So you think you know Harry Potter, do you? You say you've seen all seven movies a dozen times each and had a ticket for the midnight premiere of the final movie instalment?
You may have a wand from Ollivander's and an ample supply of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, but Muggle, if you haven't read - devoured, actually - the Harry Potter books, then you've got as much chance of passing our Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Trivia exam as Neville has of getting a passing grade in potions.
If you have a time-turner, then use it to go back and study the books. Then get out your quill and parchment, and begin.
Potions
1 When did we first learn of the properties of a bezoar?
2 Harry and Hermione each smelled three things when they sniffed Amortentia, the strongest love potion in the wizarding world. What were they?
3 In what book do we first learn there is a potion called the Draught of Living Death?
4 Name three key ingredients in Polyjuice Potion.
Defence against the dark arts
1 To guard against Death Eaters masquerading as friends, the Ministry of Magic recommended setting up coded questions that no Death Eater could answer.
What did Molly Weasley like her husband to call her in moments of intimacy?
2 Name the Patronus for each witch or wizard:
a) Harry
b) Ron
c) Hermione
d) Ginny
e) Luna
f) Seamus
g) Cho Chang
h) Ernie MacMillan
i) Professor Dumbledore
j) Professor McGonagall
k) Professor Umbridge
l) Aberforth Dumbledore
m) Professor Snape
n) Tonks
o) Arthur Weasley
p) Kingsley Shacklebolt
3 What did the boggart turn into when it faced, in turn, Ron, Neville and Seamus?
Charms
1 Hermione excelled at charms. If she were to use these charms on you, what would happen to you?
a) Muffliato
b) Expelliarmus
c) Levicorpus
For extra credit, name three charms Harry learned from the Half-Blood Prince.
2 What are the three D's of disapparition?
Transfiguration
1 What is the third rule of Gamp's Law?
2 What creatures did James Potter, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black transform into?
3 Who else are animagi?
Care of magical creatures
1 We encounter a number of house elves in our seven years with Harry Potter. What was the name of Hepzibah Smith's house elf, who was wrongly blamed for her death?
2 How do you tell a Knarl from a hedgehog?
3 What attracts Nifflers?
4 A number of people have pets. Name 10 animals or creatures.
Herbology
1 What's the secret to transplanting young mandrakes?
2 What is Professor Sprout's favourite brand of fertiliser?
3 What is gillyweed good for?
4 What does the warning sign outside the Lovegoods' home say?
Divination
1 When making up a dream journal for Professor Trelawney, what did Harry say he dreamed he was doing to Professor Snape?
2 What did Professor Trelawney see in Harry's tea leaves the first day in class?
3 During his OWL test, what did Ron see in the crystal ball?
4 Centaurs are great readers of the stars, but not great conversationalists. When Hagrid encounters the centaur Ronan in the Forbidden Forest and asks if he's seen anything that might be injuring unicorns, what is the only bit of information Hagrid obtains?
5 True or false - Firenze took over from Professor Trelawney when Umbridge fired her, and turned her classroom into a woodland forest.
6 How many real prophecies from Professor Trelawney are we aware of, and what were they?
~ HERMIONE'S EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS ~
1 When Harry, Hermione and Ron are attempting to reach the Philosopher's Stone, there are seven obstacles they face. Name them, in order, and identify who set them up.
2 In what book did we first meet Dedalus Diggle?
3 Who was Fabian Prewett?
4 Name three things Hagrid brought to the isolated island where the Dursleys had fled to escape the onslaught of owls.
5 Name the countries competing in the Quidditch World Cup and the final score.
6 Name seven maladies and mishaps that landed Harry in the hospital wing.
7 Whom did Harry and the gang meet in the locked ward at St Mungo Hospital for Magical Injuries and Maladies?
8 Name everyone petrified by the basilisk in the second book.
9 What is the name of the oh-so-cute tea shop where lovers meet in Hogsmeade?
10 One of the things we loved about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was the people you innocently meet along the way who turn out to have some prominence in later books. Identify the book where we are first introduced to these people or at least hear their name mentioned:
a) Arabella Figg
b) Aberforth
c) Sirius Black
d) Dedalus Diggle
e) Mafalda Hopkirk
f) Penelope Clearwater
g) Tom Riddle
h) The Lovegoods
11 The mother-and-son theme runs through all of the Harry Potter books. Tell us the name of each character's mum.
a) Harry
b) Ron
c) Voldemort
d) Hermione
e) Draco
f) Tonks
g) Dudley
h) Neville
i) Dumbledore
j) Teddy Lupin
k) Fleur
l) Victoire
m) Snape
n) Albus Severus Potter
12 The Fat Lady won't let just anyone into Gryffindor Tower. Name at least five passwords used in the books.
13 In the seven years the books span, there were four Ministers of Magic. Name them.
14 There will only be one headmaster of Hogwarts in our hearts, but the post has been filled by others. Name seven others who were mentioned in the books. And it's not fair listing Albus Dumbledore.
15 Harry quickly learns that not everything is obvious in the magical world, especially entrances into buildings. We'll give you the place, you tell us how to get in.
a) St Mungo's
b) Ministry of Magic
c) Hogwarts
d) Shrieking Shack
16 Name at least five magical ways to travel.
17 Who gave Harry his first broomstick, and what was the occasion?
18 What does Ginny say Harry has tattooed on his chest? And Ron?
19 What is the grading system at Hogwarts, and what does each letter grade stand for?
20 What's the only course in which Hermione fails to receive an O during her Ordinary Wizarding Level exams?
21 What is Professor Dumbledore's full name?
22 In photographs of Quidditch teams, who traditionally sits in the centre?
23 Who taught Muggle studies, with deadly consequences in the seventh book?
24 What time does the Hogwarts Express leave?
25 When Harry and Professor Dumbledore pay a visit to Professor Slughorn to speak to him about resuming his old teaching post, Slughorn attempts to avoid them by unsuccessfully staging a scene. What gives him away?
ANSWERS:
Potions
1. In the first book, the first day in potions class.
2. Hermione smelled fresh-cut grass, new parchment and toothpaste. Harry detected the aroma of treacle tart, the polished handle of a broomstick and "something flowery that he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow."
3. The first book.
4. Shredded boomslang skin, lacewing flies that have been stewed for 21 days, fluxweed picked at the full moon, leeches, knotgrass, the powdered horn of a Bicorn and, according to Hermione, "a bit of whoever we want to change into."
Defence against the dark arts
1. Mollywobbles.
2. a) stag; b) Jack Russell terrier; c) otter; d) horse; e) hare; f) fox; g) swan; h) boar; i) phoenix; j) tabby cat; k) cat; l) goat; m) doe; n) werewolf; o) weasel; p) lynx.
3. Ron's boggart turned into a spider; Neville's turned into Professor Snape; Seamus' boggart became a banshee.
Charms
1. a) Your ears would fill with a buzzing sound if you tried to eavesdrop; b) you'd lose your wand or whatever you were holding; c) you'd be hoisted into the air by your ankle. Extra credit: Levicorpus, Muffliato, Langlock, a hex to make toenails grow rapidly and Sectumsempra.
2. Destination, determination, deliberation.
Transfiguration
1. You can't create food. You can make more if you have it, you can summon it, you can transfigure it, but you can't create it from nothing.
2. Stag, rat, dog.
3. Professor McGonagall, Rita Skeeter.
Care of magical creatures
1. Hokey.
2. Offer it some milk; the Knarl is highly suspicious and will go berserk, thinking you're trying to poison it.
3. Anything shiny. They're especially good at finding gold.
4. Mrs Norris, Fang, Fluffy, Scabbers, Norbert (Norberta), Crookshanks, Errol, Hermes, Hedwig, Pigwidgeon, Trevor, Fawkes, Mr Tibbles, Arnold and an assortment of unnamed goats.
Herbology
1. You have to wear earmuffs and move quickly.
2. Dragon dung fertiliser.
3. Underwater exploration. It transforms you into a sea creature with gills, webbed hands and flippers.
4. "Keep off the dirigible plums."
Divination
1. Drowning him in a cauldron.
2. The Grim, except Ron said it looked like a hippo or a sheep.
3. An ugly old man with a wart on his nose, who turned out to be the examiner. Clearly, Ron had issues with divination.
4. "Mars is bright tonight."
5. False. He took over the class, but being unable to climb the ladder to Professor Trelawney's tower, he had a ground-floor classroom.
6. Two. She predicted Harry's birth and the fall of Voldemort; in the third book, she predicted Voldemort's return to power.
GRADING: Score one point for every correct answer, including each item named on lists.
70-60: The Ministry of Magic would like to offer you a job.
59-45: You're no Hermione Granger, but then, who is?
44-30: You spent too much time on the Quidditch pitch and not enough time in the library.
29-15: Oh, you'll be sitting extra lessons with Professor Snape.
14-0: Have you considered a career as a mountain troll?
Extra-credit answers
1. Three-headed dog, Hagrid; devil's snare, Professor Sprout; winged keys, Professor Flitwick; giant wizarding chess set, Professor McGonagall; mountain troll, Professor Quirrell; logic test with potions bottles, Professor Snape; Mirror of Erised, Professor Dumbledore.
2. The first book. He came up to Harry on the street, before Harry knew of his magical past; and Professor McGonagall suspects he's responsible for the shower of shooting stars over Kent when the wizarding world celebrates the fall of Voldemort the first time.
3. Molly Weasley's brother and one of the original members of the Order of the Phoenix.
4. His flowery pink umbrella, a slightly squashed birthday cake for Harry, and a packet of sausages.
5. Ireland and Bulgaria; Ireland won, 170-160.
6. An encounter with Voldemort in book one; having all the bones in his right arm removed by Gilderoy Lockhart; an encounter with Tom Riddle and a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets; falling from his broom when a Quidditch match is interrupted by dementors; being overtaken by dementors when trying to save Sirius; an encounter with Voldemort in the graveyard, plus being bitten by a giant spider in the maze; getting hit on the head with a beater's bat during a Quidditch match.
7. Neville's parents and Gilderoy Lockhart.
8. Mrs Norris, Colin Creavey, Justin Finch-Fletchly, Nearly Headless Nick, Hermione and Penelope Clearwater.
9. Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop.
10. a) The Philosopher's Stone - she is identified as Harry's occasional sitter; b) Goblet of Fire - his brother, Albus, mentions Aberforth and his conviction for improprieties with goats; c) The Philosopher's Stone - Hagrid says he borrowed the flying motorbike from young Sirius Black; d) The Philosopher's Stone - Professor McGonagall thinks Diggle is responsible for the shower of shooting stars; e) Chamber of Secrets - Although she will later be impersonated by Hermione when she, Harry and Ron break into the Ministry of Magic, she writes Harry a warning letter in the second book about using magic out of school and in the proximity of Muggles, even though it was Dobby who did the deed; f) Chamber of Secrets - she's Percy Weasley's secret girlfriend; g) Chamber of Secrets - Ginny, and later Harry, finds his diary, and Ron belches slugs all over Riddle's "special service to the school" trophy; h) Goblet of Fire - While waiting on the hilltop to take the port key to the Quidditch World Cup, Amos Diggory mentions the Lovegoods. We don't actually meet Luna until Order of the Phoenix.
11. a) Lily; b) Molly; c) Merope; d) her name is never revealed, although after Hermione modifies her parents' memories, she becomes Monica Wilkins; e) Narcissa; f) Andromeda; g) Petunia; h) Alice; i) Kendra; j) Tonks; k) Apolline; l) Fleur; m) Eileen Prince; n) Ginny.
12. Abstinence, Mimbulus mimbletonia, Caput Draconis, Pig Snout, Wattlebird, Fortuna Major, Flibbertigibbet, Oddsbodkins, Scurvy Cur, Balderdash, Banana Fritters, Fairy Lights, Baubles, Dilligrout, Tapeworm, Quid Agis.
13. Cornelius Fudge, Rufus Scrimgeour, Pius Thicknesse, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
14. Dilys Derwent (the healer), Phineas Nigellus Black, Armando Dippit, Professor McGonagall (acting), Professor Umbridge, Professor Snape and Everard.
15. a) Through the window of Purge and Dowse Ltd; b) Telephone booth, fireplaces and loos; c) Main gates, secret passage from Honeydukes that comes up under the one-eyed witch, through Ariana Dumbledore's portrait at the Hog's Head; d) Through a passage beneath the Whomping Willow
16. Floo powder, disapparition, port key, brooms, thestrals, hippogriff, flying carpets (until they were banned), flying car and flying motorcycle.
17. Sirius; it was a gift for Harry's first birthday.
18. A Hungarian Horntail; a pygmy puff.
19. O outstanding, E exceeds expectations, A acceptable, P poor, D dreadful, T troll.
20. Defence against the dark arts; she received a mere E.
21. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
22. The seeker.
23. Charity Burbage.
24. 11am sharp.
25. Although he tried to make it look as if Death Eaters had come calling, he didn't set the Dark Mark above the house.
EXTRA CREDIT GRADING
101-90, O; 89-70, E; 69-50, A; 49-30, P; 29-10, D; 9-0, T.
