Harry Potter Christmas Trivia
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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
His father's Invisibility Cloak arrived with an unsigned note reading 'Use it well'; Dumbledore later admitted he had sent it.
Q 02What does Harry discover while wandering Hogwarts at night during his first Christmas?
The Mirror of Erised
The Mirror of Erised shows what the viewer most longs for; Harry sees his dead parents standing beside him in it.
Q 03Which Weasleys stayed at Hogwarts with Harry over the Christmas holidays in 1991?
Ron, Fred, George and Percy
Ron, Fred, George and Percy all stayed because Mr and Mrs Weasley were visiting Charlie in Romania; Ginny had not yet started at Hogwarts.
Q 04What did Fred bewitch Percy's prefect badge to say at the 1992 Christmas feast?
'Pinhead'
'Pinhead': in Chamber of Secrets, Percy kept asking what everyone was sniggering at while Hagrid boomed carols louder with every goblet of eggnog.
Q 05How many Christmas trees decorate the Great Hall in the first book?
A dozen
A dozen: no fewer than twelve towering Christmas trees stood around the Great Hall in Philosopher's Stone, some sparkling with icicles, some glittering with hundreds of candles.
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
Fred and George bewitched them to follow Quirrell and bounce off his turban, and were punished for it, the December the lake froze solid.
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
Proper hats, live mice and Wizard's Chess sets: Harry's cracker went off like a cannon and produced a rear-admiral's hat and live white mice, and he left with a new chess set.
Q 08What hat did Snape get from a Wizard Cracker at Christmas 1993?
A witch's hat topped with a stuffed vulture
A witch's hat topped with a stuffed vulture burst from the cracker Snape pulled with Dumbledore, who promptly swapped his own hat for it.
Q 09What dessert is served with the roast turkey and chipolatas at the Hogwarts December feast?
Flaming puddings
Flaming puddings followed the turkey at the 1991 feast; one slice of Christmas pudding had a silver Sickle baked inside it.
Q 10What does Molly Weasley knit for family and friends every Christmas?
Hand-made jumpers with their initial
Hand-made jumpers with their initial: Mrs Weasley knits one for each of them every Christmas, and Harry's first, in 1991, came with a large box of home-made fudge.
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 the Weasley jumper Harry receives in his first year?
Emerald green
Emerald green: the thick hand-knitted jumper Mrs Weasley sent Harry in his first year was emerald green, after Ron told her Harry expected no presents.
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
Members of Pulp and Radiohead: Pulp's Jarvis Cocker fronted the band as Myron Wagtail and wrote its songs, with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway alongside him.
A top-of-the-range racing broom
A top-of-the-range racing broom, a Firebolt, arrived with no note; the Diagon Alley shop sign had boasted that the Irish International Side ordered seven of them.
Q 15Who really sent Harry the broom?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black sent the Firebolt, as he admitted in the letter Pigwidgeon carried at the end of term; Harry's Nimbus 2000 had been smashed by the Whomping Willow.
Q 16What did Hermione do when the mystery broom arrived, angering Ron and Harry?
Told McGonagall, who confiscated it
Told McGonagall, who confiscated it: Hermione feared the broom was jinxed, and it spent weeks being stripped down for hexes by Flitwick and Madam Hooch.
Q 17At which event on Christmas Day 1994 did the Weird Sisters perform?
The Yule Ball
The Yule Ball on Christmas night 1994: the Weird Sisters took the stage in artfully ripped black robes and played until midnight.
Q 18The Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire is a tradition of which event?
The Triwizard Tournament
The Triwizard Tournament: McGonagall told the Gryffindors the ball was a traditional part of the Tournament, running from eight o'clock to midnight for fourth-years and above.
Q 19Who does Harry take to the dance after Cho Chang turns him down?
Parvati Patil
Parvati Patil agreed to go with Harry after Cho Chang turned him down; her twin sister Padma went with Ron.
Q 20Who is Hermione's date at the Christmas dance in Goblet of Fire?
Viktor Krum
Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang champion, took Hermione to the ball, and Ron sulked all night watching them dance.
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
A Canadian folk band called the Wyrd Sisters sued over the name in 2005, so the finished film never names the group on screen.
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
As an ice palace with a frozen ceiling and silver walls: the film dressed the Great Hall set in silver drapes, icicles and frosted windows for the ball.
Q 26Where at Oxford University was McGonagall's dance-lesson scene filmed?
The Divinity School
The Divinity School, a 15th-century vaulted room at Oxford, hosted McGonagall's dance lesson; it had served as the Hogwarts hospital wing 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
With mistletoe and 100 golden baubles bearing Harry's face: each bauble read 'HAVE A VERY HARRY CHRISTMAS!' at the last DA meeting before the holidays.
Q 28According to Luna, what might infest the mistletoe under which Harry and Cho kiss?
Nargles
Nargles: mistletoe is said to be often infested with them, and a necklace of Butterbeer corks is worn to keep Nargles away.
Q 29Where does Harry spend Christmas in his fifth year, instead of the Burrow as planned?
Grimmauld Place
Grimmauld Place, number twelve, headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, hosted Harry and the Weasleys that Christmas, and Hermione joined them instead of skiing with her parents.
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.