Overview

- Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
- Offline: 50/50 (1000)
- Online: 0/0 (0) 
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 12-15 hours.
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
- Number of missable achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes
- Glitchy achievements:  None
- Unobtainable achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: Kinect Sensor, another person (optional)

 

Introduction:

Welcome to Harry Potter Kinect, this is an on-rails, minigame based, kinect game that will take you through the story of Harry Potter. During this game you will join Harry and his friends as they take on the adventures that await them while students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story of Harry Potter is put into a series of minigames that are all pretty straightforward. The game is pretty fun but will only keep you entertained for a short while. I wouldn't go out and buy this game unless you are looking for a fairly easy and quick 1000, or you are like me and are a huge fan of everything Harry Potter related and Kinect related, which in that case only makes sense that you try this out. If you follow this achievement guide and roadmap the 1000 should come in about 15 hours max.

Play through the Story:
This is where almost all of your achievements will come from, start the story in the Cauldron on advanced difficulty to save you from needing to play the game twice. Advanced difficulty is pretty easy and each minigame should be beaten with minimal hassle if you follow the guides below. Make sure you read the directions for each minigame while on the loading screens. This will take you about 10 hours max to complete.

Miscellaneous achievements:
After you finish the story you'll be at the main menu, swipe through the main menu and do the appropriate actions to get the achievements Song SpecialistBurning Day Bystander, and Familiar Face. Read the guides below to find out how to unlock these three achievements.

Blackboard Minigames:
In Dumbledore's Office, keep swiping over until you see the blackboard, select it. Start out by passing all ten potion classes taught by Professor Snape giving you the Potion Perfectionist achievement. Next, practice all seven spells available on the Blackboard. You will only need to successfully complete the spell one time then hold out your arms the appropriate way to finish and move on to the next spell. Doing this will unlock the Super Spell-caster achievement. Next, defeat the opposing wizard from each group of people to unlock the Duelling Demon achievement. After that, go back and face every possible wizard for the Duelling Dervish achievement. Read the achievement description below to find out everyone you need to face. Next, go to the dodging minigame and complete all four difficulties for it. It will be the same Willow Whiz minigame that was in the story, just at different speeds. Complete all four difficulties and you will unlock the Daring Dodger and the Ultimate Unlocker achievements.

Challenge Mode:
At this point you should only have four achievements left, the three challenge mode ones, and Character Collector. While in Dumbledore's office, go to his desk and select casual challenge's. Complete all of these for the Challenge Mode Casual achievement. Complete all of the advanced challenges for the Challenge Mode Advanced achievement. And finally complete all of the extreme challenges for the Challenge Mode Extreme and Character Collector achievements.

 

Conclusion:
If you followed this achievement guide and roadmap you should achieve the 1000 pretty quickly and with minimal issues. The key for most of these minigames is just practice, practice, practice. The game for me ended up being a chore to complete pretty quickly but overall it was a decent game with easy achievements. For those of you who completed the game 100%, congratulations on your new 1000!
 
[x360a would like to thank Foxxy Kyle for this Roadmap]
 

Harry Potter for Kinect Achievement Guide

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There are 50 achievements with a total of 1000 points

  • Ranked 5 stars in Potions Class

     

    This achievement should be your first one, right in the beginning of your first year at Hogwarts you will play this minigame. It is the very first minigame, just keep replaying until you achieve all five stars on it. This is very easy, make your potion fast and efficiently, you will get the hang after a try or two.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Charms Class

     

    During year one of your stay at Hogwarts you will play the minigame in the charms class. Professor Filius Flitwick will teach you how to cast the spell Wingardium Leviosa. Keep replaying this minigame until you achieve all five stars on it, this is very easy and you will get the hang of it after a try or two.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Troll Battle

    This one is actually quite annoying, Hermione is stuck in the girls room with an escaped troll trying to kill her. You will dodge the attacks of the troll by ducking, jumping, and strafing left and right which is very easy once you understand the movements of the troll. Next you will throw blocks of wood at the troll, stick your wand up the trolls nose, and finally use the spell Wingardium Leviosa to drop the trolls own club on its head. Do well in each of those to achieve the five stars. This may take a little bit to get the hang of each one but just keep at it. The Wingardium Leviosa part is the worst one in my opinion, just cast it on the club and try to get it on your first cast, anything more will probably mess you up big time. This is also during year one and will be your third minigame.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Quidditch Match - Seeker

     

    This is a fun, easy minigame where you play as the Seeker on the Quidditch team. You will play through Quidditch trying to catch the snitch to win the game. Just follow the glowing path behind the snitch and punch/kick the Slytherin opponents who get in your way while dodging the games obstacles. Reach out the grab the snitch when you can. Keep replaying this until you achieve all five stars. This is also during year one and will be your fourth minigame.

  • Ranked 5 stars in The Philosopher's Stone Chamber

    This is the fifth and final minigame in year 1 of your journey through Hogwarts. This minigame is pretty easy, don't let to many keys hurt you while trying to find the correct one, catch the correct key, and burn Quirrell and Voldemort with your touch. It shouldn't take to many tries to achieve the five stars on this one.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Cornish Pixies

     

    Now this one actually made my arm hurt after doing it a few times. First of all, you will be scored off of time remaining at the finish, how many potions you dodges, and how fast you helped Neville. The trick is to wave your arm sideways to hit the pixies, not vertically. When you need to help Neville, wave your arm horizontally back and forth as fast as possible. Ignore avoiding the potions and focus on getting as many pixies as possible. I got a 100 in helping Neville, a 100 in time remaining, and a 54 in dodging potions and got the 5 stars. This the first minigame in year 2.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Mandrake Repotting

     

    This is the second minigame in year 2. This one is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. The first round just replant the agitated Mandrake Roots. The second round, water the wilted ones and replant the agitated ones. The third round you need to water, replant, and stop slug infestations. Once you see slug infestation come on your screen go fix that as soon as possible. Do each round as quickly as possible and you should achieve five stars fairly easy.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Duelling Club

     

    During this minigame, you will fight against Harry's rival, Malfoy. The easiest way to do this is to keep your shield (Protego) up the entire time. Dodge his attacks even when you have your shield on because you will be scored on movement as well. Try to be accurate with your spells when you do cast them though, because you are graded on that as well. I got a 56 on accuracy, a 100 on movement, and 96 on avoidance, and that got me the five stars. This minigame is in year 2.

  • Ranked 5 stars in The Chamber Of Secrets

     

    This is the last minigame for year 2. This one is very easy once you understand what you are doing. The first section you will be running from the Basilisk. He will strike on the side his head is on, so if his head is to the right, go left. For the second part, the Basilisk will be blind, he will strike whichever direction you are standing. I found the best way to do this is to lean to the left or right, then switch sides right before he strikes you, then get in as many swings with your sword in as you can. Never lead the Basilisk to strike you in the middle, you will probably get hit, so always have him strike to the sides. I never got hit by him once, so I got a 100 in all three categories at the end, giving me the five stars.

  • Ranked 5 stars in The Whomping Willow

     

    This is the first minigame for year 3. All you need to do is duck or jump for the swinging branches part. And for the branching slamming down at you, just dodge left or right. Very easy minigame. You will be scored on health, avoidance, sidestepping.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Catch Scabbers

     

    This is the second minigame in year 3. Just spin around and cast spells everywhere to get time from all the objects that can give you extra time, you will be scored on that. Use sounds to find where the rat is and cast the spell on him as quick as possible.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Battle The Dementors

     

    Wow this one was a pain in the butt for me. For the first part you will use your wand to repel the Dementors as they fly at you, they get faster and faster each round so watch out, just keep an eye out for them, that's really the only tip I can give you. For the second part, make sure you use your mini-map in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. Make sure you lean during this part, don't move your entire body. I ended up scoring a 92 for Dementors slowed, a 100 for Dementors repelled, and a 50 in health remaining and got the five stars. This is the last minigame for year 3.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Triwizard Tournament Second Task

     

    This is the first minigame in year 4. This is very fun and easy. Just swim until you reach the Merpeople. They attack the ones coming at you by waving your wand towards them. You will see water jet from them once they start to come at you. Then dodge them once they all start charging at you. At the end you will need to attack the Merpeople and in your spare time cast the spell at the ropes of Ron and Gabrielle until the number reaches zero and then float up. Hurry though, you will run out of air if you don't do this quick enough.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Triwizard Tournament Third Task

     

    This is the easiest mingame so far. Just jump, duck and dodge the mazes obstacles. Pretty straight forward, I scored a 100 in all three categories on my first try. This is the second minigame in year 4.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Harry vs Voldemort Duel

     

    This one is a little bit difficult but once you get the hang of it it shouldn't be to hard. Switch spells to try to hit him with each once because you will be scored on variety. Its hard to see the arm motions, but in the bottom left hand corner is the arm motion to make to switch. Be as accurate as possible but dont worry to much on it, I got five stars with only 56% accuracy. Also dodge and use your shield spell as much as possible. This is the third and final minigame for year 4.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Room of Requirement

     

    This is the first minigame for year 5. Just hit the appropriate dummies as they pop up, don't hit the dummy of Neville. There are three rounds. You should be able to get this one with a little bit of practice, The main thing is to hit the flying Dementors for 500 points, and don't hit any Neville dummies and you should get the five stars. Also be as accurate as possible.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Ministry of Magic Death Eater Battle

     

    This is the second minigame for year 5. You will battle a handful of "Death Eaters", just make sure you switch to use each of your spells, use your shield spell whenever possible. And be as accurate as you can. You should get this is a few tries. I thought the best combo was using levicorpus to make them float, then immobilize so keep them in mid air, then incendio spell as much as possible while they are floating.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Dumbledore vs Voldemort Duel

     

    This is the final minigame for year 5. Fight the same as every other duel, make sure you use each spell, avoid the attacks using your shield spell. When you see Harry sneaking up to your left use your hand to push him back. When Voldemort spawns a flaming snake use your hand to swipe back and forth to get it away, then raise your hands upward to spawn water and throw it down on top of flaming Voldemort. You should get five stars on this pretty easily.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Quidditch Match - Keeper

     

    This is the first minigame for year 6. You will play a Quidditch match as Ron for this one, protect the goal and use your body to block the oncoming Quaffle balls as they try to score on you. The first round will be only Quaffle balls, during the second and third rounds they will throw cannon ball looking balls at you, dodge these. You will be graded on skill, dodging, and agility. I had a lot of issues with agility and I still am not quite sure what they mean by that, but I found you can get a better score in agility if you stand stationary and only use your arms and lean towards each ball instead of jumping and moving your feet while playing. I got five stars with a 91 in skill, 89 in dodging, and a 59 in agility.

  • Ranked 5 stars in The Locket Horcrux

     

    This is the second minigame for year 6. For this one you will need to spin around to cast stupify on each Inferi coming at you. Hold them all off keeping as much of your health as possible. You have a minimap with the Inferi locations on it that will work as long as you have light, if your light goes out raise your hand opposite your wand hand. Hit one far away because you will be graded on furthest hit, its an instant 100 for that category if you do so. You can afford to be bit twice by an Inferi and still get 5 stars as long as you get a 100 in the "longest shot", and "Inferi hit" categories.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Snape vs Harry Duel

     

    This is the last minigame of year 6. This minigame was tough for me until I got the hang of it, you will use your wand hand to block all three waves of Harry's spells at you. They will get faster and faster so you need to do the same. Try to hit as many as possible because you will be graded on that, get hit three times and you need to start all again. You can dodge the spells, so if you need to just start strafing and hitting the spells, I thought it was easier to stand still the majority of the time though.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Luchino Caffe Duel

     

    This is the first minigame of year 7. You will need to fight two Deatheaters in a coffee shop, duck anytime there is a spell coming at you because you wont be able to use your shield spell. Make sure you use every spell, and make sure you change spells while ducked down behind cover. First you will fight the guy to your right, then the guy to the left. Use Hermione's distractions whenever possible because they will help you out for a good 15 seconds or so.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Journey to the Lestrange Vault

     

    This is the second minigame of Year 7. You will need to lean into each corner, make sure you hold it till you know the corner is done, some turns will be complete circles so watch out. Jump and duck when debris is on the track, and when you see a red a green flashing light lean the other way, you can put your cart back down once you pass the green light.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Destroy the Bridge

     

    This is the third minigame of year 7. This minigame is very similar to the Maze Master achievement during the Triwizard Tournament, just jump and duck at appropriate times, and move left and right to avoid the fires. When you turn around cast spells as fast as you can to hit the Deatheaters before they cast a spell at you. There will be three waves, each a little harder. Overall this achievement is pretty easy.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Nagini Battle

     

    This mingame is the fourth of year 7 and is the is probably the shortest minigame so far. For the first part throw the rocks as fast as you can at Nagini's head, next dodge the snakes attacks by just hopping from left to right and avoid the center, you can tell which way Nagini will strike because he will tilt his head that way. Next use your dominant hand to hit Nagini with the sword as soon as you can, this will affect your score so make sure to move your arm towards the snake as soon as possible.

  • Ranked 5 stars in Voldemort Finale

     

    This is the final minigame for the story line of this game. It is not hard, and is the same as every other duel you have had, at the beginning crawl with your hands as fast as you can to get your wand, then just fight as normal, make sure you use every spell, use your shield whenever you need to. And overpower Voldemort when your spells collide. This shouldn't cause any issues, and if you passed every other duel, you should be able to get this one pretty easily as I got it on my first try.

  • Completed the Casual Difficulty Mode

     

    See "Advanced Ace" for more information.

  • Completed the Advanced Difficulty Mode

     

    You will unlock this achievement and the Casual Conqueror achievement once you complete every minigame on this difficulty, make sure you set your difficulty to advanced at the beginning of your game.

  • Completed Year 1

     

    This will unlock by just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Philosopher's Stone Chamber" minigame.

  • Completed Year 2

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Basilisk Basher" minigame.

  • Completed Year 3

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Dementor Defeater" minigame.

  • Completed Year 4

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Hangleton Hero" minigame.

  • Completed Year 5

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Ministry Maestro" minigame.

  • Completed Year 6

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Potter Precluder" minigame.

  • Completed Year 7

     

    This will unlock just playing through the game, you cannot miss this achievement if you are playing through the entire game. This will unlock after completing the "Voldemort Vanquisher" minigame.

  • Ranked 5 stars in all games

     

    The entire story line of the game is minigames for each year Harry Potter is in Hogwarts. Achieve five stars on all of the minigames to unlock this achievement.

  • Completed the Casual Challenge Mode

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to his desk to select challenge mode. Play all of the casual challenges and beat them for this achievement. It is best to complete the story before attempting these because they are all redoes to minigames during the story. These are all pretty easy and you shouldn't have to many issues.

  • Completed the Advanced Challenge Mode

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to his desk to select challenge mode. Play all of the advanced challenges and beat them for this achievement. It is best to complete the story before attempting these because they are all redoes to minigames during the story. These are all pretty easy and you shouldn't have too many issues. The last one caused me the most issues, I found it best just to spray the spell all over the room in every direction as fast as I could. Using that method I ended up hitting 40 dummies out of the only 30 needed.

  • Completed the Extreme Challenge Mode

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to his desk to select challenge mode. Play all of the extreme challenges and beat them for this achievement. It is best to complete the story before attempting these because they are all redoes to minigames during the story. Just keep trying at these, the two that were the most annoying for me was the Greenhouse one and the Minecart track one. For the greenhouse one just try to move the agitated plants to the closest empty pot not the ones open at the far end right away. Also there will be two slug attacks back to back, so don't put away your repellent until you get those two. For the Minecart track one, try to memorize the track, only lift your cart just slightly when going over broken track. And try to get past the first part without having over a second of lift time or so. Just keep trying at both of these and you should get them with a little practice.

  • Unlocked all playable characters

     

    This will unlock after getting every other achievement in the game. You will need to complete every minigame in the game including the blackboard ones as well as the challenges.

  • Won all blackboard duelling groups

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Go to the dueling section and defeat the person from each group. This should take about 15 minutes.

  • Completed all blackboard potions classes

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Go to the potions option and pass all ten of the potion courses taught by Professor Snape. This should no be very hard at all and should take no more than 45 minutes.

  • Practised all blackboard spells

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Go to the Spells section and successfully cast all seven spells at least once. This should take you only about 5 minutes to do since you only need to cast each spell successfully one time.

  • Played all multiplayer games

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Go to the multiplayer section and play each of the three minigames. You do not need a second person for any of the games so you can get this playing by yourself. You do not need to win the minigames either, only play them. This is an extremely easy achievement and only takes about 2 minutes or so.

  • Won all blackboard dodging games

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Select the dodging minigame and you will be dodging the branches from a willow tree, just duck and jump at the appropriate times. You will need to complete this in easy, medium, hard, and extreme difficulties, with the next difficulty being unlocked after completing the one before it. This isn't very hard, just pay attention and always land your jumps in ducked form, that way you only need to worry about the jumping branches.

  • Listened to all the Sorting Hat's songs

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, use your hand to swipe until you see the Sorting Hat, select him and let him play all three of his songs.

  • Saw Fawkes burst into flames

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, use your hand to swipe until you see Fawkes, the bird. Select him by holding your dominant hand upward, rub the bird as if you were petting him, in about 25 seconds he will burst into flames.

  • Defeated all possible opponents in blackboard duels

     

    While in Dumbledore's Office, go to the blackboard and select it. Go to the dueling section and defeat each person from each group. 

    Students: Oliver, Cedric , Draco 
    D.A: Ginny, Cho, Neville, Luna 
    Hogwarts Staff: Snape, Quirrell
    Order : McGonagall, Dumbledore, Sirius

    It is random who you will be matched up with, so just keep quitting and restarting until you get to somebody you have not fought yet.

  • Unlocked all blackboard games

     

    Just keep on playing throughout the blackboard. Once you unlock the extreme difficulty for the dodging minigame this achievement will unlock. You shouldn't need to try to get this one if you are playing to get all the other blackboard achievements.

  • Scanned your face

     

     

    When starting a new game, you'll be given the choice of movie mode or custom mode. You can either select custom mode and then scan your face when the screen prompts you too. Or choose movie mode and after you complete all year one activities select the polyjuice potion while in Professor Dumbledore's office and then select custom character from the selection screen.
     
     

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