67 Fun Facts About Hogwarts Legacy

Which studio developed Hogwarts Legacy?

Avalanche Software of Salt Lake City made the game; it is often confused with Sweden's unrelated Avalanche Studios, the team behind Just Cause.

Warner Bros. publishes its Wizarding World titles under which label?

Portkey Games was set up in 2017 for Wizarding World games; its early mobile titles included Wizards Unite, built with Pokémon Go maker Niantic.

The player character joins Hogwarts unusually late, as which kind of student?

The protagonist enrols as a fifth-year, and arriving late is a plot point: they must catch up on years of missed classes while unravelling the ancient magic mystery.

Hogwarts Legacy broke the single-player Twitch viewer record set by which 2020 game?

Cyberpunk 2077 drew about 1.14 million Twitch viewers at its 2020 launch; Hogwarts Legacy passed that with 1.28 million during early access, three days before release, earning a Guinness World Record.

About how many copies did Hogwarts Legacy sell in its first two weeks?

12 million copies went in a fortnight, and by 2024 Warner Bros. Discovery's finance chief was calling a sequel one of the company's biggest priorities.

Who could play Hogwarts Legacy three days before its official launch?

Deluxe Edition buyers got 72 hours of early access, and streamers who started early pushed the game to a Twitch viewing record before its official release.

Hogwarts Legacy was built on which of these technologies?

Unreal Engine 4 runs the game; the team used its Niagara effects system to give each of dozens of spells its own casting and impact visuals.

Which actor voices the Hogwarts Headmaster in the game?

Simon Pegg voices Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black, the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had, who barely hides his disdain for his own students.

Ranrok's followers, who share his corrupted ancient magic, are known by what name?

Ranrok's goblin army is known as the Loyalists; he infuses some of them with the red ancient magic he stole, turning them into corrupted goblins.

Who leads the group of Dark wizards allied with the goblin rebellion?

Victor Rookwood, descended from one of the Keepers, runs the gang of Dark wizards working with Ranrok, which also extorts protection money from Hogsmeade's shopkeepers.

What subject does the protagonist's mentor, Professor Eleazar Fig, teach?

Eleazar Fig teaches Magical Theory; he escorts the new student to Hogwarts by flying carriage, a trip that is violently interrupted mid-flight.

Isidora Morganach used ancient magic to extract what from people?

Their negative emotions, their pain, are what Isidora Morganach drew out, including her grieving father's; the Keepers realised she was feeding on what she took to grow stronger.

In what form do the long-dead Keepers speak to the protagonist in Hogwarts Legacy?

Portraits: the four Keepers, professors from centuries past, hang in the Map Chamber deep beneath the castle and send the protagonist through one trial each.

Each of the Keepers' trials ends at which magical device?

Each trial ends at a Pensieve, the stone basin in which the Keepers stored their memories; viewing them reveals the story of Isidora Morganach piece by piece.

After defeating Ranrok in Hogwarts Legacy, the hero chooses between sealing the ancient magic away and what?

The alternative is absorbing the power themselves by opening the repository; whichever you pick, the story ends the same way, with Professor Fig eulogised as a hero.

Which exams does the protagonist spend the school year preparing for in Hogwarts Legacy?

O.W.L.s close the year, and afterwards a last-minute award of house points, made at Professor Weasley's suggestion, wins the protagonist's house the House Cup.

In the Room of Requirement, players keep captured magical beasts in areas called what?

Vivariums are the beast enclosures in the Room of Requirement; creatures kept there can be brushed and fed, and they yield materials such as feathers and fur for upgrading gear.

Which spell acts as the game's scanning tool for finding secrets and collectibles?

Revelio is the scanning spell: casting it highlights nearby secrets, chests and collectibles, and it is one of the first spells the protagonist learns from Professor Fig in the prologue.

What do players use to fast-travel around the map in Hogwarts Legacy?

Floo Powder: each Floo Flame carries a bust of Ignatia Wildsmith, the powder's inventor, who chats to the player whenever they arrive.

Which Hogsmeade character was the Wizarding World franchise's first transgender character?

Sirona Ryan, landlady of the Three Broomsticks, was the franchise's first transgender character; in the story she stands up to the Dark wizards who extort Hogsmeade's shopkeepers.

Which familiar figure from the novels appears in Hogwarts Legacy, a century before Harry's time?

Peeves the Poltergeist haunts the 1890s castle just as in Harry's day, joined by Nearly Headless Nick; Albus Dumbledore, born in 1881, is still too young to have started school.

Hogwarts Legacy's arachnophobia mode replaces spiders' legs with what?

Roller skates replace the legs in a nod to the Prisoner of Azkaban film, where Ron's spell leaves his spider Boggart skidding about on skates.

Hogwarts Legacy topped 2023 US game sales, ending a 14-year streak shared by Rockstar Games and which series?

Call of Duty or a Rockstar game had topped the US chart every year since 2009; Hogwarts Legacy ended the run by outselling that year's Call of Duty, Modern Warfare III.

Which company bought Shiver Entertainment, Hogwarts Legacy's Switch port studio, in 2024?

Nintendo bought the Miami studio from Embracer Group in 2024, saying it wanted Shiver's team for porting and developing software.

In January 2025, a free update gave the PC version of Hogwarts Legacy official support for what?

Player-made mods arrived with the January 2025 update, so PC players can add fan-made quests and outfits to the game.

The Deluxe Edition's Dark Arts Pack included a clothing set, a battle arena and what else?

A mount joins the outfit and arena: a Thestral, the skeletal winged horse that in the books only those who have seen death can see.

What collectible came in the box with the Collector's Edition?

A floating wand, hovering above a book-shaped base, led a $300 bundle whose price drew complaints, yet pre-orders sold out within days.

Warner Bros. acquired Hogwarts Legacy's developer from which company in 2017?

Disney had shut the studio in 2016 when it cancelled Disney Infinity; Warner Bros. bought and reopened it in January 2017, and Hogwarts Legacy followed.

Which professor teaches Herbology at Hogwarts in the game?

Mirabel Garlick teaches Herbology; born in London and raised in a household full of Muggles, she says she never felt at home until she reached Hogwarts.

About how many copies did Hogwarts Legacy sell in 2023, its launch year?

22 million copies were sold in 2023, Warner Bros. reported, even though critics of J.K. Rowling's statements on transgender people had urged a boycott.

What is famously missing from Hogwarts Legacy as a playable activity?

Quidditch is off: Headmaster Black cancels the season over a player's injury the previous year, and Warner Bros. released a separate Quidditch Champions game in 2024.

The 'Haunted Hogsmeade Shop' quest was originally exclusive to which platform?

The quest was a PlayStation exclusive for over a year; a June 2024 update finally opened it, and the Felix Felicis recipe, to every platform.

On the protagonist's first trip to Hogsmeade, which creature sent by Ranrok do they defeat?

A troll smashes through Hogsmeade on that first visit and the protagonist brings it down; afterwards the pub's landlady helps see off the Dark wizards who come looking for the student.

Which spell does Professor Hecat teach in the protagonist's first class with her?

Levioso, the levitation spell, comes from Hecat's first lesson, where the protagonist lifts a training dummy and then duels Sebastian Sallow in front of the class.

Companion Natsai 'Natty' Onai belongs to which Hogwarts house?

Gryffindor is Natsai Onai's house; she transferred from Uagadou, the African wizarding school, when her mother Mudiwa became Hogwarts' Divination professor.

Poppy Sweeting, the beast-loving companion, is in which house?

Hufflepuff's Poppy Sweeting was raised in poacher camps by her parents, left as a child to live with her grandmother, and now works against the poachers' trade.

Natsai Onai is an Animagus who takes the form of which animal?

A gazelle is Natsai Onai's Animagus form, a skill taught at Uagadou, her old school; as a child she rode on the back of her father, whose own form was a giraffe.

What does Poppy Sweeting call her secret Hippogriff?

Highwing is the hippogriff Poppy rescued from her poacher family as a child; the protagonist later flies Highwing during The High Keep quest.

Which Hogwarts caretaker asks the protagonist to collect the Demiguise statues?

Gladwin Moon, the Hogwarts caretaker, is terrified of the Demiguise statues and asks the protagonist to gather them in The Caretaker's Lunar Lament, which unlocks higher levels of Alohomora.

In Poppy's questline, the poachers' hideout Horntail Hall turns out to be what?

Horntail Hall is a dragon fighting pit run by the poachers; in the quest Fire and Vice the protagonist and Poppy free a captive Hebridean Black there.

Sebastian Sallow's cursed twin sister is named what?

Anne Sallow, Sebastian's twin, was cursed during a raid on Feldcroft; he blames goblins, but the story reveals a Dark wizard cast it, and her illness drives his hunt for a cure.

Solomon Sallow, Sebastian's uncle and guardian, previously held what job?

Solomon Sallow was an Auror; rumour says he left after using an Unforgivable Curse on a Dark wizard, yet he opposes his nephew's turn to Dark magic in search of a cure for his twin.

Ominis Gaunt, Sebastian's best friend, is a descendant of which Hogwarts founder?

Salazar Slytherin is Ominis Gaunt's ancestor; born blind, Ominis finds his way with his wand, and he turned against the Dark Arts because his family tormented Muggles for sport.

In which secret room does Sebastian Sallow teach the protagonist the Blasting Curse, Confringo?

The Undercroft, a hidden hall beneath the castle, is where Sebastian Sallow teaches Confringo, which annoys Ominis Gaunt, who had trusted him to keep the room secret.

What is the name of the student duelling club organised by Lucan Brattleby?

Crossed Wands is Lucan Brattleby's student duelling club; the protagonist can fight through its three rounds to become champion, earning gear and rewards.

Before teaching Transfiguration, Professor Matilda Weasley worked for the Ministry as what?

Matilda Weasley was a Curse-Breaker for the Ministry before returning to teach Transfiguration; as Deputy Headmistress she is the one who assigns the new student to Professor Fig's care.

Which house-elf helps the player set up the Room of Requirement?

Deek is the house-elf who helps furnish the Room of Requirement; he and a young Matilda Weasley discovered the room together when she was a second-year student.

Which goblin metal trader is Ranrok's estranged brother?

Lodgok, a goblin metal trader and old friend of Miriam Fig, helps the protagonist against his brother Ranrok and is killed for it late in the story.

What did the goblin metalworker Bragbor the Boastful, Ranrok's ancestor, build for Isidora Morganach?

Repositories for magic: Bragbor forged the goblin-silver vessels that hold what Isidora extracted, and centuries later his descendant Ranrok hunts them for their power.

In his youth Ranrok was nearly beaten to death for doing what?

Picking up a wizard's dropped wand to hand it back got Ranrok beaten nearly to death, since wizard law forbids goblins to carry wands; he has despised wizardkind ever since.

Isidora Morganach returned to Hogwarts to teach which subject?

Defence Against the Dark Arts was Isidora Morganach's post when she returned, joining as colleagues the very Keepers who had trained her and whom she would soon defy.

Which Keeper ultimately killed Isidora Morganach?

San Bakar cast the Killing Curse on Isidora Morganach when the other Keepers were losing their duel with her, as the memory in his own trial reveals.

Wandmaker Gerbold Ollivander is what relation to Garrick Ollivander of the Harry Potter books?

Grandfather: Garrick wrote that Gerbold Octavius Ollivander called fir 'the survivor's wand' after selling it to three wizards who then came through mortal peril unscathed.

Which creature attacks the flying carriage carrying Professor Fig and the protagonist at the start of Hogwarts Legacy?

A dragon tears the carriage apart in mid-air, killing a Ministry official, and Fig and the protagonist escape by grabbing an enchanted object that whisks them to the Scottish Highlands.

The in-game menu that tracks your level, map, quests and collections is called what?

The Wizard's Field Guide is an enchanted book lent by the Ministry to help late starters catch up; Professor Weasley hands it over on the protagonist's first day.

The spell puzzles scattered across Hogwarts Legacy's Highlands are named after whom?

Merlin Trials begin when the player places mallowsweet at the site, and solving them earns extra slots for carrying gear.

Who teaches Potions at Hogwarts in the game?

Aesop Sharp teaches Potions; a leg injury in the field ended his long Ministry career, and he chose teaching over being stuck behind a desk.

Where was gameplay footage of Hogwarts Legacy first leaked, two years before its official announcement?

Reddit is where the clip surfaced in October 2018, showing character creation and spell-casting; it was later deleted, and the game went unannounced for two more years.

Which consoles had to wait until May 2023 for Hogwarts Legacy?

PS4 and Xbox One owners saw their versions slip twice, first to April and then to 5 May 2023, while the Switch port waited until November.

Which two actors voice the player's protagonist in Hogwarts Legacy?

Sebastian Croft and Amelia Gething voice the protagonist; the character creator has no gender setting, so players simply choose one of the two voices.

Why did the writers set Hogwarts Legacy in the 1890s?

To avoid established heroes: narrative lead Moira Squier said the team wanted a time with 'no Newt, no Harry', so the story would belong to the player.

Which curse must be cast on someone to open the final door of the Scriptorium?

Crucio, the Cruciatus Curse, must be cast on someone to open the Scriptorium's final door; the protagonist either endures it from Sebastian or learns it and casts it on him.

At which event was Hogwarts Legacy officially announced in September 2020?

A PlayStation 5 showcase on 16 September 2020 unveiled the game with a 2021 release target; it was then delayed twice and arrived more than a year late.

How much did Hogwarts Legacy earn in global sales within two weeks of launch, per Warner Bros.?

$850 million in two weeks made it Warner Bros.' biggest game launch, and the company said traffic to the Wizarding World's website ran 300% above normal.

Which Ministry official is killed when the flying carriage is attacked at the start of Hogwarts Legacy?

George Osric has just produced a locked container sent by Fig's late wife, which only the new student can open, when the attack tears away his half of the carriage.

Which prize did Hogwarts Legacy win at Valve's annual user-voted awards?

Hogwarts Legacy won Best Game on Steam Deck at the 2023 Steam Awards, where it was also a Game of the Year nominee alongside eventual winner Baldur's Gate 3.

Which reward was the pre-order bonus for every edition of Hogwarts Legacy?

The Onyx Hippogriff went to everyone who pre-ordered, whatever the edition, but it could not be claimed until the story quest The High Keep was finished.