Harry Potter Magical Creatures
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100 free Harry Potter Magical Creatures trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The wizarding world is crawling with creatures, from the Acromantula in the Forbidden Forest to the Zouwu in Newt Scamander's suitcase. J. K. Rowling invented some of them, borrowed others from Greek myth, Celtic folklore and Roman historians, and catalogued the lot in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the 2001 guidebook credited to Newt himself. Magizoology is the study of them; the Ministry's Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures tries to keep them in order. This quiz covers the famous ones and the obscure: how a Basilisk is hatched, which charm sends a Boggart packing, what a Bicorn contributes to Polyjuice Potion, why Muggles think the dodo is extinct, the Thestral hair inside the Elder Wand, the ten dragon breeds, the Jobberknoll's dying scream, the Erumpent horn in the Lovegood house, the Demiguise pelts in invisibility cloaks, the Occamy's silver eggs, and Frank the Thunderbird's storm over New York. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a Harry Potter quiz night.
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Q 01In Harry Potter, what is the study of wizarding wildlife called?
Magizoology
Magizoology. Hogwarts students get their first taste of it in Care of Magical Creatures, the class Hagrid takes over in Harry's third year.
Q 02Who is the in-universe author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?
Newt Scamander
Newt Scamander. Rowling published the real guidebook under his name in 2001 to raise money for Comic Relief, and he went on to be the hero of the prequel films.
Q 03Which of Hagrid's pets got him expelled from Hogwarts?
Aragog
Aragog. Tom Riddle framed him as the monster of the Chamber of Secrets; set loose in the Forbidden Forest, he raised a colony that later tries to eat Harry and Ron.
Q 04In Harry Potter, which bird's cry was once thought to foretell death?
Augurey
Augurey. Wizards eventually worked out that its cry only means rain is on the way, and took to keeping the birds as weather forecasters.
Q 05In Harry Potter lore, how is a Basilisk created?
A toad hatches a chicken's egg
A toad hatches a chicken's egg. Spiders flee from the serpent that emerges, and the only thing it flees itself is the crowing of a rooster, which is fatal to it.
Q 06In Harry Potter, what happens to someone who meets a Basilisk's gaze only indirectly, say in a mirror?
They are Petrified
They are Petrified. That is why nobody dies in the Chamber of Secrets attacks: each victim saw the serpent in a reflection, through a camera lens or through a ghost.
Q 07Which cow-like creature's shed horn is an ingredient in Polyjuice Potion?
Bicorn
Bicorn. Hermione steals the horn, along with boomslang skin, from Snape's private stores so that the trio can brew the potion in their second year.
Q 08What happens to the victim of a Billywig sting?
Giddiness followed by levitation
Giddiness followed by levitation. Young Australian wizards provoke the insects on purpose for the ride, though too many stings can leave a victim hovering for days.
Q 09Which two creatures did Hagrid cross to breed Blast-Ended Skrewts?
A Manticore and a Fire Crab
A Manticore and a Fire Crab. The Fire Crab shoots flame from its rear end when threatened, which is where the Skrewts get the blast that propels them.
Q 10Which charm does Lupin teach to repel a Boggart?
Riddikulus
Riddikulus. The charm forces the shape-shifter into a form the caster finds funny, because what really finishes a Boggart is laughter.
Q 11In Harry Potter's world, which twig-like creature guards trees whose wood is fit for wands?
Bowtruckle
Bowtruckle. It will gouge at the eyes of anyone who threatens its tree, so wandmakers first buy it off with an offering of woodlice.
Q 12Beyond healing, archery and astronomy, centaurs in Harry Potter are known for which other art?
Divination
Divination. Firenze agrees to teach it at Hogwarts, and his herd attacks and banishes him as a traitor for serving humans.
Q 13In Harry Potter's world, a Chimaera has a lion's head, a goat's body and the tail of what?
A dragon
A dragon. The combination is as deadly as it sounds: the Quidditch star Dai Llewellyn was killed by a Chimaera while on holiday in Greece.
Q 21In Harry Potter's world, why is every Fwooper sold with a Silencing Charm on it?
Its song drives listeners insane
Its song drives listeners insane. Uric the Oddball set out to prove the song was good for you, and arrived to report his findings wearing nothing but a dead badger on his head.
Q 22What does the treacle of a Glumbumble induce in those who eat it?
Melancholy
Melancholy. That makes the treacle useful: it is the antidote to the hysteria brought on by eating Alihotsy leaves.
Q 23In Harry Potter, who do goblins regard as the rightful owner of anything forged by goblins?
The maker, not the buyer
Q 14What is distinctive about a Crup, the wizarding breed of dog?
It has a forked tail
It has a forked tail. The law requires owners to remove it with a painless Severing Charm when the puppy is six to eight weeks old, so that Muggles see only a Jack Russell terrier.
Q 15What did Rowling say inspired the Dementors?
Her experience of depression
Her experience of depression. She described it as an absence of hope, a deadened feeling quite different from sadness, which is what a Dementor leaves behind when it feeds.
Q 16Which creatures does Gilderoy Lockhart set loose in his first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson?
Cornish pixies
Cornish pixies. Lockhart's own spell does nothing, the pixies hang Neville from the ceiling, and it is Hermione who finally stops them with a Freezing Charm.
Q 17In Harry Potter's world, which bird do Muggles think extinct only because it can vanish when threatened?
The dodo
The dodo. Wizards call it the Diricawl, and they have never corrected the mistake because the guilt has made Muggles more careful about wiping out other animals.
Q 18What is a Doxy, the Biting Fairy, notable for having?
Four arms and four legs
Four arms and four legs. Its bite is venomous too, which is why Fred and George pocket a few while clearing the curtains at Grimmauld Place: the venom goes into their Skiving Snackboxes.
Q 19Which of these fire-breathing breeds is genuinely listed in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?
Antipodean Opaleye
Antipodean Opaleye. In the late 1970s a male driven out of New Zealand by a dominant female was blamed for a run of kangaroo killings in Australia.
Q 20What does Xenophilius Lovegood claim his explosive Erumpent trophy comes from?
A Crumple-Horned Snorkack
A Crumple-Horned Snorkack. Hermione warns him that it is really an Erumpent horn, and she is proved right when his own stray spell hits it and blows the house apart.
The maker, not the buyer. To a goblin a sale is closer to a loan, which is why Griphook regards the sword of Gryffindor as stolen goods.
Q 24Why did Quidditch replace the live Golden Snidget with a metal ball?
It was being hunted to extinction
It was being hunted to extinction. Around 1350 the Wizards' Council made the Snidget a protected species, and an enchanted ball took its place in the game.
Q 25In Harry Potter's world, what are Grindylows?
Small horned water demons
Small horned water demons. Lupin teaches that the trick is to break their grip, because their long fingers are strong but brittle.
Q 26Which creature, whose pelt is woven into Invisibility Cloaks, was bred with a ghoul to create the Hidebehind?
A Demiguise
A Demiguise. The first Hidebehinds were born aboard a smuggler's ship to a trafficked Demiguise and a stowaway ghoul, and got loose when it docked in Massachusetts.
Q 27How does a Hinkypunk lure travellers astray?
With a lantern
With a lantern. The one-legged wisp of smoke hops ahead with its light until the traveller following it blunders into a bog.
Q 28What daily spell must a wizard cast to legally own a hippogriff or winged horse?
A Disillusionment Charm
A Disillusionment Charm. It stops Muggles noticing anything odd overhead, and because its effects are apt to wear off, the law makes owners renew it every day.
Q 29In Harry Potter, how can a master free a house-elf?
By giving it an item of clothing
By giving it an item of clothing. Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into doing just that, hiding Riddle's diary inside his own sock so that Malfoy flings the sock to Dobby.
Q 30In Harry Potter, what does Hermione's SPEW stand for?
Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare
Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare. Hermione wanted "Stop the Outrageous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures", but it would not fit, so that became the manifesto's heading.