Q 01/05

What is the name of Dumbledore's pet bird?

A) Hedwig

B) Fawkes

C) Errol

D) Pigwidgeon

Answer · why

B) Fawkes

Fawkes. Two of his tail feathers became wand cores, one in Harry's wand and one in Voldemort's, which is why those two wands will not work properly ag...

Q 02/05

Who took over as Dumbledore from Prisoner of Azkaban onwards?

A) Derek Jacobi

B) Michael Gambon

C) Jim Broadbent

D) Timothy West

Answer · why

B) Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon. He never read the novels: an actor works from the screenwriter's words, he reasoned, so he saw "no point in reading the books".

Q 03/05

Who plays the middle-aged Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts films?

A) Jude Law

B) Eddie Redmayne

C) Johnny Depp

D) Dan Fogler

Answer · why

A) Jude Law

Jude Law. In The Secrets of Dumbledore his character tells Grindelwald "I was in love with you", one of two lines that Warner Bros. cut for the film's...

Q 04/05

Who was cast as Dumbledore in HBO's Harry Potter television series in 2025?

A) Mark Rylance

B) Jonathan Pryce

C) Bill Nighy

D) John Lithgow

Answer · why

D) John Lithgow

John Lithgow. He said yes despite calling it a hard decision: the long-running role, he said, is "going to define me for the last chapter of my life".

Q 05/05

Which journalist wrote the scandalous biography The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore?

A) Elphias Doge

B) Rita Skeeter

C) Xenophilius Lovegood

D) Bathilda Bagshot

Answer · why

B) Rita Skeeter

Rita Skeeter. She finished the 900-page book just four weeks after his death, and got much of her material by slipping a truth potion to the elderly h...