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Harry Potter Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 8 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which Hogwarts headmaster guides Harry through most of his school years?

    Answer: Albus Dumbledore

    Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster who guides Harry through much of the story.

  2. Which wizard owns Hedwig?

    Answer: Harry Potter

    Harry Potter owns Hedwig.

  3. Which defensive spell does Harry use especially often?

    Answer: Expelliarmus

    Harry uses it as a signature defensive spell.

  4. Which incantation disarms an opponent?

    Answer: Expelliarmus

    Expelliarmus is the incantation that knocks an object from an opponent’s hand.

  5. How many balls are used in a Quidditch match?

    Answer: four balls

    A Quidditch match uses four balls.

Daily round

  1. Which incantation lights the tip of a wand?

    Answer: Lumos

    Lumos is the incantation creating light at a wand tip.

  2. Which spell can magically seal a door against Alohomora?

    Answer: Colloportus

    Colloportus magically seals a door and can counter ordinary use of Alohomora.

  3. Where is Slytherin’s common room located?

    Answer: beneath the lake

    Its common room is beneath the lake.

  4. Which player pursues the Golden Snitch?

    Answer: Seeker

    The Seeker pursues the Golden Snitch.

  5. Which Hogwarts house does Ron join?

    Answer: Gryffindor

    Ron Weasley joins Gryffindor.

Daily round

  1. What must a student answer to enter Ravenclaw Tower?

    Answer: a riddle

    Its tower entrance asks a riddle.

  2. Which Hogwarts house values loyalty and hard work?

    Answer: Hufflepuff

    Hufflepuff is the Hogwarts house valuing loyalty and hard work.

  3. What does the Sorting Hat consider besides a student’s traits?

    Answer: the student’s choices

    The Sorting Hat considers a student’s choices as well as personal qualities.

  4. Which four nicknames identify the map’s creators?

    Answer: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

    The map's creators are Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.

  5. Which student group practices there?

    Answer: Dumbledore’s Army

    Dumbledore’s Army practices there.

Daily round

  1. Which Hogwarts chamber contains four long house tables?

    Answer: Great Hall

    Great Hall is the large Hogwarts chamber used for meals and ceremonies.

  2. Which London station contains that platform?

    Answer: King’s Cross

    It departs from King’s Cross Station.

  3. What species of giant spider is Aragog?

    Answer: Acromantula

    He is an Acromantula.

  4. What healing property do Fawkes’s tears possess?

    Answer: they heal wounds

    His tears have healing powers.

  5. Who anonymously gives Harry the Invisibility Cloak at Christmas?

    Answer: Albus Dumbledore

    Dumbledore anonymously returns James Potter’s Invisibility Cloak to Harry at Christmas.

Daily round

  1. What distinctive markings appear around McGonagall’s Animagus eyes?

    Answer: spectacle-shaped markings

    McGonagall’s tabby-cat Animagus form has markings around its eyes that resemble her spectacles.

  2. Which scarlet train carries students to Hogwarts?

    Answer: Hogwarts Express

    Hogwarts Express is the scarlet train carrying students to school.

  3. Which animal symbolizes Hufflepuff?

    Answer: badger

    The badger symbolizes Hufflepuff.

  4. Who uses Alohomora during Harry’s first year?

    Answer: Hermione Granger

    Hermione Granger uses Alohomora to unlock a forbidden corridor door during her first year.

  5. Which animal symbolizes Ravenclaw in the novels?

    Answer: eagle

    The eagle symbolizes Ravenclaw.

Daily round

  1. Which chamber appears when a Hogwarts student truly needs it?

    Answer: Room of Requirement

    Room of Requirement is the chamber that appears when a person genuinely needs it.

  2. Who buys Hedwig for Harry?

    Answer: Hagrid

    Hagrid buys her in Diagon Alley.

  3. Which Peverell brother first owned Harry’s cloak?

    Answer: Ignotus Peverell

    Ignotus Peverell first owned Harry's Invisibility Cloak.

  4. Which ceremony welcomes new students in the Great Hall?

    Answer: the Sorting Ceremony

    The annual Sorting Ceremony places new Hogwarts students into houses in the Great Hall.

  5. What is the name of Aragog’s mate?

    Answer: Mosag

    Aragog lives with his mate Mosag and their offspring in the Forbidden Forest.

Daily round

  1. What is the name of Voldemort’s snake?

    Answer: Nagini

    Voldemort’s snake and Horcrux is named Nagini.

  2. Who founded Ravenclaw house?

    Answer: Rowena Ravenclaw

    Rowena Ravenclaw founded the Hogwarts house that bears her surname.

  3. In which castle is the Great Hall located?

    Answer: Hogwarts Castle

    Great Hall is located in Hogwarts Castle.

  4. Through which parent does Harry inherit it?

    Answer: his father James

    Harry inherits it through his father.

  5. Which Hogwarts house did Snape belong to?

    Answer: Slytherin

    Severus Snape belonged to Slytherin.