Q 01/05

What anonymous Christmas gift does Harry receive in his first year at Hogwarts?

A) A brand-new racing broomstick

B) His father's Invisibility Cloak

C) A pocket Sneakoscope from Egypt

D) The Marauder's Map of Hogwarts

Answer · why

B) 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 02/05

What does Harry discover while wandering Hogwarts at night during his first Christmas?

A) The Room of Requirement

B) The Chamber of Secrets

C) The Mirror of Erised

D) The Philosopher's Stone

Answer · why

C) 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 03/05

Which Weasleys stayed at Hogwarts with Harry over the Christmas holidays in 1991?

A) Ron, Fred, George and Percy

B) Ron and Ginny

C) Ron and Percy only

D) Fred and George only

Answer · why

A) 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 04/05

What did Fred bewitch Percy's prefect badge to say at the 1992 Christmas feast?

A) 'Prat'

B) 'Pompous'

C) 'Perfect'

D) 'Pinhead'

Answer · why

D) '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 05/05

How many Christmas trees decorate the Great Hall in the first book?

A) A dozen

B) Four

C) Seven

D) Twenty

Answer · why

A) 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 glitterin...