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How many Harry Potter questions can you answer without looking anything up? This quiz moves from familiar facts to details for readers and viewers who know the series well. Questions marked Books or Films specify which continuity to use; unmarked questions concern facts shared by the main story.
This is a fan knowledge check, not an official score or certification. The official Harry Potter quiz hub offers challenges for beginners and superfans alike.
How to take the quiz
Cover the answers as you go, or have one person read the questions aloud. Give yourself one point for each correct answer. The quiz is grouped by difficulty, but the tiers are informal: a book or film detail can be easy for one fan and a deep cut for another.
Round 1: Hogwarts warm-up
- Question: What is the name of the school Harry attends? Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- Question: What is the name of the train that takes students to Hogwarts? Answer: The Hogwarts Express.
- Question: From which London station does the Hogwarts Express depart? Answer: King’s Cross Station.
- Question: Which platform do students use to reach the Hogwarts Express? Answer: Platform nine and three-quarters.
- Question: What are the names of Harry’s two closest school friends? Answer: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
- Question: Which Hogwarts house is Harry sorted into? Answer: Gryffindor.
- Question: Name the four Hogwarts houses. Answer: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
- Question: What object sorts first-year students into houses? Answer: The Sorting Hat.
- Question: What is the name of the wizarding village near Hogwarts? Answer: Hogsmeade.
- Question: What is the name of Hogwarts’ caretaker? Answer: Argus Filch.
- Question: What is the name of the Hogwarts game played on flying broomsticks? Answer: Quidditch.
- Question: Which Quidditch position does Harry play? Answer: Seeker.
- Question: What small flying ball is the Seeker supposed to catch? Answer: The Golden Snitch.
- Question: What is the name of the Weasley family’s home? Answer: The Burrow.
- Question: What is the name of Harry’s owl? Answer: Hedwig.
- Question: What is the name of the wizarding bank? Answer: Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
- Question: What is the name of the pub with a hidden entrance to Diagon Alley? Answer: The Leaky Cauldron.
- Question: What spell is commonly used to disarm an opponent? Answer: Expelliarmus.
- Question: What spell produces light at the end of a wand? Answer: Lumos.
- Question: What spell turns off wand light? Answer: Nox.
- Question: What is the name of the non-magical people in the books? Answer: Muggles.
- Question: What kind of creature is Dobby? Answer: A house-elf.
- Question: What is the name of the gamekeeper who introduces Harry to the wizarding world? Answer: Rubeus Hagrid.
- Question: Who is the headmaster when Harry begins at Hogwarts? Answer: Albus Dumbledore.
- Question: Which subject does Professor Snape teach for most of the series? Answer: Potions.
Round 2: Spells, objects and school secrets
- Question: What spell summons an object to the caster? Answer: Accio.
- Question: What spell is used to unlock a door? Answer: Alohomora.
- Question: What spell creates a shield against attacks? Answer: Protego.
- Question: What incantation is used to summon a Patronus? Answer: Expecto Patronum.
- Question: What spell can levitate objects? Answer: Wingardium Leviosa.
- Question: Which three Unforgivable Curses are named in the series? Answer: Avada Kedavra, Crucio and Imperio.
- Question: What does the Marauder’s Map reveal? Answer: A map of Hogwarts that shows people moving through the castle and its grounds.
- Question: What phrase activates the Marauder’s Map? Answer: “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
- Question: What phrase makes the Marauder’s Map appear blank again? Answer: “Mischief managed.”
- Question: What is the name of the room that appears when someone is in need of it? Answer: The Room of Requirement.
- Question: What does a Pensieve let a user examine? Answer: Memories.
- Question: What magical object shows a person’s deepest desire? Answer: The Mirror of Erised.
- Question: What does the word “Erised” spell backward? Answer: “Desire.”
- Question: What is the name of the potion that gives the drinker good luck for a limited time? Answer: Felix Felicis.
- Question: What potion is used to change a person’s appearance into someone else’s? Answer: Polyjuice Potion.
- Question: What potion is known as the Draught of Living Death? Answer: A powerful sleeping potion.
- Question: What is the name of the potion that causes infatuation? Answer: Amortentia.
- Question: Which plant can restore people who have been petrified? Answer: Mandrake.
- Question: What plant’s cry can be fatal to anyone who hears it unprotected? Answer: A mature Mandrake.
- Question: What magical map is used to find a person’s location at Hogwarts? Answer: The Marauder’s Map.
- Question: What does the Hogwarts motto mean in English? Answer: “Never tickle a sleeping dragon.”
- Question: What is the name of the three-headed dog guarding the trapdoor in the first book? Answer: Fluffy.
- Question: What kind of music puts Fluffy to sleep? Answer: Music played on a harp.
- Question: What is the name of the mirror that shows the Stone in the first book? Answer: The Mirror of Erised.
- Question: What is the name of the magical stone sought in the first book? Answer: The Philosopher’s Stone (called the Sorcerer’s Stone in the US edition and film title).
Round 3: Characters, creatures and relationships
- Question: What are the names of Harry’s parents? Answer: James and Lily Potter.
- Question: What is the name of Harry’s godfather? Answer: Sirius Black.
- Question: What is the name of Ron’s older brother who works with dragons? Answer: Charlie Weasley.
- Question: Which Weasley brother becomes a professional Quidditch player? Answer: Oliver Wood is not a Weasley; among the Weasley brothers, Fred and George pursue joke-making. This question has no single correct Weasley answer as phrased.
- Question: What is the name of Ron’s pet rat? Answer: Scabbers.
- Question: What is Scabbers’ true identity? Answer: Peter Pettigrew, a wizard and former friend of James Potter.
- Question: What animal can Sirius Black transform into? Answer: A large black dog.
- Question: What is Remus Lupin’s secret? Answer: He is a werewolf.
- Question: What kind of creature is Buckbeak? Answer: A hippogriff.
- Question: What must a person do before approaching a hippogriff? Answer: Bow and wait for it to bow back.
- Question: What is the name of Hagrid’s giant half-brother? Answer: Grawp.
- Question: What creature guards the entrance to the Gryffindor common room? Answer: The Fat Lady, whose portrait serves as the password-protected entrance.
- Question: What is the name of the ghost who haunts the girls’ bathroom? Answer: Moaning Myrtle.
- Question: Which house ghost is known as the Bloody Baron? Answer: Slytherin’s house ghost.
- Question: Which Hogwarts ghost is also known as Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington? Answer: Nearly Headless Nick.
- Question: What is Luna Lovegood’s father’s name? Answer: Xenophilius Lovegood.
- Question: What is the name of the Weasley family’s magical clock that indicates where family members are? Answer: The Weasley family clock.
- Question: What is the name of the Weasley twins’ joke shop? Answer: Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.
- Question: Which Hogwarts professor is a half-giant? Answer: Rubeus Hagrid.
- Question: Which professor teaches Divination? Answer: Sybill Trelawney.
- Question: Who teaches Care of Magical Creatures after Hagrid is appointed? Answer: Hagrid teaches the subject; before him, Professor Kettleburn is mentioned as the previous teacher.
- Question: What is the name of the house-elf who serves the Malfoy family? Answer: Dobby.
- Question: Which house-elf is devoted to the Black family and is Sirius’s house-elf? Answer: Kreacher.
- Question: What creature can become invisible and is native to the wizarding world? Answer: The answer is not uniquely determined; several magical creatures have invisibility-related abilities.
- Question: What is the name of the giant spider colony in the Forbidden Forest? Answer: The Acromantulas, led by Aragog.
Round 4: Plot details for devoted fans
- Question: What is the name of the dark wizard Harry is destined to confront? Answer: Lord Voldemort, born Tom Marvolo Riddle.
- Question: What is the name of Voldemort’s mother? Answer: Merope Gaunt.
- Question: What is the name of the orphanage where Tom Riddle grew up? Answer: Wool’s Orphanage.
- Question: What school did Tom Riddle attend? Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- Question: What language does Harry discover he can speak in the second book? Answer: Parseltongue.
- Question: What creature is hidden in the Chamber of Secrets? Answer: A basilisk.
- Question: Who opened the Chamber of Secrets during Harry’s second year? Answer: Tom Riddle, through his diary and Ginny Weasley.
- Question: What is the name of the house-elf who tries to keep Harry from returning to Hogwarts? Answer: Dobby.
- Question: What is the name of the prison guarded by Dementors? Answer: Azkaban.
- Question: What do Dementors feed on? Answer: Human happiness and positive feelings; they can also administer the Dementor’s Kiss.
- Question: What is the name of the tournament that brings three schools together? Answer: The Triwizard Tournament.
- Question: Name the other two schools that compete with Hogwarts in the Triwizard Tournament. Answer: Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and Durmstrang Institute.
- Question: What is the name of the Hogwarts champion in the Triwizard Tournament? Answer: Cedric Diggory, alongside Harry, who is unexpectedly selected as a fourth champion.
- Question: What creature does Harry face in the first Triwizard task? Answer: A Hungarian Horntail dragon.
- Question: What does the second Triwizard task require champions to retrieve? Answer: A person they care about, held underwater in the Black Lake.
- Question: What object transports Harry and Cedric to the graveyard? Answer: The Triwizard Cup, which has been turned into a Portkey.
- Question: What is the name of the prophecy concerning Harry and Voldemort? Answer: It is commonly called the prophecy about the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord; it has no formal title in the story.
- Question: Who destroys the prophecy in the Department of Mysteries? Answer: It is accidentally broken during the battle; the prophecy sphere falls and shatters.
- Question: What is the name of the organization Harry and his friends form to learn defensive magic? Answer: Dumbledore’s Army.
- Question: What does the acronym D.A. stand for in the group’s name? Answer: Dumbledore’s Army; members also jokingly use “Defence Association.”
- Question: Who teaches Harry Occlumency? Answer: Severus Snape.
- Question: What is the name of the wizarding newspaper that often covers Harry’s story? Answer: The Daily Prophet.
- Question: Who is the editor of The Quibbler? Answer: Xenophilius Lovegood.
- Question: What is the name of the spell that creates a Dark Mark? Answer: Morsmordre.
- Question: What is the name of the event at the Ministry where Voldemort’s return is publicly acknowledged? Answer: The series does not give the event a distinct formal name; it is the battle in the Department of Mysteries and its aftermath.
Round 5: Horcruxes, Hallows and the final reckoning
- Question: What is a Horcrux? Answer: An object or living being in which a dark wizard has concealed part of their soul.
- Question: Name the objects that become Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Answer: Tom Riddle’s diary, Marvolo Gaunt’s ring, Salazar Slytherin’s locket, Helga Hufflepuff’s cup, Rowena Ravenclaw’s diadem, Nagini and—unintentionally—Harry.
- Question: Which Horcrux is destroyed by a basilisk fang in the Chamber of Secrets? Answer: Tom Riddle’s diary.
- Question: Which Horcrux is hidden in the Black family house? Answer: Salazar Slytherin’s locket.
- Question: Which Horcrux is destroyed by Ron? Answer: The locket.
- Question: Which Horcrux is destroyed by Hermione? Answer: Helga Hufflepuff’s cup.
- Question: Which Horcrux is destroyed by Neville Longbottom? Answer: Nagini.
- Question: What are the three Deathly Hallows? Answer: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Invisibility Cloak.
- Question: Who gives Harry the Invisibility Cloak? Answer: Albus Dumbledore, who passes it to Harry anonymously at first.
- Question: What is the Resurrection Stone set into? Answer: Marvolo Gaunt’s ring.
- Question: Who is the first known master of the Elder Wand? Answer: Antioch Peverell, according to the wizarding legend of the three brothers.
- Question: Who kills Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower? Answer: Severus Snape, acting under their prior agreement.
- Question: What is the name of the magical charm that protects Harry through his mother’s sacrifice? Answer: Lily’s sacrificial protection.
- Question: What is the name of the spell that killed Harry’s parents? Answer: Avada Kedavra, the Killing Curse.
- Question: Who destroys the final Horcrux at Hogwarts? Answer: Neville Longbottom, who kills Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor.
- Question: What is the name of the sword that can destroy Horcruxes? Answer: The Sword of Gryffindor.
- Question: Who kills Bellatrix Lestrange? Answer: Molly Weasley.
- Question: Who becomes Minister for Magic after the war? Answer: Kingsley Shacklebolt.
- Question: What is the name of the final chapter’s epilogue, set years after the battle? Answer: “Nineteen Years Later.”
- Question: What are the names of Harry and Ginny’s three children? Answer: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna Potter.
Scoring your result
- 0–25: You have the essentials and plenty of room for a reread or rewatch.
- 26–50: You know the main characters, school life and major plot turns.
- 51–75: You have a strong command of the series’ details.
- 76–100: Your memory is formidable; review the few continuity-specific details you missed.
- 101–120: You are a serious Potter enthusiast—and caught the questions that needed more precise wording.
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