Harry Potter Christmas Trivia
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50 free Harry Potter Christmas trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
43 free Harry Potter Christmas trivia questions with answers. Every Harry Potter book stops for Christmas, and the series' most memorable moments hide in those chapters: the anonymous Invisibility Cloak, the Mirror of Erised, Percy's 'Pinhead' badge, the maroon Weasley jumper, the confiscated Firebolt, the Yule Ball and Ron's mouldy dress robes, Dobby's hundred golden Harrys, mistletoe full of Nargles, Slughorn's party with a vampire, and the graveyard at Godric's Hollow on Christmas Eve. This quiz covers all seven books plus the films' Christmas scenes and the Yule Ball's real-life band. Easy questions ask what Harry got in his first year and who Hermione took to the ball. The hard ones want the hat Snape pulled from a cracker, where the dance lesson was filmed and how Rowling announced the final book's title one December. It suits a Christmas quiz night, a Potter marathon or a classroom in the last week of term. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the Harry Potter Wiki, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What anonymous Christmas gift does Harry receive in his first year at Hogwarts?
His father's Invisibility Cloak
His father's Invisibility Cloak arrived with an unsigned note reading 'Use it well'; Dumbledore later admitted he had sent it.
Q 02What do Harry and Ron drink on Christmas Day in Chamber of Secrets to sneak into the Slytherin common room?
Polyjuice Potion
Polyjuice Potion turned them into Crabbe and Goyle, but Hermione's dose held a cat hair, and they came back to find her with a cat's ears and tail.
Q 03Why do Ron and his brothers stay at Hogwarts for Christmas in Harry's first year?
Their parents are visiting Charlie
Their parents are visiting Charlie in Romania, so Ron, Fred, George and Percy all stay on, which gives Harry company for his first Christmas at Hogwarts.
Q 04What did Fred bewitch Percy's prefect badge to read at Christmas dinner in Chamber of Secrets?
'Pinhead'
'Pinhead': Percy, who had not noticed the change, kept asking what everyone at the table was sniggering at.
Q 05Who single-handedly delivers the usual twelve Christmas trees to the Hogwarts Great Hall?
Rubeus Hagrid
Rubeus Hagrid hauls all twelve up to the castle himself, leaving the teachers to decorate them.
Q 06Which teacher did the Weasley twins' bewitched snowballs follow around in Harry's first December at Hogwarts?
Professor Quirrell
Professor Quirrell: the snowballs kept bouncing off the back of his turban, so the twins were unknowingly pelting Lord Voldemort in the face.
Q 07Which game set does Harry win from a cracker at his first Hogwarts Christmas dinner?
Wizard chess
Wizard chess: Harry left the feast with his own set, having learned on pieces borrowed from Seamus that didn't trust him and kept shouting advice.
Q 08What hat does Snape get from a cracker at Christmas lunch in Prisoner of Azkaban?
A vulture-topped witch's hat
A vulture-topped witch's hat, echoing the outfit a Boggart-Snape had been dressed in that term; Dumbledore promptly swapped his own hat for it.
Q 09What dessert follows the roast turkey at Harry's first Hogwarts Christmas dinner?
Flaming puddings
Flaming puddings followed the turkey, and Percy nearly broke his teeth on a silver Sickle baked into his slice.
Q 10What does Dobby give Harry for Christmas in Goblet of Fire?
Handmade odd socks
Handmade odd socks: one patterned with broomsticks, the other with Snitches; to return the favour, Harry handed over an old mustard-yellow pair of his own.
Q 11What colour is the jumper Mrs Weasley knits Ron every Christmas?
Maroon
Maroon: 'I hate maroon,' Ron moans as he pulls it on, while the twins cheerfully call theirs 'lovely and warm'.
Q 12Who is left without a Weasley jumper at the Burrow's Christmas lunch in Half-Blood Prince?
Fleur Delacour
Fleur Delacour: Mrs Weasley, cool on her engagement to Bill, had not wanted to waste a jumper on her, and only warmed to her after Fleur stood by him when he was scarred.
Q 13What colour is the Weasley jumper Harry receives in his first year?
Emerald green
Emerald green: Mrs Weasley knitted it after Ron told her Harry didn't expect any presents, and sent a box of home-made fudge with it.
Q 21Who does Ginny go to the Goblet of Fire dance with?
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom had asked Ginny after Hermione turned him down, so when Ron offered her to Harry as a partner she had to say she was taken.
Q 22What does Ron cut off his second-hand dress robes with a Severing Charm before the ball?
The lace collar and cuffs
The lace collar and cuffs came off, but the robes still looked so much like a dress that his partner was dismayed to be seen with him.
Q 23Which real musicians made up the Weird Sisters in the Goblet of Fire film?
Members of Pulp and Radiohead
Q 14Why does Professor Trelawney hesitate to sit down to Christmas lunch in Prisoner of Azkaban?
She would make thirteen diners
She would make thirteen diners, and she warned that when thirteen dine together the first to rise is the first to die; Harry and Ron later got up at the same moment.
Q 15Who turned out to be the anonymous sender of the Firebolt Harry got for Christmas in his third year?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black had Crookshanks carry the order to the owl office and paid from his own Gringotts vault, as his letter at the end of term revealed.
Q 16What did Hermione do about Harry's anonymous Firebolt that left him and Ron furious?
Reported it to a teacher
Reported it to a teacher: Hermione told Professor McGonagall, who confiscated the broom so that Flitwick and Madam Hooch could strip it down and test it for jinxes.
Q 17What does Cedric tell Harry to do with his golden egg as the ball ends in Goblet of Fire?
Take a bath with it
Take a bath with it: Cedric was repaying Harry's warning about the dragons, and told him how to get into the prefects' bathroom to try it.
Q 18The Christmas dance Hogwarts holds in Harry's fourth year is a tradition of which event?
The Triwizard Tournament
The Triwizard Tournament: McGonagall called the ball a traditional part of it, open to fourth-years and above, so third-year Ginny could go only because an older student invited her.
Q 19Who does Harry take to the dance after Cho Chang turns him down?
Parvati Patil
Parvati Patil said yes on the spot and lined up her twin Padma for Ron, after Lavender Brown turned out to be going with Seamus.
Q 20Who is Hermione's date at the Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire?
Viktor Krum
Viktor Krum, Durmstrang's Quidditch star, took Hermione to the ball, and a jealous Ron accused her of fraternising with the enemy.
Members of Pulp and Radiohead: Pulp's Jarvis Cocker fronted the band as Myron Wagtail and wrote its songs, with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway alongside him.
Q 24Why does the Goblet of Fire film never name the band playing at its ball?
A Canadian folk group sued
A Canadian folk group sued: Winnipeg's Wyrd Sisters took Warner Bros. to court over the name, and though a judge refused to block the film, its band goes unnamed.
Q 25How was the Great Hall dressed for the dance in the Goblet of Fire film?
As an ice palace
As an ice palace, though its ice was faked in resin, and one of the sculptures was modelled on the Brighton Pavilion.
Q 26At which university was McGonagall's dance lesson in the Goblet of Fire film shot?
Oxford
Oxford: the lesson was shot in the university's 15th-century Divinity School, so Ron learns to dance in the very room that plays the hospital wing in earlier films.
Q 27How does Dobby decorate the Room of Requirement for Christmas in Order of the Phoenix?
Baubles showing Harry's face
Baubles showing Harry's face, each reading 'HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS!', hung from the ceiling until Harry hurriedly pulled them down before the rest of the DA arrived.
Q 28What does Harry joke the mistletoe is probably full of, just before he and Cho kiss?
Nargles
Nargles: a friend had warned him earlier that mistletoe is often infested with them, and when Cho asks what they are, Harry admits he has no idea.
Q 29Where does Harry spend Christmas in his fifth year, instead of the Burrow as planned?
Grimmauld Place
Grimmauld Place, number twelve, headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, hosted Harry and the Weasleys that Christmas, and Hermione joined them instead of skiing with her parents.
Q 30Which attack does Harry witness in a dream just before Christmas in Order of the Phoenix?
A snake biting Arthur Weasley
A snake biting Arthur Weasley: Harry saw it through the snake's own eyes, which got Mr Weasley found in time and led Dumbledore to order Occlumency lessons.