Hogwarts Legacy Trivia
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67 free Hogwarts Legacy trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Hogwarts Legacy put players in a fifth-year's robes a century before Harry Potter, and these 61 Hogwarts Legacy trivia questions cover the whole of it: the goblin rebellion and Ranrok's alliance with Victor Rookwood, the four Keepers and their Pensieve trials, Isidora Morganach's repository, and the companion questlines of Natsai, Poppy, Sebastian and Ominis. There are questions on the castle itself too, from the Room of Requirement and its vivariums to the Wizard's Field Guide and the spell that scans for secrets. Alongside the story there is a round on the game outside the game: the studio behind it, its budget, the record-setting Twitch launch, first-fortnight sales, the Switch port, the arachnophobia mode and the mod support that arrived in 2025. Easy questions suit anyone who finished the main quest; the harder ones are for players who read every collectible page and follow the news. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia or the Harry Potter Wiki, and each question shows its source once you have answered, so a Discord argument can be settled on the spot.
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Q 01Which studio developed Hogwarts Legacy?
Avalanche Software
Avalanche Software of Salt Lake City made the game; it is often confused with Sweden's unrelated Avalanche Studios, the team behind Just Cause.
Q 02Warner Bros. publishes its Wizarding World titles under which label?
Portkey Games
Portkey Games was set up in 2017 for Wizarding World games; its early mobile titles included Wizards Unite, built with Pokémon Go maker Niantic.
Q 03The player character joins Hogwarts unusually late, as which kind of student?
A fifth-year
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.
Q 04Hogwarts Legacy broke the single-player Twitch viewer record set by which 2020 game?
Cyberpunk 2077
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.
Q 05About how many copies did Hogwarts Legacy sell in its first two weeks?
12 million
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.
Q 06Who could play Hogwarts Legacy three days before its official launch?
Deluxe Edition buyers
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.
Q 07Hogwarts Legacy was built on which of these technologies?
Unreal Engine 4
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.
Q 08Which actor voices the Hogwarts Headmaster in the game?
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg voices Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black, the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had, who barely hides his disdain for his own students.
Q 09Ranrok's followers, who share his corrupted ancient magic, are known by what name?
The Loyalists
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.
Q 10Who leads the group of Dark wizards allied with the goblin rebellion?
Victor Rookwood
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.
Q 11What subject does the protagonist's mentor, Professor Eleazar Fig, teach?
Magical Theory
Eleazar Fig teaches Magical Theory; he escorts the new student to Hogwarts by flying carriage, a trip that is violently interrupted mid-flight.
Q 12Isidora Morganach used ancient magic to extract what from people?
Their negative emotions
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.
Q 13In what form do the long-dead Keepers speak to the protagonist in Hogwarts Legacy?
Portraits
Q 21Which familiar figure from the novels appears in Hogwarts Legacy, a century before Harry's time?
Peeves the Poltergeist
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.
Q 22Hogwarts Legacy's arachnophobia mode replaces spiders' legs with what?
Roller skates
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.
Q 23Hogwarts Legacy topped 2023 US game sales, ending a 14-year streak shared by Rockstar Games and which series?
Call of Duty
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.
Q 14Each of the Keepers' trials ends at which magical device?
A Pensieve
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.
Q 15After defeating Ranrok in Hogwarts Legacy, the hero chooses between sealing the ancient magic away and what?
Absorbing the power themselves
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.
Q 16Which exams does the protagonist spend the school year preparing for in Hogwarts Legacy?
O.W.L.s
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.
Q 17In the Room of Requirement, players keep captured magical beasts in areas called what?
Vivariums
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.
Q 18Which spell acts as the game's scanning tool for finding secrets and collectibles?
Revelio
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.
Q 19What do players use to fast-travel around the map in Hogwarts Legacy?
Floo Powder
Floo Powder: each Floo Flame carries a bust of Ignatia Wildsmith, the powder's inventor, who chats to the player whenever they arrive.
Q 20Which Hogsmeade character was the Wizarding World franchise's first transgender character?
Sirona Ryan
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.
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.
Q 24Which company bought Shiver Entertainment, Hogwarts Legacy's Switch port studio, in 2024?
Nintendo
Nintendo bought the Miami studio from Embracer Group in 2024, saying it wanted Shiver's team for porting and developing software.
Q 25In January 2025, a free update gave the PC version of Hogwarts Legacy official support for what?
Player-made mods
Player-made mods arrived with the January 2025 update, so PC players can add fan-made quests and outfits to the game.
Q 26The Deluxe Edition's Dark Arts Pack included a clothing set, a battle arena and what else?
A mount
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.
Q 27What collectible came in the box with the Collector's Edition?
A floating wand
A floating wand, hovering above a book-shaped base, led a $300 bundle whose price drew complaints, yet pre-orders sold out within days.
Q 28Warner Bros. acquired Hogwarts Legacy's developer from which company in 2017?
Disney
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.
Q 29Which professor teaches Herbology at Hogwarts in the game?
Mirabel Garlick
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.
Q 30About how many copies did Hogwarts Legacy sell in 2023, its launch year?
22 million
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.