For all the Potterheads

1. THE ALAN RICKMAN MEMORIAL
Harry Potter Quiz!
PRELIMS

2. 1) • A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as
a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected
person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically
disproportional to the actual danger posed.
• What is Benkinersophobia ?

3. Fear Of Not Receiving a Letter from
Hogwarts at 11

4. 2) • X was initially a fortress which was home to the evil
wizard Ekrizdis, known for luring Muggles onto his island
where he tortured and murdered them. After his death, the
concealment charms he had cast faded away and the
Ministry of Magic acknowledged the island's existence for
the first time.
• Even then, the place was infested with Ys. The island is
unplottable and is said to have been created/enlarged
using magical means. The island was left alone for years,
before the establishment of the International Statute of
Secrecy before being adopted by Damocles Rowle for the
purpose it is known to serve.
• The name is inspired from a Hebrew word, meaning 'place
of destruction' or 'depths of hell' and also draws
inspiration from the _______ off the coast of San
Francisco.

5. X-AZKABAN Y-DEMENTORS

6. 3) • J. K. Rowling stated that the word X was from the West
African Sidiki dialect used in geomancy and has the literal
meaning "Friendly to thieves".
• Although it is unknown who invented it , it was brought to
Britain and hence to the world in the 17th century by
Eldon Elsrickle. He used it to terrorise London, stealing
from homes of Muggles and wizards alike.
• The Janus Thickey Ward at St. Mungo's Hospital for
Magical Maladies and Injuries requires the use of X.
Healers and visitors may enter, but patients are unable to
get out.
• ID X

7. X-Alohomora

8. 4) • Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage,
inspiration, civilization, law and justice,
mathematics, olive oil, strength, war strategy, the
arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and
mythology.
• She is known for her calm temperament, as she
moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only
fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a
purpose.
• Her image can be found in the shields of the Faculty
of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Sciences
of the National Autonomous University of Mexico,
where her owl is the symbol of the Faculty of
Chemistry.
• A certain character in the series is said to be
inspired from her. Who?

9. Minerva Mcgonagall

10. 5) • X is located on the seventh floor in the left corridor of the
Hogwarts castle and an entrance opposite the tapestry
depicting the attempt of Barnabas the Barmy to teach trolls
ballet.
• During the 1997-1998 school year, Neville Longbottom and
several other students used X as a hideout to escape the wrath
of the new Death Eater professors, the Carrows. The problem
was the lack of food, as it was one of the exceptions to Gamp's
Law of Elemental Transfiguration.
• So it adapted by adding an eighth passage into Hogsmeade,
connected to the Hog's Head pub, whose owner, provided
food. Also, this advantage allowed members of the Order of the
Phoenix to enter the school without setting off the
Caterwauling Charm on the village.
• ID X

11. X-ROOM OF REQUIREMENT

12. 6) • Whenever a beloved character has their ethnicity
changed by a new casting, there is nearly always a
mini furore over it among a portion of their fans.
• But X largely received an overwhelmingly warm
response on social media following the formal
announcement of her casting as Hermione Granger
in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• The following slide has a tweet.
• ID the veteran stage play
Actress.

14. X-NOMA DUMEZWENI

15. 7) • "A jet of green light issued from Voldemort's wand
just as a jet of red light blasted from Harry's — they
met in midair — and suddenly Harry's wand was
vibrating as though an electric charge were surging
through it; his hand seized up around it; he couldn't
have released it if he'd wanted to — and a narrow
beam of light connected the two wands, neither red
nor green, but bright, deep gold. Harry, following
the beam with his astonished gaze, saw that
Voldemort's long white fingers too were gripping a
wand that was shaking and vibrating.“
• Description of what?

16. PRIORI INCANTATEM

17. 8) • In 1827, Ottaline Gambol rose to the office of Minister for
Magic, and she made a daring and controversial
suggestion to solve an ages-old problem.
• The Minister saw the potential of using X as a secure and
comfortable alternative to Portkeys or to unregulated
means of commute.
• The Ministry of Magic conducted a large-scale operation
involving one hundred and sixty-seven Memory Charms,
as well as the biggest Concealment Charm ever performed
in Britain, in order to acquire X.
• ID X

18. X-HOGWARTS EXPRESS

19. 9)• The Philosopher’s Stone was placed in a special chamber and guarded
by seven enchantments and creatures, provided by the professors at
Hogwarts.
• Hagrid's massive three-headed dog, Fluffy, guarded the trap door
through which the chamber lay.
• Professor Sprout's web of Devil's Snare.
• Flying keys, charmed by Filius Flitwick.
• A life-size board of Wizard's Chess, transfigured by Professor
McGonagall.
• Professor Quirrell's mountain troll.
• X
• The Mirror of Erised, placed there by Albus Dumbledore.
• ID X

20. X-SNAPE’S POTION RIDDLE

21. 10)• The motto of X is Fortius Quo Fidelius, a Latin phrase that means
"Strength through loyalty”.
• The entrance to X leads into a small entrance hall and another set
of doors. Engraved on these silver doors are the words:
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
X may be derived from the word which means a mass of metal cast
in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
• ID X

22. X-GRINGOTTS

23. 11)• The French for a word sounds similar to piscine, which
means pool or swimming pool. The German is a nice
combination of Denk from denken, meaning to think, and
ium, as in gymnasium, creating a work that approximates
the original.
• The first time Harry Potter saw X was in his fourth year,
which he used to view the Death Eater trials at the end of
the First Wizarding War. It was there that Harry witnessed
the trial of Barty Crouch Jr. and the others who tortured
the Longbottoms to insanity.
• The word is a portmanteau. The latter is an object in which
something may be sorted or separated. The former is
derived from the French word meaning “to ponder”.
• Which word?

24. PENSIEVE

25. 12)• It may have had a very slight alcohol content, which could get
house-elves in a drunk-like state, though an antidote to this
existed. This is likely due to house-elves having both significantly
smaller bodies as well as a slightly different body chemistry than
humans, thus increasing their vulnerability to the effects of
alcohol in any volume.
• Winky, a house-elf, took to getting a drunk-like state off of it after
losing her job with the Crouch family, an addiction from which she
never fully recovered.
• At the Hog's Head, customers were charged two sickles for
it(£0.60 approximately), but it was not certain whether this was a
universal price for it, or if this varied from location to location.
• The earliest reference was from, 'The Good Huswifes Handmaide
for the Kitchin' published in London in 1588 A.D.
• What?

26. BUTTERBEER

27. 13)• The entrance to the Ravenclaw common room is
located on the west side of Hogwarts at the top of a
spiral staircase, presumably located on the fifth floor,
and is a door without a doorknob or keyhole, but a
bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. In order to
enter the room, a person must answer a riddle asked
by the eagle knocker; if they answer incorrectly, they
must wait for someone else who gets it right.
• One among the riddle is as follows:
• "Which came first, the phoenix, or the flame?"
• What is the solution to the riddle?

28. A CIRCLE HAS NO BEGINNING

29. 14) • Identify the glitch in this book cover.

30. HEDWIG IS REPRESENTED AS A BARN
OWL & NOT A SNOW OWL

31. 15)• "BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC
Customers are reminded that until further notice,
Dementors will be patrolling the streets of
Hogsmeade every night after sundown. This
measure has been put in place for the safety of
Hogsmeade residents and will be lifted upon the
recapture of Sirius Black. It is therefore advisable
that you complete your shopping well before
nightfall.
Merry Christmas!" —Notice on X’s door during the
escape of Sirius Black.
• ID X

32. X-HONEYDUKES

33. 16) • Triwizard Cup
• The head of a golden statue
• A small, silver-backed hairbrush
• A blackened kettle
• A rusty oilcan
• A bent coat hanger
• Nonexhaustive list of what?

34. PORTKEYS

35. 17)• The witch and wizard are the two focal points of X, with
the other, "lower" beings looking up in "awe and
adoration." This is very unrealistic, as centaurs and
goblins consider themselves superior to wizards and
witches. House-elves, on the other hand, have no other
joy in life other than to be in the service of wizards.
• X supposedly represented harmony in the wizarding
world, although Albus Dumbledore thought otherwise.
• After the fall of the Ministry in 1997, it was temporarily
replaced by the Magic is Might monument.
• ID X

36. FOUNTAIN OF MAGICAL BRETHREN

37. 18)• Ambrosius Flume – Owner of Honeydukes
• Barnabas Cuffe – Editor of the Daily Prophet (as of 1996)
• Dirk Cresswell – Former Head of the Goblin Liasion Office who had insider
information of Gringotts, killed during the Second Wizarding War.
• Gwenog Jones – Captain of the Holyhead Harpies (as of 1996-97)
• Lucius Malfoy – Of the rich and influential Malfoy family, a Death Eater, a
respected high-ranking Ministry of Magic official.
• Severus Snape – A good student who was brilliant at Potions and making
new spells. Became a Death Eater, but defected.
• Lily Evans – A good student with particular talent in Potions. Murdered
during the First Wizarding War.
• Harry Potter – "The Boy Who Lived" and "The Chosen One", son of Lily
Evans
• EXHAUSTIVE LIST. PUT FUNDA

38. MEMBERS OF THE SLUG CLUB

39. 19) • X is from the English word, ultimately derived
from Latin caritas meaning "generous love".
Caritas was in use as a Roman Christian name.
The English name came into use among the
Puritans after the Protestant Reformation.
• When about to die, X says the same last words
that Albus Dumbledore did, except she adds
another 'please'.

40. X-CHARITY BURBAGE

41. 20) • X is a book written by British author J. K. Rowling,
which was published on December 4, 2008. Issued
nearly a year and a half after Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, it stands as the most recent book
published based upon the Harry Potter universe.
• The book was originally produced in a limited edition of
only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J.
K. Rowling.
• One of them was offered for auction in late 2007 and was
expected to sell for £50,000 ultimately it was bought for
£1.95 million by Amazon.com, making the selling price
the highest achieved at auction for a modern literary
manuscript.

42. TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD

43. 21) • X was a drill-making company in Surrey, England.
Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter's uncle, was the
director of the company. Mr. Dursley worked for the
company since at least 1981, when Harry was
brought to live with the Dursleys.
• The office was across the street from a bakery.
Vernon Dursley's office was on the ninth floor of the
building.
• The name may have started as an onomatopoeia for
the noise of a large drill in operation.
• ID X

44. X-GRUNNINGS