Hogwarts Legacy: How To Get Up Hufflepuff Stairs

The Hufflepuff House in Hogwarts Legacy has an interesting limitation in its Common Room, where the girl’s dormitory becomes locked to players who selected a male protagonist unless they find a trick that helps them traverse the stairs leading to this section. The magically infused stairs will ordinarily transform into a slide that pushes you with the mentioned restriction down to the first floor of the dormitory, impeding their progress no matter how fast they try to move upward.

Choosing a character that identifies as male may temporarily set you back, but a video posted on TikTok by user Callum Taylor shows a way to use the side banister to trick the Hufflepuff stairs into reappearing after a short duration. According to the original post, moving onto the stairs quickly triggers the slide transformation, but you can maneuver onto the railing on the side to avoid the shifting steps entirely. Simply waiting for the slide to turn back into a set of stairs gives you enough time to traverse the “secret” section of the Hufflepuff house in Hogwarts Legacy fully, should you be patient enough to master the timing needed to reach the girl’s dormitory safely.

Are There Any Rewards For Going Up the Hufflepuff Stairs in Hogwarts Legacy?

While several players commented on the original TikTok by Callum Taylor with the assumption that the second floor of the common space was restricted for a main story quest later on, the actual reasoning is far easier to understand. It has been identified that this specific area within the common space has far more interesting decorations than many of the other house common rooms in Hogwarts Legacy, so revealing a secret set of appealing visuals may be the best earnings possible.

The revelation of this bug in the game originally garnered around many likes and comments, where some compared the forbidden exploration to an action more akin to a student of the Slytherin house. However, you should attempt to get up the Hufflepuff house stairs in Hogwarts Legacy soon, as there remains a likely chance that this method will be removed in a future patch.