Time for a break-in.

By Toby Saunders

Published: Friday, 10 February 2023 at 12:00 am

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The Alohomora spell is one that you’ll need to learn in Hogwarts Legacy if you’re wanting to lockpick and unlock doors. This useful spell can be used to unlock those pesky locked doors you will have come across and don’t know what to do with.

Unlike those doors covered in numbers and symbols, standard locked doors in the open-world game are a mystery to begin with. You just know there’s a stash of goodies hidden behind them, just waiting for you to find them.

Learn the spell and you can start unlocking these doors to find the treasures and secrets hidden behind them. Knowing how to actually learn the Alohomora spell in Hogwarts Legacy is another thing entirely, however.

Luckily, we’re here to help. Read below to find out how to learn the Alohomora spell, how to lockpick and unlock doors, and how to increase the Alohomora skill level to unlock higher-level doors in Hogwarts Legacy.

How to learn Alohomora spell in Hogwarts Legacy

To learn the Alohomora spell in Hogwarts Legacy you need to complete The Caretaker’s Lunar Lament quest. This quest is a main story mission so you can’t miss it but it does appear surprisingly late on into the lengthy game.

The Caretaker’s Lunar Lament quest is a relatively straightforward mission to complete so you shouldn’t have any trouble unlocking this useful spell. This level will teach you Alohomora and give you a nice low-stakes area to try it out in.

Not only will the Alohomora spell let you lockpick those pesky locked doors, but it will also allow you to collect those Demiguise Statues scattered throughout the map. You’ll need them all to unlock every achievement/trophy in the game.

How to lockpick & unlock doors in Hogwarts Legacy

Once you have the Alohomora spell you can lockpick and unlock doors in Hogwarts Legacy. Locate a locked door and use the spell on it to start a minigame.

To unlock the door you need to complete the lockpicking minigame (what would an open-world RPG be without a lockpicking minigame?). Follow these steps to lockpick every locked door you find:

• Note that your left analogue stick controls the green spark and your right analogue stick controls the red spark
• Rotate your analogue sticks, one at a time is best, to make the green outer gears spin and then the red middle gears
• You’ll know when you’ve successfully lockpicked as the gears light up.

You will need to make sure that your Alohomora spell skill level is as high as the level of the locked door too. More on that below. For now, you can also see the lockpicking minigame in action thanks to the video from YouTuber WoW Quests below: