LEGO Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club 76441 Is Retired - A Missing Piece for Modular Hogwarts Builders

It was on shelves for exactly one calendar year! Released January 1, 2025 and retired by December 31 the same year, the LEGO 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club had twelve months to find its audience. Now it's gone, and anyone building the modular Hogwarts Castle system has a permanent gap where this set used to be.

What Is the LEGO Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club?

The LEGO 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club is a Harry Potter set released on 1 January 2025 as part of the Chamber of Secrets subtheme and LEGO's modular Hogwarts Castle system. At 158 pieces and a retail price of €24.99 / $24.99 / £19.99, it was one of the smaller and more affordable entry points into the modular Hogwarts range. But it was also one of its most characterful ones, built around one of the most memorable scenes in the entire Harry Potter film series.

It was initially designed as an add-on to the larger 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall and other sets in the modular Hogwarts system. This set physically connected to them to create an expanded and increasingly detailed brick-built version of Hogwarts.

As a standalone set it works perfectly well, but its real purpose is as part of a growing modular display. Collectors building that system who didn't pick this up before December 31 now have a gap they can't fill from official sources.

What's Inside the Box?

The build is a recreation of a dueling platform featuring a raised stage with a fireplace behind it and a random collectible portrait displayed above it.

The platform features a play function: push the steps at either end and the minifigure standing on the opposite side topples over, recreating the moment Harry sends Draco Malfoy sliding across the floor of the Great Hall. It's a simple mechanism but an effective one, and it gives the set some genuine play value alongside its display purpose.

One of the more interesting features is the collectible Hogwarts portrait. There are 14 different portraits distributed randomly across sets in the modular Hogwarts system. Each box contains one, and you won't know which until you open it. Collectors building the full system often end up with duplicates and hunt for the ones they're missing. The randomised portrait mechanic has become one of the talking points of the modular range and adds a collectible layer on top of the building experience.

The four minifigures are a strong lineup for the price point too: Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy each come with a wand and spell effect elements. Gilderoy Lockhart's minifigure is unique to this set as it's not available in any other 2025 LEGO Harry Potter release.

Part of the Modular Hogwarts Castle System

The 76441 is part of LEGO's current modular Hogwarts Castle collection — a range of sets introduced in 2024 and 2025 that are designed to physically connect to one another, letting collectors build a progressively larger and more detailed version of Hogwarts Castle over time. Think of it like a jigsaw puzzle where each set is one piece, and the full picture only emerges when you have them all together.

The system includes sets covering the Great Hall, the Boathouse, the Owlery, the Potions Class, and Hagrid's Hut among others. Many of these sets also retired at the end of 2025 — the Boathouse, the Owlery, and the Potions Class all left shelves on December 31, 2025 alongside the Dueling Club. For anyone who started the modular collection and wants to complete it, 2025 was a critical year — and those who didn't act in time now face the secondary market for multiple sets simultaneously.

The Dueling Club connects to the 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall, which remains in production as of mid-2026. If you own the Great Hall and want to extend it with the Dueling Club scene, the secondary market is now the only route.

The Scene It Recreates

The Dueling Club sequence from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is one of the most memorable in the film not just because of the Harry vs. Draco wand duel, but because of everything surrounding it. It's the scene where Lockhart's spectacular incompetence as a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is on full display, where Snape steps in with barely concealed contempt, and where a young Harry first discovers he is a Parselmouth (a revelation that changes how his classmates see him for the rest of the year).

It's a rich scene to pick for a LEGO set, and the 76441 rebuilds the essential elements well for a 158-piece build (or add-on). The raised platform, the four central characters, the fireplace backdrop, and the play function that lets you recreate the moment Draco goes flying (or Harry Potter, the scene is under your control).

Is It Worth Buying Retired?

The Dueling Club sits at the lower end of the modular Hogwarts set size range with about 158 pieces at €24.99 was a very accessible buy when it was available. On the secondary market it's currently trading around €23 new, essentially at its original retail price, which means there's no significant premium yet for sealed units. That tends to change once secondary market stock thins further, particularly for modular sets where collectors have a systematic reason to seek out every piece of the system.

The Gilderoy Lockhart minifigure exclusivity is a meaningful driver for a specific segment of collectors. And for modular Hogwarts builders, there's simply no substitute, you can't fill the gap this set leaves with anything else currently in production.

Who Is This For?

The LEGO 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club is a natural fit for anyone building the modular Hogwarts Castle system who is missing this piece, Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets fans who want the specific scene it recreates, minifigure collectors hunting the exclusive Gilderoy Lockhart variant, and parents looking for an affordable and themed Harry Potter gift for a child aged 8 and up. It pairs naturally with the LEGO Dobby the House-Elf (76421), which also retired at the end of 2025 and covers the same Chamber of Secrets era of the Harry Potter story.