The figure comes via the publisher’s quarterly financial results. It's also unsurprising as The Boy That Lived has been squabbling with Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Red Dead Redemption for the top spot on most sales charts since its release.

Reviews for the game have also been positive, here’s ours.

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It could have gone horribly wrong, of course. Ever since LEGO Star Wars five years ago, Traveller’s Tales haven’t tinkered much with the essential building blocks of the series: players gather studs, unlock characters and collect special bricks, dissemble environments, solve puzzles and take on enemies in frequently comic combat sequences. The bricks are reinvested (this time in Diagon Alley) in upgrades and new content.

Where Harry Potter stands apart from other franchises that have been given the LEGO treatment is that Rowling’s books aren’t as much action-packed as suspenseful. Further, there’s no character dialogue in LEGO games which is a rather significant hurdle for a series that is as much about casting aspersions on Professor Snape while huddled in the Gryffindor common room as it is about fighting trolls in the girls’ bathroom.

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