Professor Fig Glitch(I guess?)

[Meadow Fauns]

Hi! I started playing Hogwarts Legacy yesterday. I am currently on the Secrets of the Restricted Section Quest and I am supposed to report back to Professor Fig after learning Incendio from Professor Hecat. But when I get to his office, there is this circle thing on the floor where it says to wait so I wait and then he comes and he would say "Oh, there you are." But then he says nothing, I'm trying to walk around him but there is no prompt, nothing. Did anyone experience this?

[methos]

you must press a button in the circle

[Meadow Fauns]

I did and the professor came, nothing else happened after that except for the Professor saying "Ah, there you are."

[snow]

i have the same issue, but this is my second playthrough (first was with no mods) with the "all spells unlocked" mod. i'm trying to figure out which entry in the SQL file to edit to bypass talking to him

[Meisel]

Originally posted by Meadow Fauns:

I did and the professor came, nothing else happened after that except for the Professor saying "Ah, there you are."

You are not alone.. Thsi bug excist by release this game and WB Games give a .... fck of there Buyers.

You can See there ---> https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/bug/HL-20832

[elenika.om]

I have same issue in 2025.01.30… before I played a bit on steam deck and never faded such ridiculous glitch :( and there is no desire to start it form the beginning 🥲

[ALucio]

Hello, I ran into this issue and will give some info about a fix that worked for me in case it helps anyone.
I didn't have a save available in game from before talking to Professor Fig. However, I had an extra save in the save folder that wasn't showing up in the game. I assume that's a backup or something. This one dated to Hogsmead, so not too long before.

For me, the save location was:
%AppData%\Local\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\SaveGames\[USERID]

I therefore booted the game, as it booted, I removed all the other saves (backed up to another location) and renamed this old save to the latest one. The reason I did this as the game booted and loaded the shaders is to not give a chance to Steam to resync the saves back to normal.
Then, when I loaded the latest save in the menu, it actually loaded the Hogsmead one!

I haven't thoroughly tested this, just happy it works for me but posting this here in case it helps some people.

Then, when you learn Incendio, make sure to try it on the dummy and run to Fig before nightfall. I am not sure what triggers the issues but this should prevent a repeat.


PS: Fiddling with saves is risky, make sure to back them up. As a disclaimer, I am not sure what I am doing with saves, all I know is that it worked for me. Attempting this is at your own risk and could result in lost saves if done wrong.