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Round 1
+10/-10
Infinite Pounce
-10 for out of turn answers

1. Hufflepuff is the only house to have a defence
mechanism for the common room. What?

Answer:
If someone taps the barrel in the wrong rhythm, they
are doused in vinegar.

2. Which word from the wizarding universe has
officially entered the OED?

Answer:
This low cost paper-based device spells out your blood
type instantaneously.

4. How are Tonks, Malfoy and Bellatrix related?

Answer:
Malfoy’s Aunt and Cousin

5. X was among the characters that Rowling says she
created on "the very first day". She has explained the
source of his name as "another old English word,
meaning – if you were X – it's a dialect word – you'd had
a bad night. X is a big drinker – he has a lot of bad
nights.“

6. Name all the DADA teachers in the HP books in the
correct order.

Answers:
Quirinus Quirrel
Gilderoy Lockhart
Remus Lupin
Barty Crouch Jr. (disguised as Alastor Moody)
Dolores Umbridge
Severus Snape
Amycus Carrow (taught mostly Dark Arts)

Round 2
Know your beasts!
+10/-10
Infinite Pounce

1. A vicious, bloodthirsty creature
with a lion's head, a goat's body,
and a dragon's tail.
Because of their ferocity, it is
classified by the Ministry of Magic
as XXXXX (very dangerous), and its
eggs are Class A Non-Tradable
Materials.

2. "Half horse, half eagle
creatures, immensely proud
and extremely dangerous."
The breeding of fancy _____
is an established wizarding
career; known breeders
include Newton Scamander's
mother.

3. "A sickly green creature
with sharp little horns…
pulling faces and flexing its
long, spindly fingers."
Professor Remus Lupin
ordered this creature for his
third year class to study for
Defence Against the Dark
Arts.

4. A creature with a long snout and a
coat of black, fluffy fur. Attracted to
shiny things, which makes them
wonderful for locating treasure, but
this also meant that they could
wreak havoc if kept indoors.
During Umbridge's tenure as
Headmistress of Hogwarts, Lee
Jordan used a Levitation Charm to
levitate two of these creatures
through her office window.

Answer: Niffler (from “niffle” meaning to pilfer)

5. A species of giant spider -
believed to be a wizard-bred
species, designed to guard
dwellings or treasure hoards.
They possess a set of giant
chelicerae which they use to
eat live prey or their own
dead kin. They are capable of
human speech.

6. 'Why would anyone bother
looking after them?' said Ron,
after yet another hour of poking
shredded lettuce down the
_____’s throats.

Round 3
Write down the answers
+5 for each correct answer
+30 for all correct

1. Name the wand cores (answers may repeat):
a) Hermione
b) Harry Potter
c) Ron Weasley
d) Fleur Delacour
e) The Elder Wand
f) Salazar Slytherin
g) Mcgonagall

Answers:
a) Dragon heartstring
b) Phoenix feather
c) Unicorn tail hair
d) Veela hair
e) Thestral tail hair
f) Basilisk horn
g) Dragon heartstring

Tom Riddle’s diary
Marvolo Gaunt’s ring
Salazar Slytherin’s locket
Helga Hufflepuff’s cup
Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem
Nagini
Harry Potter

3. What are these characters’ worst fears? (We know, because,
boggarts!)
a) Dumbledore
b) Hermione
c) Ron Weasley
d) Neville
e) Lupin
f) Tom Riddle

Answers:
a) The corpse of his sister Ariana Dumbledore
b) Professor McGonagall telling her that she failed her exams
(failure in general)
c) Giant spider
d) Severus Snape
e) Full moon
f) His own dead body

Round 4
+10/-10
Infinite Pounce

1. Shiro Cosmetics described this lip-
balm thus:
“There is no good and evil, there is only
power… and those too weak to seek it.”
A yellow-tinged greenish greyish
befittingly creepy-snakey color, with
malevolent red shift.”
Inspired by which character/what could
this possibly have been called?

Answer:
He who must not be named!!

2. "All he could tell was that he was standing in the
stone fireplace of what looked like a large, dimly lit
____(...) A glass case nearby held a withered hand on a
cushion, a blood-stained pack of cards, and a staring
glass eye. Evil-looking masks stared down from the
walls, an assortment of human bones lay upon the
____, and rusty, spiked instruments hung from the
ceiling."
—Harry's first experience in?

Answer: Burgin and Burkes, Knockturn Alley

3. Answer to this riddle?
First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

Answer: Spyder or spider, referring to the Acromantula

4. In the films, X is played by Gizmo, and his main stunt
replacements, Ook and Sprout. Further ___ were
Kasper, Ook, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo and Bandit.
Ook was the first cast member to be chosen for a role in
the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone. Who is X?

5. To a fan’s tweet to Rowling on where ____ was, she
replied:
“He was repatriated to Greece. Dumbledore liked to put
Hagrid's more foolish acquisitions back where they
belong - not the forest.”
They are prominent in Greek mythology, the chief of
them being Cerberus, Guardian of the Underworld.
Who is “he”?

6. Connect.
The disappearance of Lord Voldemort.
The arrival of the Mountain at Hogwarts.
Ginny Weasley opens the Chamber of Secrets for the first time.
Sirius Black enters Hogwarts Castle and attacks the Fat Lady
when she refuses to give him passage to Gryffindor Tower.
The Goblet of Fire chooses the Triwizard champions.

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