1. Hogwarts
   Voldemort
2. Muggle

In 2003, the OED added "muggle," which the dictionary defines as, "a person who possesses no magical powers ... a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, or who is regarded as inferior in some way."

1. Henry and Maggie Potter
   William and Elizabeth Potter
2. James and Lily Potter

Harry's father was the wizard, James Potter, and his mother, Lily, was a Muggle-born witch. They were killed by Voldemort when Harry was a baby.

1. Ned and Camilla Diddly
   Ralph and Magnolia Dudley
2. Vernon and Petunia Dursley

Under Dumbledore's orders, Harry has to live with Vernon and Petunia Dursley (and their awful son, Dudley) when he isn't at Hogwarts.

1. Percy, Bill, George, Charlie, Fred, Ron, Ginny
   George, Fred, Percy, Bill, Charlie, Ron, Ginny
2. Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny

Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny are the children of Arthur and Molly Weasley.

1. Impedimenta, Incarcerous and Incendio
   Avada Kedavra, Crucio and Imperio
2. Expelliarmus, Expecto Patronum and Diffindo

The use of Avada Kedavra (the killing curse), Crucio (excruciating pain) and Imperio (which causes the victim to obey the spell-caster) are punishable by life in Azkaban.

1. Snape
   Sprout
2. McGonagall

In addition to her duties as head of Gryffindor, Professor McGonagall teaches Transfiguration. Transfiguration spells change objects from one form to another.

1. Quirrell
   Lockhart
2. Snape

Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Quirinus Quirrell, is revealed to be under Voldemort's control at the conclusion of the first book.

1. Moaning Myrtle
   Fawkes
2. Nearly Headless Nick

Moaning Myrtle, the ghost of a former Hogwarts student who haunts the girls' bathroom, introduces Harry to the Tom Riddle diary.

1. The ghost of Sirius Black
   Harry's father
2. Voldemort

Tom Marvolo Riddle was the last descendant of Salazar Slytherin -- but also a half-blood -- who transformed himself into Voldemort. The name is an anagram of "I am Lord Voldemort."

1. The Sorcerer's Stone
   The Prisoner of Azkaban
2. The Deathly Hallows

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is the only book without He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. He's mentioned, of course, but he never actually shows up.

1. James Potter, not guilty
   Cornelius Fudge, guilty
2. Sirius Black, not guilty

Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of Peter Pettigrew. He escaped Azkaban by transforming into his dog animagus form, and he traveled to Hogwarts to commit the crime for which he was imprisoned.

1. Draco Malfoy
   Neville Longbottom
2. Cedric Diggory

Peter Pettigrew murders all-around good guy Cedric Diggory at the end of the fourth book in the series.

1. Mad-Eye Moody
   Bellatrix Lestrange
2. Sirius Black

Bellatrix Lestrange was a Death Eater and most certainly not a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

1. Lucius Malfoy
   Draco Malfoy
2. Snape

When Draco Malfoy fails to kill Dumbledore, Snape steps in and does the deed. This was at Dumbledore's request.

1. 5 million
   8 million
2. 11 million

The final Harry Potter book sold an astonishing 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release on July 21, 2007.

1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
   The Tales of Crookshanks the Cat
2. The Tales of Gilderoy the Great

J.K. Rowling originally published only seven leather-bound copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," but it was eventually released worldwide in December 2008.

1. Hermione Granger
   Ginny Weasley
2. Cho Chang

Ginny Weasley captured Harry's heart in his 6th year at Hogwarts. They have three children together: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna. Hermione marries Ron.

1. Luna Lovegood
   Lavender Brown
2. Neville Longbottom

The hapless Neville Longbottom was given a happy ending as a Hogwarts professor.

1. Kyoto, Japan
   Birmingham, England
2. Orlando, Florida

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is the sixth island in Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.

1. "...perfectly normal, thank you very much."
   "...the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious."
2. "...proud winners of the best-kept suburban lawn competition."

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were "perfectly normal, thank you very much." He was the head of a company that made drills, and she was a busy-body.

1. A Niffler, a cuddly creature that is a useful treasure detector
   Acromantula, a gigantic black spider raised by Hagrid from infancy
2. A Hellhound, also known as a "three-headed dog"

Fluffy is a huge, vicious three-headed dog who guards the sorcerer's stone. In exchange for a dragon egg, Hagrid tells a mysterious stranger he can get past Fluffy by playing a bit of music.

1. A three-headed dog
   A Blast-Ended Skrewt
2. Snape's potions puzzle

Hagrid's three-headed dog, Sprout's devil's snare, Flitwick's charmed keys, McGonagall's transfigured chess board, Quirrell's troll, Snape's potions puzzle and Dumbledore's Mirror of Erised protected the sorcerer's stone.

1. He broke the mirror fighting with Quirrell.
   He looked into the mirror and felt the stone drop into his pocket.
2. He distracted Quirrell and quickly accessed a small hidden chamber in the mirror's lower frame.

The Mirror of Erised reflects nothing more or less than the deepest desire of a person's heart. Dumbledore bewitched the mirror to only reveal the sorcerer's stone to one who wanted to find the stone, but not use it.

1. Goblin
   House-Elf
2. Centaur

Dobby, a house-elf belonging to the Malfoy family, visits Harry at the beginning of the second book to dissuade him from returning to Hogwarts. House-elves are small humanoid creatures who usually belong to wealthy Wizarding families.

1. They land spectacularly on the front lawn at Hogwarts.
   The car is spotted by muggles up and down the countryside, and both Harry and Ron are disciplined by the Ministry of Magic.
2. They crash into the Whomping Willow.

The flying Ford Anglia malfunctions as it nears Hogwarts, and the boys crash into the Whomping Willow. The car ejects Harry, Ron and their luggage and flees to the forbidden forest, where it takes to trundling around like a wild animal.

1. Harry is a Horcrux.
   Harry can cast a Patronus charm.
2. Harry can speak Parseltongue.

While dueling with Harry, Draco Malfoy conjures a snake. Harry immediately commands the snake not to attack. The whole school hears him speaking Parseltongue (snake language), an ability generally associated with dark wizards.

1. Memory charms
   Summoning charms
2. The immensely difficult Homorphus charm

Lockhart used memory charms to bewitch local heroes so that he could claim their good deeds as his own. At the end of the second book, he accidentally blasts himself with a powerful memory charm. As far as we know, he is still recuperating at St. Mungo's.

1. Hagrid
   McGonagall
2. Snape

50 years before Harry's time at Hogwarts, a student named Tom Riddle caught a young Hagrid raising Aragog, a baby Acromantula, in a dungeon cupboard. Aragog was blamed for attacking several students. Hagrid was expelled and had his wand snapped in half.

1. The Dark Lord
   Voldemort
2. Both of the above

Tom Marvolo Riddle was the last descendant of Salazar Slytherin. After leaving school, he sank deeply into the dark arts, transforming himself into Voldemort. Riddle's birth name is an anagram for "I am Lord Voldemort."

1. Casting a Patronus charm
   Blowing his Aunt Marge up like a balloon
2. Dropping a ton-tongue toffee that gets eaten by Dudley

Loathsome Aunt Marge speaks disparagingly about Harry's dead parents, and Harry gets so angry that he does uncontrolled magic, blowing Aunt Marge up like a balloon.

1. The Grim
   The Werewolf
2. The Thestral

Harry fears he's seen a Grim, a large black dog that portends death. However, the dog turns out to be his Godfather Sirius Black in his animagus form.

1. Visit Hogsmeade and become prefects
   Become prefects and start new subjects
2. Start new elective subjects and visit Hogsmeade

Students with signed permission forms are allowed to visit Hogsmeade on select weekends. Third years also start new elective subjects. These can impact their career choices in later life.

1. Mandrake draught
   A time-turner
2. Felix Felicis

McGonagall writes to the Ministry of Magic for permission to allow Hermione access to a time-turner, a small silver hourglass that enables Hermione to turn back time so that she can repeat hours and attend an excess of lessons.

1. Aurora Sinistra
   Sibyll Trelawney
2. Pomona Sprout

Divination is a very imprecise branch of magic, and true seers are rare. However, Divination professor Sibyll Trelawney turns out to be the real deal; Harry witnesses her make two real predictions during his time at Hogwarts.

1. Professor Lockhart
   Professor Lupin
2. Professor Grubbly-Plank

Shabby part-werewolf R.J. Lupin lands the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry's third year. He teaches Harry to fend off Dementors with a Patronus charm.

1. Azkaban is guarded by Dementors.
   Absolom is guarded by Dementors.
2. Arkaban is guarded by Deluminators.

Azkaban, the Wizarding prison, is guarded by Dementors, creatures who drain peace, hope and happiness out of the air around them. In a 2000 interview with The Times UK, Author J.K. Rowling revealed that the Dementors embody her own experience with depression.

1. The Triwizard Tournament
   International Exhibition of Thick-Bottomed Cauldrons
2. The Quidditch World Cup

The Ministry of Magic spent at least a year magically constructing a stadium for the four hundred and twenty-second Quidditch World Cup.

1. Seeker
   Beater
2. Keeper

Cho Chang was a year older than Harry and played Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Cedric Diggory asked her to the Yule Ball before Harry could work up the nerve, and to Harry's dismay, Cho then became Cedric's girlfriend.

1. Rita Skeeter
   Barnabas Cuffe
2. Gilderoy Lockhart

The enchantingly nasty Rita Skeeter used her talents as an unregistered animagus to spy on Harry and obtain information she needed to write a series of exposés during the Triwizard Tournament.

1. They were driven insane and now live in a locked ward at St. Mungo's.
   They became Death Eaters.
2. They died, leaving Neville to be raised by his grandmother.

Bellatrix Lestrange and other Death Eaters subjected Frank and Alice Longbottom to the Cruciatus curse in an attempt to force them to divulge information about Voldemort's whereabouts. The torture drove them insane.

1. Hermione put two and two together and told Harry.
   He overheard Neville talking in his sleep.
2. He saw the trial of Bartemious Crouch and the Lestranges in Dumbledore's Pensieve.

In Dumbledore's office, Harry noticed a silvery glimmer from Dumbledore's Pensieve. His curiosity got the best of him and, before he knew it, he was witnessing Dumbledore's memory of the trial of the Longbottom's torturers.

1. He stole the sorcerer's stone and used it to conjure a corporeal form.
   He reanimated his old body by possessing the corpse of James Potter.
2. He used a potion of his own invention to restore himself to his mortal form.

Voldemort concocted a potion of his own invention to return himself to physical form. It contained unicorn blood, his father's bone, Harry's blood and Peter Pettigrew's flesh.

1. Thestrals
   Centaurs
2. Hippogriffs

Thestrals, carnivorous, winged horse-like creatures invisible except to those who have seen death, pull the school carriages.

1. The Daily Prophet
   The Quibbler
2. Which Broomstick

The Quibbler, which is known for publishing wild conspiracy theories, is published by Luna Lovegood's father, Xenophilius Lovegood.

1. Skiving snackboxes, canary creams, ton-tongue toffee and extendable ears
   Canary creams, fizzing whizzbees, skiving snackboxes and trick wands
2. Trick wands, skiving snackboxes, ton-tongue toffee and sneakoscopes

Fred and George Weasley may not have put much effort into schoolwork, but they had a positive genius for inventing novelty items, including canary creams, ton-tongue toffees, skiving snackboxes, extendable ears and much more!

1. Dolores Umbridge
   Quirinus Quirrell
2. Severus Snape

When Dumbledore couldn't find anyone to fill the position, the Ministry passed a decree giving itself the authority to appoint someone. Dolores Jane Umbridge refused to teach practical defense and only taught theory.

1. Defense Association, "D.A." for short, met in the Room of Requirement.
   The Defense Against the Dark Arts League met in the Come-and-Go room.
2. Dumbledore's Army met in the Room of Requirement.

Dumbledore's Army trained secretly in the Room of Requirement, right under Umbridge's nose!

1. Professor Slughorn
   Professor Umbridge
2. Professor Moody

Corpulent social climber Horace Slughorn replaced Severus Snape as Potion's Master at Hogwarts after Snape accepted the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

1. Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's locket, Slytherin's ring, Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Nagini the snake and Harry Potter himself
   Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Nagini the snake and Harry Potter himself
2. Tom Riddle's diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's diadem, Rowena Ravenclaw's cup, Nagini the snake and Harry Potter himself

To ensure his own immortality, Lord Voldemort created an unprecedented seven Horcruxes. Harry must find and destroy each of these if he hopes to stand a chance of ever defeating Voldemort.

1. He bequeaths him the sword of Gryffindor.
   He teaches him Horcruxio, the secret spell for destroying Horcruxes.
2. He takes him through the Pensieve to show him his memories of Voldemort's past.

Though Harry can't understand how it will possibly help, he eagerly accompanies Dumbledore through the Pensieve into a variety of memories concerning Tom Riddle (Lord Voldemort.)

1. Join the Death Eaters
   Murder Albus Dumbledore
2. Both of the above

Much to the dismay of Draco's mother, Lord Voldemort makes Draco a Death Eater and tasks him with the responsibility of murdering Albus Dumbledore.

1. Slytherin's locket
   Vanishing Cabinet
2. The Room of Requirement

Peeves damages an "extremely valuable" Vanishing Cabinet in Harry's second year. Draco hatches a plan to repair it and to use it and its twin at Borgin and Burkes to sneak Death Eaters into Hogwarts.

1. Severus Snape
   Horace Slughorn
2. Albus Dumbledore

When Severus Snape was at Hogwarts, he signed his potions book with the nickname "Half-Blood Prince." Snape was a half-blood, and his witch mother's surname was "Prince."

1. A Deluminator, Gryffindor's sword and the first golden snitch Harry ever caught
   Gryffindor's sword, a put-outer and the Pensieve
2. An invisibility cloak, a Deluminator and Gryffindor's sword

Dumbledore left his Deluminator to Ron "in the hope that he will remember me when he uses it." To Harry, he left the sword of Gryffindor and the first snitch Harry had ever caught, which concealed the resurrection stone, one of the Deathly Hallows.

1. Invisibility cloak, elder wand and polyjuice potion
   Elder wand, Horcrux and resurrection stone
2. Resurrection stone, invisibility cloak and elder wand

Harry thinks that if he can unite the Deathly Hallows (the invisibility cloak, the elder wand and the resurrection stone,) he might survive a confrontation with Voldemort.

1. George
   Percy
2. Fred

Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny are the children of Arthur and Molly Weasley. In the seventh book, George loses an ear, and his twin Fred actually dies during the Battle of Hogwarts. The rest of the family escapes unscathed, at least physically.

1. Snape became a murderer and a double agent in the name of love. He's complicated, but ultimately good.
   A superb Occlumens, Snape plays Dumbledore like a fiddle. He's rotten to the core.
2. Death Eaters are all good guys.

Severus Snape is the ultimate anti-hero. He does terrible things, but his love for Lily Potter never wavers. Harry names his middle son Albus Severus in honor of Snape's sacrifice.