Can't start/complete quests

[Marloom]

The game has bluescreened my laptop twice today. It's never done that before. It brought other issues to my laptop, which were thankfully resolved.

But now I have another issue: I cannot talk to people to either give or complete quests. The game still tracks the quests but whenever I approach the person to start/complete the quest, either the option to press F comes up and when I press it it doesn't do anything or it doesn't come up at all.

I've:
- Restarted the game
- Tried to get some Merlin trials I didn't get or some pages I didn't get to see if it would trigger (this worked before when the waiting option was not available in the Map)
- Changed the "Interact" key binding
- Verified the integrity of the files

I'm not sure what I can do at this point.

[pizza steve]

Originally posted by Nylock:

I've had the same issue-- not being able to start quests or interact with NPCs. I had the quest to attend transfiguration class at the time, and after attending, the bug went away. It's worth a go if you have that quest. After I did, I was able to talk/interact with people as usual.

That seemed to work for me, I think it’s because you don’t need to interact with anything to start the quest. When you walk into the transfiguration class the quest starts on its own.

[sno0ks]

Yeah the transfiguration quest wrecks your entire character until you finish it. Even saves from 20 hours previously will be broken. I just had it happen to me.

It also messes with my characters ability to speak like calling out spells and remarking on locations.

[Marloom]

Originally posted by Nylock:

I've had the same issue-- not being able to start quests or interact with NPCs. I had the quest to attend transfiguration class at the time, and after attending, the bug went away. It's worth a go if you have that quest. After I did, I was able to talk/interact with people as usual.

That's the only main quest I have, I cannot start it at all. Whenever I talk to Professor Weasley she tells me to attend the class but the circle with "Begin quest" at the back of the class isn't there.

[sno0ks]

Originally posted by Marloom:

Originally posted by Nylock:

I've had the same issue-- not being able to start quests or interact with NPCs. I had the quest to attend transfiguration class at the time, and after attending, the bug went away. It's worth a go if you have that quest. After I did, I was able to talk/interact with people as usual.

That's the only main quest I have, I cannot start it at all. Whenever I talk to Professor Weasley she tells me to attend the class but the circle with "Begin quest" at the back of the class isn't there.

for me the quest initiated right as I entered the class. there was no circle and it immediately faded into a cutscene when I opened the door. Her nephew is sitting outside class and you can talk to him and there are two students talking to the right. Did you already get the pages? And are we talking about the same quest? The one later in the game?

[Marloom]

Originally posted by sno0ks:

Originally posted by Marloom:

That's the only main quest I have, I cannot start it at all. Whenever I talk to Professor Weasley she tells me to attend the class but the circle with "Begin quest" at the back of the class isn't there.

for me the quest initiated right as I entered the class. there was no circle and it immediately faded into a cutscene when I opened the door. Her nephew is sitting outside class and you can talk to him and there are two students talking to the right. Did you already get the pages? And are we talking about the same quest? The one later in the game?

I'm talking about the last Transfiguration quest where you get the Transformation skill.
I don't have all the pages but I've been collecting them and doing Merlin Trials while I wait for a fix.

[sno0ks]

Originally posted by Marloom:

Originally posted by sno0ks:

for me the quest initiated right as I entered the class. there was no circle and it immediately faded into a cutscene when I opened the door. Her nephew is sitting outside class and you can talk to him and there are two students talking to the right. Did you already get the pages? And are we talking about the same quest? The one later in the game?

I'm talking about the last Transfiguration quest where you get the Transformation skill.
I don't have all the pages but I've been collecting them and doing Merlin Trials while I wait for a fix.

there are two pages in particular that it tells you to get before doing the class. you have to do a quiz in the library to get one of them.

[Marloom]

Originally posted by sno0ks:

Originally posted by Marloom:

I'm talking about the last Transfiguration quest where you get the Transformation skill.
I don't have all the pages but I've been collecting them and doing Merlin Trials while I wait for a fix.

there are two pages in particular that it tells you to get before doing the class. you have to do a quiz in the library to get one of them.

I finished the quest AND got the spell but my laptop bluescreened and it glitched my game.

[Liao]

I've had the same issue before actually going to learn the transfiguration spell and I couldn't actually go do that neither. The "lesson" cutscene wouldn't start, nothing happened, couldn't do the first thing in "Mum's the Word" and "Dragon Debrief". However, starting the game up now and then to check if it worked now (who knows, patches, hotfixes, didn't pay all that much attention) I eventually was able to actually go do the transfiguration class thing, which in turn also allowed me to progress with the other quests, this however has resulted in another weird bug I've not found other reports on (which some people might like) which basically mutes all characters outside of quest conversations. No more "Revelio", "hello, what would you like to buy?" and other such verbosity at all, which is just... weird after hearing it all for so long...

I poured another 30 bloody hours into it now and brought up a second character to the same junction, yep, there the issue is again, exactly the same way, I call that reproduced.

[ShaBar97]

I just had a similar issue. I completed the "quiz" to be able to start professor weasley's class. I went into the class and recieved 2 owls from Natsai and Poppy but when I went to them either there was F to talk prompt or when it did show up, nothing happened. I restarted the game and went up to Natsai and spammed F but nothing happened. Then I went to Professor Weasley's class and in the courtyard heading into the classroom it sent me back up to Natsai and her mom for the "talk". I couldn't talk to Poppy still but attending transfiguration class fixed it and I was able to talk to Poppy.

[Marloom]

Alright you guys, update.

I was able to fix the issue. I followed someone's instructions to use a save editor and it worked!

Here's what you have to do:
- Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\SaveGames - MAKE A BACKUP!
- Download SQLite - https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/
- Get the Hogwarts Legacy Save editor mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/77?tab=description

- open the game
- make a MANUAL save
CLOSE THE GAME VIA EXIT (Ingame) /!\ YOU NEED TO CLOSE THE GAME ELSE IT WILL NOT LOAD FIXED SAVE LATER /!\
- Find the manual save you just made (should have same edited time than SaveGameList)
- open the save in save editor
- go to "Save file" and Download the 2 database
- open a database with sqlitebrowser and go to the table "MissionDynamic"
- search for an entry that contain "ZZT01" (To do this, go to the "Execute SQL" tab and type in " SELECT * FROM MissionDynamic WHERE MissionID like "%ZZT_01%"; " without the first and last quotation mark)
- from there find a row whose value in the column MissionID is ZZT_01 and Type is Main.
- the value in the column Text1 should be StopIntro
- change value to "EnterTransfig" (without quotes) (To do this, type in " UPDATE MissionDynamic SET Text1 = "EnterTransfig" WHERE MissionID = "ZZT_01" AND Type = "Main" AND Text1 = "SkipIntro"; " without the first and last quotation mark)
- save the database
- go back to save editor
- select the 2 database (DB1 should be modified now) and click "Generate Save File"
- get the generated save file and rename it with the same name that your manual save
Important: After loading the Game DO NOT use Continue but "Load"
Load your modified Savegame and issue should be fixed.

Credit to: s1nf1n on the Hogwarts Legacy bugs reporting website.
He also credits:
"@Zeper" for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9XePHjbXY
and
"Vanil" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10z8oxu/cant_interact_with_any_npcs_bug_pls_help/

[vax1tus]

i had this issue but completing deek's quest to find tobbs fixed it for me

[Grand inquisitor]

Originally posted by Marloom:

Alright you guys, update.

I was able to fix the issue. I followed someone's instructions to use a save editor and it worked!

Here's what you have to do:
- Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\SaveGames - MAKE A BACKUP!
- Download SQLite - https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/
- Get the Hogwarts Legacy Save editor mod - https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/77?tab=description

- open the game
- make a MANUAL save
CLOSE THE GAME VIA EXIT (Ingame) /!\ YOU NEED TO CLOSE THE GAME ELSE IT WILL NOT LOAD FIXED SAVE LATER /!\
- Find the manual save you just made (should have same edited time than SaveGameList)
- open the save in save editor
- go to "Save file" and Download the 2 database
- open a database with sqlitebrowser and go to the table "MissionDynamic"
- search for an entry that contain "ZZT01" (To do this, go to the "Execute SQL" tab and type in " SELECT * FROM MissionDynamic WHERE MissionID like "%ZZT_01%"; " without the first and last quotation mark)
- from there find a row whose value in the column MissionID is ZZT_01 and Type is Main.
- the value in the column Text1 should be StopIntro
- change value to "EnterTransfig" (without quotes) (To do this, type in " UPDATE MissionDynamic SET Text1 = "EnterTransfig" WHERE MissionID = "ZZT_01" AND Type = "Main" AND Text1 = "SkipIntro"; " without the first and last quotation mark)
- save the database
- go back to save editor
- select the 2 database (DB1 should be modified now) and click "Generate Save File"
- get the generated save file and rename it with the same name that your manual save
Important: After loading the Game DO NOT use Continue but "Load"
Load your modified Savegame and issue should be fixed.

Credit to: s1nf1n on the Hogwarts Legacy bugs reporting website.
He also credits:
"@Zeper" for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9XePHjbXY
and
"Vanil" here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HarryPotterGame/comments/10z8oxu/cant_interact_with_any_npcs_bug_pls_help/

Can you describe situation with quest Mum's word?What is this name in the files and in what section is it located?

[allex.cosme]

I have the same problem.

[Marloom]

Originally posted by Grand inquisitor:

Can you describe situation with quest Mum's word?What is this name in the files and in what section is it located?

I'm not sure I understand your question. I already fixed this issue almost a year ago and I have not returned to the game since I finished it. I'm sorry I cannot be of any assistance.