Penny Haywood

Penny Haywood is one of the main characters of Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. She plays a major role in helping our protagonist solve the mystery of the Cursed Vaults. She started her Hogwarts studies in September 1984, the same year as the player. She is probably the friendliest and kindest person you will meet at Hogwarts. She’ll go to great lengths to help you with the cursed vaults, and she’ll prove to be a true friend. She is pretty much the embodiment of everything Hufflepuff stands for.

Year One:

Chapter 1: Penny Haywood is first encountered during the sorting ceremony at the start of Year One. She’ll be standing between you and Rowan, but you won’t get to talk to her at that point.

Chapter 6: The first time players get to talk with Penny will be after dueling Merula in the Courtyard. She’ll thank the protagonist for putting a stop to Merula Snyde’s tyranny and she’ll say that she’s quite good when it comes to Potions and gossiping.

Chapter 8: Later on, Penny will help you brew the sleeping draught to use on Mrs. Norris in order to explore the mysterious room. Thanks to her help, you’ll easily be able to brew that potion, which will be invaluable during your next adventure.

Chapter 9: You will have the option to ask Penny Haywood to accompany you on one of your first adventures – exploring the mysterious room and finding out if it has something to do with Jacob’s disappearance. She’ll come prepared and she’ll bring with her pretty much every potion she could find useful for the situation. Thanks to her sleeping draught, Mrs. Norris will be taken care of, and you’ll be free to see what’s inside the room that she’s been guarding. Later on, once you get trapped inside the icy room, she’ll use her Strengthening Solution in order to destroy the ice encasing the door, thus freeing you and the rest of your friends.

Year Three:

Chapter 1: You’ll meet Penny along with Ben and Rowan during the welcoming ceremony. You’ll discuss the things that happened during your previous curse-breaking adventure, and you’ll try to figure out a way to locate the next cursed vault.

Later on, during your first Herbology class, Penny will be attacked by a werewolf boggart. Thanks to Professor Sprout’s quick reaction, no harm will come to her, but you will learn that for some reason, she is absolutely terrified of werewolves.

Chapter 2: During this chapter, you’ll meet Penny Haywood and Bill Weasley in the Great Hall. After making sure that she is all right, you’ll learn that Bill has become the new Gryffindor Prefect. As it turns out, he was so overjoyed by this accomplishment that Penny nearly got sick listening to his stories.

Chapter 3: Once Hagrid’s pup goes missing, Penny will be the one to help you search the Potions classroom for him. Apparently, it is one of the places Fang could be hiding at, and luckily, Penny knows the Potions classroom like the back of her hand.

Chapter 4: You’ll meet Penny Haywood in the Great Hall to discuss what happened during Herbology Class when she was attacked by the werewolf Boggart. However, she won’t be willing to open up just yet, which is why you’ll have to do some convincing.

Later on, she’ll ask you to help her gather some potion ingredients. After assisting her, the two of you will end up in the Artefact Room where you’ll learn that she’s planning to brew a Forgetfulness Potion. Once you’re done with that, she’ll finally open up and tell you she wants to drink it and forget the most traumatic experience of her life. Apparently, her muggle friend Scarlett was killed by the werewolf last year, and she blames herself for it.

You’ll be able to advise her whether she should drink it or not, and this choice will be referenced in the future.

Chapter 7: You will meet Penny Haywood and the rest of your friends in the Clocktower Courtyard where you’ll learn that a famous person from the Wizarding World has arrived at Hogwarts. None of your friends know who it is, which makes it even more exciting, particularly for Penny.

Later on, you’ll learn that the person in question is none other than Rita Skeeter, and you’ll also find out that she’s planning on conducting the competition in order to find the most promising witch or wizard. This will make your Hufflepuff friend very excited.

Chapter 8: Penny Haywood will help you search the Library for the Cursed Vault. At first, she’ll be worried that Madam Pince might catch you snooping around, but eventually, she’ll agree to whatever plan you come up with. Once you realize that the vault might actually be somewhere within the restricted section, she’ll explain to you that the only way to get in there is to ask a teacher for permission.

Chapter 10: After breaking the curse in the Vault of Fear, Penny will be present in the Three Broomsticks, celebrating your victory with the rest of your friends.

Year Four:

Chapter 1: You will meet Penny Haywood in the Great Hall at the start of Year 4. After greeting each other, you’ll listen to Dumbledore’s welcoming speech and learn that he invited a world-renowned curse breaker, Patricia Rakepick to deal with the cursed vaults situation.

Chapter 3: Penny will tell you that the Wit-Sharpening Potion she was working on for the past few weeks has just vanished. You’ll help her look for it, and it won’t take you too long to realize where it is.

As it turns out, Merula stole her potion and took credit for Penny’s work. This will infuriate your Hufflepuff friend, and she’ll decide to take revenge on “The Most Powerful Witch at Hogwarts”.

She’ll later tell you that she’s decided to make Merula confess what she did by using the Polyjuice Potion. Apparently, she wants you to drink the potion and turn into Professor Snape. Then you can intimidate Merula and make her admit that she stole Penny’s potion. In the meantime, your Hufflepuff friend will keep Snape busy so he doesn’t walk in when you confront Merula.

After gathering all the ingredients and successfully brewing the potion, you’ll head into the Great Hall to put Penny’s plan into motion. After interrogating her for a bit, Merula will admit that she stole the potion from Penny, and shortly after, your friend will receive the recognition she deserves.

Chapter 4: You’ll talk to Penny Haywood not too long after being attacked in the Courtyard. She’ll be very surprised to hear that, and she’ll offer to help you discover the identity of the mysterious attacker. You’ll be able to choose whether or not you want her to snoop around.

Chapter 7: Alongside Tulip, Penny will help you search Jacob’s room for clues on the missing centaur arrowhead. As always, she’ll be eager and happy to provide you her assistance, like a true Hufflepuff!

Chapter 11: Once again, you’ll seek Penny’s assistance when you discover that the missing arrowhead might be inside the Red Cap’s hole. You’ll seek her help with brewing the Beautification Potion. Apparently, it can help you get rid of the Red Cap, which will allow you to search its hole for the arrowhead. Like before, your Hufflepuff friend will agree to help you.

After you procure all the ingredients, you’ll meet Penny in the Artefact Room, and the two of you will brew the Beautification Potion.

Chapter 13: You’ll be able to choose Penny Haywood to accompany you to Red Cap’s hole along with Charlie Weasley. After convincing her to go, the three of you will embark on this dangerous quest. Eventually, you’ll face the Red Cap, and thanks to Penny’s Beautification Potion, you’ll be able to get rid of it and search its hole for the missing arrowhead.

Chapter 14: You’ll meet Penny Haywood and the rest of your friends at the Three Broomsticks to do some final preparations for venturing into the Forest Vault.

Chapter 16: You’ll be able to choose Penny to accompany you into the Forest Vault alongside Charlie and Hagrid. If you do so, she’ll use the Elixir to Induce Euphoria on Acromantula guarding the Cursed Vault, which will give you enough time to free your friends trapped in the spiderweb.

Later on, she’ll be present in the Three Broomsticks, celebrating your victory over the Cursed Vault. She’ll generally be a bit sad about what happened to Ben, which is totally understandable, given her personality.

Year Five:

Chapter 1: You’ll meet Penny Haywood in the Great Hall during the Welcoming Feast at the start of Year 5. She’ll introduce you to her younger sister Beatrice, who just got sorted into Hufflepuff. As it turns out, Bea is a huge fan of yours, and she wants to join you on your curse-breaking adventures.

Chapter 2: While talking to Merula and Bill in the Three Broomsticks, Penny will arrive to ask if any of you have seen her little sister. Apparently, Beatrice’s been missing and Penny can’t find her anywhere.

She suspects that Bea is probably somewhere in the Forbidden Forest and you won’t hesitate to offer your help. The four of you will split up in teams of two in order to cover more ground. You’ll have the option to bring Penny along with you. After checking Red Cap’s hole and the Spider’s Lair and realizing that Bea isn’t in any of those places, you’ll return to Hogwarts to see if there’s any news. You’ll find Bill and Penny in the Potions classroom. Apparently, your Hufflepuff friend is planning to brew a special potion that will allow her to locate her sister. You’ll help her with that, but sadly, the potion won’t work, which will leave Penny very frustrated.

Moments later, Merula will barge into the classroom and tell everyone she found Beatrice. You’ll quickly follow her to the Grand Staircase where you’ll learn that Bea somehow got stuck inside one of the portraits. Penny will be deeply concerned for her sister once she sees her, and Madam Rakepick will tell you that this was likely related to the Cursed Vaults. According to her, the only way to free Penny’s sister would be to find the next vault and break its curse.

Chapter 5: You’ll find Penny at the Grand Staircase standing near Beatrice’s portrait. She’ll look completely devastated and she’ll regret getting involved with the Cursed Vaults.

You’ll comfort her and promise that you’ll do everything in your power to free her sister. Shortly after, she’ll ask you to help her with gathering some potion ingredients. You’ll go with her to various places to gather all of those things. While helping her collect some Syrup of Hellebore, you’ll get the chance to tell Penny you fancy her.

After acquiring everything, Penny will tell you she’s planning to brew a Draught of Peace and drink it to relieve the anxiety.

You’ll get to choose whether you want to support her idea or oppose it. Either way, Penny will thank you for being there for her.

Chapter 6: While looking for the Marauder’s Map, you’ll meet Penny Haywood in the Great Hall where she’ll introduce you to The Fat Friar, Hufflepuff house ghost. After talking for a while, he’ll suggest that you seek the help of Nearly-Headless Nick since he used to know all of the Marauders while they were students.

Chapter 20: You’ll find Penny at the Grand Staircase near Beatrice’s portrait. She’ll tell you that the curse is getting much worse and she fears that Bea doesn’t have much time left.

Chapter 23: Penny Haywood will help you brew some Wit-Sharpening Potions. You’ll use these later on to brainstorm some mischief ideas in order to create a mischievous masterpiece that will please Peeves.

Chapter 29: You’ll get the option to choose Penny Haywood to accompany you to the Portrait Vault. However, in order to do so, you’ll need to do some convincing. Initially, she won’t like the idea very much, so you’ll have to persuade her to join you.

Chapter 30: Penny and the rest of your fellow curse-breakers will be waiting for you at the Training Grounds. You’ll go through some final preparations before you grab the Portkey and travel to the cursed vault.

Once you get inside the Vault and search it, you’ll stumble upon a large door portrait. Penny will try using Alohomora to open it, but sadly, it won’t work.

Shortly after that, the dragon will emerge out of the portrait, and Penny will get trapped under the rubble along with Ben and Merula.

After you deal with the dragon, and Rakepick betrays you, Penny and the rest of your friends will help you defeat her.

Once you free Jacob, you’ll introduce him to Bill Weasley and Penny Haywood. Needless to say, both of them will be thrilled to finally meet him.

Chapter 31: Shortly after returning to Hogwarts, Penny will quickly go to inform the Headmaster about the recent events and get some help for Merula.

Later on, you’ll meet the Haywood sisters in the Courtyard. Penny will be delighted that her sister is finally free of the Portrait Curse, and she’ll thank you for everything you’ve done to make that happen.

Year Six:

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