50 free Harry Potter Christmas trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
43 free Harry Potter Christmas trivia questions with answers. Every Harry Potter book stops for Christmas, and the series' most memorable moments hide in those chapters: the anonymous Invisibility Cloak, the Mirror of Erised, Percy's 'Pinhead' badge, the maroon Weasley jumper, the confiscated Firebolt, the Yule Ball and Ron's mouldy dress robes, Dobby's hundred golden Harrys, mistletoe full of Nargles, Slughorn's party with a vampire, and the graveyard at Godric's Hollow on Christmas Eve. This quiz covers all seven books plus the films' Christmas scenes and the Yule Ball's real-life band. Easy questions ask what Harry got in his first year and who Hermione took to the ball. The hard ones want the hat Snape pulled from a cracker, where the dance lesson was filmed and how Rowling announced the final book's title one December. It suits a Christmas quiz night, a Potter marathon or a classroom in the last week of term. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the Harry Potter Wiki, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What anonymous Christmas gift does Harry receive in his first year at Hogwarts?
His father's Invisibility Cloak
Dumbledore sent it with a note telling him to 'use it well'.
Q 02What does Harry discover while wandering Hogwarts under his cloak that first Christmas?
The Mirror of Erised
It shows the viewer's deepest desire; Harry sees his parents.
Q 03Which Weasleys stayed at Hogwarts with Harry over the Christmas holidays in 1991?
Ron, Fred, George and Percy
Their parents were visiting Charlie in Romania.
Q 04What did Fred bewitch Percy's prefect badge to say at the 1991 Christmas feast?
'Pinhead'
Hagrid, meanwhile, was booming carols louder with every goblet of eggnog.
Q 05How many Christmas trees decorate the Great Hall in the first book?
A dozen
Enchanted snow falls warm and dry from the ceiling and Dumbledore leads carols.
Q 06What did the Weasley twins do with snowballs in the run-up to Christmas 1991?
Bewitched them to follow Quirrell and bounce off his turban
They were punished for it; the lake froze solid that December.
Q 07What do the magical crackers at the Hogwarts feast contain instead of paper crowns and jokes?
Proper hats, live mice and Wizard's Chess sets
Harry got a rear-admiral's hat and Dumbledore a flowered bonnet in 1991.
Q 08What hat did Snape get from a Wizard Cracker at Christmas 1993?
A witch's hat topped with a stuffed vulture
It echoed Neville's Boggart of Snape in his grandmother's clothes earlier that year.
Q 09What dessert is served with the roast turkey and chipolatas at the Hogwarts December feast?
Flaming puddings
The staff may enjoy wine with the meal.
Q 10What does Molly Weasley knit for family and friends every Christmas?
Hand-made jumpers with their initial
Ron complains that his is always the same dull colour; Harry's is green.
Q 11What colour is Ron's Weasley jumper, to his annoyance, every year?
Maroon
Maroon is his least favourite colour despite his red hair.
Q 12Who did Molly pointedly NOT knit a jumper for at Christmas 1996?
Fleur Delacour
She disapproved of Fleur's engagement to Bill at the time.
Q 13What colour is Harry's Weasley jumper in the books and most of the films?
Emerald green
A deleted scene from the first film showed a blue one, probably cut for being inaccurate.
Q 14What anonymous Christmas present does Harry receive in his third year?
Q 21Who does Ginny go to the Goblet of Fire dance with?
Neville Longbottom
Ron had suggested Harry take Ginny, but she had already accepted Neville.
Q 22What does Ron's second-hand formal outfit for the ball look like?
A maroon velvet gown with mouldy lace frills
He hacks the lace off in disgust.
Q 23Which real musicians made up the Weird Sisters in the Goblet of Fire film?
Members of Pulp and Radiohead
A top-of-the-range racing broom
Hermione reported it to McGonagall, fearing Sirius Black had jinxed it.
Q 15Who really sent Harry the broom?
Sirius Black
His Nimbus 2000 had been smashed by the Whomping Willow during a match against Hufflepuff.
Q 16What did Hermione do when the mystery broom arrived, angering Ron and Harry?
Told McGonagall, who confiscated it
Her fear that Sirius sent it turned out to be right, though not his motive.
Q 17At which event on Christmas Day 1994 did the Weird Sisters perform?
The Yule Ball
The rumour that Dumbledore had booked them turned out to be true.
Q 18The Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire is a tradition of which event?
The Triwizard Tournament
It ran from 8 pm to midnight and was open to fourth-years and above.
Q 19Who does Harry take to the dance after Cho Chang turns him down?
Parvati Patil
Ron goes with her twin sister Padma.
Q 20Who is Hermione's date at the Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire?
Viktor Krum
Ron sulks all night watching them dance.
Jarvis Cocker played the singer Myron Wagtail and wrote the songs.
Q 24Why are the musicians at the ball never named in the Goblet of Fire film?
A Canadian folk band called the Wyrd Sisters sued over the name
Flitwick introduces them as 'the band that needs no introduction'.
Q 25How was the Great Hall redesigned for the dance in the Goblet of Fire film?
As an ice palace with a frozen ceiling and silver walls
The scene was shot in December 2004.
Q 26Where at Oxford University was McGonagall's dance-lesson scene filmed?
The Divinity School
The same room had served as the Hogwarts infirmary in earlier films.
Q 27How did Dobby decorate the Room of Requirement for Christmas 1995?
With mistletoe and 100 golden baubles bearing Harry's face
The baubles read 'HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS!'
Q 28According to Luna, what might infest the mistletoe under which Harry and Cho kiss?
Nargles
Luna also claims her Butterbeer-cork necklace keeps them away.
Q 29Where does Harry spend Christmas in his fifth year, instead of the Burrow as planned?
Grimmauld Place
He also visits Arthur Weasley at St Mungo's after the Nagini attack.
Q 30Which incident, seen by Harry in a dream, sends the Weasleys to St Mungo's that Christmas?
Nagini biting Arthur Weasley
Dumbledore realises Harry's mind is linked to Voldemort's and orders Occlumency lessons.