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This is the deepest Harry Potter quiz on the site: 190 free questions with answers spanning all seven books, the eight films and the story of how the series was published. It opens with warm-ups on houses, wands, Quidditch and the Marauder's Map, then works book by book through the plots, from Firenze's warning in the Forbidden Forest to Molly Weasley's duel with Bellatrix and the names in the epilogue, and finishes with genuinely hard Harry Potter book trivia: print runs, rejected titles, translations and the editor who bought the manuscript. Book readers will find questions the films skipped; film fans will find plenty they recognise. It works as a solo test or as several rounds for a Potter-themed quiz night. Every answer has been checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01What is the name of the scarlet steam train that carries students to Hogwarts?
The Hogwarts Express
The Hogwarts Express leaves Platform 9¾ at King's Cross in London and runs north to the station serving the school.
Q 02What position does Harry Potter play on his house Quidditch team?
Seeker
Harry becomes Seeker as a first-year, the youngest house player in a century, after his first flying lesson goes badly wrong.
Q 03Which dragon does Harry draw for the Triwizard Tournament's first task?
Hungarian Horntail
The Hungarian Horntail was reckoned the most dangerous of the four, and Harry needs his Firebolt to get past it.
Q 04What is the name of Hagrid's three-headed dog?
Fluffy
Fluffy is the giant three-headed dog Hagrid uses to guard the trapdoor leading to the Philosopher's Stone. Hagrid bought Fluffy from 'a Greek chappie' at a pub.
Q 05What does the Mirror of Erised show?
The viewer's deepest desire
The viewer's deepest desire is what the Mirror of Erised shows, and its name is 'desire' spelled backwards.
Q 06What is the incantation for the Killing Curse?
Avada Kedavra
Avada Kedavra kills instantly, and Harry is its only known survivor: the rebounding curse left his lightning-bolt scar.
Q 07What is the core of Harry Potter's wand?
Phoenix feather
Harry's wand has a phoenix feather core, and the twin feather from the same bird sits in Voldemort's wand.
Q 08Which rare language does Harry reveal he can speak during a Duelling Club class?
Parseltongue
Parseltongue is the language of snakes, and Harry's rare gift for it is one he shares with Voldemort himself.
Q 09Which Horcrux does Hermione destroy with a basilisk fang during the Battle of Hogwarts?
The cup
The cup had belonged to Helga Hufflepuff, and Hermione destroyed it with a fang from the basilisk Harry had slain years before.
Q 10What form does Hermione's Patronus take?
An otter
Hermione's Patronus takes the form of an otter. J.K. Rowling has said the otter is her favorite animal, which influenced this choice for Hermione.
Q 11What is the address of the Dursleys' home?
4 Privet Drive
The Dursleys live at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Harry grows up in the cupboard under the stairs before being moved to Dudley's second bedroom.
Q 12Ambition, cunning and resourcefulness are the prized traits of which Hogwarts house?
Slytherin
Slytherin's common room sits in the dungeons beneath the lake, so the light coming through its windows is green.
Q 13Which incantation casts the curse that tortures its victim with unbearable pain?
Crucio
Crucio casts the Cruciatus Curse, and using it on another person is punishable by a life sentence.
Q 21What is the name of Hagrid's baby dragon in the first Harry Potter book?
Norbert
Hagrid names the baby Norwegian Ridgeback dragon Norbert. In the final book, Charlie Weasley reveals that Norbert turned out to be female, and was renamed Norberta.
Q 22Which sword does Harry use to slay the basilisk in his second year?
The Sword of Gryffindor
The Sword of Gryffindor takes in only what strengthens it, so after Harry slew the basilisk it held the venom, and it later destroyed three Horcruxes.
Q 23Which Harry Potter character is an unregistered Animagus whose form is a huge dog?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black is an unregistered Animagus whose form is a large black dog, earning him the nickname 'Padfoot' among the Marauders.
Q 14Which Hogwarts staff member gives first-years their flying lessons and referees Quidditch matches?
Madam Hooch
Madam Hooch warned that anyone who touched a broom while she took an injured boy to the hospital wing would be out of Hogwarts before they could say Quidditch.
Q 15What is the name of the Weasleys' family home?
The Burrow
The Burrow is the Weasley family home, located near the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon. It's a ramshackle but welcoming house held up by magic.
Q 16What magical object allows witches and wizards to travel by fireplace?
Floo Powder
Floo Powder is thrown into a fireplace to create green flames that transport a witch or wizard to another connected fireplace. The traveler must clearly state their destination.
Q 17Which Hogwarts teacher is a ghost who carried on lecturing after his own death?
Professor Binns
Professor Binns teaches History of Magic in a flat drone, and is said to have left his body behind in the staff room one morning and simply gone on to class.
Q 18Which Hogwarts house values wit, learning, and wisdom above all?
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw house, founded by Rowena Ravenclaw, prizes intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit. Its emblem is an eagle and its colors are blue and bronze.
Q 19Which brew lets a witch or wizard take on the physical appearance of another person?
Polyjuice Potion
Polyjuice Potion allows the drinker to assume the appearance of another person for about an hour. It takes a month to brew and requires a piece of the person being impersonated.
Q 20What subject does Professor McGonagall teach at Hogwarts?
Transfiguration
Professor Minerva McGonagall teaches Transfiguration, the magical art of changing the form or appearance of an object, and later becomes Headmistress.
Q 24Beyond secret passages, what else does the Marauder's Map reveal?
Where every person in the castle is
The map shows where every person in the castle is, and the Weasley twins handed it to Harry in his third year.
Q 25What creature is Professor Remus Lupin secretly, a fact that forces him to resign from Hogwarts?
A werewolf
Remus Lupin became a werewolf when Fenrir Greyback bit him as a child, and his school friends secretly became Animagi to keep him company.
Q 26What do Harry and Ron fly to Hogwarts after they can't get through the barrier to Platform 9¾?
A flying Ford Anglia
Mr Weasley's flying Ford Anglia gets them there, then crashes into the Whomping Willow as they arrive.
Q 27Which magical object slips unseen from Harry's fingers as he walks through the Forbidden Forest to face Voldemort?
The Resurrection Stone
Harry found the Resurrection Stone hidden in a Golden Snitch left to him in a will, and used it to see his dead loved ones.
Q 28Which professor takes over as Hogwarts' Potions master in Harry's sixth year?
Horace Slughorn
Horace Slughorn is coaxed out of retirement, and his habit of collecting promising students is exactly what Harry needs to prise a memory out of him.
Q 29Which plant is used to brew the potion that cures the students petrified in Harry's second year?
Mandrake
Mandrake roots go into the Restorative Draught, and the mature plant's cry is dangerous enough that students repot the young ones wearing earmuffs.
Q 30Which shabby Charing Cross Road pub is the wizarding gateway hidden from Muggles?
The Leaky Cauldron
Muggle eyes slide straight past the Leaky Cauldron; wizards walk through it and tap the brick wall in the yard behind.