Harry Potter Spells Trivia
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128 free Harry Potter Spells trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Harry Potter spell trivia quiz is entirely about the magic itself: the incantations, what they do, what counters them and who invented them. It starts with the ones every reader knows (Wingardium Leviosa, Lumos, Alohomora, Accio, Stupefy, Expecto Patronum) and works through the duelling spells, the healing charms, the household charms, the jinxes and hexes of the Marauders and the Half-Blood Prince, the protective enchantments Hermione cast around the tent, and the three Unforgivable Curses. Easy questions ask which spell disarms an opponent or which one lights a wand; the hard ones want the counter-charm to Prior Incantato, the spell that turns a staircase into a slide, the witch who invented the Mending Charm and the year Elizabeth Smudgling made the Disarming Charm famous. Every question gives four incantations or effects, so you have to know the spell, not just recognise the Latin. Every answer was checked against the Harry Potter Wiki's individual spell articles, which cite the books and Wizarding World, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which disarming spell became Harry's signature and rebounded Voldemort's final Killing Curse?
Expelliarmus
Expelliarmus, the Disarming Charm, knocks the wand from an opponent's hand; Harry first saw it at Lockhart's duelling club and used it against Voldemort in the Little Hangleton graveyard and in their final duel.
Q 02In which year did Elizabeth Smudgling popularise the Disarming Charm in a duelling contest on Dartmoor?
1379
1379: the Wonderbook: Book of Spells lore has Elizabeth Smudgling winning a Dartmoor duelling contest with the Disarming Charm that year, though other accounts credit Merlin or 11th-century Madagascar.
Q 03Which charm makes the tip of the caster's wand glow?
Lumos
Lumos, the Wand-Lighting Charm, makes the wand-tip shine; Harry casts it to follow the spiders into the Forbidden Forest in Chamber of Secrets and to see inside the tunnel under the Whomping Willow.
Q 04Which counter-charm puts out the light at the end of a wand?
Nox
Nox is the Wand-Extinguishing Charm, the counter to the wand-lighting charm; its name is the word for night, and Harry uses it to douse his wand-tip whenever he needs to move unseen.
Q 05Which charm summons a named object toward the caster, even one out of sight?
Accio
Accio, the Summoning Charm: Harry practised it for weeks to fetch his Firebolt in the first Triwizard task, and Molly Weasley used it to empty the twins' pockets of Ton-Tongue Toffees.
Q 06Which of the three Unforgivable Curses places its victim completely under the caster's control?
Imperio
Imperio, the Imperius Curse, gives total control over the victim; Barty Crouch Sr was Imperiused by his own son, and Pius Thicknesse by a Death Eater before he became Voldemort's puppet Minister.
Q 07Which curse did Harry cast, almost uselessly, at Bellatrix Lestrange in the Ministry Atrium?
Crucio
Crucio: after Bellatrix killed Sirius, Harry chased her into the Atrium and cast the Cruciatus Curse, which only knocked her off her feet because, she taunted, he did not truly mean it.
Q 08What is the penalty for using an Unforgivable Curse on another human being?
A life sentence in Azkaban
A life sentence in Azkaban: so 'Moody' (Barty Crouch Jr in disguise) told the fourth-years in Goblet of Fire, though Crouch Sr had authorised Aurors to use the curses against Death Eaters in the first war.
Q 09What colour of light accompanies the Killing Curse?
Green
Green: a jet of blinding green light accompanies Avada Kedavra, which kills instantly and leaves no mark, so Muggle doctors found nothing wrong with the murdered Riddles.
Q 10Which incantation produces the silvery guardian that drives off Dementors?
Expecto Patronum
Expecto Patronum: the Patronus Charm conjures a silver guardian that repels Dementors; it is regarded as beyond N.E.W.T. level, and many qualified wizards never manage a corporeal one.
Q 11What animal form does Harry Potter's Patronus take?
A stag
A stag, the same form as his father James's Animagus, Prongs; Harry first produced a full corporeal one against fake Dementors at the Quidditch match with Ravenclaw, then for real by the lake.
Q 12Whose Patronus, a doe, led Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor in the Forest of Dean?
Severus Snape
It was the same form as Lily Potter's, which is how Harry finally understood where Snape's loyalties lay.
Q 13Who gave Harry private anti-Dementor lessons to teach him the Patronus Charm?
Remus Lupin
Remus Lupin, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry's third year, coached him privately with a Boggart-Dementor in the History of Magic classroom after the Dementors' attack at the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff match.
Q 21Which charm did Hermione cast on Cormac McLaggen during Gryffindor's Keeper trials?
Confundo
Confundo, the Confundus Charm, befuddles its target; Hermione used it so Cormac McLaggen missed a save at Keeper trials, and 'Moody' said an exceptionally strong one had bamboozled the Goblet of Fire.
Q 22Which curse causes its target to explode?
Confringo
Confringo, the Blasting Curse: Harry blew up the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike with it during the escape from Privet Drive, and Hermione fired it in Bathilda Bagshot's house in Godric's Hollow.
Q 23Which curse blasts solid objects to pieces, reducing them to mist or ashes?
Reducto
Ginny was noted for the strength of hers; the Trio used it on the shelves of prophecies in the Department of Mysteries.
Q 14Who devised the method of using Patronuses to carry spoken messages?
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore devised the messenger Patronus, a technique used only by the Order of the Phoenix; Kingsley Shacklebolt's lynx used it to warn Bill and Fleur's wedding that the Ministry had fallen.
Q 15Which spell defeats a Boggart by forcing it into a form the caster finds funny?
Riddikulus
Riddikulus, cast while picturing something funny, forces the Boggart into that shape with a whip-crack; Neville's took the form of his Potions master dressed in his grandmother's clothes and vulture-topped hat.
Q 16Which charm makes its target buckle with laughter, weakening them?
Rictusempra
Rictusempra, the Tickling Charm, left Malfoy doubled up and wheezing when Harry cast it at the Duelling Club in Chamber of Secrets; it appears in The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2.
Q 17Which spell made Harry's legs jerk uncontrollably when Malfoy cast it at the Duelling Club?
Tarantallegra
Tarantallegra, the Dancing Feet Spell: Malfoy fired it at Harry in the Duelling Club, and a Death Eater hit Neville with it in the Department of Mysteries, leaving his legs jerking uncontrollably.
Q 18Which charm, nicknamed the Thief's Friend, unlocks doors and windows?
Alohomora
Alohomora, the Unlocking Charm: Hermione used it to open the locked door to the forbidden third-floor corridor in her first year, where the trio found Fluffy; doors can be charmed to resist it.
Q 19Which spell locks a door so that it cannot be opened by hand?
Colloportus
Colloportus, the Locking Spell, seals a door with a squelching sound; Hermione used it in the Department of Mysteries to lock doors against the pursuing Death Eaters.
Q 20Which charm erases specific memories from a person's mind?
Obliviate
Obliviate, the Memory Charm: Lockhart used it to steal other wizards' exploits, Hermione used it on her own parents, and Mnemone Radford, who developed memory-modifying charms, became the Ministry's first Obliviator.
Q 24Which spell, nicknamed the Stunner, renders its target unconscious?
Stupefy
Stupefy, the Stunning Spell, fires a jet of red light that knocks the target out; four at once nearly killed McGonagall when Umbridge's Aurors came for Hagrid.
Q 25Which curse did Hermione cast on Neville when he tried to stop the trio leaving?
Petrificus Totalus
Petrificus Totalus, the Full Body-Bind: Hermione used it to stop Neville blocking the trio's way out of Gryffindor Tower, and Malfoy used it on Harry aboard the Hogwarts Express in Half-Blood Prince.
Q 26What is the incantation of the Leg-Locker Curse, which binds the victim's legs together?
Locomotor Mortis
Locomotor Mortis, the Leg-Locker Curse: Malfoy hit Neville with it in their first year, and Neville bunny-hopped all the way up to Gryffindor Tower, where Harry gave him a Chocolate Frog.
Q 27Which charm throws up an invisible barrier that sends jinxes back at the attacker?
Protego
Protego, the Shield Charm: Harry taught it to the D.A. in his fifth year, and Fred and George built it into the Shield Hats, Cloaks and Gloves the Ministry bought in bulk for its staff.
Q 28Under the Fidelius Charm, what is the person in whose soul the hidden information is concealed called?
The Secret-Keeper
The Secret-Keeper: the Potters chose Peter Pettigrew as theirs, and he betrayed them; when a Secret-Keeper dies, everyone who was told the secret becomes a Secret-Keeper in turn.
Q 29Which Half-Blood Prince curse, marked "for enemies", did Harry use on Draco Malfoy in a bathroom?
Sectumsempra
Sectumsempra, the Half-Blood Prince's own invention, slashes the victim as if by an invisible sword; its inventor healed Malfoy with a song-like counter-curse and later took off George Weasley's ear with it by accident.
Q 30Which jinx, meant to be cast nonverbally, hoists its victim into the air by the ankle?
Levicorpus
Levicorpus, a nonverbal jinx from the Half-Blood Prince's book: James Potter used it to dangle its own inventor upside down by the lake in their fifth year, and Liberacorpus is the counter-jinx.