Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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100 free Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is J. K. Rowling's second novel, published by Bloomsbury in July 1998 and by Scholastic in the United States the following June. Harry's second year at Hogwarts opens with a house-elf wrecking a pudding and ends in a hidden chamber under the school, with a flying Ford Anglia, a fraud in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom and a diary that writes back along the way. Chris Columbus's 2002 film adaptation grossed $878 million and was Richard Harris's last live-action role. This quiz covers both the book and the film. Expect questions on the plot, the first-edition misprints, the awards, the working title that became book six, the casting near-misses, the sound design of the Whomping Willow and the mandrakes, the 1962 car, the Gloucester Cathedral corridors and the box-office records. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01What does Ron end up vomiting after trying to curse Draco for insulting Hermione?
Slugs
Slugs. Draco had called Hermione a Mudblood, but Ron's snapped wand sent the curse back at him, and he was still coughing them up over the trophies in detention that night.
Q 02What does Dobby magically destroy at Privet Drive to get Harry into trouble?
A pudding
A pudding. Dobby floats Aunt Petunia's dessert over a dinner for Uncle Vernon's business guests and lets it smash, and the Ministry sends Harry an official warning for the magic.
Q 03Which spell does Lockhart fire at Harry and Ron, only for Ron's broken wand to turn it on him?
A Memory Charm
A Memory Charm. Lockhart had just admitted building his fame by wiping the minds of the wizards whose feats he stole, and the backfire left him unable to recall his own name.
Q 04Why do Harry and Ron fly to Hogwarts in the enchanted car?
Platform 9¾ is sealed
Platform 9¾ is sealed. Dobby had blocked the barrier to keep Harry away from school, so the boys took Mr Weasley's flying car and crashed it into the Whomping Willow on arrival.
Q 05Whose cat is found immobilised next to the first warning scrawled on the wall?
Argus Filch's
Argus Filch's. His cat Mrs Norris saw the Basilisk only as a reflection in the water flooding the corridor, so its stare Petrified her instead of killing her.
Q 06What rare ability does Harry reveal during the duelling class?
Parseltongue
Parseltongue. Harry orders a conjured snake away from a classmate, but nobody watching can understand him, so they assume he is urging it to attack and suspect he is Slytherin's heir.
Q 07In which ghost's flooded bathroom do Harry and Ron find Tom Riddle's diary?
Moaning Myrtle
Moaning Myrtle. She floods the room in a fury after someone throws the book at her; it was Ginny Weasley, trying to get rid of the diary that had been controlling her.
Q 08How does the Basilisk move around Hogwarts without being seen?
Through the pipes
Through the pipes. Hermione scribbled the word on a torn-out library page found in her Petrified hand, which told Harry why he alone kept hearing a voice inside the walls.
Q 09Who brings the Sorting Hat to Harry in the Chamber?
Fawkes
Fawkes. Dumbledore's phoenix then pecks out the Basilisk's eyes so that its stare can no longer kill, and later heals Harry's poisoned arm with its tears.
Q 10What does Harry pull from the Sorting Hat to fight the Basilisk?
The Sword of Gryffindor
The Sword of Gryffindor. Harry feared the Hat had nearly put him in Slytherin, so Dumbledore shows him the name on the blade: only a true Gryffindor could have pulled it out.
Q 11Who is revealed to be Dobby's master?
Lucius Malfoy
Lucius Malfoy. He had slipped Riddle's diary among Ginny Weasley's schoolbooks, hoping the blame for the attacks would discredit her father's Muggle Protection Act.
Q 12What must a master give a house-elf to set it free?
Clothing
Clothing. That is why Dobby wears only an old pillowcase, and why Harry later hides the ruined diary in his own sock so that the elf's master tosses it to him.
Q 13Which British publisher released Chamber of Secrets in July 1998?
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury. The sequel shot straight to the top of the UK hardback bestseller list, outselling even John Grisham and Terry Pratchett.
Q 21Where does Harry land by mistake on his first trip by Floo powder?
Knockturn Alley
Knockturn Alley. He garbled "Diagon Alley" in the smoke and tumbled out in a Dark Arts shop, where he hid in a cabinet and watched Draco's father sell off suspicious goods.
Q 22Which plants are grown at Hogwarts to revive the Petrified victims?
Mandrakes
Mandrakes. Their cry can kill once they are fully grown, so Professor Sprout's class repots the seedlings in earmuffs, and the cure has to wait until the plants mature.
Q 23Rowling once considered giving Chamber of Secrets the title of which later Potter book?
Half-Blood Prince
Q 14Which company published the US edition of Chamber of Secrets in June 1999?
Scholastic
Scholastic. Its Potter hardbacks then sat at the top of The New York Times fiction chart for so long that in 2000 the paper created a separate children's best-seller list.
Q 15Which ghost's self-composed song about his death was cut from early drafts of Chamber of Secrets?
Nearly Headless Nick
Nearly Headless Nick. The ballad told how a spell meant to straighten a lady's teeth gave her a tusk and sent him to the block, but Rowling's editor disliked the song, so she cut it.
Q 16Which of Harry's dormitory mates had his family backstory cut from Chamber of Secrets?
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas. Rowling planned for him to learn that his absent father was a wizard killed for refusing to join the Death Eaters, then gave the space to Neville's story instead.
Q 17What does Mrs Weasley send Ron at breakfast after he flies the family car to school?
A Howler
A Howler. Neville warns that ignoring it only makes things worse, so Ron opens it and his mother's magnified voice scolds him in front of the whole Great Hall.
Q 18First editions mistakenly called Voldemort the last remaining what of Salazar Slytherin?
Ancestor
Ancestor. Dumbledore meant descendant, the opposite relationship; readers spotted the slip and Rowling had the line corrected in later printings.
Q 19Which creatures does Lockhart set loose in his first lesson and then fail to control?
Cornish pixies
Cornish pixies. Lockhart fled when the bell rang and left Harry, Ron and Hermione to round them up, which first made the boys doubt the feats in his books.
Q 20Which broomsticks does Draco's father buy for the whole Slytherin Quidditch team?
Nimbus 2001
Nimbus 2001. The gift arrived as Draco became Slytherin's new Seeker, prompting Hermione's jibe that nobody on Harry's team had to buy his way in.
Half-Blood Prince. Rowling planned some "crucial pieces of information" for book two, realised during the first draft that they belonged in book six, and saved the title for it.
Q 24Which item on sale at Borgin and Burkes in Chamber of Secrets returns in the sixth novel?
An opal necklace
An opal necklace. Its label warns that it is cursed, and in the sixth novel it strikes down Katie Bell while she is carrying it to its real target, Dumbledore.
Q 25Who damages the Vanishing Cabinet at Hogwarts in Chamber of Secrets?
Peeves the Poltergeist
Peeves the Poltergeist. He smashes it as a distraction that spares Harry a punishment, and four books later the broken cabinet lets Death Eaters into the castle.
Q 26Which Halloween event do Harry, Ron and Hermione attend in the dungeons?
Deathday party
Deathday party. The host's cake gives his date of death as 31 October 1492, which makes it his 500th and quietly sets the story in 1992.
Q 27What is the name of the Weasley family home, where Harry spends the end of his summer?
The Burrow
The Burrow. Ron and the twins fly Harry there after pulling the bars off his bedroom window with the car, and their punishment is throwing gnomes out of the garden.
Q 28What goes wrong when Lockhart tries to mend Harry's broken arm after the Quidditch match?
The bones disappear
The bones disappear. Madam Pomfrey could have mended the break in a moment, but regrowing every bone in the arm cost Harry a painful night in the hospital wing.
Q 29As he is arrested, which creatures does Hagrid tell Harry and Ron to follow for answers?
Spiders
Spiders. The trail leads into the Forbidden Forest to a giant one that Hagrid once kept in a castle cupboard, who says he was wrongly blamed for the first attacks.
Q 30Who directed the 2002 film adaptation of Chamber of Secrets?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus. Worn out after directing two Potter films back to back, he stayed on only as a producer for the third and handed the director's chair to Alfonso Cuarón.