Harry Potter Trivia Questions and Answers

General Knowledge

1. Who is Harry Potter’s godfather?
   Answer: Sirius Black

2. What house is Harry Potter sorted into?
   Answer: Gryffindor

3. Who teaches Transfiguration at Hogwarts?
   Answer: Professor McGonagall

4. What is the name of the spell used to disarm an opponent?
   Answer: Expelliarmus

5. What does the spell “Lumos” do?
   Answer: It creates light from the caster’s wand.

6. What is the name of Harry Potter’s owl?
   Answer: Hedwig

7. Who is the Half-Blood Prince?
   Answer: Severus Snape

8. What position does Harry play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
   Answer: Seeker

9. Who is the headmaster of Hogwarts during most of Harry’s time there?
   Answer: Albus Dumbledore

10. What are the three Unforgivable Curses?
    Answer: Avada Kedavra, Crucio, Imperio

Characters

1. Who kills Dumbledore?
   Answer: Severus Snape

2. What is the name of Ron Weasley’s rat?
   Answer: Scabbers (real name: Peter Pettigrew)

3. Who is the author of the “Harry Potter” series?
   Answer: J.K. Rowling

4. What is the name of the house elf who tries to stop Harry from returning to Hogwarts?
   Answer: Dobby

5. Who does Harry marry?
   Answer: Ginny Weasley

6. Who does Ron Weasley marry?
   Answer: Hermione Granger

7. What is Voldemort’s real name?
   Answer: Tom Marvolo Riddle

8. Who is the potions master in Harry’s first year?
   Answer: Severus Snape

9. What is the name of Hagrid’s giant half-brother?
   Answer: Grawp

10. Who teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts in Harry’s third year?
    Answer: Remus Lupin

Magical Creatures

1. What is the name of Hagrid’s three-headed dog?
   Answer: Fluffy

2. What type of creature is Buckbeak?
   Answer: Hippogriff

3. What are the creatures that pull the carriages to Hogwarts?
   Answer: Thestrals

4. What is the name of the snake belonging to Voldemort?
   Answer: Nagini

5. What is the name of the giant spider in the Forbidden Forest?
   Answer: Aragog

6. What is a Boggart?
   Answer: A shape-shifting creature that takes the form of a person’s worst fear.

7. What type of creature is Fawkes?
   Answer: Phoenix

8. What is the name of the giant snake that lives in the Chamber of Secrets?
   Answer: Basilisk

9. What creature did Harry face in the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: Hungarian Horntail (dragon)

10. What type of creature is Dobby?
    Answer: House-elf

Spells & Potions

1. What spell is used to levitate objects?
   Answer: Wingardium Leviosa

2. What potion is also known as Liquid Luck?
   Answer: Felix Felicis

3. What spell is used to summon objects?
   Answer: Accio

4. What does the spell “Obliviate” do?
   Answer: Erases memories

5. What does the spell “Sectumsempra” do?
   Answer: Inflicts deep wounds on the target, as if slashed by a sword.

6. What potion allows the drinker to take on the appearance of someone else?
   Answer: Polyjuice Potion

7. What spell did Hermione use to free the house-elves from the kitchens?
   Answer: She didn’t use a spell; she left clothes hidden for them.

8. What does “Alohomora” do?
   Answer: Unlocks doors

9. What is the incantation for the Patronus Charm?
   Answer: Expecto Patronum

10. What potion allows the drinker to breathe underwater?
    Answer: Gillyweed (Herb) / The correct potion is the Draught of Living Death

Places

1. What is the name of the village near Hogwarts where students can visit?
   Answer: Hogsmeade

2. Where is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets?
   Answer: In Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom

3. What is the name of the wizarding bank?
   Answer: Gringotts

4. What is the address of the Dursleys’ house?
   Answer: 4 Privet Drive

5. What is the name of the shop where Harry buys his wand?
   Answer: Ollivanders

6. Where do the Weasleys live?
   Answer: The Burrow

7. What is the name of the train station where the Hogwarts Express departs?
   Answer: King’s Cross Station

8. What is the platform number for the Hogwarts Express?
   Answer: Platform 9¾

9. What is the name of the prison guarded by Dementors?
   Answer: Azkaban

10. Where was the final battle with Voldemort fought?
    Answer: Hogwarts

Magical Objects

1. What is the name of the cloak that Harry receives in his first year?
   Answer: Invisibility Cloak

2. What does the Marauder’s Map show?
   Answer: The entire layout of Hogwarts, including the locations of people within it.

3. What are the Deathly Hallows?
   Answer: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak

4. What does the Mirror of Erised show?
   Answer: The deepest desire of the person looking into it

5. What is the name of the sword that can destroy Horcruxes?
   Answer: The Sword of Gryffindor

6. What does the Sorting Hat do?
   Answer: It sorts students into their Hogwarts houses.

7. What does a Remembrall do?
   Answer: It turns red when its owner has forgotten something.

8. What is the name of the journal that Tom Riddle used as a Horcrux?
   Answer: Tom Riddle’s Diary

9. What is the name of the cup that is a Portkey in the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: The Triwizard Cup

10. What is the name of Dumbledore’s wand?
    Answer: The Elder Wand

Hogwarts Professors

1. Who teaches Potions after Snape becomes Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher?
   Answer: Horace Slughorn

2. Who is the Care of Magical Creatures teacher before Hagrid?
   Answer: Professor Kettleburn

3. Who is the head of Slytherin House?
   Answer: Severus Snape

4. Who is the Hogwarts librarian?
   Answer: Madam Irma Pince

5. Who teaches Herbology?
   Answer: Professor Sprout

6. Who teaches Charms?
   Answer: Professor Flitwick

7. Who is the Astronomy teacher?
   Answer: Professor Sinistra

8. Who teaches Divination before Professor Trelawney?
   Answer: She is the first known Divination teacher during Harry’s time.

9. Who is the Hogwarts caretaker?
   Answer: Argus Filch

10. Who teaches Muggle Studies during Harry’s time at Hogwarts?
    Answer: Charity Burbage (before she is replaced by Alecto Carrow)

Potions

1. What potion is known for its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen and emits large, lazy spirals of steam?
   Answer: Amortentia

2. What is the effect of Amortentia?
   Answer: It causes a powerful infatuation or obsession.

3. Which potion is used to cure boils?
   Answer: The Boil-Cure Potion

4. What ingredient is required for the Polyjuice Potion but not used in its brewing?
   Answer: A piece of the person to be transformed into

5. What potion did Harry brew successfully in his sixth year, winning the Felix Felicis?
   Answer: Draught of Living Death

6. What does the Wolfsbane Potion do?
   Answer: It allows a werewolf to keep their human mind during a full moon.

7. What potion is used as an antidote to Veritaserum?
   Answer: There isn’t a specific antidote, but Occlumency can be used to resist it.

8. What is the name of the potion that regrows bones?
   Answer: Skele-Gro

9. What does the Pepperup Potion cure?
   Answer: The common cold

10. What is the potion that grants the drinker good luck for a period of time?
    Answer: Felix Felicis

Spells

1. What spell is used to repair broken objects?
   Answer: Reparo

2. What is the incantation for the Shield Charm?
   Answer: Protego

3. What spell is used to repel Dementors?
   Answer: Expecto Patronum

4. What is the incantation for the Summoning Charm?
   Answer: Accio

5. What spell did Gilderoy Lockhart accidentally use on himself?
   Answer: Obliviate

6. What spell causes a wand to emit light?
   Answer: Lumos

7. What is the spell for turning off the light from a wand?
   Answer: Nox

8. What spell would you use to unlock a door?
   Answer: Alohomora

9. What spell is used to conjure a Patronus?
   Answer: Expecto Patronum

10. What spell can summon the Dark Mark?
    Answer: Morsmordre

House Points

1. How many points does Harry win for Gryffindor at the end of his first year for bravery?
   Answer: 60 points (50 for defeating Quirrell/Voldemort and 10 for playing a good game of chess)

2. How many points does Hermione win for Gryffindor for the use of logic in the Philosopher’s Stone?
   Answer: 50 points

3. How many points does Neville Longbottom win for standing up to his friends?
   Answer: 10 points

4. How many points did Dobby take from Gryffindor for Harry’s late-night duel with Draco?
   Answer: Dobby didn’t take points; he tried to prevent Harry from returning to school.

5. How many points were taken from Gryffindor when Harry and Hermione were caught by McGonagall after the Norbert incident?
   Answer: 150 points (50 each from Harry, Hermione, and Neville)

6. How many points did Ron lose for being caught out of bed by Professor McGonagall?
   Answer: Ron didn’t lose points on this occasion; it was Harry, Hermione, and Neville.

7. Who awarded Harry points for saving Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets?
   Answer: No points were explicitly awarded in the book.

8. Which teacher awarded Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville the final house points that won Gryffindor the House Cup in their first year?
   Answer: Professor Dumbledore

9. Who was awarded the most points at the end of the Philosopher’s Stone?
   Answer: Harry Potter (60 points)

10. How many points were awarded to Hermione for successfully brewing the Draught of Living Death?
    Answer: 10 points

Quidditch

1. What is the position Harry plays in Quidditch?
   Answer: Seeker

2. What is the name of the ball used to score points in Quidditch?
   Answer: Quaffle

3. What are the small, dangerous balls called that try to knock players off their brooms?
   Answer: Bludgers

4. Who is the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team in Harry’s first year?
   Answer: Oliver Wood

5. What is the name of the Quidditch World Cup referee in the Goblet of Fire?
   Answer: Hassan Mostafa

6. Who did the Irish team beat in the Quidditch World Cup final?
   Answer: Bulgaria

7. What is the name of the professional Quidditch team that Ginny Weasley joins?
   Answer: Holyhead Harpies

8. What is the fastest broomstick in Harry’s first year?
   Answer: Nimbus 2000

9. Which team does Viktor Krum play for?
   Answer: Bulgaria

10. What is the name of the broomstick Harry receives in his third year?
    Answer: Firebolt

Dark Arts

1. What is the curse that causes unbearable pain?
   Answer: Cruciatus Curse (Crucio)

2. What is the curse that kills instantly?
   Answer: Killing Curse (Avada Kedavra)

3. What is the curse that controls another person’s actions?
   Answer: Imperius Curse (Imperio)

4. What is the name of the dark wizard that Dumbledore defeated in 1945?
   Answer: Gellert Grindelwald

5. What does the Dark Mark signify?
   Answer: The symbol of Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters

6. Who is the first person to escape from Azkaban?
   Answer: Sirius Black

7. What spell did Tom Riddle use to open the Chamber of Secrets?
   Answer: Parseltongue (not a spell, but a language)

8. What is the name of Voldemort’s loyal snake?
   Answer: Nagini

9. Who is the secret keeper of the Potters’ home?
   Answer: Peter Pettigrew

10. What does Voldemort mean?
    Answer: Flight from Death (from French “vol de mort”)

Wizarding World

1. What is the name of the sport played by wizards on broomsticks?
   Answer: Quidditch

2. What is the name of the wizarding newspaper?
   Answer: The Daily Prophet

3. What are the non-magical people called in the wizarding world?
   Answer: Muggles

4. What is the name of the street where the Leaky Cauldron is located?
   Answer: Diagon Alley

5. What is the name of the magical government in Britain?
   Answer: The Ministry of Magic

6. What is the name of the charm used to hide the location of a place from outsiders?
   Answer: Fidelius Charm

7. What is the name of the potion that causes the drinker to tell the truth?
   Answer: Veritaserum

8. What is the name of the prison for wizards?
   Answer: Azkaban

9. What is the term for a wizard or witch who can transform into an animal?
   Answer: Animagus

10. What are the names of Harry’s parents?
    Answer: James and Lily Potter

Hogwarts Founders

1. Who is the founder of Gryffindor House?
   Answer: Godric Gryffindor

2. Who is the founder of Slytherin House?
   Answer: Salazar Slytherin

3. Who is the founder of Hufflepuff House?
   Answer: Helga Hufflepuff

4. Who is the founder of Ravenclaw House?
   Answer: Rowena Ravenclaw

5. Which founder wanted to keep the school pure-blood only?
   Answer: Salazar Slytherin

6. What object did Godric Gryffindor leave behind?
   Answer: The Sword of Gryffindor

7. What object did Rowena Ravenclaw leave behind?
   Answer: Ravenclaw’s Diadem

8. What object did Helga Hufflepuff leave behind?
   Answer: Hufflepuff’s Cup

9. What creature did Salazar Slytherin leave behind?
   Answer: The Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets

10. Who did the founders choose to be the headmaster after they were gone?
    Answer: They didn’t choose; the headmaster is selected later by other means.

Miscellaneous

1. What does Hermione use to travel back in time in her third year?
   Answer: Time-Turner

2. What does the spell “Engorgio” do?
   Answer: Enlarges an object

3. What is the name of the first book in the series?
   Answer: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Sorcerer’s Stone in the US)

4. Who is the first person Harry meets in the wizarding world?
   Answer: Hagrid

5. What is the spell to summon the Dark Mark?
   Answer: Morsmordre

6. Who is the conductor of the Knight Bus?
   Answer: Stan Shunpike

7. What are the enchanted coins used by Dumbledore’s Army called?
   Answer: They didn’t have a specific name but were enchanted Galleons.

8. What does Hermione turn into using Polyjuice Potion?
   Answer: A cat (accidentally)

9. What form does Harry’s Patronus take?
   Answer: A stag

10. What form does Hermione’s Patronus take?
    Answer: An otter

Books & Authors

1. Who wrote “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”?
   Answer: Newt Scamander

2. Who wrote “A History of Magic”?
   Answer: Bathilda Bagshot

3. Who wrote “Magical Me”?
   Answer: Gilderoy Lockhart

4. Who wrote “The Tales of Beedle the Bard”?
   Answer: Beedle the Bard

5. Who wrote “Quidditch Through the Ages”?
   Answer: Kennilworthy Whisp

6. Who wrote “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore”?
   Answer: Rita Skeeter

7. Who wrote “The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection”?
   Answer: Quentin Trimble

8. Who wrote “The Monster Book of Monsters”?
   Answer: Unknown

9. Who wrote “One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi”?
   Answer: Phyllida Spore

10. Who wrote “Magical Drafts and Potions”?
    Answer: Arsenius Jigger

Hogwarts Express

1. Where does the Hogwarts Express depart from?
   Answer: King’s Cross Station

2. What is the number of the train?
   Answer: 5972

3. How do you access Platform 9¾?
   Answer: By walking through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10

4. Who first tells Harry how to find Platform 9¾?
   Answer: Mrs. Weasley

5. What is the name of the trolley witch on the Hogwarts Express?
   Answer: The trolley witch is unnamed in the books, but she sells sweets like Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.

6. What time does the Hogwarts Express leave?
   Answer: 11:00 AM

7. What time does the Hogwarts Express arrive at Hogwarts?
   Answer: It varies, but usually just before dark.

8. Who tried to hijack the Hogwarts Express in “The Cursed Child”?
   Answer: The trolley witch attempted to stop Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy.

9. What sweet did Harry first buy on the Hogwarts Express?
   Answer: Chocolate Frog

10. Which ghostly figure did Harry first meet on the Hogwarts Express?
    Answer: He didn’t meet any ghostly figures on the train.

Patronuses

1. What is Ron Weasley’s Patronus?
   Answer: A Jack Russell Terrier

2. What is Luna Lovegood’s Patronus?
   Answer: A hare

3. What is Severus Snape’s Patronus?
   Answer: A doe

4. What is Albus Dumbledore’s Patronus?
   Answer: A phoenix

5. What is Ginny Weasley’s Patronus?
   Answer: A horse

6. What is Cho Chang’s Patronus?
   Answer: A swan

7. What is Minerva McGonagall’s Patronus?
   Answer: A cat

8. What is Kingsley Shacklebolt’s Patronus?
   Answer: A lynx

9. What is Aberforth Dumbledore’s Patronus?
   Answer: A goat

10. What is Dolores Umbridge’s Patronus?
    Answer: A cat

The Triwizard Tournament

1. What are the names of the three tasks in the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: The First Task (Dragon Task), The Second Task (Lake Task), The Third Task (Maze Task)

2. What is the name of the object that selects the Triwizard champions?
   Answer: The Goblet of Fire

3. What did Harry use to breathe underwater during the Second Task?
   Answer: Gillyweed

4. What was the form of Viktor Krum’s partial Transfiguration in the Third Task?
   Answer: Shark head

5. Who is the champion for Durmstrang in the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: Viktor Krum

6. Who is the champion for Beauxbatons in the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: Fleur Delacour

7. Who is the Hogwarts champion for the Triwizard Tournament besides Harry?
   Answer: Cedric Diggory

8. What is the name of the Dark wizard who rigged the Triwizard Tournament to bring Harry to Voldemort?
   Answer: Barty Crouch Jr.

9. What creature did Harry face in the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament?
   Answer: Hungarian Horntail

10. What did Fleur Delacour face in the Second Task?
    Answer: Grindylows

The Order of the Phoenix

1. Who is the leader of the Order of the Phoenix?
   Answer: Albus Dumbledore

2. What is the address of the Order’s headquarters?
   Answer: 12 Grimmauld Place

3. Who is the secret keeper for the Order of the Phoenix’s headquarters?
   Answer: Albus Dumbledore

4. Who betrayed the Order by becoming a Death Eater?
   Answer: Severus Snape (though he was working as a double agent)

5. Who is the only known person to have survived the Killing Curse?
   Answer: Harry Potter

6. Who founded the Order of the Phoenix?
   Answer: Albus Dumbledore

7. Who was the first person to die in the Battle of the Seven Potters?
   Answer: Hedwig (Harry’s owl)

8. What does the Order of the Phoenix fight against?
   Answer: The Death Eaters and Voldemort

9. Who killed Sirius Black?
   Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange

10. What is the name of the prophecy concerning Harry and Voldemort?
    Answer: The Prophecy of the Chosen One (often referred to as “The Prophecy”)