No doubt all of you know exactly what gillyweed is. Or just how ferocious a blast-ended screwt can be. Or what, for that matter, are the rules of playing quidditch. For all you Pottermaniacs, here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Harry Potter and his magical milieu.

1. Identify this actor who plays Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter films.

2. According to the book, Quidditch Through the Ages what is the name of the damp stretch of nettle-filled land where the game of Quidditch originated?

3. Name the two sons of the British giant Fridwulfa.

4.Which of the four founders of Hogwarts is believed to have come up with the ever-changing floor plan of the wizarding school?

5. Firenze is a member of which race of creatures who are regarded in Greek mythology to be descendants of King Ixion and dwellers of the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia?

6.Identify the location.

7. What present did Harry receive from Hagrid on his birthday on July 31, 1991 as described in the first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?

8.The entrance to what is hidden behind a sink in a bathroom on the second floor of the school?

9. How do we better know Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, executed on October 31, 1492 when he was hit 45 times in the neck with a blunt axe?

10. In the first Harry Potter film, what was portrayed with the number 5972 and was named ‘Olton Hall’?

11. What type of creature is Buckbeak?

12. Where are you most likely to meet Ernie Prang, an elderly wizard wearing very thick glasses?

13. Which wand was used by Harry only once, when he used it to fix his own wand with the spell Reparo?

14. Who duelled with and finished off the murderous Bellatrix Lestrange thus avenging the Longbottoms, Sirius, Dobby and Tonks?

15. Whose parents were given new names, Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and had their memory modified, so that they would not be targeted by Death Eaters?

16. What does Madame Hooch teach at Hogwarts?

17. Bowman Wright, a metal charmer, from the 1300s, is the inventor of which popular sporting object?

18. While in school, which male Acromantula did Hagrid rear in a cupboard at Hogwarts by feeding it on table scraps?

19. The motto of which illustrous wizarding family is Toujours pur meaning ‘always pure’ in French?

20.. Which is the only spell that Hermione has trouble with?

21. From which country does Viktor Krum, the champion Quidditch player hail?

22.. What is the name of the school that Vernon Dursley tells neighbours and relatives that Harry attends, so they don’t wonder about his strange behaviour or disappearances?

23.Who was the first British director of the Harry Potter series of films?

24. Which entirely wizarding village of Scotland was founded by Hengist of Woodcroft as he was fleeing persecution by
muggles?

25. After the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling wrote a set of fairytales and gave it the same name as the book that was given to Hermione by Dumbledore. What was it called

Answers

1. Robbie Coltrane 2. Queerditch Marsh 3. Hagrid and Gwarp 4. Rowena Ravenclaw 5. Centaur 6. Azkaban Prison 7. His pet owl, Hedwig 8. The Chamber of Secrets 9. Nearly Headless Nick 10. The Hogwarts Express 11. It is a grey coloured hippogriff 12. The Knight Bus 13. The Elder Wand — one of the Deathly Hallows 14. Molly Weasley 15. Hermione Granger 16. She is the quidditch coach, referee and flying instructor 17. The Golden Snitch 18. Aragog 19. The Black family 20. The Expecto Patronum spell for the Patronus charm 21. Bulgaria 22. St. Brutus’s Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys 23. Mike Newell 24. Hogsmeade 25. The Tales of Beedle the Bard