As you take your first steps in Hogwarts Legacy, you’ll come across many strange objects, such as wizard statues, dragon pots, and eye chests, in Hogwarts School of Magic. You will also find mysterious locked cabinets, to dig up during a side mission that will require a lot of effort.
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How to open closed household furniture?
To open those cursed cupboards you have to go through the main story. After’
troll attack on Hogsmeade
keep taking your courses, until Nellie Oggspire appears in one of the gardens. She will then give you the side quest The keys to the maze.
The first step is relatively easy, it requires finding a flying key in the Astronomy Tower, using your Revelio spell to help you: it will appear on the screen in blue. If you approach him, he will flee. You don’t really have to follow her closely, she just has to run away, then you can catch up with her, until she takes you to the astronomy room, with the first closed house furniture.
How do you enter the flying key?
This is followed by a rather painful mini-game, which requires press the key when it passes the keyhole in the middlewhich is easier said than done given the speed (note that in story and easy mode the key speed is slowed down massively).
There are three methods we know of to achieve this:
- If you have good reflexes, just hit the key when it passes in front of you.
- Otherwise you have to anticipate. When the key changes sides, it always moves vertically at least oncethereafter after a few seconds she switches sides again, this is your chance. By counting the seconds, you can get an idea of how long to wait and prepare to strike. Ideally, wait until the key is far away, for example in a far corner, this will give you more time to react.
- If that’s not enough, you can just use brute force on top of that. Then use the previous method Press the key frantically to hit the key. This will push him against the wood, but that’s okay, he won’t interfere with his normal behavior, he’ll still try to cross over or resume his previous job.
The old uniform as the ultimate reward
By opening each of the house cabinets you will get one house signto use on the House chest, in your common room. Returning to talk to Nellie Oggspire concludes the first phase of the quest. She then mentions the fact that there are other keys and cabinets scattered around Hogwarts. All that’s left is to find them all to complete the next step.
- Once you have the 16 tokens in your possession, you will receive a sublime old uniform : a cape with the coat of arms of your house that shines in the night
- You must complete this side mission if you want to get the trophy associated with it.
Where can you find all the cupboards and keys?
In total there are 16 cabinets to open, for the same number of tokens. They are all at Hogwarts. Some are not directly accessible, you need to progress through the main story to unlock new parts of the school and new spells. There is therefore no point in desperately trying to complete this quest from the beginning of the story. It’s better to take your time and open all the closets you come across on your adventures. Watch out, there’s a closet hidden in the infirmary area, accessible during the Guardian’s Lunar Complaint quest to learn Alohomora with the moons of Demiguise.
When you see a closet, know that the key is never far away. Browse the locations using Revelio to locate her. A small blue object will then appear somewhere on the screen.
Here is the position of all keys and cabinets in video:
