - a small room near the Bell Tower Courtyard.

Often, seemingly small, insignificant rooms in Hogwarts Castle hide strange delights. One secret room near the Hogwarts Legacy's Bell Tower Courtyard holds a perplexing mystery. While the room is mostly full of statues, a painting in the middle briefly turns you to stone after interacting with it. It's probably not a pleasant surprise, but it's another detail players might easily pass unnoticed.

Why the painting does this and who placed it there remains a mystery, but at least it is kept under a magical lock and key, as players must solve the door puzzle to get inside.

12 Cursed Tomb Secret Entrance

A Desolate Crypt Full Of Danger

• Location - Just above the West Manor Cape Floo Flame.

On the West Manor Cape Coast, it might seem like players can only access the nearby mansion's secrets via a level three locked door. However, that's not necessarily the case. Providing players can wield a fire spell like Incendio or Confringo, they can ignite the bowl in front of the ominous statue opposite the mansion to reveal a hidden switch. When stepped on, this secret switch takes players to the creepy, tomb-like crypt below.

More Inferius enemies and an Infamous Foe await below, plus a chest containing a treasure map that triggers Hogwarts Legacy's Cursed Tomb side quest. However, players must search elsewhere to find the Cursed Tomb's location, but this pathway provides a head start.

11 Tomb Of The Villager

An Area That Is Only Accessible At Night

• Location - Inside the Hogsmeade Graveyard (opposite the West Hogsmeade Floo Flame).

There are even more Hogwarts Legacy secrets related to tombs to discover on the outskirts of the idyllic village of Hogsmeade but with a twist. One particular tomb is easily missed as a secret location in Hogsmeade's Graveyard, as it only becomes accessible at night.

Players will need to head to the mausoleum at the top of the graveyard with the candles and interact with the gate at night to reveal a hidden entrance to Hogwarts Legacy's Tomb of the Villager puzzle. Behind a secret wall within the tomb, players can find Ashwinder enemies to fight, a puzzle to solve, and loot to grab, making for a rewarding secret location.

10 Headmaster's Private Tower Room

An Aesthetically Pleasing Room Concealed Behind A Level 3 Lock

• Location - Hogwarts Castle Grand Staircase (past the gates near the Trophy Room Floo Flame).

To find all Hogwarts Legacy's secrets, mastering the Alohomora spell becomes necessary by finding the Hogwarts Legacy Demiguise Statues. Taking the time to help Mr. Moon and upgrade Alohomora can let players access secret areas in Hogwarts Castle, including the Headmaster's Private Tower Room, hidden behind a level three door.

Once inside, players can find the Key of Admittance to access more hidden areas. It's also a beautiful room worth taking the time to discover, with its cozy, celestial blue design and intricate window overlooking the grounds.

9 Quill Of Acceptance And Book Of Admittance Secret Room

A Hidden Room That Contains A Major Reference To Harry Potter Lore

• Location - Hogwarts Castle Grand Staircase (near Trophy Room Floo Flame).

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 Headmaster's office door puzzle near the trophy room in the Grand Staircase area of the Hogwarts map.

It's a cool-looking secret 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.

8 Hufflepuff Common Room's Secret Sweets Room

A Confectionary-Filled Room Hidden Behind A Bookcase

• Location - Hufflepuff House Common Room (near Grand Staircase Floo Flame).

For players who chose Hufflepuff for their House, they might have strolled past one of Hogwarts Legacy's Hufflepuff common room secrets, which is hidden in plain sight. A seemingly innocent Hufflepuff bookcase doubles as a hidden door, leading to an often-overlooked Hufflepuff secret room - the perfect spot for a midnight snack.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, players can find sweets to consume and a Level Two locked chest. Although only a tiny space, it's an easily missed location for some, given its inconspicuous entrance and small size on the map.

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

A Secret Passage That Leads To An Iconic Harry Potter Location

• Location - Between the Grand Staircase and Faculty Tower (Grand Staircase Floo Flame).

For players fond of sweets, what better place to explore than Honeydukes? 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. It's a Hogwarts Legacy secret that's easily missable if players don't complete this particular side quest.

6 The Hogsmeade Player Shop

A PlayStation Exclusive Area That's Expected To Release On Other Platforms During The Summer

• Location - Hogsmeade Village (near South Hogsmeade Floo Flame).

Players who've spent time exploring every nook and cranny of beautiful Hogsmeade may wonder how to enter its mysterious boarded-up building. However, it belongs to what was originally a PlayStation-exclusive Haunted shop quest called "Minding Your Own Business," where only those playing on the platform could get their hands on Hogwarts Legacy's Hogsmeade player shop.

Players who missed out on the quest and the shop might want to keep a close eye out for its release on other platforms at some point in the future. While the shop's customization options are limited, the quest that unlocks it is tremendously fun.

5 The Viaduct Courtyard Bridge's Secrets

A Hidden Underpassage That Unlocks After Solving A Puzzle

• Location - Near Hogwarts Castle Central Hall.

Hogwarts Castle is bursting with puzzles that sometimes lead players to secret locations, like Hogwarts Legacy's viaduct courtyard bridge puzzle. To find it, players should 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 secret challenges.

4 The Blocked Balcony

An Exterior Location That Can Only Be Reached From With The Castle

• Location - via the Hogwarts Castle main entrance.

Flying around Hogwarts on one of Hogwarts Legacy's brooms gives players the chance to spot all kinds of details from above, including another secret location. Near Hogwarts Castle's main entrance, players can find a tower with two chests and no direct way to land on its balcony. However, the key is to reach the location from elsewhere.

Entering the school through the Bell Tower Courtyard Floo Flame, players should go up the right stairway and follow the stairs up and around to reach the top of the Bell Tower balcony from the inside. Once there, players can 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.

3 The Mysterious Blue Door

A Room That Can Only Be Accessed By Interacting With An Unusual Statue

• Location - A corridor between the Faculty Tower and Gryffindor Tower.

While exploring Hogwarts Castle, some players might have spotted a mysterious blue door above a corridor that seems unreachable, and most might even miss it altogether. However, it is possible to reach 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.

The blue frog statue is located on the corner of the curved stairwell at the top of the stairs. Interacting with it teleports players to the secret room behind the door, a small storeroom containing a chest with a wand handle inside, another well-hidden Hogwarts Legacy secret hidden in plain sight.

2 The Secret Werewolf Tapestry Room

A Location Hidden Behind A Seemingly Ordinary Wall

• Location - Near the Bell Tower Courtyard Floo Flame. Head up the stairs and down the stairs to the left to find the mysterious K tapestry.

Exploring the stairwells at Hogwarts will eventually lead players to a tapestry on a wall with a K emblazoned on it. At first glance, there is little remarkable about the tapestry, and it's easy to stroll right past without a second thought. However, the K is a secret door that leads to Hogwarts Legacy's secret werewolf tapestry room.

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 where players can claim a Royal Maroon Coat. Players can also interact with tapestries to uncover a tragic werewolf tale.

1 The Hogwarts Kitchen

A Charming Location That Showcases How Food Gets To The Great Hall

• Location - through a portrait down the spiral staircase near the Grand Staircase Floo Flame.

Ever wondered how all the delicious-looking food magically appears on the tables in the Great Hall? Players can see for themselves by accessing Hogwarts Castle's hidden kitchen. However, finding the kitchen's location can be tricky unless players know where to look for its secret door entrance, which involves tickling the pear to enter.

It's a delightful Hogwarts Legacy secret that lets players see just how meals are prepared, with elves washing up, cooking, and laying food on the tables so that they can magically appear in the Great Hall above. Players can also collect more field guide pages here, revealing further details about the house elves' lifestyles.