50 Fun Facts About Harry Potter Christmas

What anonymous Christmas gift does Harry receive in his first year at Hogwarts?

Dumbledore sent it with a note telling him to 'use it well'.

What does Harry discover while wandering Hogwarts under his cloak that first Christmas?

It shows the viewer's deepest desire; Harry sees his parents.

Which Weasleys stayed at Hogwarts with Harry over the Christmas holidays in 1991?

Their parents were visiting Charlie in Romania.

What did Fred bewitch Percy's prefect badge to say at the 1991 Christmas feast?

Hagrid, meanwhile, was booming carols louder with every goblet of eggnog.

How many Christmas trees decorate the Great Hall in the first book?

Enchanted snow falls warm and dry from the ceiling and Dumbledore leads carols.

What did the Weasley twins do with snowballs in the run-up to Christmas 1991?

They were punished for it; the lake froze solid that December.

What do the magical crackers at the Hogwarts feast contain instead of paper crowns and jokes?

Harry got a rear-admiral's hat and Dumbledore a flowered bonnet in 1991.

What hat did Snape get from a Wizard Cracker at Christmas 1993?

It echoed Neville's Boggart of Snape in his grandmother's clothes earlier that year.

What dessert is served with the roast turkey and chipolatas at the Hogwarts December feast?

The staff may enjoy wine with the meal.

What does Molly Weasley knit for family and friends every Christmas?

Ron complains that his is always the same dull colour; Harry's is green.

What colour is Ron's Weasley jumper, to his annoyance, every year?

Maroon is his least favourite colour despite his red hair.

Who did Molly pointedly NOT knit a jumper for at Christmas 1996?

She disapproved of Fleur's engagement to Bill at the time.

What colour is Harry's Weasley jumper in the books and most of the films?

A deleted scene from the first film showed a blue one, probably cut for being inaccurate.

What anonymous Christmas present does Harry receive in his third year?

Hermione reported it to McGonagall, fearing Sirius Black had jinxed it.

Who really sent Harry the broom?

His Nimbus 2000 had been smashed by the Whomping Willow during a match against Hufflepuff.

What did Hermione do when the mystery broom arrived, angering Ron and Harry?

Her fear that Sirius sent it turned out to be right, though not his motive.

At which event on Christmas Day 1994 did the Weird Sisters perform?

The rumour that Dumbledore had booked them turned out to be true.

The Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire is a tradition of which event?

It ran from 8 pm to midnight and was open to fourth-years and above.

Who does Harry take to the dance after Cho Chang turns him down?

Ron goes with her twin sister Padma.

Who is Hermione's date at the Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire?

Ron sulks all night watching them dance.

Who does Ginny go to the Goblet of Fire dance with?

Ron had suggested Harry take Ginny, but she had already accepted Neville.

What does Ron's second-hand formal outfit for the ball look like?

He hacks the lace off in disgust.

Which real musicians made up the Weird Sisters in the Goblet of Fire film?

Jarvis Cocker played the singer Myron Wagtail and wrote the songs.

Why are the musicians at the ball never named in the Goblet of Fire film?

Flitwick introduces them as 'the band that needs no introduction'.

How was the Great Hall redesigned for the dance in the Goblet of Fire film?

The scene was shot in December 2004.

Where at Oxford University was McGonagall's dance-lesson scene filmed?

The same room had served as the Hogwarts infirmary in earlier films.

How did Dobby decorate the Room of Requirement for Christmas 1995?

The baubles read 'HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS!'

According to Luna, what might infest the mistletoe under which Harry and Cho kiss?

Luna also claims her Butterbeer-cork necklace keeps them away.

Where does Harry spend Christmas in his fifth year, instead of the Burrow as planned?

He also visits Arthur Weasley at St Mungo's after the Nagini attack.

Which incident, seen by Harry in a dream, sends the Weasleys to St Mungo's that Christmas?

Dumbledore realises Harry's mind is linked to Voldemort's and orders Occlumency lessons.

What Christmas present from Sirius does Harry only open after his godfather's death?

Sirius and James had used the pair to talk during separate detentions.

Who does Harry take to Slughorn's Christmas party in his sixth year?

Romilda Vane and other admirers were dismayed.

Who does Hermione bring to Slughorn's party purely to annoy Ron?

She then abandons him under the mistletoe and spends the night avoiding him.

Which unusual guest attends Slughorn's Christmas party?

Sanguini came with the author Eldred Worple, who wanted to write Harry's biography.

Who gatecrashes Slughorn's party and is dragged in by Filch?

Snape then leads Draco away for a conversation Harry eavesdrops on.

What Christmas gift does Lavender Brown give Ron in their sixth year?

It is unlikely he kept it after they broke up.

In the Half-Blood Prince film, what happens at the Burrow over Christmas that is not in the book?

Bellatrix taunts Harry about killing Sirius.

Where do Harry and Hermione go on Christmas Eve in Deathly Hallows?

They visit his parents' graves and are attacked by Nagini hiding inside Bathilda Bagshot's corpse.

Who is really inside Bathilda Bagshot's body when she meets Harry in his parents' village?

Voldemort had murdered Bathilda and hidden his snake in her corpse.

What Bible verse is on James and Lily Potter's gravestone?

The other verse is on the Dumbledore family tomb in the same graveyard.

How did Rowling announce the title Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in December 2006?

Rejected titles included Harry Potter and the Elder Wand.

Where is the Warner Bros. Studio Tour, which dresses the Great Hall for Christmas each winter, located?

The studios were a wartime de Havilland aircraft factory before GoldenEye moved in.

On which date does the Goblet of Fire film place the dance?

The books place the ball on Christmas night itself.

Read backwards, what does the inscription on the mirror Harry finds that first Christmas say?

'Erised' reversed is 'desire', making it the Mirror of Desire; Harry sees his parents and a crowd of relatives in it.

Dumbledore warns Harry that the mirror he found over Christmas gives neither knowledge nor what?

He adds that men have wasted their lives away before it, entranced by what they see.

The cloak Harry unwraps at his first Hogwarts Christmas originally belonged to which Peverell brother?

Unlike ordinary invisibility cloaks, this Hallow never wears out; it passed down to James Potter and then, via Dumbledore, to Harry.

Per Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, invisibility cloaks can be made from which creature's pelt?

Ordinary cloaks can also be enchanted with a Disillusionment Charm or Bedazzlement Hex, but those lose their power over time.

Sirius's Christmas gift of a two-way mirror was originally used by him and James Potter to talk during what?

The mirrors activate when the holder says the name of the other owner; Harry only opens the gift after Sirius's death.

Roughly how many costumes did designer Jany Temime create for the Yule Ball in the Goblet of Fire film?

Temime also dressed Beauxbatons in French blue silk and Durmstrang in thick crimson wool inspired by Habsburg and Russian folklore.

How long did it take to make Hermione's 'fairy-tale' Yule Ball dress for the Goblet of Fire film?

The dress was designed to balance sweetness with a grown-up look for Hermione's big entrance.