THE UNOFFICIAL TRIVIA BOOK

CONTENTS

4. INTRO: FROM FANTASY TO PHENOMENON

The Harry Potter books and movies are a rite
of passage for millions of fans

6. CHAPTER 1: THE BOOKS

J.K. Rowling wrote seven fantasy novels
about the adventures of a young wizard
named Harry Potter

16. CHAPTER 2: THE BOY WHO LIVED

Harry Potter is a young orphan from the
fictional English suburb of Little Whinging
who discovers that he’s actually a wizard

26. CHAPTER 3: THE MUGGLE-BORN WITCH

Hermione Granger discovers her magical
nature at age 11 and becomes a close friend of
Harry Potter

36. CHAPTER 4: THE PURE-BLOOD WIZARD

Ron Weasley, best friend of Harry Potter and
Hermione Granger

46. CHAPTER 5: THE MOVIES

The seven-book series became eight
blockbuster films between 2001 and 2011

56. CHAPTER 6: THE HEADMASTER

Albus Dumbledore is the leader of Hogwarts
and a mentor to Harry Potter

66. CHAPTER 7: A MAGICAL PLACE

Hogwarts is for witches and wizards
ages 11-18

76. CHAPTER 8: CHASE FOR THE

GOLDEN SNITCH
Quidditch is the most popular game in
the wizarding world

86. CHAPTER 9: HE WHO MUST NOT

BE NAMED
Voldemort is the Dark Lord of the series,
and the archenemy of Harry himself

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 INTRODUCTION

The Harry Potter books and movies are a rite of

passage for millions of fans

hen J.K. Rowling first started writing the though it is pure fiction, Harry Potter exists in a very
Harry Potter saga, she was merely trying to detailed universe all its own.
express an exciting idea that popped into her How well do you know that universe? This collec-
head out of nowhere. Now, more than 25 years tion of facts, photos and questions will challenge the
later, Harry Potter is a cultural touchstone knowledge of new and old fans alike. (Be warned:
with more than 500 million books sold and a multi- There are, of course, some tricks hidden within the
media franchise worth more than $25 billion. pages as well!) Consider this your Sorting Hat—as
Beyond its compelling characters, mythological well as a nostalgic opportunity to revisit a special
settings and suspense-filled story of adventure, time and place that continues to be enjoyed by mil-
what keeps so many fans entranced under the lions of people who never want to forget the power of
Harry Potter spell is its attention to detail. Even something truly magical.

T H E WO R L D O F H A R RY P OT T E R
Fans of the Harry Potter books appreciate them for their rich
detail and immerse themselves in this unique universe.

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 CHAPTER 1

THE

J.K. Rowling wrote seven fantasy novels about

the adventures of a young wizard named Harry Potter,
first released from 1997 through 2007

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 / How long From the time J.K. Rowling began writing the
Harry Potter books, it took her five years to
finish the first one. As excited as she was to begin,

did it take
her life quickly took many turns that delayed
her writing. The most important was when her
mother died at age 45 on Dec. 30, 1990. Needing to
get away, Rowling moved to Portugal, where she

J.K. Rowling took a job teaching English. Rowling’s plan was to

finish the first book in Portugal, but while there
she got married and had a daughter, delaying the

to write the book even longer. When her marriage ended, she
and her daughter moved to be near her sister in
Edinburgh, Scotland, where Rowling intended to

first Harry
find another teaching job. She decided to finish
her book first, which she finally did in June 1995.

Potter novel?
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/ What was the first

major book award
won by the first
Harry Potter novel?
HOW MANY In 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
was awarded the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
COPIES OF HARRY Gold Medal in the category for 9- to 11-year-olds.

POTTER AND THE The prize, awarded by a charity that promoted

books and reading in the United Kingdom, was
PHILOSOPHER’S considered one of the most prestigious awards
in children’s literature in the U.K. What made it
STONE WERE special was that, while shortlists for the contest

PRINTED IN THE were determined by a panel of adults, the prizes

were awarded based on a vote by school children.
PUBLISHER’S The book went on to win several other awards in
1997, including the British Book Awards Children’s
FIRST RUN? Book of the Year, but it was the Smarties award that
was generally credited with catapulting the Harry
Though the Harry Potter series to popularity.
Potter books would
eventually sell more
than 500 million copies
worldwide, the first
INVENTING HARRY printing was much,
Author J.K. Rowling much smaller. The
spent five years writing first run consisted of
Harry Potter and the
only 500 books and
Philosopher’s Stone. The
book was finished in 1995. was released only in
the United Kingdom.
One year later, the
second book in the
series—Harry Potter
and the Chamber of
Secrets—was released
with an initial printing
run of 10,000 books in
the U.K. Meanwhile, in
the United States, the
first book—renamed
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone—
debuted with a first
run of 50,000 books.

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 I N S P I R AT I O N
The idea for an orphaned
wizard named Harry Potter
struck Rowling while she
was delayed on a train.

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/ Where was
J.K. Rowling
when she
first came up
with the idea
for the Harry
Potter books?
In 1990, Rowling was sitting on a de-
layed train to London from Man-
chester when Rowling said the
idea for Harry Potter “simply fell
into my head.” She didn’t have a pen,
so she thought about the story during
what turned into a four-hour journey,
“and all the details bubbled up in my
brain, and this scrawny, black-haired,
bespectacled boy who didn’t know he
was a wizard became more and more
real to me.” She said she began writ-
ing the first book—Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone—that evening
when she returned home to London.

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TRUE OR FALSE:
AFTER J.K.
ROWLING
FINISHED THE
FIRST HARRY
POTTER BOOK, IT
TOOK ABOUT A
YEAR TO SELL IT
TO A PUBLISHER.
True. Agent
Christopher Little
of the Christopher
Little Literary
Agency shopped the / Who called the
books “a feat
book around, but
it was rejected by
12 publishers. Nigel
Newton of Bloomsbury

of which only a
Publishing brought a
sample of the book
home and gave it to his

superior
8-year-old daughter,
Alice. “She came down
from her room an hour
later glowing, saying,

imagination
‘Dad, this is so much
better than anything
else.’” Newton said. He

is capable”?
bought the rights to
publish the book for
2,500 pounds (roughly
the equivalent of
$6,000 in 2022).

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 / Why was the
first book’s title
changed to Harry
Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone in
the U.S.?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was al-
ready a successful book in the U.K. for a year before
Scholastic bought the rights to publish it in the
United States. But J.K. Rowling’s American edi-
tor, Arthur Levine, was concerned that Amer-
icans wouldn’t associate a “philosopher” with
magic. Rowling and Scholastic agreed, and together
they substituted the word “sorcerer.” The book was
published in the U.S. under that title, though when
the movie version was made, it was distributed
under both titles, depending on the market.

That rave review came from Stephen King, one of

the greatest American horror writers and one of the
most successful authors ever. In his review of Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2000, King admitted
that he was “only moderately impressed” when
he first read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
But during his long recovery from a car accident,
King said he read the next two books—Chamber of
Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban—and he “found
myself a lot more than moderately wowed.” He fur-
ther wrote: “The fantasy writer’s job is to conduct
the willing reader from mundanity to magic. This is
a feat of which only a superior imagination is capa-
ble, and Rowling possesses such equipment.”

MASTER OF HORROR P O T T E R ’ S U P DAT E

Stephen King, an avid J.K. Rowling’s first novel—
reader who is best known which was given an
as a horror novelist, alternate title in the U.S.—
praised J.K. Rowling’s has sold over 120 million
fantasy series in 2000. copies worldwide.

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 / How
many copies
of Deathly
Hallows were
sold in the
first 24 hours
after it was
released?
By the time the final book was ready to be re-
leased, Harry Potter was a full-blown phenome-
non. When it was finally released on July 21, 2007,
it was no surprise that it shattered the record
for most books sold in the first 24 hours with
an astonishing 11 mililli
lion
lion cop
opiies
ies bought. That
included 2.7 million sold in the United Kingdom
and another 8.3 million sold in the United States,
where the first publishing run included a record
12 million books. The 11 million books sold
eclipsed the record of 9 million in the first
24 hours for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
Prince. Bloomsbury, the U.K. publisher of the
Harry Potter series, called the release of Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows “the most astound-
ingly successful book launch ever.”

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WHAT DOES
J.K. ROWLING
CONSIDER TO BE
THE “CENTRAL
THEME” OF THE
SEVEN BOOKS?
Soon after J.K. Rowling
began writing the
Harry Potter books,
her mother passed
away. She has said
many times that it
deeply affected the
way she wrote many
of the characters in the
books, especially Harry,
whose “feelings about
his dead parents had
become much deeper,
much more real.” It
was so impactful that
Rowling said the
general, overarching
theme of the entire
series is, basically,
death. “It’s a strong
central theme,” Rowling
once said. “Dealing
with death … facing
up to death.” Every
major character
confronts it multiple
times throughout the
seven books.

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WHO LIVED
Harry Potter is a young orphan from the fictional
English suburb of Little Whinging who discovers
that he’s actually a wizard

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/ When does
Harry Potter first
learn that he’s a
wizard?
For most of his young life, Harry lived with his
aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, who
raised the boy after the death of his parents when
he was an infant. They were “Muggles”—or non-
wizards—and even though they knew Harry was
a wizard, they chose not to tell him. That changed
on his 11th birthday when Rubeus Hagrid, the
gamekeeper of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, delivered Harry’s acceptance letter to
the school. When he tracked Harry and the Durs-
leys down, he was shocked to know that Harry
had no idea who and what he really was. Harry’s
reaction to hearing that he was a wizard was “I’m
a what?” Hagrid then took him to Diagon Alley for
his first school supplies, and Harry’s adventure
officially began.

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 / Harry

During Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, he dis-

covers that he is a “Parselmouth,” which means
he has the ability to speak in “Parseltongue”—the
language of snakes. It is a rare ability which is
mostly associated with Dark Magic, though it is
not necessarily considered an evil trait. It is mostly
passed down through genetics. Harry learns that
his ability to speak Parseltongue was the result of
the night Voldemort tried to kill him when he was
an infant. When his spell failed, Voldemort inad-
vertently left a piece of his soul with Harry, which
granted him several of Voldemort’s abilities. After
Voldemort died Harry retained his ability to speak
with snakes.

DA R K A R T S
Harry learns that he can
speak Parseltongue thanks
to Voldemort’s attack on
him when he was just
an infant.

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WHY IS HARRY
CONSIDERED
A “HALF-BLOOD”?
“Half-blood” is a term
used for a wizard
who has parents or
grandparents who
are “Muggle-born”—
meaning their parents
were non-wizards. And
while both of Harry
Potter’s parents were
magical people, his
mother was a Muggle-
born witch. Both of her
parents were Muggles.
Lily Potter learned she
had magical abilities
when Severus Snape

/ What is the
discovered her as a
young child. She went
on to attend Hogwarts

name of Harry
School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry. But
even though she
married James, a

Potter’s beloved
pure-blood wizard, and
was magical herself,
Harry could never be

pet owl?
considered a pure-
blood wizard.

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 / When Harry
buys his first wand,
he learns that
it’s similar to a wand
owned by whom?
When Hagrid took Harry to Ollivander’s in
Diagon Alley to find his first wand, it took a long
time for him to choose—or be chosen by—the
right one. The wand that eventually proved to be
the right fit was an 11-inch holly wand that con-
tained a single feather from a phoenix that was
owned by Albus Dumbledore. Garrick Ollivander
said he only remembered one other wand like
it, one that used a feather from the same exact
Phoenix, making them “brother” wands. And
the “brother” of Harry’s wand belonged to Lord
Voldemort. “It is curious that you should be
destined for this wand,” Mr. Ollivander tells him,
“when its brother gave you that scar.”

When Hagrid tracked down Harry Potter on his

11th birthday, he bought him a pet owl at the Eey-
lops Owl Emporium. Harry decided to name the
owl “Hedwig,” which was the name of a medieval
wizard he found in a book called A History of Magic.
Hedwig was said to be the first birthday present
Harry ever received. Hedwig delivered letters to
and from Harry and Hagrid, and she and Harry
became close companions. She sadly died in the
Battle of the Seven Potters when she was struck by
a Killing Curse.

T R U E LOV E M A G I C WA N D
On his 11th birthday, Harry Harry was chosen to
received his pet owl, receive the “brother”
Hedwig, a present from wand of Lord Voldemort at
Hagrid and Harry’s first Ollivander’s.
birthday gift.

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 P S YC H I C S C A R
Harry’s mother sacrificed
herself to save him, which
left him with a lightning
bolt scar on his forehead.

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/ What was
one thing
Harry liked
about his
appearance?
When Harry was growing up with the
Dursleys, long before he knew he was
a wizard, what he liked best about his
looks—what was said to be “the only
thing” he liked—was the lightning
bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.
What he didn’t know was that the
scar was the result of Voldemort’s
attempt to kill him with the Killing
Curse when Harry was 15 months
old. Harry was the only person ever
known to survive that curse, and he
only did because his mother—Lily
Potter—sacrificed herself to save
him. Harry would later learn that the
scar would serve as a warning to him.
It would begin to hurt whenever he
was in danger, and especially when
Voldemort was nearby.

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/ What is The first girl Harry was truly interested

in and attracted to during his first years at
Hogwarts, was a popular witch named Cho

the name of
Chan
Ch ang
g, who was one year older than he
was. His stomach did “somersaults” when-
ever he saw her, and during the Triwizard

Harry’s first
Tournament he finally worked up the
nerve to ask her to accompany him to the
Yule Ball. But Cho Chang had already
accepted an invitation from Cedric

love interest? Diggory, so she turned Harry down.

When Cedric died, Harry and Cho grew
closer. They even shared a kiss under
mistletoe and decided to go on a date.
But they began to grow apart and their
relationship quickly fizzled out.

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YO U N G L O V E
Cho Chang, Seeker of the
Ravenclaw Quidditch
team, is Harry’s first crush
at Hogwarts.

WHAT ITEM DID

PROFESSOR
DUMBLEDORE GIVE
TO HARRY THAT
ONCE BELONGED TO
HARRY’S FATHER?
One of the Potter
family’s heirlooms
was a rare invisibility
cloak. When James
Potter had it, he When Daniel
used it to pull
pranks with his Radcliffe first read
the books, he wished
friends at Hogwarts.
Dumbledore borrowed
it from James to
study it further. Later,
he discovered it was that Harry would die
one of the Deathly
Hallows, but before he
could return it, James
in the end.
and his wife Lily were True—mostly. In an interview before J.K. Rowl-
killed. When Harry ing published the last book—Harry Potter and the
grew up and arrived Deathly Hallows—Radcliffe said, “I sort of hope I
at Hogwarts, an will [die], really. I think that’s really the only way
anonymous admirer
Jo [J.K. Rowling] can end it. … I’m quite looking
sent Harry the cloak,
forward to doing a death scene.” Understanding the
explained that he had
uproar his wish would create, Radcliffe later walked
borrowed it from his
father, and advised
his words back—a little bit. In another interview
him to “use it well.” he said, “I don’t want the headline ‘Dan Radcliffe
That admirer was Wants Potter Dead.’ I don’t want him dead as a
later revealed to be character. … I [ just] can’t imagine any other way
Dumbledore. [the books] can be concluded.”

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THE MUGGLE-BORN

Hermione Granger discovers her

magical nature at age 11 and becomes a close
friend of Harry Potter

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/ True or
false:
Hermione HOW DID AUTHOR
Granger is J.K. ROWLING
COME UP WITH
the best female THE NAME
character of “HERMIONE”?
Rowling purposely

all time.
went for an unusual
name for her lead
female character,
because she “didn’t
want a lot of fairly
True—that is, according to a 2016 hard-working little
girls to be teased
industry survey by The Hollywood if ever the book
Reporter that received responses was published.” So
she plucked the
from 1,800 actors, writers, directors name from William
and industry professionals. Emma Shakespeare’s A
Winter’s Tale. Rowling
Watson, the actress who portrayed imagined this as a way
Hermione in the films, attributed Hermione’s parents
might have chosen
that to “her empathy, her sense of a name—“a pair of
integrity, her decency, and her reso- professional dentists
who liked to prove
lute belief in fighting for justice and how clever they were.”
fairness—even when her earnestness Hermione’s middle
name is “Jean,” which is
made her an easy target for ridicule.” also the middle name
She added that Hermione is “all head of Rowling’s daughter,
Mackenzie. Her last
and all heart” and that “Hermione name, Granger, was
made it OK for girls to be the smart- originally “Puckle,” but
Rowling decided the
est in the room, to be a leader, the name didn’t suit her.
one with the plan.”

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WHAT DID
HERMIONE’S
PARENTS DO FOR
A LIVING?
Both of Hermione’s
parents were dentists
in the Muggle world.
They learned that
their daughter was
a witch the same
way that Hermione
learned—when she
received a letter on

model for the

her 11th birthday from
Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and

character of Wizardry. Though it

came as a complete

Hermione Granger? surprise, it did explain

some of the odd things
that had happened
J.K. Rowling has said that as she developed the around the Granger
household over the
character, Hermione became a lot like herself as a
years. They were also
child. She incorporated many of her own personality
very accepting of
traits into Hermione—especially her insecurities
the news and proud
and her fear of failure. Rowling said that when she
of their daughter’s
was younger, “I think I was seen by other people magical abilities.
as a right little know-it-all,” which is how some
view Hermione too. But she also made Hermione
strong, which is how she ultimately viewed herself.
None of this started out on purpose; it’s just the
way Hermione turned out in the end. “I did not MODEL STUDENT
J.K. Rowling said that
set out to make Hermione like me,” Rowling said. Hermione’s personality is
“But she is an exaggeration of how I was when an exaggerated version of
I was younger.” her childhood self.

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 / What word
does Draco
Malfoy use
to insult
Hermione in
Chamber of
Secrets?
Malfoy called Hermione a “filthy little Mudblood.”
The term “Mudblood” was a derogatory and
bigoted way that pure-blood wizards and witches
insulted Muggle-born wizards and witches like
Hermione. It was used as a slur against half-blood
wizards and witches—those who had at least
one Muggle parent or grandparent—too. When
Malfoy first used it to attack Hermione, she had
never heard the word before, but she could tell
how awful it was by the reaction of her friends
and those around them. She was called it often,
especially by Malfoy, and learned to brush it off.
Over time, Hermione even learned to embrace it.
Near the end of the series, she even calls herself a
Mudblood. When Ron Weasley tells her not to do
that, she says, “Why shouldn’t I? Mudblood and
proud of it!”

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/ What is
revealed to
be Hermione
Granger’s
biggest fear?
Hermione Granger is a strong and
intelligent young woman. But in
the third book, Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban, she admits that
her biggest fear is failure itself. This
was revealed when she faced her
“Boggart”—a shape-shifting
nonbeing that takes the form of a
person’s worst fear. Her Boggart
took the form of Professor McGo-
nagall and told her she had failed all
of her exams at Hogwarts—some-
thing that absolutely terrified her.

CURSED OBJECT
Hermione Granger, Ronald
Weasley and Harry Potter
watch as the cursed Opal
Necklace is examined.

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WHAT ANIMAL
IS HERMIONE’S
“PATRONUS”
AND WHY?
A Patronus is
essentially a guardian,
conjured with the use
of the Patronus charm,
that usually takes the
form of an animal.
It becomes close to
the wizard or witch
that uses the charm
and is a projection
of their positive side.
The spell to conjure
up a Patronus is one
of the only spells

/ Who was
that Hermione has
difficulty performing.
But it is revealed that
she masters it and her
Patronus is an otter.
Why? For a very simple
reason: Author J.K. Hermione’s date
to the Yule Ball
Rowling’s favorite
animal is an otter.

in Goblet of
Fire?
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 / What is the name
of Hermione’s cat?
When Hermione went shopping for a pet at the
Magical Menagerie—a magical creature shop in
Diagon Alley—she was originally intending to
buy an owl. Instead, she came away with a half-
Kneazle—essentially a magical cat—named
Crookshanks. The cat had been in the shop
for a long time, and the owner told Hermione
that “nobody wanted him.” Hermione brought
Crookshanks back to Hogwarts, where he most
famously helped reveal that Peter Pettigrew was
disguised as Scabbers, Ron Weasley’s pet rat.

Hermione had hoped that Ron Weasley would ask

her to be his date to the Yule Ball, a formal Christ-
mas celebration for the wizarding schools partic-
ipating in the Triwizard Tournament. By the time
Ron asked Hermione, she had secretly agreed to go
with Quidditch star Viktor Krum. He is so famous
and popular that he is followed by giggling girls. But
he is drawn to Hermione because she didn’t treat
him like someone special. Ron became jealous as
soon as he saw Hermione and Viktor together at the
ball and heard that they had even kissed.

DA N C E PA R T N E R S M A G I C A L C R E AT U R E
Hermione and Viktor Hermione’s magical cat is
attend the annual Yule named Crookshanks. It is
Ball as dates, much to discovered that he has the
the displeasure of Ron ability to uncover frauds
Weasley. masquerading as animals.

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THE PURE-BLOOD

Ron Weasley, best friend of Harry Potter

and Hermione Granger

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/ Who does
Ron escort to the
IN WHICH BOOK
Yule Ball in
DO RON AND
HERMIONE KISS
Goblet of Fire?
FOR THE FIRST
TIME?
As Ron and Hermione
grew up, it became
clear that they both
had a romantic interest
in each other, though
Ron’s immaturity kept
them from getting
together for a long
time. They shared
their first kiss in Harry
Potter and the Deathly
Hallows. Ron expressed
concern for the fate
of the house-elves—
creatures who served
wizards and witches,
and who were sadly
mistreated by some
of them. Hermione
had long expressed
concern for the living
and working conditions
of these creatures. In
the heat of the Battle
of Hogwarts, Hermione
was so touched by
Ron’s compassion, she
ran to him and kissed
him for the first time.

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N O M AT C H
Harry and Ron have a
disastrous double date to
the Christmas dance.

Ron first asked Fleur Delacour, a Triwizard Cham-

pion from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, though
he was so nervous he left before getting her answer.
Hermione Granger had hoped Ron would ask her,
but he waited until it was too late and she already
had a date. Eventually, Harry secured dates for both
of them. He asked Parvati Patil and begged her to
find a date for Ron. She did, setting him up with her
twin sister, Padma Patil. Their date was a disas-
ter. Ron was too jealous of Hermione and her date,
Viktor, to pay any attention to Padma. Eventually
Padma and Parvati ditched Harry and Ron and
found other boys to dance with at the ball.

/ What potion does

Harry give Ron to
boost his confidence
before a Quidditch
match in The Half-
Blood Prince?
None—technically. There’s a potion called Felix
Felicis that is also known as “Liquid Luck.” It’s de-
signed to make the person who drinks it extremely
fortunate for a period of time. Harry, the new cap-
tain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, had chosen
Ron to be the team’s Keeper, but Ron was strug-
gling at Quidditch. So, before a big match against
Slytherin, Harry gave Ron a drink of pumpkin juice.
When Hermione noticed an empty vial in Harry’s
hand, she suspected he had spiked Ron’s drink
with Felix Felicis. He drank it and went on to play a
near-perfect game. Later, Harry confided to Hermi-
one that he only pretended to use the Felix Felicis
on Ron, and that Ron played the near-perfect game
of Quidditch all on his own.

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HARRY’S KEEPER
Ron is appointed Keeper
of the Gryffindor
Quidditch team.

/ Who is
Ron’s favorite
professional
Quidditch
player?
Ron Weasley is a huge fan of the game of
Quidditch and in particular of one of the top
players in Europe—Viktor Krum, a Bulgarian
Quidditch star. Ron is incredibly excited when
he learns that Krum, who is at the Durmstrang
wizarding school, will come to Hogwarts for the
Triwizard Tournament, featuring three of the top
schools in Europe. But his adulation of Krum
ends when he learns that Viktor is taking Her-
mione to the Yule Ball. Though Ron didn’t ask
Hermione first, he wanted her to be his date.

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WHAT DO RON
AND HERMIONE
NAME THEIR TWO
CHILDREN?
Years after the fall
of Voldemort, Ron
and Hermione had
two children named
Rose and Hugo. In
the epilogue to the
series in Deathly
Hallows, Rose is about
to leave for her first
year at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry. She is
described by Ron as a
girl who has inherited
her mother’s brains
and ambition. Hugo
is about two years
younger than Rose,
and about the same
age as their cousin, Lily
Potter—daughter of
Harry Potter and Ginny
Weasley, Ron’s sister.
When Hugo joins his
family to see off his
sister and cousins on
their way to Hogwarts,
Hugo and Lily discuss
which Hogwarts
houses they will be
sorted into when they
attend Hogwarts.

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 CHAPTER 4

WHAT MAGICAL
ITEM DID RON
INHERIT FROM
DUMBLEDORE
AFTER HIS DEATH?
Ron Weasley was
surprised to learn that
Dumbledore left him
something in his will. It
was the Deluminator,
also known as the
“Put-Outer,” designed
by Dumbledore himself.
/ What kind of He used it to put out
or restore lights,

creature was Ron’s though it turned out

to be far more magical

pet, Scabbers?
than just that. It served
as a homing device to
lead Ron back to his
friends. When they
Scabbers was Ron Weasley’s beloved pet rat,
mentioned his name,
who was once owned by Ron’s brother, Percy. But
he could hear parts
unbeknownst to Ron, Scabbers was actually Peter of their conversation,
Pettigrew, living in his Animagus form. Peter Pet- and the Deluminator
tigrew was a wizard who once attended Hogwarts then guided him to
and fought for the Order of the Phoenix during wherever they were.
the First Wizarding War. But he became a spy and That, Ron believed,
joined forces with Voldemort. He eventually was was the true reason
the one who betrayed Harry’s parents, leading to that Dumbledore left
their deaths. After that, he faked his own death and him the magical item
spent 12 years in hiding as Scabbers, before his true in his will—so he would
identity was discovered by Sirius and Remus. Once always be able to find
discovered, he eventually went back to work for his way back to his
Voldemort again. friends.

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 / Where
does Ron
Weasley’s
family live?
The Weasley family resides in a home
called The Burrow, which is located
near the (fictional) village of Ottery St.
Catchpole in Devon, England. Their
home is a cobbled-together six-
bedroom building that is so run-down
it is held together only by magic. It was
described as something that “looked as
though it had once been a large stone
pigpen, but extra rooms had been added
here and there.” Big and crooked, it
eventually became one of Harry Potter’s
favorite places. It also became the head-
quarters for the Order of the Phoenix
after Albus Dumbledore’s death.

B U R R OW H O M E
The Weasleys’ magical
home is one of Harry
Potter’s favorite places.

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/ Ron
Weasley has
a fear of what
creature?
Ron Weasley has an intense fear of
spiders. That apparently began when
he was young and his brother Fred
turned his teddy bear into a giant
spider. His arachnophobia is clearly
evident in Harry Potter and the Cham-
ber of Secrets, when he and Harry go
into the Forbidden Forest in an at-
tempt to help Hagrid and eventually
are led to Aragog’s lair. Aragog is an
Acromantula—a large, magical spider
who can talk to humans and also likes
to eat them. Ron sets his fear aside to
help his friend, but while in Aragog’s
lair, he and Harry are nearly eaten
by Aragog’s children. Aragog is also
Ron’s Boggart—a physical manifesta-
tion of his greatest fear.

A R AC H N O P H O B I A
Despite his intense fear of
spiders, Ron helps free
Harry from Aragog’s lair.

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THE

The seven-book series became eight

blockbuster films between 2001 and 2011

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 CHAPTER 5

/ What
previous acting
experience did
Emma Watson
(Hermione) and
Rupert Grint
(Ron) have?
Neither Watson nor Grint had any
professional acting experience when
they were discovered by the filmmakers.
Watson, who was 10 at the time she
landed the role, had only been in shows
produced by Stagecoach Performing Arts
in Oxford, England. And Grint, who was
11 when he got the role of Ron, had only
been in shows through the Top Hat Stage
and Screen School near his home in
southern England. Watson got the
attention of the filmmakers thanks to
her theater teacher, while Grint got the
casting director’s attention by sending in
a video of himself rapping about why he
wanted the part of Ron.

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HOW LONG DID IT
TAKE TO SHOOT
ALL EIGHT FILMS
IN THE HARRY
POTTER SERIES?
The time between
the official start of
production on the first
film and the end of the
reshoots on the eighth
and final film was just
over 10 years. The
work began almost as
soon as Heyday Films
acquired the rights to
the Harry Potter series
in 1999, with principal
photography on the
first film beginning in
September 2000. The
final two films—Harry
Potter and the Deathly
Hallows, Parts I and
II—were shot together,
beginning in February
2009. Reshoots for the
epilogue scene were
shot in December 2010.

S TA R P O W E R
Emma Watson, Daniel
Radcliffe and Rupert Grint
got their big breaks in the
Harry Potter series.

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WHO BEGAN THE

PROCESS OF
TURNING THE
HARRY POTTER
BOOKS INTO
MOVIES?
David Heyman, a
London-based film
producer, secured
the rights to bring
J.K. Rowling’s Harry
Potter series to the
movies. But it almost
didn’t happen. In 1997,
a copy of Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s
Stone was sent to
his office and ended
up on a shelf of low-
priority books. It was
/ Who was
originally chosen
his secretary, Nisha
Parti, who decided to
pick up the book and
bring it home to read
over the weekend.
When she returned
on Monday morning, to direct the first
movie in the Harry
she told Heyman how
much she loved it and
suggested that he read
it for himself. He read
the entire book in one
night and then went
to work to acquire the
movie rights.
Potter series?
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 / Where was
Daniel Radcliffe
discovered?
Radcliffe was discovered by producer David
Heyman and screenwriter Steve Kloves when they
attended a production of Stones in His Pockets
at a theater in London. But Radcliffe wasn’t in the
show. He was sitting behind Heyman and Kloves in
the audience. Heyman said the play “was completely
forgettable for me. All I was thinking about was the
boy sitting in the row behind me—Daniel Radcliffe.
He had these big blue eyes, a deep curiosity, a real
stillness and composure. He was an old soul in a
young body.” Heyman knew Radcliffe was a child
actor and was acquainted with his parents and
spoke to them at intermission. Heyman and Kloves
urged them to bring him for an audition. They were
already sold on him as Harry Potter.

In 1999 when the first Harry Potter film was in

development, Steven Spielberg was the first
choice to direct the first movie, Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone. The director ultimately walked
away. Spielberg has offered several explanations as
to why he passed, including that he was not “ready
to make an all-kids movie” and that making them
would be like “shooting ducks in a barrel.” Once he
bowed out, Heyman spoke with many other poten-
tial directors before choosing Chris Columbus, who
directed the first two films.

NEW DIRECTION FINDING HARRY

Steven Spielberg was Daniel Radcliffe was
approached to direct the discovered as a child not
first movie but turned it on stage, but in the
down. Chris Columbus audience of a London
ended up directing. theater’s production.

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/ Where were
most of the
Harry Potter
movies filmed?
The films were mostly filmed at
Leavesden Film Studios in Watford,
Hertfordshire, in southeastern
England. It is one of the largest film
studio complexes in the U.K. and was
booked by Warner Bros. for all eight
Harry Potter films. In fact, during the
10-year period when the films were
in production, only a few other films
were able to use the complex because
the massive Harry Potter sets were left
standing. Some even used the Harry
Potter sets. Warner Bros. eventually
purchased the entire complex. It also
opened a tourist attraction there called
“Warner Bros. Studio Tour London—
The Making of Harry Potter.”

THE POTTERVERSE
The Diagon Alley set on
London’s “The Making of
Harry Potter” studio tour.

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B R I T S O N LY
Rubeus Hagrid was played
by Scottish actor Robbie
Coltrane.

WHAT WAS
THE FAVORITE
CHARACTER
OF STEVE
KLOVES, THE
SCREENWRITER
FOR SEVEN OF
THE EIGHT HARRY
POTTER MOVIES?
When Kloves first met

actor wanted to play

author J.K. Rowling,
he knew he needed
to build a relationship

Hagrid, but was with her so she would

be able to trust him

rejected because he with her creation. And

he believes one key

wasn’t British?
moment in building
that trust was when
he confided in her that
Harry Potter wasn’t his
Casting director Janet Hirshenson said she got a favorite character—that
call from Robin Williams, who was interested in he liked Hermione
the role of Hagrid. He was rejected because when Granger best. “I don’t
Heyday Films purchased the rights to the first four know what compelled
Harry Potter books for about $2 million, author J.K. me to say this,” Kloves
Rowling had one demand: All of the principal char- recalled, “but I said,
acters should only be played by British actors. She ‘Do you know who my
did allow for the inclusion of Irish actors, and Eu- favorite character is?’
ropean actors for characters from other wizarding I don’t know who she
schools and backgrounds. But the “Brits-only” rule was expecting me to
did not allow for American actors, even Williams. say, but not who I said.”

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 / Who was
nominated
for both an
Oscar and
a Grammy
for the
Harry Potter
movies?
Four composers worked on the eight Harry Potter
films, but the scores for the first three were done
by John Williams, one of the most accomplished
film composers of all time. Williams, who is known
for the timeless soundtracks from Star Wars,
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, E.T. the Extra-
Terrestrial, and many others including director
Chris Columbus’ hit film Home Alone. He was first
asked to write the soundtrack for some promotional
material for the film. He did, and what he wrote
became “Hedwig’s Theme,” a familiar tune that
appears in all eight films. Williams was nominated
for two Oscars for his work with the Harry Potter
movies—one each for the scores of the first and
third films. He was also nominated for Grammy
Awards for all three scores. However, he did not
win any of those awards.

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 CHAPTER 6

Albus Dumbledore is the leader of Hogwarts

and a mentor to Harry Potter

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 / What is Known mostly as Dumbledore or Professor
Dumbledore, his full name is Albus Percival
Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Each name was

Professor
chosen for a reason. The name Albus means
“white.” Author J.K. Rowling said that red and
white were key colors in her first novel, Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. (“Rubeus”—

Dumbledore’s as in Rubeus Hagrid—means “red.”) “Percival”

was chosen because it was the name of one of
the knights of King Arthur’s legendary court.

full name?
“Wulfric” translates to “wolf ruler.” And
“Brian” derives from an Old English word
that means “noble.”

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WHICH OF THE
THREE DEATHLY
HALLOWS ARE
BURIED WITH
DUMBLEDORE?
The three Deathly
Hallows—powerful
magical items believed
to be created by
Death—were the
Resurrection Stone, the
Cloak of Invisibility and
the Elder Wand. The
Elder Wand was buried
with Dumbledore when
he died. However,
Voldemort raided
Dumbledore’s tomb
/ Why did J.K.
and stole the wand,
which he wanted to Rowling choose
the name
use to kill Harry Potter.
But Harry ended up as
THE NEW
the master of the wand,

“Dumbledore”?
PROFESSOR
After Richard Harris’ and (in the book) after
passing, Michael he killed Voldemort,
Gambon portrayed
he returned it to
Albus Dumbledore in “Dumbledore” wasn’t chosen just because it was
the Harry Potter films. Dumbledore’s grave.
The Resurrection a fun-sounding name. According to J.K. Rowling,
Stone was dropped by “Dumbledore” is an Old English word that means
Harry before his battle “bumblebee” and she believed that fit the char-
with Voldemort and acter’s personality. “Because Albus Dumbledore
presumably lost forever. is very fond of music,” Rowling said, “I always
Harry kept the Cloak of imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot.”
Invisibility, which once Humming may not be the same as buzzing, but it
belonged to his father. was close enough for Rowling.

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TRUE OR FALSE:
DUMBLEDORE’S
SISTER KILLED
THEIR MOTHER.
It is both tragic
and true. Ariana
Dumbledore was
Albus Dumbledore’s
younger sister. When
she was 6 years old,
she was attacked by
a group of Muggle
boys who caught her
performing magic.
She was traumatized:
“She was never right
again. She wouldn’t use
magic, but she couldn’t
get rid of it. It turned
inward and drove her
mad. It exploded out of
her when she couldn’t
control it.” During one
particular episode
when her magic was
out of control, at age
14, Ariana caused a
magical explosion that
ended up killing their
mother, Kendra. Albus
was forced to return
home to become
Ariana’s guardian,
and he admitted
he “resented” the
responsibility.

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HEADMASTER’S LAIR
Professor Dumbledore’s
office at Hogwarts.

/ Where
did they bury
Dumbledore
after he died?
Dumbledore always considered Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry to be his home and
the people there to be his family. One of his last
requests was to be buried there. Given all he
accomplished for the school and for wizards and
witches, that request was honored by the Min-
istry of Magic and he was buried on Ho
Hoggwartts
gwar ts
grounds, near the lake, in what is known as the
White Tomb. Dumbledore is said to be the only
headmaster of the school ever buried on school
grounds. Dumbledore also “lives on” in his magi-
cal portrait which hangs inside the headmaster’s
office at the school.

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WHAT HAPPENED
TO DUMBLEDORE’S
FATHER?
The attack on
Dumbledore’s sister,
Ariana, not only
affected her ability
to control her magic,
it also enraged her
father, Percival. He
went after the three
Muggle boys that
attacked his daughter
and sought revenge.
Because of that, he
was arrested and sent
to Azkaban prison,
where he died. Percival
never told anyone why
/ What causes
damage to
he attacked the boys,
because he was afraid
of what would happen
to Ariana if he did. He
knew if the Ministry of
Magic found out about
his daughter’s inability Dumbledore’s
right hand
to control her magic,
she would be sent
away to St. Mungo’s
Hospital for Magical
Maladies and Injuries,
probably for the rest of
her life. Instead, he kept near the end of
his life?
his secret, protected
his daughter and
allowed his reputation
to be tarnished all the
way up to his death.

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 / Which well-known
actor was offered the
role of Dumbledore?
Producers asked James Bond himself to portray
Albus Dumbledore—Sean Connery. But the actor
reportedly had no interest in starring in a movie
about wizards for children. They also offered the
role to Patrick McGoohan, but he declined due to
poor health. That led them to Richard Harris, who
also initially declined. In fact, he turned down the
role three times. He was against having to commit
to Harry Potter knowing there would be sequels.
As he said, “That’s not how I want to spend the last
years of my life.” But he changed his mind when
his 11-year-old granddaughter, Ella, heard he was
offered the part. Harris played Dumbledore in the
first two movies before his death in August 2002.

Dumbledore had long sought to contact members

of his dead family by using the Resurrection Stone.
But when he finally found the stone, it was in
Marvolo Gaunt’s cursed ring. When Dumbledore
put the ring on his finger, the curse quickly began
to spread throughout his body, starting with his
right hand. It turned dry and shriveled and black,
as if it had died. Severus Snape was able to contain
the curse but couldn’t save Dumbledore’s hand.
Snape also knew that the curse from the ring would
only get stronger and that it would eventually kill
Dumbledore. He told Dumbledore that because of
the curse, he only had about a year to live.

DEEP THOUGHTS JAMES BOND

Dumbledore prepares Sean Connery passed on
to siphon a memory Harry Potter because he
from his mind to store did not want to act in a
in the Pensieve. children’s film.

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/ Who kills
Dumbledore?
Draco Malfoy was given orders by
Voldemort to kill Dumbledore as a
way to make up for the failures of his
father, Lucius Malfoy. However, when
the moment came, the boy could not
fulfill his destiny. Instead, Severus
Snape used the Killing Curse to end
Dumbledore’s life. Both Snape and
Dumbledore knew of Voldemort’s
plan to have Draco commit murder,
and Snape had promised Dumble-
dore he would step in and do it in-
stead to save the boy. Snape knew
that Dumbledore had less than a year
to live, so it was, in a way, an act of
mercy. And finally, Snape had prom-
ised Draco’s mother that he would
finish the murder if Draco could
not. She feared that Draco wouldn’t
be able to complete the task, which
would then enrage Voldemort and
put Draco at risk.

DUMBLEDORE’S END
Snape ultimately fulfilled
Voldemort’s plan to kill
Hogwarts’ headmaster.

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A MAGICAL

Hogwarts is for witches and wizards ages 11-18

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/ Who were the

founders of Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry?
The famous school for young witches and wizards
was founded by the group known collectively as the
“Hogwarts Four,” and their names should sound
very familiar. They were Godric Gryffindor, Helga
Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar
Slytherin. They established the school around
990 A.D. to both educate and train young wizards
and witches and also to protect them from the
non-magical Muggle world, since at that time magic
was mostly feared. The four founders are consid-
ered to be the most brilliant and powerful witches
and wizards of their era, and they all had distinctive
character traits that later became reflected in the
character of their namesake houses.

H O G WA R T S F O U R
The founders of Hogwarts
are considered to be the
most powerful wizards and
witches of their time.

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 / How do

There are actually many different ways for

students to get from the Muggle world to Hog-
warts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but
traditionally they arrived via the Hogwarts
Expr
p es
esss. That’s a magical train that departs
London’s King’s Cross Station every Sept. 1 at 11
a.m. and arrives at Hogsmeade Station later that
evening. It makes that run several times per year
and returns students at the end of the school
year in June. Students board the train by walking
through a solid wall that divides Platforms 9 and
10 and leads them to Platform 9 ¾. Once the train
arrives at Hogsmeade Station, older students ride
from there to Hogwarts in carriages. But first-year
students ride with the “Keeper of the Keys and
Grounds” aboard small, magical boats that sail
them across a lake to the entrance to the school.

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 M A K I N G H O G WA R T S
The exterior shots used in
the first two Harry Potter
films were of an actual
castle built in 1096.

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/ What
castle was
used for the
exterior shots
of Hogwarts
in the first
two Harry
Potter films?
In the first two films, the exterior
shots for Hogwarts School of Witch-
craft and Wizardry were of Alnwick
Castle in Northumberland in north-
ern England. The castle is the second-
largest inhabited castle in the U.K.
and is home to the Duke of Northum-
berland. The picturesque castle has
also been featured in several films
and TV series, including Downton
Abbey, Transformers: The Last Knight
and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

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/ Where do
Hogwarts students
TRUE OR FALSE:
shop for school
NON-MAGICAL
CHILDREN,
supplies?
ALSO KNOWN
AS MUGGLES,
CAN ATTEND
HOGWARTS.
False. The only
children accepted
into Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and
Wizardry were those
who were deemed by
the magic quill to have
actual, magical ability.
Muggles, by definition,
have no ability to do
magic, and therefore
cannot attend the
school. However, the
children of Muggles
are not prohibited
from attending, as long
as they have magical
abilities. Some in the
wizarding world only
want “pure-blood”
wizards to attend the
school and the “half
bloods” were often
discriminated against.
But anyone with any
magical ability is still
allowed to attend.

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B AC K TO S C H O O L
In Diagon Alley, Hogwarts
students shop for magical
school supplies.

Each year, before heading to Hogwarts, young

wizards and witches traditionally went to Diagon
Alley to shop for school supplies. It is a huge epi-
center of restaurants and shops, not just for items
needed for school. It was considered to be, basi-
cally, the center of London’s wizarding world. But
it was completely hidden from the Muggle world,
located just outside of their reach, behind a pub
called the Leaky Cauldron. The only way Muggles
could get to Diagon Alley was to go with their mag-
ical children. Otherwise, Diagon Alley didn’t exist
for them at all.

/ How are students

of Hogwarts selected
for admission?
When the founders of Hogwarts created the school,
they also created a magic quill, called the Quill of
Acceptance. The magic quill has the ability to de-
tect magic in any child, anywhere. The moment the
magic is detected, the quill floats out of its ink well
and begins to write the name of the child and his or
her birthdate into a very large book—the Book of
Admittance. Once a year, Professor Minerva Mc-
Gonagall checks the book and sends out acceptance
letters by owl to magical children as they approach
their 11th birthday. The book’s decision is final and
it is believed that neither the book nor the quill has
ever made a mistake.

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 / In which The fictional Hogwarts School is said to be located
in the real Highlands of the country of Scotland.
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, it’s

country is
revealed that Hogwarts is not far from Dufftown,
which is a real town in Scotland. Author J.K. Rowl-
ing lived for a while in Scotland, though that wasn’t
necessarily the reason that Hogwarts was placed

Hogwarts there. She said she knew Hogwarts had to be in a

“secluded” area and that “I’ve always imagined it to
be in Scotland.” That also matched the trajectory

supposed
and time the main characters spent on the Hog-
warts Express on which they traveled from London
to their school, because, as Rowling explained, “if

to be located?
you do travel for a day from King’s Cross Station in
London and you go north, you end up in Scotland.
So it was always supposed to be there.”

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WHICH SCHOOLS
COMPETE IN
THE TRIWIZARD
TOURNAMENT?
Hogwarts may be the
most famous school of
magic in the wizarding
world, but it was far
from the only one. The Hogwarts students
schools that competed
in the Triwizard have always been
split into the school’s
Tournament were
the three largest in
Europe—Hogwarts, the
Durmstrang Institute
and Beauxbatons four houses by the
Academy of Magic.
Durmstrang, which
only admitted
magical Sorting Hat.
pure-blood wizards False. In one of the greatest rituals of the Harry
G R E AT B R I TA I N
Scotland is the home and witches, concealed Potter series, first-year students were sorted into
country of the fictional its exact location, the four houses upon their arrival at Hogwarts
Hogwarts school in the but was believed
Harry Potter series. after a magical, singing hat was placed upon their
to be located in the
head. But that wasn’t always the way the students
northernmost part of
T H E S O R T I N G H AT were sorted. According to legend, the Hogwarts
The magical Sorting Hat Europe. Beauxbatons
Four originally sorted students into their houses by
was used to split students was located in the
into one of Hogwarts’ four Pyrenees mountains in
themselves. But Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Sly-
houses.
southern France. therin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff
were concerned about how the students would be
sorted after they were dead. Gryffindor volunteered
to use the hat that he often wore and together, the
Hogwarts Four placed a spell on it that gave the hat
their combined intelligence. This allowed the Sort-
ing Hat to sort future generations into the proper
houses, just as the founders would have done.

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CHASE FOR THE GOLDEN

Quidditch is the most popular game in

the wizarding world

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 / How many Each Quidditch match consists of two teams of
seven players each, meaning 14 players are on the
field at the same time. Teams are made up of three

players take
“Chasers,” two “Beaters,” one “Seeker,” and one
“Keeper.” The Seeker is the one attempting to
capture the Golden Snitch to end the game. The
Keeper is the one protecting the goal posts so the

part in a other team doesn’t score. The Chasers are the ones
trying to keep possession of the Quaffle—a leather
ball they pass back and forth—so they can score by

Quidditch throwing it through one of the other team’s three

hoops. And the job of the Beaters is to use their
short bats to protect their teammates from

match at one
Bludgers—round balls of iron that fly around trying
to indiscriminately knock players off their brooms.

time?
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TRUE OR FALSE:
THE QUIDDITCH
CUP WAS GIVEN
TO THE WORLD
CHAMPION TEAM
AT THE END OF
THE QUIDDITCH
WORLD CUP.
Not quite true. The
Quidditch World Cup

broomstick does
trophy was given to
the winner of the
Quidditch World
THE KEEPER
Ron Weasley, of Gryffindor,
on the field for a Quidditch
Cup, which was held
internationally every
four years. But the
Harry Potter use?
match. Harry Potter actually owned two broomsticks
Quidditch Cup was
given to the Hogwarts during his time playing Quidditch at Hogwarts
Inter-House Quidditch School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The first was a
champion. Teams Nimbus 2000, one of the top models available. It
from each of the four was given to him by Professor Minerva McGonagall
houses competed when he was named to the Gryffindor Quidditch
yearly for the trophy. team as a first-year student at Hogwarts. He owned
As prestigious as the and used that for two years before it was destroyed
World Cup may have in the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff match in November
been, the Quidditch
1993, when he fell off the broom and it crashed into
Cup at Hogwarts was
the Whomping Willow. The next one Harry owned
equally coveted for
was one he always wanted—a rare Firebolt, which
the students who
was given to him by Sirius Black. Harry Potter was
competed for it over
several weekends
the only person at Hogwarts to own one, and he
throughout the used it throughout his time at school until it was
school year. lost during the Battle of the Seven Potters.

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/ What
position
does Harry
Potter play in
Quidditch?
When Harry Potter began playing
Quidditch for the Gryffindor team,
he played the position of Seeker. He
became the youngest Seeker on the
Gryffindor team in approximately
100 years. The Seeker’s job in
Quidditch is huge. He is the one
responsible for trying to catch the
“Golden Snitch”—the walnut-sized
golden ball that flies around the
Quidditch pitch in random patterns,
trying to avoid being captured. If a
Seeker captures the Snitch, his team
gets 150 points and the game is
considered over.

THE SEEKER
Harry Potter was
Gryffindor’s youngest
Seeker in 100 years.

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SAFETY FIRST
Playing the position
of Keeper meant that
Ron had to wear extra
protective padding.

WHICH SCHOOL
INVENTED A REAL-
LIFE VERSION OF
QUIDDITCH?
The fictional sport of
Quidditch was turned
into an actual sport
by college students in
the United States. The
Muggle version was
developed in 2005
by two students at
Middlebury College
in Vermont—Xander
Manshel and Alex

Quidditch match Benepe. They obviously

had to alter the rules,

end? since neither of them

were wizards and there
was no such thing as
In theory, the end of Quidditch is simple. It occurs flying broomsticks.
when the Seeker on either team captures the Instead, players on
Golden Snitch. Of course, that isn’t easy to do, nor the field had to run
around with their
is it guaranteed to happen. That’s why some Quid-
broomstick between
ditch matches were known to last for many days.
their legs as they tried
It’s also written in the rules that a match can end by
to score goals and
an agreement reached between the captains of the catch the snitch. In
two teams, which was likely if one team was more 2007, the Quidditch
than 150 points ahead. That’s because every goal in World Cup was held. It
Quidditch was worth 10 points, but capturing the was later rebranded as
Golden Snitch was worth 150 points. So if one team “quadball” to distance
trailed by 140 points, they might not want to end itself from the version
the match, since catching the Golden Snitch would played in Harry Potter’s
still be enough for them to win. wizarding world.

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 / What
position
does Ron
Weasley
play in
Quidditch?
Ron did not make the Gryffindor Quidditch
team until his fifth year at Hogwarts. When
he finally did, he played the position of
Keeper. He was the one guarding the three
goalposts with the hoops on the top, trying
to prevent the other team from scoring.
As a result, he was in the firing line, so
he wore a helmet, shoulder pads, chest
pads and knee pads—far more protective
equipment than any other player. Ron
was an uneven player at times who suf-
fered from confidence issues. His best
game most notably came after he believed
Harry Potter had given him a drink of Felix
Felicis—a potion known as “Liquid Luck.”
Ron, believing he was now magically lucky,
played a near-perfect game. But he later
learned Harry only pretended to give him
the potion, and he played the outstanding
game all on his own.

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/ How many
possible
“fouls”
are there
according to
the rules of
Quidditch?
Technically, there are 700 different possible
fouls in a game of Quidditch, according to the
Department of Magical Games and Sports. The
full list was never made public, so as not to give
any wizards or witches any ideas. The department
said that 90% of the fouls were banned under the
rule that said no one could use their wand against
the opposing team. Of the remaining 10%, there
are only 11 fouls that are considered “common
fouls,” likely to occur during any match. Inter-
estingly, all 700 fouls were said to occur during
the Quidditch World Cup Final of 1473 between
Transylvania and Flanders—a match considered
to be the most violent ever played.

F O U L P L AY
There are 700 ways to
foul a player during a
Quidditch match.

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WHO WON THE
FIRST REAL-LIFE
QUIDDITCH
WORLD CUP?
The first Quidditch
World Cup was
technically held in 2007
and was won by the
team from Middlebury
College, where the
real-life version of the
sport was invented.
That, however, wasn’t
a “world” tournament.
It was just the first
intercollegiate
Quidditch match, and
they called it the World
Cup. The first true
world event was held
in 2012, and was called
the Summer Games. It
took place in Oxford,
England, and featured
teams from Australia,
Canada, France, the
United States and
the United Kingdom.
The winner was the
team from the United
States, which defeated
France in the final. The
team from the United
Kingdom lost all four
of its matches and
finished last.

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HE WHO MUST NOT

Voldemort is the Dark Lord of the Potter series,
and the archenemy of Harry himself

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/ Who called
Voldemort
a “raging WHAT IS THE
psychopath ORIGIN OF
VOLDEMORT’S
devoid of the NAME?
normal human The name of the evil
Dark Lord in the Harry
Potter series was so

responses to
sinister, and struck
so much fear into the
wizarding world, that

other people’s
it was rarely used.
Voldemort, especially
early in the series,
was known more often

suffering”? as “He Who Must Not

Be Named” or “You
Know Who.” Author
J.K. Rowling said she
made up the name
That description was given by au- Voldemort but that it
thor J.K. Rowling. When she began has significant origins
from the French
writing the books, Rowling said that language. “Vol” means
she didn’t explain Voldemort’s back- “theft” or “flight,”
and “mort” means
story so the audience could discover “death.” Interestingly,
it just as Harry Potter did. As Rowl- Voldemort’s birth
name was Tom Marvolo
ing explains, he wasn’t necessarily Riddle, which is later
born evil, but his circumstances led revealed to be an
anagram of “I Am
him down that path. And as his story Lord Voldemort.”
continued, it became clear there was
nothing good about him, nothing
redeemable, right up until his death.

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IN WHICH OF THE
SEVEN BOOKS
DOES VOLDEMORT
NOT APPEAR?
There are two books
in the Harry Potter
series that don’t
feature an appearance
by Voldemort—Harry
Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
and Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood
Prince. His character,

different actors of course, is a presence

in both books and is

portrayed Voldemort mentioned frequently,

but Voldemort himself

in the eight Harry does not actually

appear. He is heard, but

Potter films?
not seen, in Prisoner
of Azkaban and his
backstory is told in
Half-Blood Prince, but
Six. In the first film, two actors were used for
he is not physically
Voldemort. Richard Bremmer played Voldemort present. In each of the
in the flashback scenes. Then, when Voldemort other five books, he is
occupies Professor Quirrell’s body, the film used a central character and
CGI images of Bremmer, but it was the actor appears as himself.
who portrayed Quirrell (Ian Hart) who provided
Voldemort’s voice. In Chamber of Secrets, Christian
Coulson played teenage Tom Riddle. Ralph Fiennes
played Voldemort in Goblet of Fire. His nephew,
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, played the 11-year-old version
of Riddle in Half-Blood Prince. And Frank Dillane
took over for Coulson as the teenaged Riddle.

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 / True or
false: Harry
Potter and
Voldemort
were related.
Technically it’s true, though as author J.K. Rowl-
ing once noted, if you trace back any character’s
genealogy far enough, they’re all related in some
way. For Harry and Voldemort, the common link
is the Peverell family, a clan of pure-blood wizards
from medieval times. The three Peverell broth-
ers—Antioch, Cadmus and Ignotus—were famous
for each possessing one of the Deathly Hallows.
Voldemort was connected to them through his ma-
ternal grandfather, Marvolo Gaunt, who had a ring
with what he believed was a Peverell coat of arms
on it. In fact, the ring includes a sign of the Deathly
Hallows and the Resurrection Stone. Harry’s con-
nection is through the granddaughter of Ignotus
Peverell, who married Hardwin Potter. That’s how
the Cloak of Invisibility—another of the Deathly
Hallows—began to get passed down through the
Potter line.

DA R K LO R D
Voldemort is a dark force
who appears in all but two
of the Harry Potter books.

FA M I LY T I E S
Harry Potter is a distant
relative of Voldemort.

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/ What
magical
item causes
Voldemort’s
death?
Voldemort intends to use the pow-
erful Elder Wand—one of the three
Deathly Hallows, which used to
belong to Dumbledore—to kill Harry.
But he’s unaware that Harry is the
true master of the Elder Wand, and
that the wand is incapable of harm-
ing its master. When Voldemort uses
the wand to cast the Killing Curse
on Harry, the Killing Curse attacks
Voldemort instead. Not only does the
Elder Wand cause Voldemort to die
by his own hand, but it successfully
protects Harry, who never actually
has to kill anyone in the entire series.

E P I C B AT T L E
Harry Potter is saved by
the Elder Wand when he
and Lord Voldemort
engage in their final battle.

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WHO WERE
VOLDEMORT’S
PARENTS?
Voldemort grew up in a
Muggle orphanage and
never got to know his
parents. But they were
a Muggle named Tom
Riddle and a witch
named Merope Gaunt.
Merope was a troubled
woman who had been
physically and mentally
abused by her father,
Marvolo, and brother,
Morfin. She was a
witch who fell in love
with a Muggle and is
believed to have used

/ What causes
a love potion to lure
him to her. When Tom
Riddle Sr. somehow
escaped the potion’s
spell, he left her before
their child was born.
Merope gave birth Voldemort
to suddenly want
to her son, but died
shortly thereafter,
unable to use magic to

to kill Harry
save herself. Voldemort
seemed to feel nothing
but contempt for his
parents. He considered

Potter?
his mother to be
inexcusably weak and
his father to be nothing
but a “filthy Muggle.”

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 / Voldemort is
the leader of which
group of wizards and
witches?
The Death Eaters were the strongest and most
loyal followers of Lord Voldemort. They were a
group of wizards and witches who believed in the
sanctity of “pure-blood” magical beings—wizards
and witches who came from parents who were
wizards and witches, with no Muggle (non-mag-
ical) bloodlines in their family. They practiced
the Dark Arts and each of them had a Dark Mark
on their left forearm. They acted as Voldemort’s
army during the Wizarding Wars. They began as
a small group of students at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry who were part of the
Slytherin house when Voldemort was a student
there.

Voldemort decided to kill Harry Potter after he was

told of a prophecy about a boy who was destined
to eventually kill him. The prophecy was told
by a woman named Sybill Trelawny, in a meeting
with Professor Dumbledore at the Hog’s Head Inn.
She went into a trance and told of the boy born to
parents who had already defied Voldemort who
could rise up and defeat him. Since Harry was a
half-blood, Voldemort decided Harry was the boy
he needed to kill to prevent the prophecy from
coming true.

THE PROPHECY T H E DA R K M A S T E R
Severus Snape overheard Voldemort’s loyal followers
Sybill Trelawny’s prophecy are called Death Eaters.
and immediately reported They often wore masks to
back to Voldemort. conceal their identities.

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