Chapter 8 - Preparing for the Room - Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Guide - IGN (2024)

Once the chapter begins, head to the Great Hall to meet up with your classmate. You'll have an extended dialogue sequence to read through. After its finished, you'll have to spend 55 Gems or wait a set amount of time to move on to the next step. Regardles of what you decide, you'll also get another notification asking you to go to your house common room for another quest.

Go back to your house common room to speak to a classmate there and see more dialogue. After the two of you chat,m you'll need to go down to the Training Grounds for a duel.

Duel at Training Grounds

When you get to the training grounds, tap the icon to take part in a duel with your classmate., You'll see some dialogue beforehand, and then be shown your opponent's stats. You'll need to pay 100 coins to begin.

To win this duel, you'll have to correctly guess the right stance to use against your opponent to take more turns. Your opponent will use more Defense and Sneaky stances, so plan accordingly and make the right choice to take more turns. If you notice they are using other stances more often, try to adjust and keep the pressure on them. Eventually after enough turns, you'll finish the duel.

After the duel is over, you'll see more dialogue between everyone. You'll then have to spend 55 Gems to start up the next step. You'll later come back for another duel after a few more story events. Head back to the Great Hall to meet up with your classmate, where you'll study more aspects to dueling. After some dialogue, you'll have to tap the screen to finish tasks and generate stars. You need at least 1 Star to pass the activity.

Tap the screen on every highlighted area you see to gather stars. If you find yourself running low on energy, then you can purchase or wait for your bar to recharge. Eventually you'll complete all the tasks and will see more dialogue after.

Making a Sleeping Draught Potion

Next head to the Potions classroom, where you'll be making a Sleeping Draught potion. Tap the scren to enter the classroom and go through dialogue with a classmate. You'll be asked a question and given attribute points based on your answer. Finish up the dialogue and then tap the screen above your classmate to begin the task of making the potion.

You'll need to earn 5 stars to pass the activity. As you see the highlighted areas show up, tap them to earn stars and make the potion. You'll spend a lot of energy throughout the process. When you finish all of the tasks and have earned enough stars, you'll pass and see more dialogue play out.

Second Duel at Training Grounds

After you have finished making the potion, head to the Training Grounds to start up another duel with your classmate. When you get there, you'll be asked a question and given attribute points for your character. Finish scrolling through the dialogue and the duel will begin.

You'll have to spend 125 coins to begin the duel. Your opponent will have no set pattern, so you'll have to guess the best choice of stance to take during the duel. As the duel goes on, you'll be able to predict which stance your opponent may take, so judge accordingly and take your turns as you go. Eventually you'll drain the stamina of your classmate and win the duel.

When the duel is over, you'll see more dialogue and be rewarded for completing it. Head back to the Great Hall and speak your classmate. You'll go through a bunch of dialogue before starting up a friendship quest with them. You need a total of three diamonds to pass it. Answer the questions as they appear on the scren to earn enough diamonds with each answer.

Once you've earned enough diamonds, you'll see a bit more dialogue between the two of you. Once its over, you'll complete the chapter.

Learning Alohom*ora Spell

The lesson for this chapter will have you learning the unlock spell Alohom*ora. You'll have to complete the lesson with 5 stars in order to pass it and learn the spell. When you head to the Charms class, start by hitting all of the highlighted areas on screen to gather stars. Eventually you'll be given a focus section to pass, followed by more highlighted tasks to complete. Keep this up and eventually you finish all the steps necessary to complete the class.

You'll also be asked a questsion during the lesson, which will reward you with attribbute points based on your answer. Keep completing all of the tasks that pop up and eventually you'll pass with enough stars.

You'll need to do this less at least 2 -3 times in order to gain enough stars to obtain the spell, with the final part allowing you to trace the screen to cast it. Simply keep going with each part of the lesson and it'll be yours.