How to Get Room with a View Trophy in Hogwarts Legacy. (Warning Contains Story Spoilers)

By Joseph Maffettone, 3/9/2023

So it's been almost a month since I first played Hogwarts Legacy, and it was a delightful experience. I even reviewed the game right here to check out: https://jmaffettone8802.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/hogwarts-legacy-review-the-magical-world-before-harry-potter.

But now is an excellent time to start working on some guides to go after specific trophies that would take a lot of time to get or seem hard. But Hogwarts does have an easy trophy list, but it does that in a reasonable amount of time. This guide will discuss the "Room with a View" trophy, which requires the player to reach the highest point in Hogwarts, the Headmaster's upper study. There are two ways to get this trophy, both need to continue with the story, but one way gets you access to this room while playing the story, and the other requires you to obtain and strengthen a specific spell along with gaining access to the first mount in the game, the flying brooms.

WARNING: STORY SPOILERS AHEAD AFTER THIS POINT. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED

So how can you tell when you reach a new act in Hogwarts Legacy you beat a keeper trail, and the season changes? The game starts around the summer and goes from spring to the end. So to start, we will look at the story method of getting this trophy. After you beat the 2nd keeper trial, you'll be introduced to the 3rd keeper, and the season changes to Winter.

This version of getting the trophy is accessible; you only need to continue the story. You'll get the quest to access the Headmaster's upper study because that is where the 3rd Keeper trial is being held. So all you need to do is play all of Act 3 to get this one specific trophy. But what about the other way? The other takes some steps; I'll now explain those steps.

So to start, this will require the first mount in the game, the flying brooms. To get this, you must first take the broom class, a story quest. The quest will teach you the basics of riding mounts and controlling the flying broom.

After finishing the class, you unlock a side quest that will give you access to buying your first broom and upgrades. After buying your first broom, you must beat the side quest first to win a student's time in a broom race. That finishes one part of the requirements to get this trophy; now, you must continue the story and reach Act 2, which is the Fall. When you go to the Fall, you'll get a primary story mission from the caretaker, Mr. Moon, who gives you the spell that is the second requirement for this trophy, the lockpicking spell. Mr. Moon will provide you with the quest to head into a restricted part of Hogwarts to find these statues called "Demiguise," which are collectible in the game and are needed to upgrade the lockpicking spell to unlock higher-level locks. The lock that involves the trophy is a Level 3 lock, the highest-level lock in the game. The image below is the collectible needed for the lockpick upgrades.

After you beat the quest, you can access the Level 1 Lockpick. But there are also two problems with these statues. The first problem is these statues have an odd way of being collected as they can't be collected during the day; they must be collected at night. Luckily, the game has a button in the map menu that fast-forwards time so you can change from day to night with a simple switch. But the other problem, there are not that many of them, which is odd since this game has a ton of collectibles. There are 30 in the whole game, 10 in Hogwarts, 9 in Hogsmeade, and 11 in the High Lands. However, you don't need all of them to get the Level 3 lockpick. To get the Level 2 lockpick, you must get 9 of them and bring them back to Moon for the Level 2 upgrade. Then you'll need 13 of them to get the Level 3 upgrade ad to bring them back to Moon. So you'll need 22 to get all upgrades, but you'll need to give the nine back first because some statues are locked behind Level 2 locks.

Now that you have the broom and Level 3 lockpick, it is time to get that trophy. The images below will show you which outer part of Hogwarts you need to fly to and the stairs you need to find to get to the Level 3 lock.

All you need to do is head to this area, find a way to land on the stairs or part of this outer section, and lockpick the lock. After that, head inside and look around the room and you'll get this trophy. This trophy isn't hard, but like all the rest of the trophies in this game, they take a while. And that the guide, thank you for your time.