Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
8correct to beat the crowd
99 free Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the book that ended the series in July 2007, selling more copies in a day than any novel before it, and the two films that closed the movie franchise in 2010 and 2011. This Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trivia quiz covers all three: the Horcrux hunt from the locket to the diadem, the Tale of the Three Brothers and the Hallows themselves, Malfoy Manor, Gringotts, Snape's memories, the King's Cross chapter, the Battle of Hogwarts and the epilogue nineteen years later, plus how Rowling finished the book in an Edinburgh hotel, the leaks and price wars around its release, and how David Yates split the story into two films. The 99 questions run from easy ones any reader will get to hard ones about the writing, publishing and filming, so it suits a Potter night with friends or a family quiz. Every answer has been checked against the text and documented publishing and production records rather than fan wikis.
30 of 99 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01On what date was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows published?
21 July 2007
21 July 2007 was release day, and Bloomsbury spent £10 million trying to keep the contents secret until then.
Q 02Which American publisher ordered a record first printing of 12 million copies of Deathly Hallows?
Scholastic
Scholastic printed 12 million copies for the US launch, and 8.3 million of them sold in the first 24 hours, beating the one-day record set by the previous Potter book.
Q 03Which two allies of Harry die during the flight from Privet Drive in Deathly Hallows?
Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig
Mad-Eye Moody is killed by Voldemort during the Seven Potters flight and Hedwig is struck by a Killing Curse; George Weasley loses an ear in the same ambush.
Q 04Which Ministry official is wearing the locket Horcrux when the trio infiltrate the Ministry of Magic?
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge took the locket as a bribe from a petty thief and passes it off as a family heirloom to bolster her pure-blood credentials; the trio steal it from her in disguise.
Q 05What guides Harry to the frozen pond where the Sword of Gryffindor lies?
A Patronus
A silver doe Patronus leads Harry through the Forest of Dean to the frozen pond; the locket Horcrux tightens around his neck when he dives for the sword, and he nearly drowns.
Q 06Who destroys the locket Horcrux?
Ron
Ron destroys the locket with the Sword of Gryffindor after returning to pull Harry from the frozen pond; Harry opens it in Parseltongue so Ron can stab it.
Q 07Which three objects make up the Deathly Hallows?
Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, Cloak of Invisibility
The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility are explained to the trio by Xenophilius Lovegood, who is stalling: Death Eaters hold his daughter Luna, and he means to trade Harry for her.
Q 08What are the bounty hunters who capture the trio and take them to Malfoy Manor called?
Snatchers
Snatchers, with Fenrir Greyback among them, seize the trio after Harry breaks the Taboo by saying Voldemort's name, and haul them to Malfoy Manor.
Q 09Which Gryffindor classmate of Harry is held in the Malfoy Manor cellar with Luna Lovegood and Mr Ollivander?
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas had been on the run since the Ministry began rounding up Muggle-borns, because he never knew his father and could not show he had wizard blood; he returns to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Q 10Which house-elf dies rescuing the prisoners from Malfoy Manor?
Dobby
Dobby is fatally wounded by Bellatrix's thrown knife as he Disapparates the prisoners to Shell Cottage; the scene was filmed at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire, where a fan-made grave for him was allowed to stay after a 2022 review.
Q 11Which goblin, imprisoned with the trio at Malfoy Manor in Deathly Hallows, later helps them break into Gringotts?
Griphook
Griphook's price for helping with the Gringotts break-in is the Sword of Gryffindor, and he does not wait to be paid: inside the vault he snatches the sword and abandons the trio.
Q 12Who shelters the trio in Hogsmeade and opens a secret passage into the castle before the Battle of Hogwarts?
Aberforth Dumbledore
Aberforth Dumbledore, barman of the Hog's Head, rescues the trio from Death Eaters and urges them to give up their quest, then sends them through the passage behind his sister Ariana's portrait.
Q 13Which Horcrux do the trio find in the Room of Requirement?
The Diadem of Ravenclaw
Q 21The Deathly Hallows epilogue is set how many years after the Battle of Hogwarts?
19
19 years on, Harry and Ginny see their children off on the Hogwarts Express, and Harry reassures his nervous son Albus that the Sorting Hat will take his own choice into account.
Q 22In the Deathly Hallows epilogue, what are the names of Ron and Hermione's daughter and son?
Rose and Hugo
Rose and Hugo are the couple's children; on the platform Ron points out Draco Malfoy's son Scorpius and tells Rose to make sure she beats him in every test.
Q 23What are the final words of the Deathly Hallows novel?
All was well
'All was well' closes the novel; Rowling said she had planned to end on the word 'scar', in a line about only those he loved being able to see it.
Ravenclaw's diadem, hidden by Voldemort in the Room of Hidden Things, is destroyed moments later when Fiendfyre cast by one of Draco's friends consumes the room.
Q 14In the Deathly Hallows novel, which of Draco's friends dies after casting Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement?
Crabbe
Crabbe dies in the novel, but the film gives the death to Goyle, because Crabbe's actor, Jamie Waylett, did not return for the final two films.
Q 15Which of his own followers does Voldemort order Nagini to kill during the Battle of Hogwarts?
Severus Snape
Severus Snape is bitten on Voldemort's orders, and as he dies he gives Harry the memories that reveal his lifelong love for Lily Potter and his years as a double agent.
Q 16In Deathly Hallows, what does Harry use to view the memories a dying man gives him?
The Pensieve
The Pensieve in the headmaster's office shows Harry that Dumbledore arranged his own death and that Harry himself is a Horcrux who must die.
Q 17Whom does Harry instruct to kill Nagini as he walks off to surrender himself?
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom is told to kill the snake if Harry's friends cannot; he later kills Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor, which he pulls from the Sorting Hat.
Q 18Who carries the apparently dead Harry back to Hogwarts on Voldemort's orders?
Hagrid
Hagrid is forced to carry Harry's body from the Forbidden Forest to the castle; Harry is only feigning death, having chosen to return from a dreamlike King's Cross.
Q 19Who kills Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts?
Molly Weasley
Molly Weasley takes on Bellatrix to protect her daughter, screaming 'You will never touch our children again!'; Bellatrix, too arrogant to take her seriously, loses the duel.
Q 20In Deathly Hallows' final duel, why does the Elder Wand refuse to kill Harry?
He is its true master
He is its true master: the wand passed to Draco when he disarmed Dumbledore, then to Harry when he disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor.
Q 24In which Edinburgh hotel did J. K. Rowling finish writing the book in January 2007?
The Balmoral
Rowling finished the book in Room 552 of the Balmoral Hotel on 11 January 2007 and signed a marble bust of Hermes there to mark the occasion.
Q 25Rowling said Deathly Hallows and which earlier Potter book felt 'almost as though they are two halves of the same novel'?
Half-Blood Prince
Half-Blood Prince: in March 2004, while still writing it, Rowling said so much of what happens in book six relates to book seven that the two felt like halves of one novel.
Q 26How did Rowling reveal the title Deathly Hallows to fans in December 2006?
A hangman puzzle on her website
A hangman puzzle on her website, dressed up for Christmas, made fans guess the letters of the title one by one; her publisher confirmed the name the same day.
Q 27Which part of Deathly Hallows did Rowling write around 1990?
The final chapter
The final chapter came first: Rowling said she wrote it 'in something like 1990', years before the first book was published, so she had long known how the series would end.
Q 28Where did Rowling launch Deathly Hallows with an all-night reading and signing for 1,700 ballot-picked fans?
Natural History Museum, London
Natural History Museum, London: after a midnight reading on 21 July 2007, Rowling signed about 250 copies an hour until 6.30 in the morning.
Q 29Which UK supermarket, then owned by Walmart, set off a price war by selling Deathly Hallows for just £5?
Asda
Asda sold the £17.99 book for £5 after accusing its publisher of 'blatant profiteering'; the publisher threatened to cancel Asda's 500,000-copy order until the chain apologised.
Q 30Which gift from Dumbledore's will guides Ron back to his friends after he abandons the Horcrux hunt in Deathly Hallows?
The Deluminator
The Deluminator, Dumbledore's bequest to Ron, shows him the way back to his friends, and he arrives just in time to pull Harry out of a frozen pool.