Harry Potter Villains
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50 free Harry Potter Villains trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Harry Potter's villains are the reason the books bite. Lord Voldemort was born Tom Marvolo Riddle in a Muggle orphanage and split his soul seven ways to cheat death; Bellatrix Lestrange loved him more than her own husband; Dolores Umbridge never cast an Unforgivable Curse on the page and is still, for many readers, the character they hate most. Behind them stand the Malfoys, Peter Pettigrew, Barty Crouch Jr, Fenrir Greyback, the Carrows and a professor whose loyalties stayed in doubt for ten years. This quiz covers the villains across the seven novels, the eight films, Cursed Child and the Fantastic Beasts prequels: birth names, wand woods, Horcruxes, who killed whom, who played whom, the roles that were turned down and the names Rowling crossed out in her drafts. 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 01Which curse rebounded on Voldemort when he tried to murder the infant Harry Potter?
Avada Kedavra
Avada Kedavra bounced back because Lily Potter had just died shielding her son: the baby kept only a scar, while Voldemort was torn from his own body.
Q 02In which book is the 'I am Lord Voldemort' anagram first revealed?
Chamber of Secrets
Chamber of Secrets ends with the diary's teenage Riddle rearranging the letters of his full name; translators had to rename him so the trick still worked in other languages.
Q 03Which is the only novel in which Voldemort appears neither in person nor in flashback?
Prisoner of Azkaban
Prisoner of Azkaban keeps him offstage: Harry only hears his voice in a memory the Dementors stir up, and the escaped "servant" hunting Harry turns out to be innocent.
Q 04The wand Voldemort bought from Ollivander as a boy is made from which wood?
Yew
Yew, whose sap is poisonous, was Rowling's deliberate contrast to Harry's holly, a wood said to repel evil; the two wands also hold feathers from the same phoenix.
Q 05Who was Voldemort's mother?
Merope Gaunt
Merope Gaunt reached a London orphanage destitute, having sold a priceless family heirloom for ten Galleons, and lived just long enough to name her son.
Q 06Voldemort is descended, through his mother, from which Hogwarts founder?
Salazar Slytherin
Salazar Slytherin passed down Parseltongue, and Voldemort's mother's family married cousin to cousin for generations to keep the bloodline pure, ending in poverty and squalor.
Q 07The name Voldemort comes from French words meaning what?
Flight of death
Flight of death, or flight from it, is how vol de mort is usually read, though vol can also mean theft; Rowling says she invented the name and that its final t is silent.
Q 08On which night was Voldemort born?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, 1926: his mother reached a London orphanage that night and lived just long enough to name him after his father and his grandfather.
Q 09Which Death Eater impersonates Mad-Eye Moody for a whole school year?
Barty Crouch Jr
Barty Crouch Jr keeps the real Moody locked in a trunk and drinks Polyjuice Potion all year, steering Harry through the Triwizard Tournament to deliver him to Voldemort.
Q 10Who played the Death Eater posing as Moody in the Goblet of Fire film?
David Tennant
David Tennant plays the impostor unmasked; in the book a Dementor that Cornelius Fudge brings along sucks out his soul before he can repeat his confession.
Q 11Which actor first played the fully restored Voldemort in the Harry Potter films?
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes nearly passed, admitting to "misplaced snobbery" about a series he had never watched, until his sister Martha told him he had to do it.
Q 12Who voiced the Voldemort on the back of Quirrell's head in the first Harry Potter film?
Ian Hart
Ian Hart was already playing Quirrell, the stammering teacher whose turban hides the Dark Lord, so the film's meekest professor and its villain speak through one actor.
Q 13The Dark Mark is a skull with what emerging from its mouth?
A snake
A snake slides from the skull's mouth like a tongue; the Mark is branded on each follower's left arm and burns when Voldemort calls, and they cast it into the sky over a killing.
Q 21Which cousin does Bellatrix kill in the Department of Mysteries?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black falls through the veiled archway in the Death Chamber, so there is no body to bury; his will leaves Harry everything, including the family house.
Q 22What was Umbridge's job title under Minister Cornelius Fudge?
Senior Undersecretary
Senior Undersecretary to the Minister was her rank, and she used it to draft anti-werewolf laws that left Remus Lupin all but unemployable.
Q 23What sentence does Umbridge make Harry carve into his own hand in detention?
I must not tell lies
"I must not tell lies" stays scarred on his hand for years: the quill is her own invention, and Rowling notes that only she and Voldemort ever left a permanent mark on Harry.
Q 14Who kills Bellatrix at the Battle of Hogwarts?
Molly Weasley
Molly Weasley steps in after a Killing Curse just misses her daughter; Rowling said she always meant it to be her, setting a mother's love against Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort.
Q 15Bellatrix is named after a star in which constellation?
Orion
Orion's bright star Bellatrix, sometimes called the Amazon Star, carries a Latin name meaning female warrior; like many of the Blacks she is named after something in the night sky.
Q 16Which of Bellatrix's sisters was disowned for marrying a Muggle-born?
Andromeda
Andromeda married Ted Tonks and was blasted off the Black family tapestry, leaving a burn hole where her name had been; their daughter is the Auror Nymphadora Tonks.
Q 17Bellatrix was jailed for torturing two Aurors into insanity with which curse?
The Cruciatus Curse
The Cruciatus Curse left the couple in St Mungo's Hospital for good, unable even to recognise the son who still visits them.
Q 18Who played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films?
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter stepped in when Helen McCrory, first cast in the part, became pregnant; McCrory returned in the next film as Bellatrix's sister Narcissa.
Q 19Which Horcrux does Bellatrix unknowingly guard in her Gringotts vault?
Hufflepuff's cup
Hufflepuff's cup sits in the Lestrange vault until Harry, Ron and Hermione break in, Hermione wearing Bellatrix's face thanks to one stray hair and a dose of Polyjuice Potion.
Q 20In the play Cursed Child, what is the name of Bellatrix and Voldemort's daughter?
Delphi
Delphi poses as Cedric Diggory's cousin and talks Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy into stealing a Time-Turner, hoping to bring her father back to power.
Q 24What title does the Ministry give Umbridge to let her evaluate and sack Hogwarts teachers?
High Inquisitor
High Inquisitor was a post invented for her by Educational Decree, and each new decree widened it until she could ban student clubs, Quidditch teams and even teachers' small talk.
Q 25Who played Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter films?
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton wears the bows and frills Rowling borrowed from a teacher she disliked on sight, though the author insists that woman was nothing like Umbridge at heart.
Q 26Stephen King called Umbridge the greatest fictional villain since which character?
Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter was King's yardstick for her: one needn't be a child, he wrote, to remember the Really Scary Teacher, while Voldemort is too far out in the supernatural to qualify.
Q 27From whom does Umbridge receive Slytherin's locket as a bribe?
Mundungus Fletcher
Mundungus Fletcher had stolen it, and she took it as her price for letting him off; she then passed it off as a Selwyn family heirloom to prop up her invented pure-blood ancestry.
Q 28What fate does Umbridge meet after Voldemort's defeat?
Sent to Azkaban
Sent to Azkaban: tried for her part in Voldemort's regime, she is convicted over the torture and deaths of Muggle-borns she had herself condemned to that prison.
Q 29Which task does Voldemort set the sixteen-year-old Draco Malfoy in Half-Blood Prince?
Killing Albus Dumbledore
Killing Albus Dumbledore falls to him after his father's disgrace, a job no adult had managed; at the last moment he lowers his wand and Snape does it instead.
Q 30Draco became Slytherin Seeker after Lucius donated which broomsticks to the team?
Nimbus 2001s
Nimbus 2001s for the whole team bought his place, and when Hermione says the Gryffindors got in on talent, not bribery, he answers by calling her a Mudblood.