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Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles solution and explainer

Here's how to find and solve the Hogwarts Legacy floating candles map, which leads you to a great reward as part of the Ghost of Our love quest.

Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles: A split image showing a torn up map on one side and a young wizard holding a wand on the other

The Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles is one of the earliest secrets you will encounter in the open-world Harry Potter adventure. Placed directly on the main story path, you’ll more than likely come across it with out really trying. But while it’s easy to find, the puzzle it presents you with isn’t so easy to solve.

Well, to help you out, we’re going to take you through how we solved it during our Hogwarts Legacy review playthrough. You won’t need to worry about combat in the Ghost of Our Love quest the floating candles map triggers, so don’t spend hours perfecting your Hogwarts Legacy builds for this one. This map is one of many mysteries that have made Hogwarts Legacy one of the most intriguing RPG games of recent times. So, grab your wands – or rather your best PlayStation controller or best Xbox controller – and let’s dive into solving it.

Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles explained

The Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles is an item needed to start the Ghost Of Our Love side quest. This map points to a secret location somewhere within the game. The map’s item description differs depending on your house, and it will also appear in a different location for each house too.

The Ghost of Our Love side quest is one that’s definitely worth completing as you’ll get rewarded with a loot-filled chest at the end.

Hogwarts Legacy Map With Floating Candles: A torn up map with pencil sketches of various locations, such as a bridge and a forest

Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles location

The Hogwarts Legacy floating candles map has four potential locations, depending on which house you’re sorted into. For it to appear, players will also need to have one of four house-exclusive quests active – these quests will essentially lead you straight to the floating candles map.

Here are the four map with floating candles locations:

  • Gryffindor – Hogsmeade Graveyard. During ‘The Hunt for the Missing Pages’ quest, you will find yourself speaking with a ghost named Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore. Straight after the cutscene ends, you can pick it up from a grave just in front of you, situated between a tomb and a ghost.
  • Hufflepuff – Upper Hogsfield. When you travel to Upper Hogsfield as part of the ‘Prisoner of Love’ quest , you’ll find the map in a chest behind Claire Beaumont’s stall in the village.
  • Ravenclaw – Hogwarts Owlery. During the quest ‘Ollivander’s Hierloom’, you can find it on the top floor of the owlery. Take a few steps to your left once you reach the top of the ladder, and you’ll see it on the ground.
  • Slytherin – Apollonia’s secret grotto. While on the ‘Scrope’s Last Hope’ quest, you’ll enter a secret grotto in a cave underneath Hogwarts Castle’s Great Hall. You’ll find the map inside a chest within the grotto.

So, you’ve now got your map, but how are you meant to solve it as part of your newly-unlocked Ghost of Our Love side quest?

Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles solution

To solve the Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles and find the secret location, head to the Forbidden Forest Floo Flame, just north of Hogwarts, and use your Lumos spell next to the big main bridge at night. This will reveal some candles, which will float in front of you and start to lead you into the nearby forest.

Hogwarts Legacy Map With Floating Candles: A world map shows markers and a dotted yellow path

All you have to do is simply follow the path that the candles take you down, and you’ll eventually arrive at your final destination: a romantic setting of a table and two chairs, surrounded by floating candles. As you arrive, a chest will spawn in, and you can collect your loot.

So there you have it, that’s how to find and solve the Hogwarts Legacy map with floating candles so that you can complete the Ghost of Our Love side quest. It is quite simple, but if you don’t have a keen eye and a good knowledge of the map, it can leave you stumped for a while. For more secrets and guides, be sure to check out our Hogwarts Legacy walkthrough which is filled with useful information.

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Hogwarts Legacy has drawn considerable criticism during its development, largely due to the fact that the creator of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, has made a number of transphobic remarks on social media in recent years.

While Avalanche has confirmed that J.K. Rowling is not “directly involved” in the development of Hogwarts Legacy, it has been working with “her team” and Portkey Games, a Warner Bros. label dedicated to launching new experiences inspired by J.K. Rowling’s original stories. It is currently unclear whether she will earn any royalties from the game’s sale, but it is likely given it is based on her original body of work.

If you would like to learn more about transgender rights or lend your support, we’d encourage you to check out the National Center for Transgender Equality in the US and Mermaids in the UK.