Seven days of questions and answers

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 2 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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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.

Daily round

  1. Which Horcrux is destroyed with a basilisk fang in the Chamber of Secrets?

    Answer: Tom Riddle’s diary

    Harry destroys Tom Riddle’s diary with a basilisk fang in the Chamber of Secrets.

  2. Which subject does McGonagall teach?

    Answer: Transfiguration

    She teaches Transfiguration.

  3. Which incantation opens many ordinary locked doors?

    Answer: Alohomora

    Alohomora is the incantation used to open many locked doors.

  4. Which creatures can the Patronus Charm repel?

    Answer: Dementors

    A corporeal Patronus can drive away Dementors.

  5. What core is inside Harry’s wand?

    Answer: phoenix feather

    His wand contains a phoenix-feather core.