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50 free Septimus Heap trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Magyk begins with a wizard trudging home through the snow and a baby who is not where she should be. From there the Septimus Heap books grow into a sprawling fantasy about a lost child, a hidden Princess and a big, noisy family that refuses to be split up. This quiz starts with the first book and follows the story outward: the escape from the Castle, the winter at Aunt Zelda's cottage, the villains, ghosts and creatures, then the sequels and the writer behind them. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up something new even when you guess. It suits readers who have just finished Magyk, long-time fans testing their memory of the later books, and teachers or parents running a book-club round.
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Q 01In Magyk, by what Young Army name is Septimus Heap known before his true identity is revealed?
Boy 412
Boy 412 is all he is called for the first ten years of his life, after a mix-up in the Young Army nursery. A scrying pond at Aunt Zelda's cottage finally shows who he is.
Q 02Septimus Heap's exceptional Magykal power comes from being born as what, like Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker?
Seventh son of a seventh son
Seventh son of a seventh son describes him exactly: his father is the seventh son of Benjamin Heap, and he is the youngest of seven brothers. Even the name Septimus fits.
Q 03The New York Post recommended Magyk, the first Septimus Heap book, to fans of which other fantasy series?
Harry Potter
Harry Potter comparisons stuck, and not only for the wizards: Jenna, like Ginny Weasley, is the only girl in a large family of brothers that includes twins.
Q 04What golden vessel, hidden in a cavern beneath Aunt Zelda's cottage in Magyk, can both sail and fly?
Dragon Boat
Dragon Boat is half ship and half living creature. She wakes when the children climb aboard, and Jenna finds she can speak with her, as the Queens of the Castle always could.
Q 05The last Septimus Heap novel ends with an adapted line about technology from which science fiction author?
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke's famous third law ends the series, with its final word respelled in the books' own style. It is a wink that this wizarding world may not be what it seems.
Q 06Jenna's pet Petroc Trelawney, which keeps her company in Magyk, is what unusual kind of companion?
A rock
A rock is what Petroc Trelawney is: a pet pebble that Jenna loses in a flood in the first book and gets back much later in the series.
Q 07Which ExtraOrdinary Wizard interrupts Jenna's tenth birthday in Magyk to reveal that she is the missing Princess?
Marcia Overstrand
Marcia Overstrand had saved the baby ten years earlier, on the day the Queen was killed, and saw her placed with the Heaps. She returns because a spy next door has confirmed who the girl is.
Q 08Which Necromancer and former ExtraOrdinary Wizard is the main villain of Magyk, the first Septimus Heap book?
DomDaniel
DomDaniel rules through a puppet government while he plots to retake the Wizard Tower, and in the sequel even his reassembled bones try to finish the job.
Q 09Clues scattered through the Septimus Heap books suggest that its world of wizards and castles is set when?
The far future
The far future is the hidden setting: characters swap old legends that match the Apollo Moon missions, and at the very end Septimus writes a date in the snow from the year 12,004.
Q 10Which English author, who grew up in the Thames Valley, London and Kent, wrote the Septimus Heap series?
Angie Sage
Angie Sage illustrated other people's books before writing her own, and Magyk was her first novel.
Q 11What colour are the eyes of Jenna, a trait shared by every Queen and Princess of the Castle in Septimus Heap?
Violet
Violet eyes run in the royal line, and Jenna has them from the day she is found as a baby in the snow. Wizards in the books have green eyes instead.
Q 12In Magyk, which wild region south of the Castle hides Aunt Zelda's cottage and the fugitive Heaps?
Marram Marshes
Marram Marshes are based on boggy ground at the end of a creek near the author's home, and most of Magyk unfolds there once the Heaps flee the Castle.
Q 13Whose sailboat Muriel, namesake of the author's real one, carries the fugitives out of the Castle in Magyk?
Sally Mullin
Q 21Where does the ExtraOrdinary Wizard end up after a false message lures her back to the Castle in Magyk?
Dungeon Number One
Dungeon Number One nearly kills her; she travels at midnight for Magykal protection, but her timepiece is wrong and guards are waiting.
Q 22Which insects does the ExtraOrdinary Wizard conjure, 57 in all, to defend Aunt Zelda's cottage in Magyk?
Shield bugs
Shield bugs are her precaution after two weeks in hiding, made once she learns that an old enemy is free to return to the Castle.
Q 23Which Message Rat, also known as Rat 101, is drawn into the adventures of the Heap family in Magyk?
Stanley
Sally Mullin pays dearly for lending it: pursuers burn down her riverside café with her locked inside, and only a KeepSafe Charm saves her.
Q 14Which pursuer of Jenna leaves Aunt Zelda's cottage in Magyk believing he is a buffoon seeking circus work?
The Hunter
The Hunter is halted by Aunt Zelda's spell, then has his memories erased so thoroughly that he wanders off and abandons his own canoe.
Q 15Which official runs the Castle after the Queen's assassination in Magyk, doing the Necromancer's bidding?
The Supreme Custodian
The Supreme Custodian takes over while the Queen's murder is kept secret for months, yet he answers to a hidden master all along.
Q 16Which boy, raised as the Necromancer's Apprentice in Magyk, wrongly believes that he is Septimus Heap?
Merrin Meredith
Merrin Meredith is really the son of the midwife who stole the Heap baby; a nurse picked up the wrong infant, so the two boys grew up in each other's place.
Q 17Which murdered ExtraOrdinary Wizard returns as a ghost in Magyk to warn that the Assassin is outside?
Alther Mella
Alther Mella still wears his purple cloak, with a bloodstain marking where the bullet struck, and as a ghost he goes on advising his former pupil.
Q 18Which object, seized by the Necromancer in Magyk, is the source of the ExtraOrdinary Wizard's power?
Akhu Amulet
Akhu Amulet is handed from each ExtraOrdinary Wizard to the next, and losing it drains its wearer's power. She snatches it back on the deck of a sinking ship.
Q 19The ExtraOrdinary Wizard's trademark pointy purple footwear in the Septimus Heap books is made of what?
Python skin
Python skin is her standing order from shoemaker Terry Tarsal, who hates snakes and suspects she asks for it on purpose.
Q 20How do the ExtraOrdinary Wizard and her guests flee her tower rooms when the Assassin arrives in Magyk?
Down the rubbish chute
Down the rubbish chute they go, landing in the dump below, where she blocks the pipe behind them so it looks as though the group is stuck inside.
Stanley first meets the Heaps while delivering a message for the family, and the adventures cost him his marriage: his wife Dawnie leaves to live with her sister.
Q 24Aunt Zelda's cat Bert, in the Septimus Heap books, has been transformed into which animal that is easier to keep?
A duck
A duck is simply easier to keep in the waterlogged land around the cottage, so Aunt Zelda changed Bert's shape and kept her cat as a pet all the same.
Q 25Which mud-dwelling creature, a friend of Aunt Zelda, escorts Jenna and the fugitives to her cottage in Magyk?
The Boggart
The Boggart lives in a mud patch just off her island and knows the area well, though he would much rather be left alone during the day.
Q 26Which vegetable fills the sandwiches Aunt Zelda makes, which fatten up the thin Young Army boy in Magyk?
Cabbage
Cabbage and eel are the staples of Aunt Zelda's cooking, and Septimus Heap is the only other person who appreciates it.
Q 27What is the name of the yearly winter event that cuts Aunt Zelda's cottage off from the Castle in Magyk?
The Big Freeze
The Big Freeze strands Septimus Heap's father on the wrong side after he leaves to look for a missing son, and the Big Thaw that follows lets enemies reach the cottage.
Q 28What is the name of the Necromancer's ship, wrecked by his own storm near Bleak Creek in Magyk?
Vengeance
Vengeance holds the captive ExtraOrdinary Wizard until three children sneak aboard to find her, and it ends the book as a sunken wreck.
Q 29Which Heap, an Ordinary Wizard, finds the baby Jenna left in the snow at the start of Magyk?
Silas
Silas senses her heartbeat through the snow by Magyk, on the very day his own newborn son is carried away and declared dead.
Q 30Which Heap brother, the family's keen sailor, steers the fugitives' sailboat away from the Castle in Magyk?
Nicko
Nicko is the sixth Heap son and prefers sailing to spells, so he later becomes an apprentice at the Castle boatyard.