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This is our complete bank of 105 Harry Potter trivia questions with answers, organized into ten themed rounds the way a real trivia night runs them — a warm-up on the basics, deep rounds on Hogwarts, the characters, spells and magical objects, a creatures round, a villains round, separate rounds for the books and the films, and a closing stats round on the records. Click any question to reveal the answer plus a fact worth remembering. Every answer was verified against Wikipedia and the published books and films before publication, so you can quote these at your next trivia night with confidence. If you're preparing, start with the study guide below, then pressure-test yourself with our interactive 165-question Harry Potter quiz — the largest quiz on our site — or browse the rest of our film trivia.
Every wizarding trivia night starts here. Miss one and you're basically a Muggle.
7 books and 8 films — the final book, Deathly Hallows, was split into two movies.
J.K. Rowling — who famously plotted much of it on napkins and notebooks, writing in Edinburgh cafés.
1997, as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in the UK — retitled Sorcerer's Stone for the US in 1998.
The Boy Who Lived — the only known survivor of the Killing Curse.
A lightning bolt — on his forehead, left by Voldemort's failed curse.
Platform 9¾ at King's Cross station — reached by running at the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. There's a real sign (and trolley) at King's Cross today.
A snowy owl — Harry's 11th-birthday gift from Hagrid.
Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey — with Harry in the cupboard under the stairs.
July 31 — a birthday he shares with J.K. Rowling herself.
James and Lily Potter — killed by Voldemort on Halloween night, 1981.
Founders, ghosts, mottos, and why you should never tickle a sleeping dragon.
Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff — each house still bears its founder's name.
Gryffindor the lion, Slytherin the serpent, Ravenclaw the eagle, Hufflepuff the badger. Yes — Ravenclaw's animal is an eagle, not a raven. Classic trick question.
Slytherin. "Not Slytherin, not Slytherin" — the Hat listened, and sent him to Gryffindor.
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus — "Never tickle a sleeping dragon."
Nearly Headless Nick — Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, whose botched beheading left his head attached by a flap.
Helena Ravenclaw — Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter, who stole her mother's diadem and was killed by the Bloody Baron, Slytherin's ghost.
It's enchanted to mirror the sky outside — described on Harry's very first night at Hogwarts.
A room that appears only when someone truly needs it — becoming whatever the seeker requires, from a training hall for Dumbledore's Army to a hiding place for a certain diadem.
The portrait of the Fat Lady — no password, no entry.
The Quaffle, two Bludgers, and the Golden Snitch. Harry plays Seeker — the youngest at Hogwarts in a century.
Albus Dumbledore — full name Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, holder of the Order of Merlin, First Class.
Seven Weasleys, one toad named Trevor, and the brightest witch of her age.
Harry James Potter, Hermione Jean Granger, and Ronald Bilius Weasley.
Crookshanks — the squashed-faced half-Kneazle who never trusted Scabbers. He was right.
He's Peter Pettigrew — an Animagus in hiding for twelve years, the man who betrayed Harry's parents.
Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny — Ginny being the first Weasley girl born in generations.
Neville Longbottom — pulling the Sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat during the Battle of Hogwarts.
Ravenclaw — and The Quibbler, the wizarding world's most open-minded magazine.
Keeper of Keys and Grounds — later also Care of Magical Creatures professor. His boarhound is named Fang.
A tabby cat — with square markings around the eyes, matching her spectacles.
Ginny Weasley — their children are James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna.
Trevor — perpetually escaping, starting on the very first Hogwarts Express ride.
It's levi-O-sa, not levio-SA. Exact wording wins points in this round especially.
Expelliarmus — the Disarming Charm, which he famously uses even against Voldemort himself.
Expecto Patronum — and Harry's Patronus is a stag, the same form his father took as an Animagus.
A doe — matching Lily Potter's, a silent declaration of his lifelong love. "Always."
Avada Kedavra (the Killing Curse), Crucio (the Cruciatus Curse), and Imperio (the Imperius Curse). Any one earns a life sentence in Azkaban.
Wingardium Leviosa — "It's levi-O-sa, not levio-SA." The levitation charm that later drops a troll's club on its own head.
Summons objects to the caster — most memorably Harry's Firebolt during the Hungarian Horntail task.
Lumos and Nox.
Transforms the drinker into another person — brewed illegally by Hermione in a bathroom in year two, with one hair-related cat mishap.
Liquid luck — the golden potion that makes everything go right for a day. Harry wins it in Slughorn's first class.
Riddikulus — which only works if you force the boggart into a genuinely funny shape. Neville's Snape in his grandmother's clothes remains the gold standard.
Alohomora — taught to the trio by Hermione, naturally, in book one.
I solemnly swear that this round is up to no good.
The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility — from "The Tale of the Three Brothers." Harry's cloak is the third Hallow itself.
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" to open, "Mischief managed" to wipe it clean.
Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter — the Marauders who made the map as students.
Your heart's deepest desire — "Erised" is "desire" backwards. Dumbledore claims it shows him holding a pair of thick woolen socks.
"I open at the close." He nearly swallowed that Snitch in his first match — and it held the Resurrection Stone until the very end.
A Time-Turner — issued by the Ministry, and later the key to saving both Sirius and Buckbeak in one night.
It's goblin-made and absorbs what makes it stronger — including basilisk venom, which is why it can destroy Horcruxes.
The diary, the Gaunt ring, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, Ravenclaw's diadem, and Nagini — plus Harry himself, the Horcrux Voldemort never meant to make.
Both cores are feathers from the same phoenix — Fawkes, Dumbledore's own bird. It's why the wands lock in Priori Incantatem.
Nicolas Flamel — Dumbledore's alchemy partner, kept alive for over 600 years by the Elixir of Life.
Bow to the hippogriff first. Always bow to the hippogriff first.
A hippogriff — and you must bow first and wait for him to bow back. Draco Malfoy skipped that step and paid for it.
Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into handing Dobby a sock — a gift of clothing frees an elf. "Dobby is a free elf!"
Dumbledore's phoenix — his tears heal wounds, including a basilisk bite that should have killed Harry.
An Acromantula — the giant talking spider Hagrid raised, whose descendants are less polite about visitors.
A basilisk — Slytherin's serpent, whose direct gaze kills. Harry slays it with the Sword of Gryffindor.
Music. Hagrid let that slip to a hooded stranger in a pub — because Fluffy was guarding the Sorcerer's Stone.
Azkaban prison — and the remedy is chocolate, as Professor Lupin prescribes on the Hogwarts Express.
Only those who have witnessed death — which is why Harry suddenly sees the "invisible" carriage-pullers in year five.
The Hungarian Horntail — the nastiest of the four, outflown with a Firebolt and a well-timed Accio.
She is a Horcrux — carrying a piece of Voldemort's soul, which is why she never leaves his side in the final book.
The name spelled out in floating letters, the toad in pink, and the professor who was never Moody.
"I am Lord Voldemort" — the anagram Riddle reveals in floating letters in the Chamber of Secrets.
Death Eaters — branded with the Dark Mark, the skull-and-serpent burned into their forearms and cast into the sky.
Molly Weasley — in the Battle of Hogwarts, after Bellatrix targets Ginny. The most cheered duel in the series.
Carves the words into the writer's own hand — "I must not tell lies," etched into Harry's skin in detention.
Peter Pettigrew — their Secret-Keeper, who then framed Sirius Black and spent twelve years hiding as a rat.
"Mad-Eye Moody" — actually Barty Crouch Jr. using Polyjuice Potion, with the real Moody locked in his own trunk.
It's Severus Snape — his mother was Eileen Prince, and the annotated Potions book was his own.
Gellert Grindelwald — his former friend, and a previous master of the Elder Wand.
Seven — the "most powerfully magical number" — meaning six Horcruxes plus the piece in his own body. Harry became an unintended extra.
Neville Longbottom's — Frank and Alice Longbottom, Aurors, permanently hospitalized at St Mungo's.
Seven novels, one record-shattering release day, and an epilogue nineteen years later.
Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows.
The US publisher changed "Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone" — Scholastic worried American readers wouldn't pick up a book about philosophy.
The Triwizard Tournament — against Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, with Harry as an impossible fourth champion.
Order of the Phoenix — over 760 pages in the UK edition, 870 in the US.
Cedric Diggory — "Kill the spare." The moment the series turns dark.
Dumbledore's — atop the Astronomy Tower, by Snape's wand. Book seven reveals it was arranged between them.
With an epilogue set nineteen years later — the trio's children boarding the Hogwarts Express, and the closing line: "All was well."
About 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours in the US alone — the fastest-selling book in publishing history at the time.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard — the wizarding fairy-tale collection Dumbledore leaves to Hermione.
The 2016 stage play — an "eighth story" set nineteen years later, which went on to become one of the most awarded plays in West End history.
Twelve — before Bloomsbury took it, printing a famously tiny first run of about 500 copies, and advising Rowling to keep her day job.
Two Dumbledores, one theme everyone can hum, and a secret Rowling told only Alan Rickman.
2001 to 2011 — from Sorcerer's Stone to Deathly Hallows Part 2, with the final book split across two films.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — cast as children, they grew up on screen over a full decade.
Richard Harris in the first two films, Michael Gambon from the third onward — after Harris's death in 2002.
Alan Rickman — to whom Rowling privately revealed a key secret about Snape's love for Lily, years before the books explained his loyalty.
Ralph Fiennes — from Goblet of Fire onward, snakelike nose courtesy of digital effects.
John Williams — the celesta melody that opens every single film in the series.
Leavesden Studios outside London — now home to the permanent Warner Bros. Studio Tour: The Making of Harry Potter.
Chris Columbus — with David Yates directing the final four.
Maggie Smith — Rowling reportedly had her in mind for the role from early on.
Robbie Coltrane — Rowling's personal first choice for the part.
Deathly Hallows Part 2 — over $1.3 billion worldwide, the franchise's blockbuster farewell.
The stats round. Five numbers cover almost everything a host can throw at you.
Over 500 million copies — the best-selling book series in history.
More than 80 — including Latin and Ancient Greek editions.
About $7.7 billion — one of the highest-grossing film franchises ever.
Zero — from 12 nominations, one of the most cited "never won" records in Academy Awards history.
2010, at Universal Orlando — with Hogsmeade, butterbeer, and a castle that broke attendance records.
A record nine Olivier Awards in 2017 — the most ever for a single play.
Quadball — formerly known as quidditch, played at hundreds of universities with brooms between knees.
A television series retelling the books — with each season planned to cover roughly one novel.
About 500 copies — roughly 300 of which went to libraries. Surviving first printings now sell for tens of thousands.
King's Cross — where a Platform 9¾ sign and half-vanished luggage trolley mark the world's most photographed brick wall.
"All was well." Nineteen years later, on Platform 9¾, where it all began.
A practical prep plan, from the questions hosts actually ask.
Start with the numbers — they anchor the records round. Five figures cover nearly every Harry Potter stats question: 7 books and 8 films, over 500 million copies sold, about $7.7 billion in worldwide box office, 12 Oscar nominations and zero wins, and 8.3 million US copies of Deathly Hallows sold in its first 24 hours. Memorize those and you've banked the hardest round in advance.
Learn the house table cold. Founder, animal, ghost, colors — for all four houses. The single most common trick question in Potter trivia is Ravenclaw's animal: it's an eagle, not a raven. Second most common: the Sorting Hat nearly put Harry in Slytherin.
Get the spells letter-perfect. Expelliarmus disarms, Expecto Patronum conjures the Patronus (Harry's is a stag, Snape's is a doe), and the three Unforgivables are Avada Kedavra, Crucio and Imperio. Hosts love asking for exact incantations — "levi-O-sa, not levio-SA" is practically a scoring rule.
Know the two big lists. The three Deathly Hallows: Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, Invisibility Cloak. The Horcruxes: diary, ring, locket, cup, diadem, Nagini — and Harry, the unintended seventh. Half the hard questions in any Potter round come from these two lists.
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All 105 questions on this page were verified against the sources below before publication. Last reviewed August 2026.
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