Professor Lupin has sent you to assist the renowned wizarding historian Bathilda Bagshot. What task does she have in mind for you?
Underground Library is a quest given by Remus Lupin after the completion of the side-quest Golden Skull. It involves the search for a secret, underground dungeon and the knowledge within.
Steps[]
- Speak to Bathilda Bagshot in Godric's Hollow
- Ask Professor Binns about the location of the underground library
- Gain access to the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library
- Learn the location of the underground library
- Travel to the underground library
- Collect the scroll
- Deliver the scroll to Bathilda Bagshot
Conversations[]
This quest has several conversation branches. This conveys one possible flow of events.
Bathilda Bagshot: So your teacher, Professor Lupin, thinks you could help me?
Quite interesting. And good timing as well.
I am in the middle of researching a new book on the druids of the ancient Celtic magical societies.
Why, you look sturdy enough. I could use someone like you to fetch something for me.
Well, I say fetch. I should say find and delve into a dangerous ruin in search of a scroll that might be there.
Player: Where am I going and what am I fetching?
Bathilda Bagshot: Straight to the Point? No need for tedious hows and whys. I like that.
OR
Player: What does this scroll have to do with the druids?
Bathilda Bagshot: Ah, you're curious, I see.
I am looking for sources on ancient Celtic societies in Scotland, searching for signs of magic.
In my studies I have learned of a scroll, written in the early Middle Ages and allegedly containing information that could be vital to my research and my book.
Both then
Bathilda Bagshot: Now, the scroll has been lost for a long time. It is said to be stored in a long-forgotten underground library somewhere near the Hogwarts grounds.
No doubt the scroll will be in the main chamber... That is if it actually exists.
Oh, and be careful, there might be monsters.
Anyway, off you pop, and then bring me the scroll! Simplicity itself.
Player: Tell me about this forgotten library?
Bathilda Bagshot: Very little is known of it now, except that it is very old.
About as old as Hogwarts itself, I'd say.
Some say it was abandoned due to a dark and powerful magic which took over there, and which I'd wager still pervades the air there, even after all these years.
As I said, it is believed to be located near Hogwarts, although no one knows exactly where anymore.
But you go to Hogwarts, right?
Ask Professor Binns, there's a chance he knows about it. It's been lost for some centuries now. Should be right up his alley.
Player: I'm ready to go.
[——— At the History of Magic classroom ———]
Player: Do you know about an underground library?
Cuthbert Binns: I'm sure I skimmed a document detailing something like that while reading up on the goblin rebellion of 1612.
I think it was in the restricted section.
Player: Thank you.
[——— At the Hogwarts Library ———]
Player: I need access to the restricted section.
Irma Pince: Is this for school work? No? Well, then I'm afraid I can't allow you access.
Either
Player: Okay then. (Find another way in)
[——— In the Caretaker's Office ———]
Player: Fred and George are up to something.
Filch: Why, those accursed, infernal, pestilential twits! I must be off!
OR
Player: Will this change your mind? (Give 200 coins)
Irma Pince: Very well, I guess I will make an exception. Here is the key.
[——— After completion ———]
Bathilda Bagshot: Hm? Ah yes. The young student, back from the library. And all in one piece.
Player: Here is the scroll you asked for.
Bathilda Bagshot: Ah, the scroll! How wonderful.
Seems you have a certain talent for this sort of thing!
Honest work and just reward. Here, take 400.
Player: I got you the scroll. What's next?
Bathilda Bagshot: That is where your job ends and mine begins.
I wouldn't expect you to understand it.
It is the work of the mind, you see.
I'll begin studying the scroll and hopefully gain an understanding of its contents.
How to Complete the Task[]
First, head to Godric's Hollow. If you have not been there before, you can do so using the Knight Bus. Follow the compass to Bathilda. After speaking to her, go to the History of Magic classroom to talk to Binns, and then the Hogwarts library and talk to Irma Pince. Tell her "Okay then" and then go to the Caretaker's Office. Tell Filtch: "Fred and George are up to something" and he will leave, allowing you to take the key. Use it to unlock the door in the Library, and go through the door on the raised platform, where you will find a scroll with directions to the library.
Travel to The Forgotten Forest and navigate to the Underground Library (x=51, y=16, z=-11). The hidden trapdoor can be seen in the picture above. Interact with it to open the way.
After you enter the dungeon (via a loading screen), you are expected to turn left into a spider's den to find the combination to the lock in the entrance room (which can be opened by rotating four pillars). The combination can be seen in the image above. Turn the pillar furthest from the locked door on the left to Gryffindor, furthest on the right to Hufflepuff, closest on the left to Slytherin, and closest on the right to Ravenclaw. The passage leads to the library itself.
You must find three Wingardium Leviosa blocks to proceed through the lock at the far side of the room. One is in the pit in the middle. One is through a Bombarda Maxima wall on the left. The third will take a great deal more effort to find. Climb up the stairs on the left and search the first library level for a Wingardium Leviosa slot. Fill it with one of the two boxes to open a secret passage. Go to the second level and find a dark passage, which you must navigate with Lumos.
Trivia[]
- When you tell Filch about Fred and George, he runs out of his office to bust them, but he actually just does a lap around some stairways and returns to his office without confronting the twins