by If you’ve already played a bit of Hogwarts Legacy , you’ve probably noticed that there are many doors and chests that are locked with a padlock and that there seems to be no way to open them at first, which is actually true.
And it is that in order to open these locks and have access to said doors and chests, we will need to learn the very famous spell called “Alohomora”, a Spell (in case you did not know it) whose function is precisely to open locks.
In this post I will explain how you can unlock the Alohomora Spell and how you can open these locks, since it will not be enough to use the spell, you will also have to do a kind of minigame as it happened for example in Skyrim.
HOW TO GET THE ALOHOMORA SPELL
Alohomora will end up being an essential spell to progress in our adventure, although its use generally has a more “optional” character since we will use it mainly to open all the locks that we see, which usually leads to getting coins, equipment and others. .
To achieve this we will have to reach a certain point in the main story, specifically until they give us the mission ” The Warden’s Lunar Lament “, delivered by Mr. Moon. In this mission we will have to sneak into the teachers’ room and steal two Demiguise Moons.
If you don’t have this quest yet, you’ll need to progress further into the main plot. You will have it available after completing the first test of the Chamber of Maps (if you have not unlocked this room either, it is that you have enough left to reach the mission in which you get Alohomora).
HOW TO PICK THE LOCKS
The first thing is to clarify that there are locks of different levels:
- Level I lock.
- Level II lock.
- Level III lock.
When we unlock the Alohomora spell we can only open the level 1 ones, we will have to improve it (we will talk about this below) to be able to open the higher level ones.
Using Alohomora on a lock on a level that we can open will open the minigame pictured above. It is a mini-game in the style of using the lock pick, something different from those we have seen in other games.
We have a couple of circles (one green and one red) that we can control, one with the Right Joystick and the other with the Left (on the keyboard I have no idea how it will be) and as you can see there is a kind of spark in the green circle and another in the red.
What we should do, roughly (it’s quite simple), is to first move the bow you want and wait for the controller to vibrate, since that indicates that you are in the correct position . When it vibrates you, you see moving through that nearby area until you see that in one position the circle will keep turning all the time.
Hold in that position while you now find the correct position of the other circle. When you get the 2 circles to rotate constantly, you will only have to hold the position for a while and you will open the lock.
HOW TO IMPROVE THE ALOHOMORA SPELL
In order to improve your Alohomora spell in order to open higher level locks, you will have to carry out the mission ” The Man of the Moons “, a mission that Mr. Moon will give us after completing his first mission “The Warden’s Lunar Lament” . With it we will obtain Alohomora II and Alohomora III (to open the locks of the corresponding levels).
In it we will have to get the Moons of the Demiguise Statues, so you will have to go looking for them through stealth and Alohomora. Oh, and remember that you can only get them at night. Anyway, I leave you here a guide in which I show you the location of all Demiguise Moons .
