70 Fun Facts About Hogwarts Legacy

Which studio developed Hogwarts Legacy?

It was the studio's first project in over a decade that was not tied to its previous parent company.

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

The label was set up in 2017, the same year Warner Bros. bought the game's developer.

In which decade is Hogwarts Legacy set?

That places the story roughly a century before Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts, and a few years before the events of Fantastic Beasts.

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

Arriving late is a plot point: the protagonist has to catch up on years of missed classes while unravelling the ancient magic mystery.

How many concurrent viewers did the game peak at on Twitch on 7 February 2023?

That made it the most-watched single-player game in the platform's history, a feat that earned a Guinness World Record.

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

Those two weeks generated about $850 million in global revenue.

What was the estimated production budget for Hogwarts Legacy?

The game more than paid that back in its first two weeks on sale.

Hogwarts Legacy was built on which of these technologies?

The artists leaned on the engine's Niagara visual effects system to give each spell its own look.

Which actor voices the Hogwarts Headmaster in the game?

The Headmaster is an ancestor of Sirius Black, and his portrait later hangs in Dumbledore's office in the books.

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

He grants some of his stolen power to them, turning them into corrupted goblins.

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

He is a descendant of one of the Keepers, which is the only reason the goblins tolerate him.

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

Fig escorts the new student to school by flying coach, a trip that is interrupted by a dragon.

The Tudor-era witch Isidora Morganach used ancient magic to extract what from people?

She started with her own grieving father, and the Keepers eventually realised she was inhaling what she extracted to grow her own power.

The 'Keepers' who set the protagonist's trials are portraits of how many former Hogwarts professors?

Their portraits hang in the Map Chamber, a secret room hidden below the castle.

Each of the Keepers' trials ends at which magical device, used to review stored memories?

The memories reveal 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?

Whichever you pick, the ending plays out the same way and Professor Fig is eulogised as a hero.

How many house points does Professor Weasley award the protagonist at the end of the story?

It is enough to swing the House Cup to whichever house you were sorted into.

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

Creatures kept there can be brushed, fed and even ridden, in the case of hippogriffs and thestrals.

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

A limited-edition DualSense controller released alongside the game was even nicknamed after the spell.

Apart from flying a broom, how do players fast-travel around the map?

Fast-travel points are marked by green Floo Flames scattered across the castle and Highlands.

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

She runs the Three Broomsticks and refuses to pay the local gang's protection money.

Which of these familiar figures from the novels appears in the game, a century before Harry's time?

Nearly Headless Nick also turns up, though the writers deliberately kept the main Harry Potter cast out of the story.

The arachnophobia mode replaces spiders' legs with what?

It is a nod to the books, where Ron's boggart spider is defeated by giving it roller skates.

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

It was also the second best-selling game of 2023 across Europe.

Its early-access Steam concurrent-player peak trailed only which single-player game?

The game later climbed past 879,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Which studio handled the Nintendo Switch port?

The Switch version arrived in November 2023, nine months after the PS5 and PC release.

In January 2025 the PC version added official mod support through what tool?

Mods range from cosmetic tweaks to gameplay overhauls, and it remains PC-only.

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

Standard Edition owners could buy the pack separately as DLC.

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

Buyers of the physical Collector's Edition also got 72 hours of early access.

Warner Bros. acquired the game's developer from which company in 2017?

Hogwarts Legacy was the studio's first non-Disney project since 2005.

In 2024 Warner Bros. Discovery said a Hogwarts Legacy sequel would be connected to what?

The company called the sequel one of its primary goals after the first game's success.

By December 2025, roughly how many copies had Hogwarts Legacy sold?

That puts it among the best-selling video games ever made.

What is famously missing from the game as a playable activity?

Reviewers lamented its absence; Warner Bros. later released a separate Quidditch Champions game.

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

A June 2024 update finally opened the quest, and the Felix Felicis recipe, to every platform.

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

The attack is a distraction so the Dark wizards can ambush the student at the Three Broomsticks.

According to the quest rewards, which spell does Professor Hecat's first class of the year teach?

Charms class the same day rewards Accio, so the two lessons give you a lift and a pull.

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

Her mother Mudiwa teaches Divination at the school.

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

Her questline is all about magical creatures and the poachers who hunt them.

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

Her father was also an Animagus, and could turn into a giraffe.

What does Poppy Sweeting call her secret Hippogriff?

She freed the creature from poachers as a child and they fled together.

Poppy befriends the player after they defend a Kneazle called what?

Two classmates were tormenting the animal, and stepping in earns Poppy's trust and an introduction to her Hippogriff.

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

You free a captive Hebridean Black there and later return her stolen egg to her nest.

Sebastian Sallow's cursed twin sister is named what?

Her illness drives Sebastian's whole storyline, as he turns to the Dark Arts searching for a cure.

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

Rumour has it he left the Ministry on bad terms after using an Unforgivable Curse on a Dark wizard.

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

He was born blind and navigates with a wand described as almost sentient.

What game did Ominis and the Sallow twins play together in the secret Undercroft?

The Undercroft was known only to the House of Gaunt until Sebastian let the new student in on it.

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

Sebastian Sallow is one of its top duellists, and you can climb its ranks yourself.

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

She is also Deputy Headmistress and the one who assigns the new student to Professor Fig.

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

He discovered the room with Matilda Weasley when she was a second-year student.

Which goblin metal trader is Ranrok's estranged younger brother?

He turned against his brother's cause after meeting Miriam Fig, and pays for it with his life.

Ranrok claims Isidora's ancient magic because his ancestor built her repositories. Who was that ancestor?

By goblin notions of ownership, whatever a goblin makes stays his family's property forever.

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

Goblins had been banned from carrying wands since 1631, and the incident left him hating wizardkind.

Isidora Morganach returned to Hogwarts to teach which subject?

She was popular with students, which made her experiments with ancient magic all the harder for the Keepers to stop.

Which Keeper ultimately killed Isidora Morganach?

He was her former mentor and colleague, and taught Beasts at Hogwarts.

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

He was fond of saying that fir produced 'the survivor's wand'.

Besides the one beneath Hogwarts, where is the second known ancient-magic repository hidden?

Ranrok's goblins are already digging under it when the protagonist arrives.

Early in the game, the protagonist and Fig break into which numbered strongroom at Gringotts?

Ranrok had been tipped off about the key, which is why the goblin is already waiting inside.

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

Filling in its collections and challenges is how you earn much of the game's cosmetic gear.

Which of these does Hogwarts Legacy notably not include?

Community manager Chandler Wood confirmed the no-microtransactions policy before launch.

Who teaches Potions at Hogwarts in the game?

Ronen teaches Charms and Hecat teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts.

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

The October 2018 leak showed character creation and spell-casting long before Warner Bros. said a word.

On what date was Hogwarts Legacy released for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows?

The PS4 and Xbox One versions were pushed back further, to 5 May 2023.

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

Players pick their character's voice during creation.

Who was the lead writer of Hogwarts Legacy?

She said the 1890s setting was chosen deliberately to avoid established heroes like Harry Potter and Newt Scamander.

How many tracks were included across the two digital double albums of the game's soundtrack?

The composers were Chuck E. Myers, J. Scott Rakozy and Peter Murray, with extra tracks by Alexander Horowitz.

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

Gameplay footage had already leaked in 2018.

How much global revenue had the game generated within two weeks of launch, per Warner Bros. Discovery?

By 5 May 2023 it had passed $1 billion on 15 million copies sold.

For how many consecutive weeks did Hogwarts Legacy top the UK physical sales chart after its debut?

It spent fifteen weeks at the top in total.

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

It was also nominated there for Game of the Year.

What score did Famitsu's four critics give Hogwarts Legacy?

OpenCritic reported that 88% of critics recommended the game.