Hogwarts Legacy Ghost of Our Love guide: Treasure map location

The treasure in the end makes it worth your time.

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Ghost of Our Love is a side quest in Hogwarts Legacy that is a run-of-the-mill treasure hunt using a vague map with floating candles. It becomes available after completing The Hunt For The Missing Pages, a main quest from Nearly Headless Nick.

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Once you start the quest, you’ll receive a treasure map showing a forest, a bridge, and floating candles. The quest calls for you to solve the Hogwarts Legacy floating candles map in order to find the treasure and complete the quest.

Here’s how to complete Ghost of Our Love in Hogwarts Legacy and find the map’s treasure.

How to start Ghost of Our Love in Hogwarts Legacy

The floating candle map is pointing toward one place and one place only—the Forbidden Forest. This means you’ll first need to head to the Forbidden Forest to begin the Ghost of Our Love quest.

Screenshot of a character in the dark in the game, Hogwarts Legacy
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More specifically, you need to visit the Forbidden Forest at night. Head towards the stone bridge near the Forbidden Forest Floo Flame, which is about halfway between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.

How to solve the Ghost of Our Love treasure map with floating candles: step-by-step

Here’s how to find the treasure location for Ghost of Our Love:

  1. Once you’re at the stone bridge near the entrance to Forbidden Forest, cast the Lumos spell.
  2. Three floating candles will spawn. Follow the floating candles.
  3. They’ll lead you to a treasure chest not too far into the Forbidden Forest.
  4. Open it and retrieve the Treasure-Seeker’s Scarf, which will complete the Ghost of Our Love quest.
Tip:

Keep in mind the candles will continue on their way without you, so don’t get sidetracked!

The Treasure-Seeker’s Scarf looks snazzy, giving your witch or wizard a totally unique look fitting for an adventurer and explorer, hence the name. It also has the added effect of boosting damage or defense, depending on its stats.

How to find the Ghost of Our Love treasure in Hogwarts Legacy

The floating candles map can be a tricky puzzle to solve as it looks like you will be wondering around in the dark. However, the reward is worth it. You will first need to make sure to find yourself in the Forbidden Forest.

  1. Teleporting with the Forbidden Forest Floo Flame is the fastest way to get to the location.
  2. Near the wooden bridge, turn left and go to the stone bridge.
  3. Use the spell Lumos, and candles will spawn in.
  4. Follow the candles through the Forbidden Forest.
  5. The candles will lead you to a chest. Open it and you will have completed the Ghost of our Love quest.

There you have it; you have solved the Hogwarts Legacy floating candles map and finished the Ghost of our Love quest. And if you’d like to continue the Treasure-Seeker’s collection, you can get the Longcoat by completing the Solved by the Bell quest in Hogwarts Legacy.

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