Harry Potter Video Games

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If you are inserting the disc and nothing is happening, go to My Computer, find the disc and select run.

Some other things to check are:

• The manual should tell you the requirements for the computer, compare these to the machine you're trying to play the game on.
• Make sure the disc isn't scratched or damaged
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**This answer is for the Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix video game for Play Station 2**

Idk what the portraits are called, so here's a description of it....

1) Grand Staircase <-> Gryffindor Common Room

"Mimbulus mimbletonia"

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The infamous "Fat Lady" is the first portrait whose password you will discover.

She is unique to the game in that she has only one portrait. Her password is

also required to advance the plot of the main storyline.

All Gryffindors should have this password. Ron, however, doesn't remember it.

(Presumably there was something shiny outside the train window during this

portion of his prefect briefing.) Turn around and ask the Gryffindor student

standing behind you to gain the password.

2) Grand Staircase <-> Second Floor

"Studious success"

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This portrait of a portly scholar is also required to advance the storyline. He

wishes to test your ability to gather information. Specifically, you must find

out from a first-year Ravenclaw student where House founder Rowena Ravenclaw

came from.

Go downstairs to the Entrance Hall, where you will find a girl with a Ravenclaw

blue stripe on her sweater. She will tell you that Rowena Ravenclaw came from

the glens.

Return this information to the portrait to gain this portrait's password. You

may now seek the other portraits' passwords.

3) Library <-> Fourth Floor

"No news is good news"

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This portrait of a man in a pointed cap asks for the headline of the current

Daily Prophet. If prompted further, he suggests getting the paper from an owl

in the Great Hall. He doesn't know quite how, but surely you can figure it out!

Go to the Great Hall and move to the far end. Target the headmasters lectern

and cast ACCIO on it. A trio of owls will swoop down from the ceiling in a

brief cutscene. One will drop a newspaper on the floor. Pick it up, then return

to the portrait in the library and make your report to gain access to this

passage.

4) Grand Staircase <-> Transfiguration Courtyard

"Dragon's egg"

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The portrait of Giffard Abbott, a nobleman with his dog, only likes Hufflepuff

students. You'll need to prevail on a member of that house to share the info.

Find any student with a Hufflepuff yellow-striped sweater and interact with

them. (There are always a few in the Great Hall, if you're stumped.) They'll

remember that you helped Cedric Diggory during last year's Triwizard Tournament

and give you the password in his honor.

Return to the portrait to receive access.

5) Grand Staircase <-> Third Floor/Clock Tower

"Chops and gravy"

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The way to this medieval lady's heart is through her painted stomach. She

requests that you ask Giffard Abbott (portrait #4) to send her some food; she

simply can't talk about passwords while she's so hungry.

Head down to Giffard's portrait (the camera will pan to it briefly) and speak

to him. He'll agree to have food sent to Damara Dodderidge.

Return to her with the good news, and she'll share her password with you.

6) Grand Staircase <-> Boathouse

"This password is absurd"

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This poetic portrait of a man in red refuses to speak in anything but rhymes

and riddles. He'll tell you to seek "the man with faces three". In fact, the

three-faced man is a portrait that hangs in three locations within the castle.

To find the one that concerns you, however, go to the seventh floor and look

around for the portrait of a black-robed man.

The black-robed man will send you to someone called Basil Fronsac. This is the

"studious success" portrait (#2) on the Grand Staircase. Go and speak to him.

He will send you to find a portrait of a shepherdess, with the vague comment

that she is on the second floor landing. This is a bit deceptive. In fact, you

need tohead to the second floor and onwards as if you are going to Herbology.

When you come to the broad stone stairway down to the greenhouses, stop on the

second landing down. There you should see a tall, gilt-framed portrait of a

shepherdess with her flock behind her. Step up to her and speak to her.

The shepherdess will direct you to Google Stump, the portrait who hangs in the

Viaduct Entrance. At the bottom of the main staircase there, look to the right

to spot him.

He will, in turn, pass you off to good old Giffard Abbott, the "dragon's egg"

portrait (#4) on the Grand Staircase. Abbott, thank goodness, knows the

password is absurd, in more ways than one.

Return to the ridiculous rhymester who started this frustrating folderol and

he will, at last, grant you access.

7) Herbology Corridor <-> Fifth Floor

"Flaming earwigs"

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This portrait of a rather nervous gentleman is hung in the Herbology corridor

opposite a big, creepy eye. He wants the eye gone...and who can blame him?

To soothe him into giving you his password, cast REPARO on the two broken suits

of armor to either side of the eye. A banner will unroll, shielding the eye

from view (and eliciting some rather amusing complaints from its owner).

Talk to the portrait again and he will gratefully tell you his password.

8) Viaduct Entrance <-> First Floor

"Volo futurus unus"

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This portrait of a man capped and gowned in rusty red has guarded his password

so faithfully that, in fact, no one knows it. When it's pointed out to him that

this means he isn't actually doing his job (it's not really a passage if no one

can pass through it), he'll agree to share it with you...

Only you.

He won't speak to you unless all the other students are cleared from the area.

(Ron and Hermione can stay.) Turn around and you'll see two students standing

behind you. Draw and hold your wand on them, and they'll run away. Voila.

Talk to the portrait again to receive this most secret password.

9) Third Floor <-> Second Floor

"Forget-me-never"

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This portrait of a black-robed man hasn't heard his password in fifty years. In

fact, it's been so long that he can't remember it, either. To unearth it,

you'll have to consult with someone who was here fifty years ago. Why not ask a

ghost?

Go to Myrtle's Bathroom and ask her for the password, then return to the

absent-minded portrait and remind him of it. Safe passage will be yours.

10) Seventh Floor <-> Fourth Floor

"Three heads are better than one"

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*** This portrait's quest may not be completed until you have learned to cast

INCENDIO ***

The man with three faces can be found on the seventh floor. He'll require you

to find "himself"--that is, another of his portraits, whose presence is heard

but not seen during his dialogue!

Go to the fourth floor. Up the stairs from portrait #3, move straight along the

hall to the small wooden door and pass through it. The counterpart to the

seventh-floor portrait is obscured by a cobweb. Target it and burn the nasty

film away with INCENDIO, then speak to the revealed portrait to gain access to

this passageway.

11) Grand Staircase (Dungeon level) <-> Seventh Floor

"Scurrilous scoundrel"

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*** This portrait's quest may not be completed until after speaking to Hannah

Abbott during the gathering of Dumbledore's Army ***

This passageway, guarded by the portrait of a red-bearded astronomer, must be

opened during the course of the main storyline. While gathering the DA, seek

out Hannah Abbott at the Dungeon level of the Grand Staircase. She refuses to

come while there's a risk of being caught. You'll need to find a safe, secret

passage for her.

Go up the stairs at the far end of the room, where you'll find a portrait on

the first landing. Speak to him to secure both his password and Hannah's

attendance.

12) Dungeon Corridor <-> Dungeons

"Slytherins are supreme"

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*** This portrait's quest may not be completed until you have gained access to

the invisibility cloak by completing Ginny Weasley's quest during the gathering

of Dumbledore's Army ***

This portrait of a rather nasty Slytherin witch guards a Slytherin-exclusive

passageway. Or so she thinks. Speak to her in the Dungeon Corridor and she will

tauntingly invite you to ask a Slytherin student for the password.

Yeah. Right.

Instead, retrieve the invisibility cloak from the Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory,

then return to the corridor. Just inside, a pair of Slytherin first-years are

complaining of being late to Potions unless they use the passageway. Follow

them to the portrait and eavesdrop, then go stash your cloak again.

Go back to the portrait and rub her nose in your cunning; she will be forced to

grant you grudging access.