Walkthrough: Defense Against the Dark Arts - Lessons 1 and 2
At A Glance
Welcome back to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, on the heels of surviving an attack by the Death Eaters at their Quidditch World Cup campsite, are about to find their adventures are far from over. We join them as they return to Hogwarts for another chaotic school year ... Back to School The students find that they will have a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this semester: a mysterious Professor known as "Mad-Eye" Moody. A Lesson from Mad Eye Moody introduces himself, and explains that today's lesson is about protecting yourself. He then asks that you jinx the bucket sitting on the table. Do so by hitting the A button. Collect the beans which pop out. Moody explains that collecting blue beans increases the power of your casts. Zap random objects around the room (plates, tables, the bucket) to collect more beans. Afterwards, proceed forward through the door. Watch out—a caged Dugbog falls from the ceiling! Upon impact with the ground, it is freed from its cage. Defeat the beast with jinx spells until it expires. Move forward. Another Dugbog attacks. Levitate it with your Wingardium Leviosa charm by hitting and holding the X button. Your friends will finish it off. Proceed onward. A dozen or so Dugbogs leap towards you. Attack them using jinxes and charms. Don't be afraid to levitate them. You can also lift nearby rocks into the air and drop the stones on the monsters' heads. Once you've finished defeating your adversaries, start zapping everything in sight, particularly chests and equipment: more beans will pop out. Continue ahead into the next room. You'll find two rows of pedestals with goodies like pumpkins, cauldrons and blue beans on top of them. Hold Y to activate your Accio spell and cause the objects to fly towards you, where they can be easily collected as you move along. Walk up to the spellbook and gain access to the Aqua Eructo charm. The level ends. Spell Casting 202 Proceed through the door ahead. Head right and you'll see fires burning in four different grates. Hold X to cast Aqua Eructo and put out their flames. The gate ahead opens. Continue onward, and put out the fires in each of the next eight fire pits you come across, by holding X again. The second gate opens. Up ahead, you'll see a large fire burning right in front of a door. Hold X and cast Aqua Eructo together with your friends to put it out. Proceed through the portal. Keep alert! There's a salamander waiting just in front of you. Hold X to spray the creature with water and douse its flames (he spits fire during combat, too), then jinx it until it collapses. Move farther down the passageway and two more salamanders attack. Beat them and go through the door. Now you're outside of Hogwarts, standing on its battlements. Head right, avoiding any flame jets, and then defeat the first salamander you encounter and put out the fire burning nearby. Head up the stairs, again dodging the flame jet in your path. You'll come to a circular area patrolled by two salamanders. A round fire pit sits in the center, with rectangle-shaped flame pits situated around the outer radius of the area and a massive flame burning in front of a gate which bars the way forward. First and foremost, focus on dousing the center pit with water—it spawns salamanders—then beat the beasts. Afterwards, put out all the remaining fire pits. The gate drops. Hold down X to cast Carpe Retractum and pull back on the joystick to make the raised drawbridge fall. Move up the stairs. You'll come to yet another circular area. This one has two salamanders standing guard over it and two salamander-spawning pits within its confines. Once again, extinguish the pits first, and then beat the salamanders, dropping nearby chunks of rubble on their heads if needed. Grab the Triwizard Shield. Voila ... it's off to the next stage you go! Article by Steve Richter |
