I may be completely wrong, but as I was building the set, I noticed that the dark red made Dumbledore look an awful lot like Santa Claus. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Not only does Harry Potter Hogwarts look like a decent parts pack, but the game itself sounds like a lot of fun. If you roll the “use a secret passage” symbol (a map) you may move your character into an adjacent classroom or staircase. For those that think the premise of manipulating the gameboard sounds interesting you should instead consider Labyrinth as the board manipulation mechanics actually work pretty well in that game. When a player has collected all four homework items they will head back to their common room/starting space.When moving in this way you can ignore if the room you are moving to shares a connection with your current room.

While I knew that the game was going to be gauged towards children, after reading the rules I was intrigued because some of the mechanics seemed interesting and reminded me of another game that I really enjoyed. GameSpot gave the console versions an 8/10, complimenting the "large amount of secrets and charm", and disagreed with the Nintendo Magazine, saying it was both "easily the best Harry Potter game to date", and "one of the finest Lego adventures to date". The manual has no problems distinguishing between colours, even though the build mingles light grey, dark grey and black elements quite liberally. The bigger areas in Hogwarts have led developer Traveller's Tales to improve the overall level design.This, combined with the fact that all secret passages are now blocked off, probably makes for a more strategic game where thinking several moves ahead is the only way to proceed.

The game actually has decent ratings, and after reading the rules the premise actually sounded kind of interesting. When you are done shifting staircases you will insert the staircase you took into the now empty space. If you're looking for a game that the entire family can enjoy, the LEGO Hogwarts Board Game is an ideal choice.

Perhaps the other 2 pieces are also prefects for the other houses, meaning that Red is Percy Weasley, and Green is the Slytherin prefect from the same time period.