Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 character guide

Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 characters

There are many Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 characters to find and unlock, some of whom you'll meet through the main story while others need to be collected by completing free play challenges and discovering secrets. As well as massively expanding the roster of playable characters, you'll also unlock a Trophy or Achievement once you've found them all, so it pays off in the long run. If there's someone particularly elusive that you're trying to track down, or you just want some general pointers on where to go to unlock each one, then I'm here to help you out with this complete Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 character guide.

This guide is broken up rather simply – it goes stage by stage and explains what you need to have to unlock the hidden character and where to find it. Generally speaking, some of them can be gotten while playing levels, but it’s usually best to focus on simply completing the levels instead of searching them. In many cases you will have to revisit the level in Free Play to unlock a specific character or two, so waiting until you meet all of the requirements before bothering to revisit will spare you replaying each level yet more times than necessary.

Upon starting up the game you will automatically obtain the trio of Harry Potter, Ron and Hermoine. However, none of them have any special abilities that are helpful to begin with. As they learn abilities through the years at school more will unlock on the characters, so it’s going to be a bit before they’re as useful as they can be. By and large the most useful abilities to have are strength (Hagrid), Reducto (most wizards) and Dark Magic (any Death Eater). Ron / Hermoine’s respective pets will come in handy in a few situations as well and the short characters come up a few times, but the above trio of abilities are ones you will want ASAP, so buy the first Dark Magic user you can.

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