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Hogwarts Legacy
Minding Your Own Business: Haunted Hogsmeade Shop Side Quest Walkthrough
Minding Your Own Business is the PlayStation exclusive Haunted Hogsmeade Shop side quest in Hogwarts Legacy. Read on for a detailed walkthrough and learn how to explore what lies below, as well as how to unlock and complete this side quest!
List of Contents
How to Unlock Minding Your Own Business and Location
Complete Professor Weasley's Assignment
To unlock the side quest, you have to complete the Professor Weasley's Assignment main quest. Afterward, it will become available at Hogsmeade.
There isn't a level requirement to begin this quest, but it's recommended you take it on at a higher level due to its enemy difficulty going up to 28.
Professor Weasley's Assignment Walkthrough
Minding Your Own Business Walkthrough
| Jump to a section! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting the Quest | Explore What Lies Below | Boss Fights |
| Library Guide | Atrium Guide | - |
Starting the Quest
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Speak to the house-elf outside the vacant shop in Hogsmeade. If you approach the house-elf at night, you'll need to wait in the nearby glowing circle until daytime to launch the quest. |
| 2 |  Speak with Cassandra Mason. Follow the waypoint to southeast of Hogsmeade Square, where Cassandra Mason is standing outside a house. |
| 3 |  Collect 1,500 Gold to purchase the shop from Cassandra Mason. If you're lacking funds, you can sell your items and gear in Hogsmeade shops nearby. ▶︎ How to Earn Gold Fast |
| 4 | Speak to Penny the house-elf. Head back to Penny at the same spot in front of the shop. |
| 5 | Clean up and make repairs. Use Reparo to clean up the 3 messy piles in the shop. |
| 6 |  Open the mysterious chest. Open the chest behind the red door. |
Explore What Lies Below
| Jump to a section! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting the Quest | Explore What Lies Below | Boss Fights |
| Library Guide | Atrium Guide | - |
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| 7 |  Explore what lies below. Walk ahead until you open a chest and get an Elf-Sized Hat. Try to leave through the door then hit the mannequins with spells. The room will then go dark. Use Lumos and Revelio to reveal a doorway north. |
| 7a |  Head down the hallway north until you reach the music box in the othe room. The room will change. Head to the music box on the other side of the new room, then the room will change again. Head south afterward. |
| 7b |  In the room with the lanterns, use Accio and Wingardium Leviosa to move a lantern, found on the right from the door, to the empty lantern stand. |
| 7c |  After walking on the extended hallway, you'll land in a dark room. Use Lumos to open the door. |
| 7d | After encountering Fastidio, destroy or dodge the chairs he will throw at you. Afterward, head down either the south (library) or north (atrium) hallway. ▶ Library Guide ▶ Atrium Guide |
| 10 | Venture beyond the foyer doors. After completing the Library and the Atrium, head straight down the hallway and out to the center of the cemetery. |
Minding Your Own Business Library Guide
| Jump to a section! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting the Quest | Explore What Lies Below | Boss Fights |
| Library Guide | Atrium Guide | - |
| Explore the Library | |
|---|---|
| 8a |  Go to the right hallway by advancing to one of the entrances from the right of the door. You'll enter the balcony of a room that's upside down. There's a lantern stand on the balcony across you. To get to it, you'll need to head back from where you came then down the stairs to enter the room from the ground floor. |
| 8b |  Face upwards west from the shut door at the top of the staircase. Use Accio to pull a lantern, which will cause the door to open. |
| 8c |  Bring the lantern up the stairs to the lantern stand, and the room will spin to rightside up. |
| 8d |  Head west from the lantern stand and climb out of the window. Drop down and head back up the stairs to enter a different room. |
| 8e |  In the next room, grab the lantern to your left and move it to the lantern stand west. Head through opening in the rotating wall. |
| 8f |  In the next room, turn around to where you came from and use Accio to grab the lantern through the window. Bring it to the lantern stand west. Then, you will recieve another lantern. This time, its for the door on the objective marker. |
| 8g | In the next room, turn around to where you came from and use Accio to grab the lantern through the window. Bring it to the lantern stand west. Then, you will recieve another lantern. This time, its for the stands near objective marker. |
| 8h |  Go to the west hallway. Get ready to be transported to different rooms as you advance. |
| 8i |  Eventually, you will end up at an endless hallway. When Fastidio tells you to "retrace your steps", walk at the reverse direction and a door will be there. |
| 8j |  Keep advancing and watch out for the two jumpscares: the spider and the teleporting mannequins. Interact with the jack-in-a-box to teleport to the next room. |
| 8k |  In this room, you have to defeat all the active mannequins once they are animated. Afterwards, the room will change and a door will appear. Use Accio on the latern and place it on the stand next to the door. |
| 8l | In this room, you have to defeat all the active mannequins once they are animated. Afterwards, the room will change and a door will appear. Use Accio on the latern and place it on the stand next to the door. |
| 8m | Entertain Fastidio. Dodge Fastidio's projectile attacks and defeat any mannequins that appear. |
Minding Your Own Business Atrium Guide
| Jump to a section! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting the Quest | Explore What Lies Below | Boss Fights |
| Library Guide | Atrium Guide | - |
| Explore the Atrium | |
|---|---|
| 9 |  Checking the door on the marker, go left, then left again, to enter the west hallway. Go to the end of the hallway (mind the couch projectile). Destroy the mannequin, then head back to where you came from—the room is suddenly different! |
| 9a |  Destroy the planks blocking the door frame. Grab the lantern floating on the platform west and place on the lantern stand on your platform. Head through the door that opened. |
| 9b |  On the other side of the door, jump to the platform west, then head through the open door on that side. Grab the previous lantern you used from the stand to the east. Place it on the lantern stand beside you. |
| 9c |  Head back through the door north, then break the planks blocking the door frame. Head across the path to the door frame on the other side (also blocked with planks). |
| 9d |  Use Accio to grab the lantern behind that door. Beware the projectiles that'll be shot at you after grabbing the lantern. Place the lantern on the lantern stand beside you. |
| 9e |  Head back through the door north, then head back through the westernmost door and cross to the newly opened door on the other side. |
| 9f | Defeat the mannequins on the other side, then head through the door southeast. Run to the extending end of the hall east. |
| 9g |  When the lights turn off, use Lumos, then head through the door west. Grab the lantern on your way out and bring it to the lantern stand next to the door with the marker. |
| 9h |  Now, go to the east hallway by going right, then left from the lantern stands. |
| 9i |  Go to the end of the room and look left to see a floating lantern. Grab it with Accio and place it on the latern stand in the room. The wall at the end of the room transform to another room. Enter the door and advance until you reach a chessboard. |
| 9j |  Use Revelio to Navigate Chessboard The giant chessboard has dupe squares that'll collapse when you step on them and send you back to the starting point. Use Revelio to identify which squares to avoid. You can walk around the chess pieces. |
| 9k |  After walking through the chess board, you will return to the same room. Just like earlier, use Accio on the latern you placed at the stand and put it on the one besie you. This will create create a bridge to the latern you need to open the door. |
| 9l | Play with the poltergeist Dodge Fastidio's attacks and defeat any mannequins he sends your way. Afterwards, you will return to the foyer. |
Boss Fights
| Jump to a section! | ||
|---|---|---|
| Starting the Quest | Explore What Lies Below | Boss Fights |
| Library Guide | Atrium Guide | - |
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| 15 | Challenge Fastidio Defeat Fastidio's Monster and the mannequins using basic attack combos. ▶︎ Fastidio's Monster Boss Fight Guide |
| 16 |  Return to the shop. Head up the ladder to the west, which will take you back to Hogsmeade. |
| 17 | Speak to Penny. |
| 18 |  Seek out Officer Singer. Talk to Ruth Singer, who's standing by the tree at Hogsmeade Square. |
| 19 | Confront Cassandra Mason. Talk to Cassandra, who's still in the same spot you initially talked to her in. You'll then have to fight and defeat her. ▶︎ Cassandra Mason Boss Fight Guide |
| 20 |  Return to the shop. Talk to Penny back at the shop to complete the quest. ▶︎ Should You Free Penny? |
Minding Your Own Business Rewards
Shopkeeper Cosmetic Set
| Shopkeeper Set | |
|---|---|
 |
・Shopkeeper's Coat ・Shopkeeper's Top Hat ・Shopkeeper's Ensemble |
Finishing the Hogsmeade Quest will nab you a Shopkeeper Cosmetic set! Perfect for any business-oriented witch or wizard!
Own a Hogsmeade Shop
Completing Minding Your Own Business will give you your own Hogsmeade shop, run by Penny the house-elf. You'll be able to sell your items and gear at the shop for a better price.
Minding Your Own Business Overview
General Info
| Minding Your Own Business | |
|---|---|
| Quest Giver | Penny |
| Description | A house-elf standing outside what appears to be a vacant shop is trying to get my attention. I should see what she wants. |
Minding Your Own Business Rewards
| Completion Rewards |
|---|
| Shopkeeper's Coat, Shopkeeper's Top Hat, Shopkeeper's Ensemble, Hogsmeade Shop |
Is Minding Your Own Business PS Exclusive?
No, But It Was On Release
Minding Your Own Business is the Haunted Hosmeade Shop side quest used to be exclusively available to PlayStations 4 and 5 users on release.
After February 10, 2024, exactly a year after the game's release, the quest was released on all versions of the game.
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Anonymous almost 3 years
Anonymous almost 3 yearsim playing on PS5 but can't even find this side quest after finished all the main quest...anyone faced the same problem...?
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