50 free Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the book that ended the series in July 2007, selling more copies in a day than any novel before it, and the two films that closed the movie franchise in 2010 and 2011. This Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trivia quiz covers all three: the Horcrux hunt from the locket to the diadem, the Tale of the Three Brothers and the Hallows themselves, Malfoy Manor, Gringotts, Snape's memories, the King's Cross chapter, the Battle of Hogwarts and the epilogue nineteen years later, plus how Rowling finished the book in an Edinburgh hotel, the leaks and price wars around its release, and how David Yates split the story into two films. The 50 questions run from easy ones any reader will get to hard ones about the writing, publishing and filming, so it suits a Potter night with friends or a family quiz. Every answer has been checked against the text and documented publishing and production records rather than fan wikis.
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Q 01On what date was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows published?
21 July 2007
Bloomsbury spent £10 million trying to keep the contents secret until that day.
Q 02How many copies did the book sell in the United States within 24 hours, a Guinness World Record?
8.3 million
Another 2.65 million went in the UK in the same day.
Q 03Which two members of the escort party die when the Order moves Harry from Privet Drive?
Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig
George Weasley loses an ear in the same attack.
Q 04Which Ministry official is wearing the locket Horcrux when the trio infiltrate the Ministry of Magic?
Dolores Umbridge
They steal it but cannot destroy it, and its dark influence soon drives Ron away.
Q 05What guides Harry to the frozen pond where the Sword of Gryffindor lies?
A Patronus
The locket tightens around his neck as he dives and nearly drowns him.
Q 06Who destroys the locket Horcrux?
Ron
He returns just in time to pull Harry from the pond, then stabs the locket with the sword.
Q 07Which three objects make up the Deathly Hallows?
Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, Cloak of Invisibility
Xenophilius Lovegood explains them to the trio, then betrays them to the Ministry.
Q 08What are the bounty hunters who capture the trio and take them to Malfoy Manor called?
Snatchers
They are led there after Harry says the Taboo-cursed name.
Q 09Which Gryffindor is locked in the Malfoy Manor cellar with Harry, Ron, Luna and Mr Ollivander?
Dean Thomas
His appearance was one of the things cut from the film version.
Q 10Which house-elf dies rescuing the prisoners from Malfoy Manor?
Dobby
In the film, his death scene was shot on the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Q 11Which goblin is imprisoned alongside the trio and later helps them break into Gringotts?
Griphook
He wants the Sword of Gryffindor as his price.
Q 12Whose brother helps the trio get into Hogwarts for the final battle?
Aberforth Dumbledore
He runs the Hog's Head in Hogsmeade and has spent the book resenting his more famous sibling.
Q 13Which Horcrux do the trio find in the Room of Requirement?
The Diadem of Ravenclaw
An out-of-control fire spell destroys it moments later.
Q 21The epilogue is set how many years after the Battle of Hogwarts?
19
Harry and Ginny have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna.
Q 22What are the names of Ron and Hermione's son and daughter in the epilogue?
Rose and Hugo
Their cousin Albus Severus is the anxious one boarding the train.
Q 23What are the final three words of the novel?
All was well
Rowling changed it from a line about only loved ones seeing his scar, to make clear the fight was truly over.
Q 24In which Edinburgh hotel did J. K. Rowling finish writing the book in January 2007?
Q 14Which of Draco's friends dies after casting the fire spell that destroys the diadem?
Crabbe
In the film the death is given to Goyle instead, since Crabbe's actor had left the series.
Q 15Wrongly believing him to be the Elder Wand's master, Voldemort has whom killed by Nagini?
Severus Snape
Dying, he gives Harry the memories that reveal he loved Lily and worked as a double agent.
Q 16In what does Harry view Snape's memories?
The Pensieve
They reveal that Dumbledore arranged his own death and that Harry himself is a Horcrux.
Q 17Whom does Harry instruct to kill Nagini as he walks off to surrender himself?
Neville Longbottom
He does it by pulling the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat.
Q 18Who carries the apparently dead Harry back to Hogwarts on Voldemort's orders?
Hagrid
Harry is only pretending, having chosen to return from a dreamlike King's Cross.
Q 19Who kills Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts?
Molly Weasley
Her 'not my daughter' line before the duel is one of the book's most quoted moments.
Q 20Why does the Elder Wand refuse to kill Harry in the final duel?
He is its true master
It passed to Draco when he disarmed Dumbledore, then to Harry when he disarmed Draco at the Manor.
The Balmoral
She wrote the last chapters in Room 552 and reportedly signed a marble bust to mark the occasion.
Q 25Rowling said the final book and which earlier one were 'almost two halves of the same novel'?
Half-Blood Prince
She also said the ending could not be changed because six books had already been leading there.
Q 26How did Rowling reveal the book's title in December 2006?
A hangman puzzle on her website
The seventh title was announced through a Christmas-themed game on jkrowling.com.
Q 27Rowling said the book's final chapter was drafted around what year, among her earliest work?
1990
She said the ending could not be changed because six books had already been leading there.
Q 28Where did Rowling hold the all-night launch reading and signing for 1,700 ballot-picked fans?
Natural History Museum, London
She followed it with a US tour that October including an event at Carnegie Hall.
Q 29Which UK supermarket triggered a price war by announcing it would sell the book for just £5?
Asda
Booksellers complained the book was being treated as a loss leader 'like a can of baked beans'.
Q 30Days before release, photographs of every page of the US edition leaked online. How many pages was that?
759
Scholastic sought a subpoena to identify the source, the worst security breach in the series' history.