Hogwarts Legacy Azkaban: How to visit Azkaban in Hogwarts Legacy

In Hogwarts Legacy, you’ll get to visit many of the iconic locations from around the wizarding world including Azkaban.

Whether or not Azkaban, which is the wizarding prison in which prominent Harry Potter characters like Sirius Black and Bellatrix Lestrange did time, would feature in the game was up for debate, but it’s certainly in Hogwarts Legacy. However, not every player will get to visit the infamous prison.

In fact, in Hogwarts Legacy, visiting Azkaban is locked behind a side quest that’s only open to one of the four houses.

But how do you visit Azkaban in Hogwarts Legacy? Do you fight Dementors? Read on to find out.

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Hogwarts Legacy Azkaban: Is Azkaban in Hogwarts Legacy

Yes, you can visit Azkaban in Hogwarts Legacy. While it does not appear on the map, visiting Azkaban is part of an early sidequest that one of the four houses can access. While you can’t return to the prison after you’ve finished the mission, and the area you teleport to is small, it’s the only chance you’ll get to see Dementors or the Expecto Patronumn spell.

Hogwarts Legacy Azkaban: How to get to Azkaban in Hogwarts Legacy

In order to get to Azkaban, you’ll need to start a quest that is exclusive to Hufflepuff house. That’s right, if you’ve picked any of the other houses, you won’t be visiting Azkaban on that playthrough. Thankfully the mission itself is early in the game, so you don’t have to play through too much to get to it, but it’s still a strangely iconic location to lock behind a house with very little association with it in the main canon.

You’ll be offered the mission around level 6, after defending the old woman on the lakeside. Once you’ve finished this quest, you’ll receive an owl telling you that a portrait in the Hufflepuff common wants to speak with you. This portrait is of none other than Eldritch Diggory, great-great-grandfather of Cedric and former Minister for Magic. You’ll be told about an unsolves murder, and directed to run to the north of the map in order to continue it.

Once there, you’ll meet Helen Thistlewood, who will take you to Azkaban, where you can begin the brief quest.

Those instructions in full are:

• Select Hufflepuff as your Hogwarts house
• Play through the early missions of the game until you save the old woman on the lakeside
• Speak to the portrait in the Hufflepuff common room
• Run to upper Hogsmeade and speak with Helen Thistlewood
• You’ll then apparate to Azkaban