Impress your fellow MBers by showing how much you know about something that doesn’t matter very much.
(NOTE: This is thread number 1492 — and coincidentally, 1492 is the year in which something significant happened to a prominent denizen of Hogwarts. Who was en, and what was the event?)
Continued from Part One.
Yes! Thank you GAPAs! 1492 was the year in which Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington nearly lost his head, after being hit 45 times in the neck with a blunt axe. Thus, “Nearly Headless Nick” is what the Hogwarts students call him. In more straight forward terms 1492 was the year of Nearly Headless Nick’s death (Oct. 31, to be exact).
First post?
Sorry for the doublepost, but your question doesn’t quite make sense (despite my having answered it):
Who was en, and what was the event?
“En” is an epicene pronoun frequently used in Museblogspeak.
Oh…..I get it now.
So, how about a question: What is the riddle the sphinx recited to Harry in GoF?
What is James Potter’s birthdate?
What is Lily Potter’s birthdate?
Which Peverell brother is Harry descended from?
Which Peverell brother (youngest, middle, eldest) chose the Cloak of Invisibility?
What class does Neville Longbottom teach at Hogwarts?
Did Ron use magic to pass his driving test?
What are the three D’s of Apparation?
Why am I wasting my time asking Potter trivia when I have a biology test tomorrow I need to study for, and a psychology test on Thursday that I also need to study for? And geography on Monday?
Answering these before I scroll down yay!
1 and 2. …
3. Ignotus Peverell
4. Youngest (Ignotus again!)
5. Herbology
6. Yes, a Confundus Charm. Because he forgot to check his blind spots, if I recall correctly.
7. Destination, Determination, and Deliberation. I think that’s the right order.
8. Because Harry Potter is MUCH more interesting?
Ugh I haven’t read HP in forever.
THank you GAPAs!!!!!!!!!!! I’d post a question, but I’ve got lots of homework.
4-
Errm….
1) I know this….I know this…….I forgot. The answer was spider, though….I think.
2) It’s in the 7th book,on his gravestone I think….
rrgh. All this school is making me stressed out so I can’t remember anything Harry Potter!
The last one) I’m not sure….why don’t you go do it!
Determination,destination,deliberation.
Oh, and by the way, I recently changed my email,
fyijust so you know…7–yup, that’s correct! Although I prefer the order they were recited in the book: Destination, Determination, and Deliberation.
Professor nevile longbotom teaches herbology. Now, i must go to the shire to wish bilbo and frodo baggins a happy birthday. Calo anor na ven.
4~
(1) Can’t remember.
(2) Can’t remember.
(3) Ignotis Peverell
(4) Ignotis, I think, but I’m not sure which brother he was, I’ll guess the eldest.
(5) Herbology
(6) yes, he confunded the driver when he forgot to check his blind spot.
(7) I saw the answer on this thread so I won’t answer it.
10~you got 3,5,6 correct, and half of 4. It was Ignotus Peverell, but he is not the eldest. Think back to your fairy tales, and that might give you an idea as to which he would be–you know, all the stories about three brothers going on quests, and it was always the same one who was intelligent and accomplished the goal…..That said, I think I just gave the answer away.
In the radio program PotterWatch, what was Fred called by George (or vice versa) , and what did he want to be called?
12: He was called Rodent, but wanted to be called Rapier.
13- Correct.
These are all HPB4 questions.
What was Wormtail’s song/chant/spell to bring back the Dark Retard?
What was the name of the thing that was sparked when Harry an the Dark Retard fought in the graveyard?
Fill in the blank- “‘Madame _____!’ said Fleur at once, striding over to her headmistress. ‘Zey are saying zat zis ______ ___ is to compete also!'”
14: 1)It escape me at the moment (actually, I don’t know that I ever knew all the words, so….)
2. I assume you are referring to Priori Incantatem, where Voldemort’s wand spit out reverse images of all it had done recently
3. Maxime; leetle boy
Hurrah! Hurrah! Another Harry Potter Trivia off! Hmm…
Can’t think of a question. Ah, yes! In book 6, I think it is, what does Fleur bring Harry for breakfast at the Weasley’s house?
16: Was it pancakes? I remember the illustration from the beginning of the chapter, with Fleur flowing into the room holding a tray, but I don’t remember what exactly she brought….
16- It contained eggs…
I think It was the day voldamorts dad died
14-The Dark Retard?!? I’ll have to start using that in my references to Voldy.
4-
What is the riddle the sphinx recited to Harry in GoF?
No idea, something about a spider.
What is James Potter’s birthdate?
Don’t know.
What is Lily Potter’s birthdate?
Don’t know.
Which Peverell brother is Harry descended from?
Ignotus
Which Peverell brother (youngest, middle, eldest) chose the Cloak of Invisibility?
Again, Ignotus, and he was the youngest.
What class does Neville Longbottom teach at Hogwarts?
Herbology.
Did Ron use magic to pass his driving test?
Of course!
What are the three D’s of Apparation?
Destination, Determination, Deliberation.
19–Sorry? I think I missed something; what was the day Voldemort’s dad died?
SFTDP–I forgot to say that, Syllabub, you are (as I’m sure you know) correct on all the ones you answered!
4- I think the answer to #1 goes something like this (I’m making this up) : Someone who always dresses in black
The middle of middle the end of end
And something you say when you don’t know a word
Add these together and get something you wouldn’t kiss
Maybe it rhymes.
14- Also #1
Bone of father unknowingly something. You shall something your son.
Blood of enemy unwillingly taken. You shall restore your something
Flesh of servant willingly given you shall reserect your master
Thats probally too many somethings.
In the fourth book, when the Weasleys are picking up Harry, what does Mr. Weasley call electricity?
Eckeltricity
WOOHOO! NEW VERSION!
Beginning question: Sir Nicholas, and he DIED!
14 – can’t remember, “little boy” (disgrace!)
24: Oh, drat, I can’t remember!
23: You’re on the right track. And to everyone who said it had something to do with a spider, you are all correct also.
First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells nought but likes.
Next tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle, the end of the end.
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard to find word.
Now put them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
What does Mr. Weasly say right before leaving Kingsly Shaklebolt’s office in book 5?
27–I believe he comments that Molly is making something (I forget what) for dinner, and invites Kingsley over…..but obviously, I don’t know the exact wording…..
28- I think she was making meatballs…
28- “Molly’s making meatballs” as Mr. Weasley said.
26- the answer is a spy.
14- Fill in the blank- “‘Madame Maxime!’ said Fleur at once, striding over to her headmistress. ‘Zey are saying zat zis little boy is to compete also!’â€
30 – WRONG! *whaps across the back of the head* it’s a spider!!!!!!!
30–
It was a spider–I even said so in my postWhat I-Man saidNew question: On what day did Voldemort kill Harry’s parents? (7th book)
33-I think it was Halloween, October 31st.
OK. I’ve just been directed here. So…… yeah…… I don’t know. I don’t look for details like that, I just read and enjoy.
How about……. how many Nevilles does it take to make a Hagrid?
Four Nevilles and twenty-five years.
35-a LOT.
What is James Potter’s birthdate?
I dunno.
What is Lily Potter’s birthdate?
Ditto.
Which Peverell brother is Harry descended from?
Ignotus.
Which Peverell brother (youngest, middle, eldest) chose the Cloak of Invisibility?
Ignotus, youngest.
What class does Neville Longbottom teach at Hogwarts?
Herbology.
Did Ron use magic to pass his driving test?
He Confounded the teacher.
What are the three D’s of Apparation?
Destination, Determination, Deliberation
Why am I wasting my time asking Potter trivia when I have a biology test tomorrow I need to study for, and a psychology test on Thursday that I also need to study for? And geography on Monday?
Because most MBers are procrastinators at heart.
37 – You bet we are. I’ve got a ton of work to do, but am I doing it? Nooo.
A question for the assembled masses: What was unusual about the camera that the man from the Daily Prophet was using to photograph Gilderoy Lockhart in Book 2?
It gave a puff of green smoke, right?
33–October 31 (Halloween).
37–Very good! You got all the ones you answered correct (but I’m sure you knew that)
33 – October 31, the kid that saw Voldemort thought he was wearing a costume at first.
38 –
Procrastinators unite! *looks at watch* Or maybe tomorrow…
39 – Thanks!
On what day did Voldemort kill Harry’s parents? (7th book)
Halloween. Eerie, huh?
Miss Ellaneous–not that it matters, but it also was stated in the first book what day Voldy killed Lily and James. The seventh too, I guess, but I still remember most clearly Hagrid telling the story to Harry, at the Hut on the Rock in the Sea…..Mmmm, good times.
42 – I knew that, oddly enough.
What day did the book start on? (not DATE, but DAY)
43: On the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening, all over the country. Mr Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window.
At half-past-eight, Mr Dursley pecked Mrs Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye, but missed, as he was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls. ‘Little Tyke,’ chortled Mr Dursley…..”
Oh, wait, sorry, you just wanted, the day, huh? Not the context? Well, in that case…..Tuesday.
sorry, I just couldn’t resist.
MissSwann: *cracks knuckles* It’s awwwn!!!
Syllabub: *twitch* STOP CRACKING YOUR KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!
MissSwann: Sorry, it’s a bad habit… anyway, Luna, I have composed a list of complicated HP questions that are very hard. Answer them to the best of your abilities, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I will post them tomorrow, for they are on my computer and I don’t feel like calling my brother and telling him my email password just so he can send them to me. ^^ Yay! We’re going to watch reailty tv shows now…. and Young Frankenstein, apperently…
Syllabub: We ARE watching Young Frankenstein MissSwann.
Oh, and Luna, she’s *coughcoughbluffingcoughcough* and *coughhasn’teventhoughtcoughofthecoughquestionsyetcoughcough*
Sorry, I have a cold.
45: Well, MissSwann, I must say I will be at a wee disadvantage–I don’t really feel like emailing my parents and asking them to send me a copy of all my HP trivia questions, so I will be having to create them all from scratch….And I had such good ones, too!
This isn’t really trivia, but it is HP. ok, out of boredom, while waiting for an episode of an old TV show I used to watch (1996-2000: The Pretender) to buffer, I was playing the Wizard Challenge trivia games at scholastic’s HP website. So, for starters, they have added a greater variety since I was last there, but the idiots really don’t proofread the questions the kids send in. And I realize, not every HP fan knows exactly how to spell HP things, but seriously, it’s not Cormac McClaggen–it Cormac McLaggen. And the whole “Rita Skeeter Daily Opinion Poll” (which has ahd the same question since Sept 30) is always so screwy–I don’t think I’ve seen a single one where characters/locations/whatever/names are spelled correctly. It’s utterly stupidly unbelievalb.e I mean, it’s a website put on by the bloody US publsihers of the books! One would think they could glance at the questions before using them, and that as the freakin’ publishers, they might actually have a better idea than me as to how to spell everything. But, wait–I forgot! SCHOLASTIC IS ABSOLUTELY RETARDED! Just look at the way they americanized the books, and–ok, I am going off on a tangent….I think I will go check on the painfully slow buffering of my TV show…..
Last night I watched a movie called Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and the actress who does Moaning Myrtle’s voice was in it.
Anyways, what house was Myrtle in before she died?
Really??? Who???????? OHHHH! REALLY? THAT CREEPY LADY? WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!
48–That’s funny! And the answer is Ravenclaw, oddly enough.
Anyone got an answer for the question I posed in post 38?
49- Correct.
50–sorry, I somehow missed that post! I believe it spewed out coloured smoke (purple if I remember right, although it may have been blue).
Oh, and MissSwann? I’m ready for our contest whenever you are–I had my trivia emailed to me, and I believe most of my questions are there….(a few never got typed up), so I am prepared with some questions!
52 – Correct. And yes, the smoke was purple.
Sweet! Can’t believe I got that….
MissSwann! I’ve been thinking. For our contest, how about we set a couple of ground rules:
1. This one’s fairly obvious: Answers must be from memory–no looking them up online or in the books
2. Only questions that are answered in the books (i.e. not off of JKR’s website). However, I am willing to scratch this rule, if you wish. It matters not.
3. Um, I don’t really think there are anymore….Lessee–points. Let’s call them pottermania points, and we can store them in our names for the duration of our tournament.
Ok, on to questions–I currently have a possible 200 moderately hard to hard questions to draw from, and about 300 more easy-ish ones to draw from. I was thinking that maybe one of us posts a few questions, and then the other posts their answers and then a list of their own questions, and we go back and forth until our question supply is exhausted, we get bored (unlikely), or one of us chooses to admit defeat. Or else we could just play until a set number of points. I’m open to suggestions here.
Also, I was thinking that we might request other bloggers not to post answers to the questions we ask during the course of the tournament, and that mayhap the GAPAs would consider giving us a thread? That would be so much more fun. Whadda you say, GAPA dearest? A thread for the battle for the title of the most rabid Potter fan on MuseBlog?
55- Is it possible for a passerby to answer?
56–I dunno…Wait, I’ve got it! Other MBers besides MissSwann’n’me could answer, but I shall request that you all wait until one of the competitors (MissSwann/me) has answered. That way y’all could still answer the zillions of trivia, but MissSwann and I would have first dibs on answering.
I take your silence as a no [to a separate thread for the competition], dearest GAPA?
LtL: I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what sort of thread you’re proposing. Is it a two-person duel between you and Miss Swann, with nobody else allowed to post?
Robert: As you may have gathered, MissSwann and I have challenged each other to a Harry Potter trivia competition (idea formed on the HP summer 2007 thread after POSOC called me MB’s most rabid HP fan). I was thinking it would be fun to have a separate thread, even though technically it is still HP trivia. Although I originally had the idea that only MissSwann and I would be allowed to post answers to each others’ questions, I have since revised that (see post 57).
The thread would still primarily be a “duel” as you put it, between me and MissSwann, and it would be appreciated if other bloggers didn’t answer questions until MissSwann or I (whomever’s turn it is) had had a chance, as the competition is technically between us, but i have decided it wouldn’t be fair to ask them not to answer at all.
I hope that solves your confusion…..
I don’t mean to pester you, dearest GAPA Robert (or maybe I do
), but are you unconfused?
Luna — Yes, I think I understand. On general principles, I’d rather not start creating threads specifically for limited subsets of MBers, and I certainly don’t want to have to police a thread to keep others from posting on it. So I’m afraid I’ll have to say “no” this time.
Why don’t you have your trivia showdown on this thread and simply ask everyone else not to answer until the one of you being challenged has either responded or given up? I suspect they would cooperate.
That’s ok, Robert! I totally understand where you are coming from, and kind of figured you would just say use this thread. But, hey, it was worth a try!
Any chance you could hop over to the Homework 911 thread and see if you could give me a hand? Assuming you’re not already there…..Thanks!
ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS! ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS!
This thread will soon be the location of a Harry Potter trivia competition between MissSwann and myself. I would like to issue a request of all MuseBloggers frequenting this thread. Please, I repeat, please allow the competitor being challenged a chance to respond to her challenger’s question before you post an answer. i.e., if MissSwann asks me a question, please allow me a chance to either a) answer her question, or b) admit I don’t know the answer before you jump in with an answer of your own. I greatly appreciated your cooperation! You guys (girls) are teh pwnage!
A Harry Potter competition? Awesome! I’ll watch.
*reclines in chair with popcorn*
what are harry’s kids’ names?
what spell does harry accidentily hang ron upside-down with?
what book was it in?
wat is jk rowlings 1st initial?
last one’s a toughie. can u figer it owt????:-D
66:
James Sirius; Lily Luna; Albus Severus
levicorpus
HBP
Initial? That’d be J. It stands for Joann
67- All right, you’ve requested my presence, and I am here to challenge you to a duel of all Harry Potter related duels.
It shall be a duel of knowledge!!!! It’s awn!!!!!
The rules are simple; no cheating (ie, surfing the web or using the books) and no flaming. ^^ Yay!
What form does Seamus Finnigan’s patronus take? (I can only think of that ojne for now, I’m at the library and people are being noisy.)
68–sorry I’m so slow, I only just got back to my dorm from my last class. Your rules are good (nice and succinct–I like). Just one addition: Each correct question is worth one point (which can be stored in our name for the duration of the tournament).
Now, your question–no fair! That was one of the ones I was going to ask you!
Anyways, the answer is: Seamus Finnegan’s patronus takes the form of a fox.
Now, my question [first] question for you:
What is the scar above Dumbledore’s left knee shaped like?
69- He says, in the first book while speaking to Professor Minerva McGonagall, that ‘scars can be very useful. He has one above his left knee that is a perfect map of the London underground’.
What is clinking in Arabella Figg’s plastic bag that she whacks someone with in the 5th book? (Bonus; who is she wacking?)
70–yup! One Potterpoint awarded!
ok, I’m going to hazard a guess as to what’s clacking–jars/cans of cat food? As far as who she’s whacking–that’d be Mundungus Fletcher, because he Disapparated leaving Privet Drive unguarded, allowing for the Dementor attack on Harry and Dudley…..
What did Harry get for his tenth birthday?
71- Yes, 1 point awarded, plus a half point for the bonus.
Ummmmmmmmm………. it wasn’t a tissue……… I’m going to have to say……….. a coat hanger?
What are the names of the Cattermole children?
71–Half-right! So, 1/2 potterpoint. Harry was given a coat hanger and a pair of Vernon Dursley’s old socks.
Oo, that’s a hard one. I remember the parents’ names, but the children? Drat. So, I’m just going to make a wild guess here (probably all wrong, as I don’t even remember the number of kids)–John, Jill, and sure, why not? Jim.
Alright, your next question:
How long was Bellatrix Lestrange’s wand?
((Might I ask you two something? Can others of us post questions for you, clearly labeled for your competition, and whoever answers it correctly first gets a Potterpoint? I am asking this because I have a few very good questions and I am just itching to use them.))
I have the same question as Groundhog. I have an unanswered question that I want to post again for the competition.
75, 76: I’m cool with that, what do you say, MissSwann?
The only potential problem is that I think I might have a slight advantage, given as I seem to be on MB more frequently than MissSwann. That is to say, whenever I am in my room (which is most of the time, except when I am in class), I am hitting the refresh button at least once every five minutes. Yes, I know. I’m addicted.
77 – Hmmm. Perhaps we could give a warning some time before posting a question, something like: I will be posting my question(s) at [insert time of day here] on [insert date here]. Then MissSwann could make sure that she is on at that time.
78–that might work, depending on MissSwann’s schedule…..
As far as my schedule goes, I leave for class at about 10:30/10:45 BT M-F, and don’t get back until around 3 BT on MWF, and 5 BT on T/Th….and then there are *gasp* rare occasions like tonight where I actually go somewhere in the late evenings……I know, shocking, huh? There is a “murder mystery dinner theatre” thingy that looks like it could be fun that is going on tonight. And that’s probably more info than you ever wanted on what I do when…
Given my schedule,you’re probably wondering how/why I’m on now? Well, since we had our calc test yesterday, we do not ahve a calc lecture today (yes!).
73- Wrong! The names are Maisie, Ellie, and Alfred Cattermole. ^^ Yay! I think that if we get an answer wrong, the other person gets a point. Cool?
Oh, goodness……. um……. I have no idea, but I’ll say 12 inches?
How many children to Bill and Fleur end up having (worth 1.5 points, as it is not mentioned in the books!)
77- I’m all right with that, and I will be on more often once my dad fixes our internet cord. I have to go to the library for MB or use the laptop when my dad gets home at like 9:00…
78- Sounds good. And, I will be on more often, soon…
79- Oh, I went to one of those once, it was at my cousin/sister/s high school… it was really fun.
I reccommend!
80 – I’m not playing, but it seems unfair for you to get a point for your opponent’s mistake. It’s bad enough that they don’t get a point that turn, it’s worse to lose double that amount.
I like the idea of the audience questions, but I’ll just say you’d better work out an awesome system.
80–oh….now I get where the extra point in your name that I couldn’t figure out where it came from came from. Sure, that works for me.
Oh, so close! Her wand was 12-and-three-quarter inches.
Bill and Fleur end up having three children–Victoire, Dominique, and Louis–I have that family tree thumbtacked to my ceiling back home in AK…..
How long was the wand Ron bought (or his parents bought, anyway) in PoA?
82- Oh darn! 3/4 of an inch off…
Oh goodness, I’m not good with wand lengths… eleven inches?
What year did Tonks graduate from her Auror training?
In the fourth book, what did Mr. Weasley call electricity when they were picking up Harry from the Dursley’s?
Afraid not–it was 14 inches.
Year, like as in an actual year (i.e. 2008)? Or year as in when Harry was in year X?
Not that I know the answer, anyway……But I shall hazard a guess. I am going to guess that she graduated when Harry was a fourth year (as in, spring that year), so calculating based on Nick’s Deathday, that would be 1995. But I really have no idea.
((Breakdown on my points, in case it got confuzzling:
1 pt–answering post 68
1.5 pt–answering post 70
1/2 pt–from when you missed half of post 71
1 pt–from when you missed post 73
1.5 pt–answering post 80
1 pt–from when you missed post 82))
What did Dobby give Harry for Christmas when he was a fourth year? Describe the present.
84–was that for the competition, luv?
Regardless, I think it was ekeltricity, but I’m not sure
86- Close, but not quite.
87–it’s not? *looks back at post* Waaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit–is it too late? I meant eckeltricity–I forgot the “c”, least I think there’s a “c”. Oh, gosh, I dunno….I was probably off by more than spelling…..
88- Yes, you were off by spelling. Keep trying, heart, you’re quite close… *settles down in hammock, ocaissainally swatting away those gosh darn pesky Mississippi mud flies*
89–alright, luv…let’s see. operating under the assumption that the pronunciation of the correct spelling is the same as what I have….
mebbe eckletricity?
oh, by the way…..if you intended this for the competition, I don’t think MissSwann is on, so even if I do somehow manage to guess the right spelling, I don’t think it would be fair of me to accept a Potterpoint…..
Mississippi, eh? Is horribly hot there? Of course, everybody here thinks I’m wacky that I think the 60s/70s is hot for this time of year, and they also think I’m wacky for thinking there should be snow in October–apparently this part of the state, they get snow around the beginning of december, but just a few hours south, where my roomie is from, they don’t usually get any until February. At which point back home, we’re usually ready for winter to be over already, although we usually still have snow on the ground through March, evenpart of April, although not necessarily an y fresh snowfall–although it’s not unusual, either. May is the latest we ever had a snowfall in my memory back in AK, and that was kind of a freak one. April is the absolute latest i would consider it normal, and even then, I don’t appreciate it, because I’m ready for summer…..I WANT COLD! I WANT SNOW!
90- I think the 70’s is a pleasant tempature, and do remember, we get no snow. EVER. Our bloody climate isn’t right. I’ve played in snow about, hm, TWO TIMES, and I think it’s kinda weird if it pours in the middle of summer. That’s how adjusted to this climate I am.
91–don’t get me wrong, I think 70’s is a pleasant temperature as well–back home in the summer, the 70’s is a nice delightful beautiful warm (even hot) summer day. Here, earlier in the year, the 70’s was a nice, pleasantly cool, almost, temperature–a nice break from the 90’s. Now, as we continue into October, when apparently on Tuesday, a town 20 minutes from where I live back in AK got 6 inches of snow (most of which has melted), and it is still in the 60’s at coolest here at school down in the Midwest, well the 70’s is hotter than I want. This is the time of year when every day you look outside hoping it may have snowed. To not have at least had snow by Halloween (even if much/some of it has melted) is unusual, and considered a bad winter…..
So, when normally it would be in the 30’s/40’s this time of year,and the weather here is (obviously) warmer than I’m used to already, well, it seems hot, and I would like snow before December.
And I am very, very sorry that you don’t live somewhere with snow….I could never do that. Snow is so fun!!!!!
92- Oh, well. I still quite like it here. My lovely small town is practically devoid of gangs, gunfights, and criminals. Except for a few house break ins (three, but those happened a long time ago) and car crashes, we’re a very clean town. We have a lot of parks and schools and small businesses, so een though we don’t have snow, and we get barely any rain, Orange County is a very nice place to live. We have sunlight every day (except in the winter; that’s our cloud/rain season) and, heck- we have the ORIGANAL Disneyland! The true Disney park! Walt Disney saw these rides being built, and he designed them himself!
Whoops. Sorrel, Floridans. I get kinda…. rantish when speaking about the Disney castles and… yeah. *shifts uncomfortrably*
85- Close! Harry was in 3rd year; ie, 1994.
Dobby gave Harry a pair of socks. One was green and had broomsticks on them; the other was red and had snitches.
How many children did Neville and Hannah Longbottom have?
84- Eckeltricity? (I say Luna and I both get a point if we answer this correctly.)
94–oh, so close! It was red with broomsticks, and green with snitches…..i think i will give you 1/2 point….oh, and could you break down your points? I’m getting confuzzled…..thanks, luv!
Neville….married Hannah?
I didn’t know that…..It didn’t say in the books, did it? Well…..I am going to go with two.
In response to your response to 84–sure, I’m cool with both of us getting a point, if we both get it correct…..Although Zinc didn’t like the spelling of that answer…..
ok, next question for you!
According to Griphook, who did Godric Gryffindor steal his sword from?
((Breakdown on my points, in case it got confuzzling:
1 pt–answering post 68
1.5 pt–answering post 70
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Swann and Luna- Shall I just give you the correct answer? It’s my best bit of trivia I have.
96–that’s fine by me…..
97- Swann, howabout you?
84–I looked it up online…..He does call it eckeltricity (with that spelling), although he also says “eclectic” for electric in the same chpater. So I”m not sure what you’re going for, as he does call it eckeltricity…..
99–When I said I looked it up online, I meant I just looked it up online today, not before posting that answer….just in case that wasn’t clear (which it wasn’t)
Oh, I’ll just say it. Eclectricy.
101: I don’t mean to sound skeptical, but are you sure? I downloaded pdfs of all seven books of the internet today, and I just ran “ecelctricy” through the search function of the PDF of Goblet, and didn’t get any hits. And skimming that chapter at the Dursleys, all I came up with right off was “eclectic” and “eckletricity”. But maybe I missed something…..
But at the beginning when he bursts through the electric fireplace, he called the fireplace eclectic.
Of course, some people would call it “anbaric.”
104-
95- WHAT!? I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT! *sob, sob* Luna and Neville are destined… DESTINED, people!!!
107- I know, right?
Okay, point breakup.
Post 70- 1 point
Post 72- .5 point
Post 73- 1 point
Post 85- 1.5 point
Post 95- .5
Post 95- Answer incorrect; I get 1.5 points (they had NO children!!!)
Total= 7 points
As for your question… Gryffindor stole it from the goblins?
As for mine… hmmmm…. What does Auntie Muriel compare Xenophilius Lovegood to during Bill and Fleur’s wedding?
But why do you get 1.5 points for her missing a 1 point question? This is so confusing.
Nice question, too, by the way.
108–um…..Don’t mean to be nitpicky, but when I add up your point breakup you supplied, I only get 6….maybe I can’t add.
109–she gets 1.5 because the answer was not in the books.
Back to 108–yes, Godric Gryffindor stole the sword fromt he goblins, but I wanted the name of the specific goblin–which I presume you don’t know, as you didn’t mention it? It’s Ragnuk the First
Ummm, a sunflower? I remember someone describing him as such, I think……
ok, my question: What kind of wood was Bellatrix Lestrange’s wand made from?
((Breakdown on my points, (as much for my confuzzlement, as yours–that is, if you are confuzzled, which you probably aren’t!):
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Oh, dang, figures. I was wrong, of course. Luna was wearing a sunflower, that’s probably wehre the sunflower thought came from. Ah well, at least I knew he was wearing yellow! I just looked it up…..to see if I was right, cuz I’m really impatient, you know. So, anyways, as you know, she compared him to an omelet……
110 – Okay, I get it now.
Yeah, you’re right, those points only add up to 6.
11 – Sunflower, omelet, they’re both yellow. You were close!
Okay I had a trivia question and I completely forgot it. Doing well.
110- Close! (For me and you). I can never remember the goblin names. But she compares him to an omelette. And I quote: “What on earth is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelette.” XD I almost peed myself upon reading that for the first time. But Luna has a sunflower in her hair, so good guess. And… wait… *re-does addition* Yup, it’s 6. Sorry!
The wood? Oh my gooderness… erm… is it hemlock?
My question: does Kingsley Shacklebolt become MOM?
113–yours was 6, but is 7 now, since I misguessed what Muriel said Xeno looked like!
As for the type of wood it was Walnut.
Now, as for Kingsley. After the battle at Hogwarts, in which Pius Thicknesse the imperiused MOM was murdered, Kingsley Shacklebolt became the temporary MOM, until such a time that a new one was put into office. Although I can’t vouch for info online, in the books, Kingsley was only temporary MOM, but never the “permanent” MOM.
So, let’s see…..
In Philosopher’s Stone, when Harry, Hermione, and Ron find information on Nicolas Flamel in an old book, how old does the book say Nicolas Flamel is?
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114- Correct!
600 and something… 656?
How many languages does Barty Crouch Sr speak? (no specific number neccessary; just ‘over blank number’ will do).
115—oh, so close! You had the right three numbers, but the correct answer was 665. So, I think I will give you 1/2 point, cuz, well, I feel like it, as you almost had it!
Oh, dang, I remember this scene. Percy was babbling on about how absolutely wonderful his darling Barty Crouch Sr. was, and I know he mentioned several languages, and said a number, but dang. More than one hundred?
According to the Dursleys, where does Harry attend school?
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Nnn, I was close. Bagman said Crouch speaks aobut 150, to which percy replies that no, crouch speaks over 200….ah, well. Do you know, I am so much happier now that I happened across this site from which I could download all the HP books as pdfs onto my computer. No more frantically searching the internet when I’m trying to see if my answer was right. I just open the correct book, type the word into the search box, and–I’m there! Even quicker than when I would grab the book, flip to the chapter, then flip to the section fo the chapter, then skim till I found the exact sentence…..anyways.
116- Hmmmmmmmm…. Stonewall High, correct?
How did Luna’s mother die?
118–No, that was where he was going to attend, before he got accepted to Hogwarts. According to the Dursleys, he attends St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.
Luna’s mother was killed when a magical experiment that she [Luna’s mother] was working on backfired. It happened sometime when Luna was little, and we were never told what exactly it was. Thus, some hypothesized that Luna’s mum was RAB, and the “magical experiment” was getting the Horcrux from the cave, cuz Luna would ahve been underage and oculd’ve gone….I always thought that was a weird theory, but creative, very creative.
Who were the seven Harry Potters on the flight from the Dursleys in Deathly Hallows?
Ron, Hermione, Harry (of course),Fred, George, Mundungus, and Tonks. I tnink that’s right. I’m to lazy to check.
120–it’s not too big a deal (presumably you haven’t read all the posts on the thread, and I think mayhap you are new) but could I direct you to post 64? Or, on second thought, I will just repost it here, in slightly revised form:
ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS! ATTENTION ALL MUSEBLOGGERS!
This thread
will soon beis currently the location of a Harry Potter trivia competition between MissSwann and myself. I would like to issue a request of all MuseBloggers frequenting this thread. Please, I repeat, please allow the competitor being challenged a chance to respond to her challenger’s question before you post an answer. i.e., if MissSwann asks me a question, please allow me a chance to either a) answer her question, or b) admit I don’t know the answer before you jump in with an answer of your own. I greatly appreciated your cooperation! You guys (girls) are teh pwnage!Like I said, though, it’s not that big a deal (and please don’t get the wrong impression–I’m not mad, really). Oh, and you’re close with the answer, but don’t quite have it.
Mm… who does Percy kiss? (VERY easy starter questions, *rubs hands together evilly*)
120- *laughs* Sorry about the double post people, but I had to ask: who says that Harry’s Polyjuice potion “looks delicious”?
123–He kissed Penelope Clearwater in the second book. Although, he presumably kisses Audrey as well, given that he marries her.
124–That would be Hermione, in DH–omg that was hilarious.
What are Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s OWL grades?
126–oh, gosh. Lessee, Harry got an O (Outstanding) in DADA, but Herm only got an E. Um, don’t remember the total number of owls each got, but Herm got the most–Almost all O’s. Harry got more than Ron–not sure if Ron got any O’s. HOnestly, I really don’t remember the details too much. Harry failed Divination and History of Mafic–either P or D–don’t remember which was which, or heck, they could’ve both been the same. I dunno.
125- Tee hee, good times.
What happened in the second book around the word SMACK!?
I know Harry got an O in DADA, a P in Divinations, and a D in History of Magic. Oh, poor Harry. And I’m sure he got Es in Charms, Herbology, Potions, and Transfiguration. Not sure about the others, though.
I think Ron failed Divinations and HoM too, didn’t he? I seem to remember his scores were similar to Harry’s on those subjects.
Hermione got Os on everything except DADA.
And wow, I know way more HP trivia than I thought. I guess that’s what comes from reading the books dozens of times each. One day, I was bored on the bus so I memorized the first three pages of the Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s really fun to recite it and watch the looks on people’s faces.
128- Hermione smacks Draco!!!! Yay!
UuUuUuUummmmmmm…. which actor plays Snape, and name 2 other movies he is acclaimed for.
130–Hermione smacked Draco in the third book, not the second.
Alan Rickman plays Snape (he is hot). Let’s see, some movies in which he acts:
Die Hard (don’t remember which one, but he plays the evil terrorist who holds the building hostage)
Love Actually
Galaxy Quest
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
Sweeny Todd
oh, drat, I know there are more, but I can’t think of anymore right now (and you did say two, anyway).
131- Yes, but I called her with a similar inquiry and she meant to say the third.
My answer was Sweeney Todd and Galaxy Quest, so good job for you. And he is verrrry smexy. XD
I think the only other movie I’ve seen Alan Rickman in is Sense and Sensibility.
I didn’t realize this was the kind of question we could ask… in that case, who is the guy who played Gandalf, and why didn’t he play Dumbledore? (This is a real trivia question, really it is.)
133–I forget who the guy who played gandalf is, and I have absolutely no idea why he didn’t play dumbledore. I do wish richard harris hadn’t died, though, he was a much better dumbledore than michael gambon. mg just isn’t avery good dumbledore, in my opinoin,.
Gosh, this isn’t a trivia question, but I don’t believe there is another Harry Potter thread…
I’ve just been browsing mugglenet, and there’s this post (c+p’d):
We’re a little late on this, but at the end of October USA Today compiled a list of the best-selling books in the past 15 years.
Unsurprisingly, the Harry Potter books took 7 of the top 10 spots. Here’s how they ranked:
1) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2) Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution
3) The Da Vinci Code
4) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
5) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
10) Who Moved My Cheese?
Now, while we ignore #10, which has to be the most hilariously random title ever, this is somehow making me depressed. I’ve been suffering from PPD since a month after DH, obviously, but I dunno. The series is over, no more books except Beedle the Bard which doesn’t really count. Movies don’t count either. Harry Potter just seems so much like a thing of the past now, and that makes me very sad. I want my childhood back.
And it’s making me hate Twilight lots more than I did yesterday. Why must so many people love it, instead of my dear HP which is so much more deserving of their adoration? *sobs*
*recovers*
Ah, let’s throw in a little something actually related to the thread, though I don’t know what trivia’s been covered, really…
Hm, I don’t know about the paperback edition, but if anyone owns/read the hardcover edition of Deathly Hallows: What is written on the front, inside jacket cover, where a brief summary of the book is *usually* written?
135–I remember reading it, and enjoying it that it wasn’t a summary (wouldn’t’ve read it until after the book if it was), and it just gave me some sort of elation that it was something different, something unusual. I think it said something about now begins the final year of Harry (okay, so I know that’s nto right, but it said something sort of similar!).
135 – HOW DARE THOSE MORONS SAY THE LAST 3 BOOKS DID NOT CRACK TOP 3?! I SHALL CRUSH THEM!!
And while I’m at it, I’ve never read Twilight, but it doesn’t sound like my kind of book.
Ummm.. i think it was, “And now we present the final chapter in the tale of Harry Potter.”
What early indicator is given in Half-blood prince that Harry loves Ginny (hint: CHAPTER 9, CHAPTER 9!!)?
137–I presume you mean the scene with the Amortentia,and the following scene. During Potions, it is established that the Amortentia smells differently to everyone–it smells like something they love/turns them on/whatever (don’t remember the exact wording). And Harry smells a flowery smell he remembers smelling at the Burrow. Then, skip to the next scene, Ginny walks past, and there is a vague mention of him smelling the same flowery smell that the Amortentia manifested as…..
Sad to say, I did not pick up on this the first time I read it–somehow my mind never read/processed/whatever the sentence about smelling the flowery smell when Ginny walked by, but I did notice it on my second read through, just two weeks later…..It’s amazing the things you pick up the second or even third/fourth/fifth/sixth/etc time through…….
No, it was when he felt a “twinge of annoyance” when he remembered that Ginny did not hang out with him and Ron, wasn’t it? He was on the HE..
138 – Actually, I think it took me 10 readings to see that… @__@
What does Lavender give to Ron and what does Kreacher give to Harry for Christmas in book 6?
137 – Never mind, I was slightly wrong… I don’t remember, but I knew they used the phrase “epic tale” instead of just tale.
Who dies in Book 7 (EASY)?
139–Actually, I’m surprised I picked it up even the second time thorugh…….although, when I did, and I made some comment about how you get so much more out of it on subsequent readings, my dad was like, wait, you didn’t catch that? I saw that when I read it. It wa slike, thanks, dad. glad you’re so much more observant. Wanna rub it in a little mroe?
Lavender gives Ron–let’s see, I believe it was a huge gaudy piece of jewelry, a necklace in the shape of a–heart, was it? Something like that. And Kreacher gave Harry maggots, and Ginny picked one out of his hair, and it gave him shivers that “had nothingn to do with the maggots.”
Deaths in DH: a lot!
Charity Burbage
Hedwig
Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody
Rufus Scrimgeour
Ted Tonks
Dirk Cresswell
Ragnuk the goblin
Dobby
Bathilda Bagshot (presumably in DH)
Vincent Crabbe
Fred Weasley
Remus John Lupin
Nymphadora Tonks
Colin Creevey
Severus Snape
Bellatrix Lestrange
Voldemort (Tom Marvolo Riddle)
Harry–sorta
um, think that was all, but I probably missed somebody…..
140 – wasn’t wanting that much detail with the maggots…
close. she gave ron a golden necklace with thick letters hanging from it that said, “My Sweetheart”.
Um… I wasn’t looking for that many people, but oh well. By the way, if you think Harry dies, shouldn’t I get 25 cents back from my dad on a bet I made with him?
141–yeah, didn’t figure you were wanting that much info on the maggots, but….I couldn’t resist.
Dang, I knew I had the necklace slightly off. I just remember him commenting about, “Does she really expect me to wear this?”
Well, you didn’t exactly specify how many people you wanted, so I thought I’d play it safe…..
Actually, I just tend to get carried away and babble on about all the extra detail of something, if I know anything about it to begin with. yeah, like when somebody asked what the first word/sentence of PS was, and I supplied at least the first two paragraphs? Perfect example…….
And Harry doesn’t exactly die, but in a way he did. I mean, he was in limbo, and he didn’t have to choose life–he could have gone on, instead. Fortunately, of course, he chose life, or the book could have ended much differently. So you bet that Harry would die, then? I can see how it wouldn’t have been hard to think (I honestly kinda did, but was on denial, and wouldn’t allow myself to believe it, decided that if I really was right about HP being a Horcrux, that something else would be worked out). Of course, my denial ended the moment we saw SS’s memories, and I started sobbing my heart out, but….that’s another story.
But it could be argued, I think, that Harry died, but I’m not sure 25 cents is worth it…..
LOL, I thought the necklace was funny.
PS? what the heck
I’m just saying that technically, he died, if only for a short period. Here’s my theory – he died, and had the choice of going back to life or staying dead. That solid explanation is worth 25 cents.
I really, really liked (in DH):
-The part where Ginny kissed Harry
-the tale of the three brothers
-the battle of hogwarts, especially the very end in the great hall
-the epic scene where neville defeated nagini
-SS’s memories
-the final scene in AD’s office and the epilogue
-Voldemort’s memory – it was really awesome to finally see what happened on that fateful night
143–PS=Philosopher’s Stone=Sorcerer’s Stone (US).
Yeah, those were all great scense. At the BoH, I especially liked when Kreacher led the house elves to attack. It was touching. and when Harry knocked Draco out, from beneath his cloak. And then there were all the priceless little moments–Hermione, and her comment about Harry’s polyjuice potion: “Mm, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, harry!” That had me in stitches,a nd all of JKR’s wizardized version of Muggle sayings, at least one of which cracks me up because of the meaning in conjures for me–the wizard version of “yanking your chain”……”I’m only yanking your wand.” That made me choke…..wonder if she intended that, or if she didnt’ think of most peoples minds would jump to……
And yup, I love the neville/Nagini scene, especially because I can only imagine the priceless look on Griphook’s face as his precious sword is snatched away from him by the wizards…….bit of vindictive pleasure, there.
Oh, and where they flush themselves into the ministry–I love that, because when I was little, I created this fantasy world of witches in my head, and the way you got to their world (which was underground…..huh, Hell, anyone?) was by flushing yourself down the toilet. So, that was really odd (and funny) when that was the way they got into the Ministry……..
Harry knocked Draco out from under his cloak? Why did I not notice that?!
I would talk about how Mrs. Weasley cusses Bellatrix, but I already said that on “harry potter, again”…
145–Probably because I didn’t have it quite right.
He wasn’t actually knocked out, just punched, and it was Ron, not Harry(chap 32, The Elder Wand):
“LET’S GO!†Harry yelled, and he, Ron, and Hermione gathered the Cloak tightly around themselves and pelted, heads down, through the midst of the ï¬ghters, slipping a little in pools of Snargaluff juice, toward the top of the mar-
ble staircase into the entrance hall.
“I’m Draco Malfoy, I’m Draco, I’m on your side!†Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry Stunned the Death Eater as they passed. Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his savior, and Ron punched him from under the Cloak. Malfoy fell backward on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused.
“And that’s the second time we’ve saved your life tonight, you two—faced bastard!†Ron yelled.
So, yeah, i was slightly off. Anyways, got to go pack my laptop…..Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
I especially loved that line of Ron’s and “IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I’LL KILL YOU HARRY!!” XD good times.
I also really liked the parts at Grimmauld Place where:
Harry gave Kreacher the locket and Ron was like, “Overkill, mate.”
They caught Mundungus and it was like “I panicked, okay? I never wanted to come along, no offense, mate, but I never volunteered to die for you, an’ that was bleedin’ You-Know-Who come flying at me, anyone woulda got outta there, I said all along I didn’t wanna do it-”
“For your information, none of the rest of us Disapparated.”
“Well you’re a bunch of bleedin’ ‘eroes then, aren’t you, but I never pretended I was up for killing meself-”
“We’re not interested in why you ran out on Mad-Eye. We already knew you were an unreliable bit of scum.
“Well then, why the ‘*** am I being ‘unted down by ‘ouse-elves?”
Later: “Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?” XD
Just to point this out here, this conversation should probably be taking place on the “Harry Potter, Again” thread. This one is a trivia contest.
Oh well. Incidentally, did you know that bloody is the british equivalent of the f word? Scary… what’s even scarier is that I learned that in english… O___O
Name all of the chapters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Half-Blood Prince, and the Order of the Phoenix. In the right order, mind you.
SFTDP
Who was the first Slytherin to be sorted in 1991?
oh, drat, I dunno. Um, I don’t suppose Marcus Belby was a Slytherin?
Nope. (Hint: Hermione tried to become her in book 2.)
152–Millicent Bulstrode. *hits self upside head* duh. I was having a hard time thinking of Slytherins whose last names started with Bs at the time…..
153 – Yep.
In Half-Blood Prince, Fleur strokes Bill’s nose at one point. What do Ginny, Harry, and Ron do in response?
154–probably gag, retch, or otherwise mime vomiting.
Who came all the way from Kent for Nearly Headless Nick’s birthday party?
Are others allowed to answer these yet?
157–yes, definitely, yes–I think our trivia battle ended a long while ago……MissSwann lost interest, I think.
156–oooh, dang. Let me think about that for awhile, cuz I really don’t know, as I don’t think it was Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore…..no, no, I just cheated–it was indeed, another (as I already knew, but…..)
156- Was it that band that sounded like nails on a blackboard?
It was the Wailing Widow, correct?
160–yup
160 – Yes indeedy!
Who succeeded in turning his wife into a yak after taking a Kwikspell course?
162–I remember that…..it was in the Kwikspell letter that Mr. Filch had on his desk….but the name of the guy. *shakes head* I just don’t remember (and really don’t have time for this, anyway…..too much stuff to do for school)
155 – Close… Ginny mimed vomiting into her cereal, then Harry choked on his corn-flakes and ron thumped him on the back.
what does ginny get at fred and george’s shop?
164–Arnold the Pygmy Puff! Although, she was showing a bit of interest in the love potions, but her brothers basically forbid her to even consider it…..
I have what I think is a good question… what is the first cover to show Harry with his feet on the ground rather than flying or swinging?
166: Does it have to show his feet? If not, GoF.
What was Fred (*sob*) and George’s first item of defense apparel?
166–GOF. PS: Harry on a broom. CoS: Harry hanging from
Fawkes. POA: Harry on Buckbeak GOF: He was on there somewhere, don’t remember what he was doing, or if he was on the ground…..
167–was that the headless hats?
167 – Those were the Shield Hats, weren’t they? Or were they cloaks? I can’t remember.
It was the Shield Hats.
As no one has guessed who succeeded in turning his wife into a yak after taking a Kwikspell course, I shall tell you: It was Warlock D.J. Prod of Didsbury.
166 – Book Four, although the cover doesn’t actually show his feet. (this is presuming that you’re referring to Mary Grandpre’s covers)
Another trivia question: What are the names of the members of Dudley’s gang?
171–let’s see…..There’s Piers Polkiss, Dennis, Malcolm, Gordon, and I don’t remember if there is anyone else–well, Big D himself, of course.
167, 171 – No, Goblet Of Fire had Harry on a broomstick, reaching for the golden egg, with the Hungarian Horntail chasing him.
173 – Well, that’s on the British cover. On the American covers, Harry is standing holding the golden egg with the other Triwizard competitors behind him. Personally, I like the American covers much better than the British covers; they have more personality. My favorite cover is the sixth or seventh.
173–I’ve got to agree with Tesseract here: On the US scholastic cover of GOF, it has Harry (standing, or so it appears–only his upper half is visible) behind the horntail, in front of the other three champions. If we’re oging by British covers, then Philosopher’s Stone is the first one with Harry standing: It depicts Harry standing in front of the Hogwarts Express (feet not visible, but clearly standing).
167- Yes, American cover, Goblet of Fire.
The hardest questions I have off the top of my head:
– What were the wood and core of the new wand Neville gets in Half-Blood Prince?
– Which sixth year dies in Deathly Hallows?
– Which magical artifact had its history explained in the books, but not in the movies?
– What is Nearly Headless Nick’s full name?
1. He got a new one in HBP? I don’t remember that…..
2. Colin Creevey
3. Honestly, probably quite a few. The Goblet of Fire, perhaps?
4. Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
You got 2 and 4 right, and come to think of it, 3 was kind of a stupid question. I was thinking of the Marauder’s Map, but you’re right, there are many more. Neville’s wand was cherry and unicorn hair.
– What is the name of Lupin and Tonks’ son, and what color was his hair in the photo Lupin showed … um … somebody? *has bad memory*
– Who was caught releasing a first yesr that Death Eater teachers had chained up, in book 7?
179:
1. Teddy Remus Lupin, and I want to say the hair was purple. I’m pretty sure he was showing the pic to Harry&co at Shell Cottage.
2. Neville, I think, but I”m really not sure.
You got Teddy’s name right (I didn’t know he had a middle name, but you’re probably right), but his hair was turquoise. And Michael Corner was caught releasing the first year.
181–yup, he definitely had a middle name. I’m pretty sure Lupin stated Teddy’s full name on the occasion he named Harry godfather, but it is possible that it was not directly mentioned in the books, but rather JKR’s website, or some such.
Having recently finished the last HP book, I can now take part in this *is very thankful she didn’t come before finishing it*
How long was ‘Voldy’s’, to quote Peeves, wand, what wood was it made from, and what was inside it?
What, exactly were the Horcruxes, and in what order were they destroyed?
… No un-answered questions for me. Bleh. This thread isn’t dead, is it? What? Is there a new thread?
183–ooooooh. revival of ze thread.
1. Voldemort’s wand is 13 1/2 inches. Made of yew. It contains a feather from Fawkes the phoenix, one of only two feathers Fawkes gave to wands,the other residing in Harry’s wand.
The Horcruxes are vessels containing bits of Voldie’s soul. There were seven in all, although Voldie only intended to make 6.
1. Tom Marvolo Riddle’s diary, destroyed spring 1993 by Harry w/ a basilisk fang
2. The Resurrection Stone/Peverell Ring, destroyed summer 1996 by Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore using the sword of Godric Gryffindor, which was allegedly stolen from the goblin Ragnuk the First, according to Griphook
3. Slytherin’s Locket, destroyed by Ronald Bilius Weasley with Gryffindor’s sword, early 1998
4. Hufflepuff’s cup, destroyed by Hermione with a basilisk fang, pre-Battle of Hogwarts (same day), spring 1998
5. Rowena Ravenclaw’s diadem, destroyed (inadvertently) by Fiendfyre, conjured by Vincent Crabbe, pre-Battle of Hogwarts (same day), spring 1998
6. Harry James Potter, or perhaps more precisely, his scar, destroyed by Tom Marvolo Riddle, The Dark Lord, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, You-Know-Who, Lord Thingy, Voldemort with the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, Battle of Hogwarts, spring 1998
7. Nagini, Voldie’s pet snake, destroyed by Neville Longbottom with the sword of Gryffindor, Battle of Hogwarts, spring 1998
*smiles innocently* I’m sorry, was that more information than you desired?
Odd, I was born Spring of 1998.
What does Voldy use to keep Nagini safe at the battle of Hogwarts?
What were Professor Snape’s last words?
Voldy used a sort of magical bubble/cage thingy, didn’t he?
As for Snape’s last words, I don’t recall–I was to busy crying at his death to memorize ’em.
“Look at me,” wasn’t it?
This thread is dead! (Hey, a rhyme!) Come revive this thread! No really, if you’re reading this and have read all the HP books, come on!.
Uh… *absorbs all information* I think you got the questions right… Um, kinda. I wasn’t expecting that much, anyway. Is there anybody else wanting to come to this forsaken thread? PLEASE?! COME… *realizes that this won’t appear on the sidebar* *inserts add at beginning*
Anyway, do you have any devious questions for me? I’m ready… I think…
185–Oh, never fear. I got ’em all right……
Devious questions, eh?
1. How many Knuts are in a Sickle?
2. How many Sickles in a Galleon?
3. What is the inscription on Ariana and Kendra Dumbledore’s gravestone?
4. How about on Lily and James Potter’s gravestone?
5. According to the Dursleys, where was Harry going to school? (He was supposed to tell Marge this)
6. Who was Headmaster before Dumbledore?
7. What form does Aberfoth Dumbledore’s patronus take?
8. What was the full name of the individual that Albus Dumbledore was, unfortunately, romantically attracted to as a teen?
9. What was this individual’s slogan? (Carved above the entrance to his prison)
10. What is the name of the wand maker who once owned the Elder Wand?
11. How many staircases are there at Hogwarts?
12. What is Fleur Delacour’s middle name?
13. Who were the three original owners of the Deathly Hallows? (first and last names, please)
186 –
1. Seven or eleven, maybe.
2. See above.
3. ?
4. Something about how death is the last enemy conquered. “The last enemy that shall be conquered is death”, maybe?
5. St. Bartleby’s for Dangerous Boys or something like that.
6. Armando Dippet.
7. A goat.
8. Gellert Grindevald (sp?)
9. “For the greater good”
10. Something starting with an R. Or a V.
11. A… lot?
12. Oh, dear.
13. The Peverell brothers. Ignotus was the one with the Cloak.
187–
1. Nope
2. See above
4. Only one word off
5. You’ve got the right idea, but…..only “St.”, “for”, and “boys” are correct
6. Correct
7. correct
8. Grindelwald, yes
9. yup
10. nope
11. Yes, but……number, please
13. One of three.
1. I don’t remember… I want to say 23 though.
2. 17
3. What is the inscription on Ariana and Kendra Dumbledore’s gravestone? I almost remember… Eeee… I read that just today… Um…
4. The last enemy to be destroyed is death, I think…
5. It was also mentioned in the sixth book. Something about “They were even more frightened of him then Harry, whom they had been warned was a hardened hooligan that attended St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.”
6. Armando Dippit
7. Pheonix, as demonstrated in Goblet of Fire
8. As mentioned above, Gellert Grindlewald.
9. The sign of the Three Hallows, the wand, the stone and the cloak.
10. Gregorovitch
11. 142?
12. …She had a middle name? Oh right… Ergh… *whams head on wall* I can’t remember… Fluer Delcour… But the middle name…
13. Ignotus… Darn. Can’t remember those either.
189–AE alert!!!!!
1. Very, very close
)
2. Yup
3. Sorry, no.
4. close, se 187 for phrasing, but keep the one word changed.
5. I never said Azkaban was the only book it was mentioned it. I don’t think…..But, yes, correct
6. Yup
7. Aberforth, not Albus (and his was demonstrated in GoF?
8. Yup
9. Slogan, as in words, please. But, yes, that is his mark
10. Yup
11. Also yup
12. Yes, she does……See the wedding
13. 1 out of 3!
Should head off to class now…..
The third smiley was supposed to be
not 
Rats, that’s probably a record for number of posts before messing up AE. *scowls darkly*
*looks up at post 190*
1. 24? 22? 25?
4. That makes it ‘The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death’
5. No you didn’t. I was just making up for the number of things I didn’t know with extra knowledge.
7. *whams head* I forgot… I read it, noted that it wasn’t Albus, and went ahead and put it down anyway. Aberforth’s was a goat, demonstrated in the seventh book. Yeah, it was. Just after Barty Crouch, (the elder) was murdered, Harry went in and got Dumbledore, and when he got out he sent out a silvery flare that looked like a phoenix, or something. It also mentions it in the last book.
9. Oh. ‘For the Greater Good.”
12. I realized that, but I still couldn’t remember.
193:
1. Stop guessing!
4. Yes
5. Gotcha. That is perfectly acceptable
7. Hm….I’ll have to reread that part. I think you may have just discovered the elusive (and yet unknown, to me) reference to the Order’s methods of communication, that on her website, JKR implies was mentioned before 5, but the earliest mention I remembered was HBP…..Sweetness. One less unanswered question….
9. Yes.
12. I know. ’twas teasing.
Okay, I have to think of more questions. Hm… They must be devilishly hard… Maybe from first few books? Yes, that would be quite suitable…
What were the exact descriptions of Lilly and James’s wands? (Need not be word perfect.)
What was the spell in the forth book which Ludo Bagman used to cause his voice to become louder?
What is, according to several different places, Hermione’s ‘specialty’?
What is the description of the Goblet of Fire?
Who did Harry write to the first time his scar hurt in book 4?
BONUS QUESTION
What was the name of the chapter in bk 4 (can you tell which book I’m reading?) in which Harry finds out why Neville lives with his grandmother?
I think that’s enough for now… Don’t want to implode your brain. Keep in mind that a good number of these, I only know because I was just reading the books, or I don’t know the answer, and will look up once you guess them. Double points (yes, I’m aware that there aren’t points) if you can answer the one about the chapter, since I always find chapter names and such so hard to look up at… I have no idea why, I just almost never do it. Not always a bad thing, given that the chapter title usually gives away at least part of the plot… Oh wait, I’m digressing. Actually, that word isn’t particularly apt here, given that there’s not much of a topic to digress from, but I’m getting off topic anyway.
Oh, SFTDP, but I keep wanting to say that one of the Pervel brothers is Severel, or something like it… But looking at it in print, I think I must have twisted the name Pervel, which I think I’m misspelling, and turned it in to that. So this is mostly a pointless post.
195 –
1. Oh, my. Erm, eleven inches long for one of them? Or was that Harry? And Hagrid’s was rather bendy, but… I dunno…
2. Sonorus or something like that.
3. What?
4. Wooden and large, wasn’t it? With large bluish-white flames.
5. Sirius.
Bonus – Woah. I never look at the chapter names… Was it ‘The Pensieve’?
1. I don’t actually remember, but Harry’s was eleven inches.
2. Sonorus is correct, I do believe! Although it’s possible it’s spelled differently…
3. It’s mentioned several places, off the top of my head I can remember the first, I think the second, and I’m pretty sure also the last, books.
4. Yes, I think the exact description was something along the lines of ‘A roughly hewn wooden cup, which would look completely normal if it didn’t have blue flames coming out of it.’ Or something.
5. Correct!
Bonus- I don’t either. I just happen to remember that one, since I was just reading it and happened to notice it.
Slow, this thread is, isn’t it?
I’m sorry if these are repeats.
1. What day was it when the first book starts out?
2. Which chapter do Ron, Hermione, and Harry encounter a troll in book 1?
3. What did the potions Harry and Hermione drank to go throught the fire in book 1 feel like?
4. What, according to Luna, lurks in mistletoe?
5. What does Trelawney smell like in Book 6 when she encounters Harry in the Room of Requirement?
6. What is the Room of Requirement known to elves as?
BONUS QUESTION: What did each Triwizard champion use to go underwater? Who did they each have to save?
1. Tuesday
2. Uh…
3. Harry’s feels like ice. Not sure about Hermione.
4. Nargles.
5. cooking sherry
6. The come and go room
Bonus:
Cedric: bubblehead charm, Cho Chang
Harry: gillyweed, Ron
Fleur: Bubblehead charm. Her sister, Gabrielle
Viktor: he transfigures his upper body into a shark, Hermione.
Hermione’s feels like fire.
1. Tuesday? I don’t remember… *bangs head*
2. Chapter… 8?
3. Ice
4. Nargles, I think.
5. Cooking Sherry
6. Unfortunately for the question, that one is a repeat, and I happen to have read it. The Come-and-Go room, isn’t it?
BONUS:
Harry: Gillyweed, (or something similar) Ron
Cedric: Bubble Head Charm, Cho
Krum: Partial transformation into a Shark, Hermione
Fleur: Bubble Head Charm, her sister Gabrielle
195–
Lily: Swishy, made of willow, I forget the length……
James: Mahogany, good for transfiguration, forget the length
Sonorous
THose little bluebell magical flames
Don’t remember the specific description…..I believe it was wooden (or else I’ve been looking at my GoF poster above my bed too much) and had flames coming out of it.
I think it was Sirius
Pretty sure the chapter was “The Pensieve” (or at least that sounds right, and I know there is a chapter entitled that…..)
199
1. “on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside…….” Oh, oops, got carried away there. It was a Tuesday
2. “Halloween” I think.
3. Like ice
4. Nargles
5. Sherry–cooking sherry, to be precise, I think.
6. The Come and Go Room
Harry: Gillyweed, Ronald Bilius Weasley
Viktor Krum: Incomplete transfiguration into a shark, Hermione Jean Granger
Cedric Diggory: Bubblehead (I think), Cho Chang
Fleur Isabelle Delacour: Bubblehead, Gabrielle Delacour
INCORRECT!!!!!!!! Hermione’s middle name is JANE, not Jean. It was a typo in the 7th book.
HAHAHAHA!
Who says? Where’s it say it’s supposed to be Jane? Since Deathly Hallows is the only book it’s in, why shouldn’t we assume that “Jean” is the correct spelling, and what JKR meant?
ps. I’m glad to know you love me.
Nope, it’s Jean. It was Jane but JKR changed it because Umbridge’s middle name is Jane.
201-
Precisely. I don’t remember the length either, therefore it doesn’t matter.
Exactly.
Yes. They are also waterproof. Especially useful during book 1, when she lit Snape on fire to stop him ‘jinxing’ Harry, and frightened off the Devil’s Snare with it. Also of use in the second book, when she used it under the Polyjuice Potion. I think they also used it in the last book, although I don’t really remember.
Yes. See above for more exact description.
Yes it was.
No, it actually wasn’t, unless I’m much mistaken. I’ll allow you to guess more, if you wish.
Well, I’ll have to think of some more soon. *smiles*
199- 4: nargles, 5: sherry, bonus: fleur had to save gabrielle, krum had to save hermione, harry had to save ron, diggory had to save cho.. Harry used gillyweed, Krum used incomplete transformation into shark, diggory and fleur used bubblehead.
167-170 – technically, it was the headless hats.
Identify the speaker, book, and media platform that these quotes came from:
“You’ve waited, you’ve wondered, and at last the moment has arrived, a moment only four of you can fully appreciate- what are you doing here, Miss Granger?”
“Congratulations, you passed my prefect test. Now move it, midget!”
“I don’t want to stay here overnight. I want to find McLaggen and kill him.”
And just for the heck of it, when were harry’s parents born?
Oooh, this thread is revived!!!!
204-ugh, I know the first one, but can’t quite remember…….this is really bothering me!!!!!
Ron said the 3rd one, I think. In the 6th book. What do you mean by media platform?
205 – Wrong on Ron. And by media platform, I mean – book, movie, game, fan-dub, etc.
204–let’s see…..
1. That, I believe, was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore in the GoF movie, in the tent before the first task, addressing the TriWizard contestants
2. Erm, not sure, perhaps Ron? Maybe OotP? That or HBP
3. I was going to say Ron, but apparently that’s not right, according to #206, so maybe……Hermione? HBP, though
4. James Potter: March 27, 1960; Lily Potter: January 30, 1960
As all the others have been answered, I believe number 3 is Harry himself.
Yes it was. He’d just been knocked out by Mclaggen with a beater’s bat, and was in the hospital wing. The next part was ‘I’m afraid that would come under the category of ‘overexertion”, I believe.
209- Yeah, that was great.
BTW, the prefect one was on the OOTP game.
200 – 1. Yes.
2. No!
3. Yes!
4. Hurrah!
5. Correct
6. Whoops. And yes.
BONUS: All correct! Huzzah!
201 – 1. Correct!
2. Indeedy.
3. Yes.
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes
Bonus: All correct!
204 – “You’ve waited, you’ve wondered, and at last the moment has arrived, a moment only four of you can fully appreciate- what are you doing here, Miss Granger?â€
I have no idea. Is that even in a book?
“Congratulations, you passed my prefect test. Now move it, midget!â€
I doubt that’s in a book, therefore I don’t know.
“I don’t want to stay here overnight. I want to find McLaggen and kill him.â€
Oh. I know this. Harry! In book 6. In the hospital wing after McLaggen seized one of the Beaters’ bats and tried to demonstrate how to hit a Bludger and nearly killed Harry. Mrs. Pomfrey said it would be ‘overexertion’.
And just for the heck of it, when were Harry’s parents born?
I don’t know.
Devious trivia… Devious trivia… Hrm, hrm…
On the show Potterwatch, what were Lee Jordan, Kingsley, Fred, (or George) and Lupin’s code names?
I’ll think of more later.
212 – Fred/George was Rodent at first, but protested so he was Rapier… Lupin was Romulus… and Kingsley was River. Can’t remember Lee’s.
Kingsley and Lee are incorrect. I noticed they all began in ‘R’, by the way. Wondered at it.
207- HPB!?
Yes, I know it stands for “Half-Blood Prince”, but really!
Thats scary. Is J. K. Rowling part of a shadowy circle of Hot Pink Bunny-worshipers? Or spies for them? are they using mind control? *shudders*
211–Lily Evans: January 31, 1960 (I think), James Potter: March 27, 1960.
212–Jordan: River
Kingsley: Royal
Fred (or George): Initially Rodent, but immediately changed to Rapier, upon protest from F/G
Lupin: Romulus
215–Actually, the abbtreviation is HBP, not HPB. Although I don’t deny that I always think HPB when I read it….
214 – Oh, then Lee is River and I can’t remember what Kingsley’s was.
I also wondered at the R-ness.
217–emphais on Kingsley. Remember, they all (except Rapier) give something away about the name of the person.
Lee Jordan, Jordan is a river
Remus Lupin, in Roman legend, Remus and Romulus were twins raised by wolves
Fred/George, weasels are considered Rodents, at least in England, Rapier really has no relevance I can think of right off.
Who apparently has an Umgubular Slashkilter? (Bonus: What is an Umgubular Slashkilter?)
219–Xenophilius Lovegood. As for what it is, I don’t recall that we were ever told:
I quote, from memory, the only mention I recall of the fabled beast: “My father is very supportive of any anti-ministry he action. He’s always saying he’d believe anything of Fudge; I mean, the number of goblin’s Fudge has had assasinated! And everyone knows he uses the Department of Mysteries to develop terrible poisons, which he secretly feeds to anyone who disagrees with him. And then there’s his Umgubular Slashkilter–”
Assuming the second portion is a trick question, where are we told what it really is? I’m quite sure it’s not in Fantastic Beasts, as it is not a “real” creature….
220- The Umbugular Slashkilter is a nonexistent beast that Luna and Xenophilius Lovegood believe exists. I think it’s only mentioned in passing–like the Auror’s “conspiracy to take over the world”. (Hey, like us!)
221–Right. That’s why I was a bit confused by the question “what is it”, since it doesn’t exist, and we didn’t even get a description of it from Luna…..
Luna is awesome…
222- I’m rather fond of her myself. Yes, the Aurors are also (apparently) planning on taking over the world. The Rotfang Conspiracy. Using… What was it, a combination of Dark Magic and Gum Disease? Anyway…
What was Macnair’s first name? No lookie, now!
Where were Hermione and Harry when they got Gryffindor’s sword?
What did Luna use to distract the people when Harry wanted some peace and quiet, at the end of the last book?
What, according to Luna, grabs hold of your brain and makes it go all fuzzy?
What seems to be the Lovegood’s favorite mythical creature?
What caused the Lovegood’s house to explode, to some extent?
What does Fudge apparently, according to Luna, have an army of, and what are they?
Walden
Gringotts
Blibering humdinger
Wrackspurts
Crumple-horned snorkack
Heliopaths (big firey things that burn stuff)
223–Macnair, Macnair. Dangit, I know this! urgh, maybe it will come to me later…..
You mean, in Deathly Hallows when Harry found it in a pond/lake? They were in the Forest of Dean.
Um, I think she made some random announcement about one of her creatures that only she and her father believed in being in the room, but I’m not certain
Wrackspurts
I’m not sure she has a favorite, she seems fond of Crumple-Horned Snorkacks, but she also talks about Nargles, Heliopaths, Umgubular Slashkilters, Wrackspurts, and probably other things I forget what they are…..
A stray spell hit the supposed Crumple Horned Snorkack horn (really an Erumpet horn), and since these are very explosive things, it caused the house to explode…..
An army of Heliopaths. If we were given a description, I don’t really recall it, but I think it was along the lines of tall fiery creatures….
Oh, wait, wait, wait!!!!!! It was Walden Macnair, wasn’t it? I think so…….
C’MON PEOPLE! REVIVE THIS THREAD! DON’T LET IT DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to get some traffic, here are some of the questions that, if MissSwann had not
chickened outlost interest, would have been used in our competition to see who knew more trivia……1. What is the name of Reg Cattermole’s wife?
2. When Harry, Hermione, and Ron were captured by the Snatchers, what did Hermione say her name was?
3. When Harry, Hermione, and Ron were captured by the Snatchers, what did Ron say his name was?
4. When Harry, Hermione, and Ron were captured by the Snatchers, what did Harry say his name was?
5. Which Ministry of Magic employee did Hermione disguise herself as in order to gain access to the Ministry?
6. How did Hermione incapacitate the aforementioned MoM employee so she could impersonate her?
7. Which Ministry of Magic employee did Ron disguise himself as in order to gain access to the Ministry?
8. How did Hermione incapacitate the aforementioned MoM employee so Ron could impersonate him?
9. Which Ministry of magic employee did Harry disguise himself as in order to gain access to the Ministry?
10. How did Hermione incapacitate the aforementioned MoM employee so that Harry could impersonate him?
11. In Deathly Hallows, how do Ministry of Magic employees enter the Ministry? [This cracked me up so bad–when i was a little kid, I had invented this fantasy realm below the surface of the earth, which was populated with witches and wizards–imaginatively dubbed “Witchland”, and the method used to enter the MoM in DH, was the same method as was primarily used to enter Witchland……I dunno, I just found it dreadfully amusing….*shrug* Yes, I am a weird person, and I was an even weirder child.]
12. What does Harry think Gurdyroot infusion tastes like?
13. According to Xenophilius Lovegood, what is the correct name for gnomes?
1. Can’t think of it off the top of my head. It’ll come to me later.
2. Penelope Clearwater
3. Barny Weasley
4. He said Dudley, and when pressed for a first name added Vernon. Vernon Dudley.
5. Mafalda Hopkirk, the same person who sent Harry the letters for misuse of magic in the second and third books.
6. Stunned her, probably?
7. Reg Cattermole
8. She gave him a Puking Pastille, I believe.
9. Albert Runcorn, I think.
10. She gave him Nosebleed Nougat.
11. They flush themselves down toilets.
12. Probably bogeys or old boots or something.
13. Something gernumbli.
2–correct
3–nope
4–yup
5–yup, fifth, too, didn’t she? did he actually get a letter in Azkaban? I know he was terrified of getting expelle,d but I don’t remember if he got a letter. *shrug*
6–actually, yes
7–yuppers
8–yup
9–yup
10–yup
11–yup again
12–very, very, very close. Well, I guess the former technically is right, just not exactly what he said (Liquidized bogey-flavored Every Flavor Beans)
13–Actually, the other way around: Gernumbli something
Jeez, and these were supposed to be “harder” ones! And you nailed, like, what all but a couple? You would be great fun to play my Harry Potter Trivia game with, because it is depressingly one-sided when I con my parents into playing it, because I know all (or at least most) of the answers–probably due to the fact that i wrote all the questions–and nobody else knows hardly any……
I’ve read the books so many times. The other day at school my friend mentioned how the books are based off of WWII, and I started talking about how Dumbledore defeated Grindlewald during WWII and Nurmengard and the similarities between Nazis and Death Eaters. Then I realized she had no idea what I was talking about. *sigh*
It would be fun to play Harry Potter Trivia with you too, but I’m quite certain you know the books somewhat better than me, so I’d have to reread them all a couple times. Actually, as soon as I finish The Sweet Far Thing, I’m planning on rereading OotP. I haven’t read that one in quite a while.
What were the answers to the ones I missed? I was sure that Ron told the snatchers his name was Barney Weasley…
But of course they have similarities to WWII!
How could your friend have possibly been lost? *thinks* Oh, wait, yes, most people are completely clueless when I start rambling, too. 
I mean, Grindelwald was defeated in 1945, the same year Hitler committed suicide. Grindelwald’s slogan of “For the Greater Good” sounds like something Hitler would say, since he was, to an extent practicing eugenics, trying to breed a better race, and Grindelwald’s wishes for imprisoning muggles or whatever for there safety sounds like what Hitler was doing with the Jews.
And Nurmengard sounds so very much like Nuremberg (actually, when I was reading the book, I could’ve sworn that Nurmengard had actually been the name of a concentration camp, but my sis pointed me in the right direction toward Nuremberg where so many trials were held.) But, yeah.
And if I know the books/questions better, it would only be because I made the questions for my trivia game, but honestly? I’ve forgotten so many of the answers. LIke all the wand lengths/compositions/etc.
Ok. answers to the ones you missed:
1. *looks up answer cuz she’s not certain if she’s right* Yup, here it is: Mary
3. Ron said his name was Stan Shunpike, which is what gave ’em all away as being impostors, since they had Stan in their “custody”. Barny Weasley was who Harry was at the wedding. Oh, wait……I guess he did tell ’em Barny, as well, after they informed him he was lying about being Stan. So, both are right……Must change the answer on my game to include both.
13. Gernumbli gardensi
It’s the things like that beyond the obvious in the Harry Potter books that make them so interesting to reread.
Oh, right, Mary. Her parents were greengrocers, correct?
I agree totally. Every reread you find something new, some little allusion either in a name or place or just something that you’d never noticed before that continues to heighten your appreciation of the books and JKR’s brilliance.
Um, I”m not sure. *looks* Yes, greengrocers. And thus, Umbridge claimed Mary couldn’t possibly have been chosen by the wand in her possession, but rather than she ahd stolen it…..That whole scene and all of it makes me so sick. Especially since it is so believalbe, because people have done such horrid things for years. We did it with African slaves, Germany with Jew (among others), and on and on and on back through the beginning of time, and people still do it currently. It’s horrible.
I understand everything you’ve said on this thread and the last one, and you don’t leave me clueless. But rambling has its perks, such as: rediscovering stuff you forgot a long time ago, remebering something you wanted to say but you forgot, etc. (Kind of off topic)
But given that you are spending time on this thread, your HP knowledge is probably more advanced than that of some people (such as my sister, who tends to be clueless with my ramblings, and presumably Tesseract’s friend, as well).
But I’m glad I’m not leaving you clueless.
Yeah. I also just read Chamber of Secrets like 3 times straight, so I know basically everything it; and I just read OotP, too.
SFTDP
We should have a thread for finding cool hidden meanings, and coincedences, and stuff like that in HP.
Well, actually, there is just a general HP thread here. I think all of that would be on-topic for that thread.
We have a general Harry Potter thread already, I think. We could talk about it over there.
Ok, this one’s pretty easy, but here goes…
What is the name of the girl that Teddy Lupin snogs in the epilogue of DH?
(BONUS POINTS: What relation is she to the Potters?)
Victoire Weasley.
Relation to the Potters?????? Well, she’s dating Harry’s godson (Teddy), and she’s Bill Weasley (and Fleur Delacour’s) son, so I guess she would be the niece of Harry and Ginny Potter (wow, that sounds so weird to say), and the cousin of James, Albus, and Lily
228- Yuppo!!
What is Fluffy’s REAL name??
(It’s really quite easy. HINT: If you’re not sure, think greek mythology.)
Well, technically Fluffy is the real name, as that’s what Hagrid named the dog. However, Fluffy is, clearly, supposed to have been modeled off the three headed dog, Cerberus, who guards the entrance to the underworld in greek mythology (as you point out). And if the three headed part weren’t enough of a clue, Hagrid bought him off a “greek chappie” in a pub.
229.1- True. Wow, I didn’t catch that part. (I haven’t read Sorceror’s/Philosopher’s (spelling?) Stone since like early December, so…yeah.
Ok, this isn’t really Harry Potter – related, but what is significant about the fact that Sirius’ animagus is a dog?
(HINT: Think Greek mythology (again) / astronomy)
Sirius is the “Dog Star”. Thus, he was (intentionally) very aptly named by Rowling, as he turns into a dog…..Also, his last name, “Black”, is the color of the dog.
I love how so many of the characters in her books have meaningful names. ’tis great fun, and I probably haven’t even picked up on half of ’em…..Hm, I should go over to the general HP thread on here and make/post a compilation sometime…..
But how about some more trivia, hm? Many of these are on the “easier” side, at least compared to the ones I posted that Tesseract totally nailed earlier……
1. How many uses are there for dragon’s blood?
2. What is the name of Neville’s toad?
3. How many staircases are there at Hogwarts?
4. What did Professor Flitwick do during roll call when he called Harry’s name on the very first day of school?
5. What day of the week was Harry’s eleventh birthday?
6. What floor of Hogwarts is the Gryffindor common room on?
7. What is the number of the vault the Sorcerer’s Stone was kept in at Gringotts?
8. What color is Lily Potter’s hair?
9. What is the name of Nicolas Flamel’s wife?
10. What kind of egg is a basilisk hatched from?
11. What is the only thing a basilisk flees from?
12. What kind of car was the Weasleys flying car?
13. What did Hagrid give Harry for his thirteenth birthday?
14. How many times did Wendelin the Weird allow herself to be caught and burned?
15. How many times did Nearly Headless get chopped in the head with an axe before he died?
Re: meaningful names
Remus (as in Remus Lupin) was the brother of the legendary Romulus, founder of Rome. Supposedly, they were raised by a wolf.
My answers to your questions:
1. Um … twelve, I think. Dumbledore discovered most of them.
2. Trevor
3. I have no idea. Does it ever tell you in the books?
4. Fall backward? I remember in one of the books he fell backward when he was surprised about something. I think.
5. I don’t know.
6. The seventh, I believe. Don’t know how I know it, it just popped into my head.
7. Gah, I know this one! Um … one hundred and thirty-seven?
8. Reddish.
9. Something that starts with a P… I forget.
10. A chicken’s egg hatched beneath a toad. *proud of self*
11. Roosters? I know Ginny strangled the roosters for some reason. (That’s a bit weird considering they hatch from chicken eggs.)
12. Ford Anglia. *has good memory for useless details*
13. The Monster Book Of Monsters, and some rock cakes that Harry didn’t want to eat.
14. Forty … forty-seven times, I think.
15. Does it ever tell you? Something like fifty, probably.
Yuppers. And not only were Romulus and Remus raised by wolves, but Lupin is very close to “lupus”, which is the latin species name for wolf. (Y’know, the second word in the genus species).
1. Yup. Dumbledore discovered the 12 uses of Dragon’s blood. ‘though if you ask Skeeter, another individual (can’t remember the name right off, it’ll come to me later, or else I’ll use it for a question) had discovered most of ’em before dumbledore “borrowed” his papers.
2. yup
3. Yes, it does. First book, chapter right after they get sorted, I believe
4. Basically, yes, that’s the other half of what he did (bluefire got the other half). He squeaked and fell off his chair.
6. yup
7. All the right numbers in all the wrong order. *hint* think JKR’s birthday in reverse. Oh, wait, you already are, but you forgot that Europeans do dates day-month, not month day…..
8. Yup, dark red
9. Yes, it does start with a P
10. yup
11. I suppose it is a bit weird, but maybe that’s why. And why they’re so rare (basilisks, not chicken eggs). and yes, although technically it’s the crow of a rooster
12. Yup. Me too.
13. Yes indeed. At least as far as the book, don’t remember ont he cakes, but definitely sounds like something Hagrid would do (and would aptly describe his cooking)
14. Yuppers!
15. Yup, it tells you. But no, not 50. Although you are close. Nick comments on it when he’s complaining to Harry. “But you would think, wouldn’t you, that getting hit ****** times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt?”
Sirius is the Dog Star.
230.1- how ’bout Dumbledore? There is a kind of beetle called the Dor bettle, a.k.a. the “dumble-dor”
1. 12
2. Trevor
3. 7
4. Gave a squeak of delight? I don’t know
5. Thursday?
6. 7th
7. 17? 117? 171? Something like that.
8. Sandy blonde??
9. Oh come on… No clue
10. Chicken’s egg, incubated by a toad
11. Flees from? Hmm.. Do you mean weasels or the cry of the rooster?
12. Ford Anglia
13. Dang…should know this
14. ?
15. 49
What year did Moaning Myrtle die?
Dumbledore is old English (or some sort of English) for “bumblebee”. It has been suggested that Dumbledore is bee-like (affinity for sweets; one foreign translation apparently added a line about Dumbledore liking to hum like a bee). To quote Robert from the “HP, Summer 2007” thread, post 267 ( https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=954 ): In some parts of England (mainly Kent, I think), “Dumbledore†is an old-fashioned English word for a bumblebee. I remember reading somewhere that one of the foreign translations of Harry Potter (either French or Spanish, I’ve forgotten which) added a sentence saying that Dumbledore liked to hum to himself.
1. Yup
2. Yup
3. Not even close
4. Half right. He squeaked and did something else
5. Nope
6. yup
7. Nope.
8. Nope
9. Where are we going?
10. yup
11. Yeah, cry of the rooster: (a quote which may or may not be 100% verbatim) “the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.”
12. yup
15. Nope. But very, very close.
Well, given Riddle got an award for ridding the school of the monster that killed her 50 yrs prior to CoS, and Nick’s deathday puts CoS as taking place in 1992, that’d make it 1942 when she died. Wow, that was back even before Dumbledore had defeated Grindelwald and was still just a “lowly” transfiguration teacher.
What I don’t get is how can the basilisk flee from the crowing of the rooster if it is fatal?
and the thing about Dumbledore, the beetle really is sometimes called the dumble-dor. But your explanation makes a LOT more sense. Another thing like that: Sibyll Trelawney. A sibyll was like a fortune-teller in the middle ages(?) who was usually (if not always) female. And her grandmother, Cassandra, was named after a witch in some legend or myth (I don’t remember which one)
Wow I’m really horrible at this. Oh well.
1. What does the incantation Tantallegra do?
2. What does the incantation Serpensortia do?
3. What does the incantation Rictumsempra do?
4. In HBP, what unspoken spell does Harry use on Ron to cause him to wake up screaming? And what did it do to Ron?
5. Who taught Care of Magical Creatures before Hagrid? (Excuse this if it’s a repeat)
6. Describe the appearance of the spell that knocks Hermoine out in the Department of Mysteries in OotP.
7. What is Draco Malfoy’s son’s name?
8. What significant discovery happed the year Nicholas DeMimsy-Porpington died (Not strictly a HP question, but thats ok)
9. What is a beozar? What are its magical properties?
Huh. I’d never thought about it like that before…..(the rooster thingy)
Yuppers, Sibyll is another one of those with meaningful names. Actually, they probably all have meaningful names to some extent.
1. Makes you dance the tarantella
2. conjures a snake
3. in the books, it tickles you.
4. Levicorpus, hoisted Ron up into the air by his ankle
5. Um, can’t remember if that was Grubbly-Plank, or if Grubby-Plank was the sub. Come to think of it, I’m almost positive G-P was the sub, so……Not sure what the anme of the former teacher was…
6. The “apperance”? You mean, like the color of the light? Er, well, um, I really don’t know.
7. Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy
8. “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” And “discovered” America. Which had already been discovered ages and ages ago by the Native Americans
9. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat, thought to be able to cure you of most poisons. Actually, bezoars really do exists–they’re not just an invention of JKR. They are, in fact exactly what is described in HP: Small stony concretions that form in the stomach of some animals (mainly ruminants, like goats), and were once thought to be an antidote for many illnesses (paraphrased from my dictionary)
Another word for beozar is gastrolith
For number 6, it was like a bright purple flame that moved in a sweeping motion across her chest (I just read the 5th book)
I need some questions to answer, even though I stink at this.
Well, a bezoar is definitely a gastrolith, but I’m not sure that a gastrolith is necessarily a bezoar. But, yes, a gastrolith (in medical terms) is a stony concretion found in the stomachs of some animals. In nonmedical terms, it is a stone swallowed by some animals (such as birds) to help with digestion.
Questions. Ok.
1. What is the name of Fleur Delacour’s little sister?
2. What was the name of the Riddle’s gardener?
3. What is the name of Cedric Diggory’s father?
4. What is the name of the house-elf who used to work for Barty Crouch?
5. What does WWN stand for?
6. What is the name of Hagrid’s mother?
7. What is ‘pickax’ in Gobbledegook?
1. Gabrielle
2.
3. Amos Diggory
4. Winky
5.
6.
7.
(I told you, I’m horrible at this!)
1. yup
3. yup
4. yup
No you’re not–some (many?) of those were fairly hard.
1. Gabrielle
2. Frank Bryce
3. Amos Diggory
4. Winky
5. Wireless Wizard Network, or Wizarding Wireless Nework. I’m not sure which.
6. Another one that I’ll remember the instant I hear it, or that will come to me later.
7. I don’t recall that either, but I believe it was the only word of Gobbledegook that Bagman knew and he didn’t want to use it in case it was interpreted as a threat.
1-4. Correct
5. It’s the latter.
7. Yup, it was indeed the only word of Gobbledegook that Bagman knew….and all the rest.
1. Gabrielle Delacour
2. Frank Bryce
3. Amos Diggory
4. Winky
5. Wireless Wizarding Network
6. Fredwulfa (?)
7. Not sure
SFTDP
I think it’s Fridwulfa, actually.
1-4: yup
5: The two W’s are in the wrong order, but right idea
6: Yup (that is, with your updated spelling correction taken into consideration (fridwulfa))
#5 was… Darn, I had it a minute ago… Kettleburn. Professor Kettleburn.
# 5. I can’t remember his name, but I do remember that he was missing many of his extremities…..
Yeah, he wanted to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs….
Actually, on that one I’m a cheating cheater. I don’t know the answer, but I thought you’d know that one, given that you know basically everything HP-related. Someone should probably look that up.
*looks up* It’s Kettleburn. Kettleburn was the prof before Hagrid.
I just looked it up, it begins with a K.
This thread is revived ! Yayness!
It’s Professor Kettleburn who retired to spend more time with his remaining limbs.
232- that is the coolest usage of unicode or whatever I have ever seen on this blog.
How old is Viktor Krum at the Quidditch World Cup?
(233) Hmmmmm, I would say that he was 18 or 19, but I’m not sure.
232 – Is your avatar the creepy singing lizard-thing from Charlie The Unicorn 3?
In Snape’s memory that Harry sees in book 5, what spell does James use to make soap come out of Snape’s mouth?
He uses Scourgify .
234) Hrrrrrrrmmmm..
Scorchisomething?
220- Actually, she meant Cornelius Fudge had one, not “Daddy”. And yes, the second half was a trick question.
*looks at post in question* *wonders where my mind was that day*
Uh, yeah……I think my brain was on vacation that day, as I really did know that Luna was saying her dad was saying that Fudge had one, not that her dad had one…..
My sister was recently complaining that she has lost her mind, and it would seem I’m following down the same path…..
Oh, everyone is. There is no sane person on the earth. A completely sane person would have no quirks, right? Well then.
Here’s one- Can prefects dock points from Houses?
No, but members of the Inquisitorial Squad could, unfortunately.
Actually, OotP and CoS have different views on this matter. In CoS, Percy docks 5 points from Gryffindor, but in OotP, when Malfoy docks points from Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, Ernie MacMillan clearly states that prefects cannot dock points. (I love doing these trick questions…)
Oh, now that you mention it, I do remember that. It’s an error within the books that JKR hasn’t really clarified.
Prefects can dock points. JKR clarifies this on her website.
Rereading the fifth book, I found that Ernie says prefects can’t dock points from other prefects as it would completely undermine the system.
Somebody might have posted this but…
Luna) Meaningful names- Dumbledore means Bumblebee in some language (maybe Old English?) and J.K. Rowling always pictured him humming everywhere he went. However, when the book was being translated into [German or Italian] they took the “Dumb”, and translated his name into Professor Silencio.
That was Italian.
I’ve read that dumbledore is a regional English word for bumblebee, in the part of England called Kent (in the southeast, where Canterbury is).
The Dumbledore/Bumblebee thing comes from Latin. A lot of stuff in Harry Potter comes from Latin. One of my favorite things is that Dolores means physical and/or mental pain. Very fitting.
Whoops, I goofed, it’s from Old English, Albus is from Latin (meaning white) I get so mixed up.
(237.1.1) Maybe prefects can dock points from their own houses but not from other houses. That would be fair.
You always come up with the best explanations.
Wow, I never knew that Muse Blog even had these types of threads, but this is pretty cool, especially considering I’m a HUGE Harry Potter fan. I’m not sure if this counts as a real “trivia” question, but in the 5th movie, there are quite a few mistakes. Can anyone name any? I can think of a few off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure that there are a few sites that you can look up all the mistakes.
They filled the entire movie up with action sequences and didn’t leave room for any story development?
Well, yes, but that’s not quite what I was looking for.
One that I can name right now is that when the kids are signing up to be in the DA, thay signed their names with a pencil instead of a quill.
Trivia time:
What happens to the major characters between the end of DH and the epilogue?
Who are the actors for:
-Harry
-Hermione
-Ginny
-Neville
-Luna
-Malfoy?
Fun fact: Rupert Grint is the actor for Ron. In Chap. 22 of HBP, Slughorn refers to Ron by the name “Rupert”
Q1-
DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILER ALERT.
Harry marries Ginny, and has three children: James, Albus, and Lily (in that order). He also fosters Teddy Lupin most of the time. Neville becomes Herbology teacher at Hogwarts. Hermione and Ron get married and have Rose and Hugo (again, in that order). Malfoy and presumably Pansy Parkinson marry and have Scorpius.
Also, I-Man, did you notice that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has EXACTLY the same events before the ending as the Deathly Hallows? I’ll just sum it up for you:
The main character’s hero (and the most powerful protagonist) dies, so the main character is left to defeat the main antagonist on his own. The main antagonist starts sending out his infantry, and says that he will spare the Earth/Hogwarts if the main character is brought to him. The main character turns himself over, supposedly dies, and has a vision of his hero. He is revived again…
…and then the two stories go their separate ways. Still, that’s an uncomfortable similarity.
Wait, when does it say Neville teaches Herbology? It just says he’s a professor.
If it doesn’t say in the book, it probably says on JKR’s website–or else we’ve all just extrapolated from the fact that that’s the only subject Neville was good at, and therefore it must be what he teaches. But I think it must ahve said on JKR’s site, because I don’t remember going through the extrapolation. Or else it says somewhere in the books (don’t as me where, I don’t remember). Helpful, no?
Sorry, in the midst of unpacking all my stuff.
“But at school he’s Professor Longbottom, isn’t he? I can’t just walk into Herbology and give the professor love…”
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you. I knew it had to say, and I didn’t just assume/extrapolate, and I didn’t really think it could’ve been JKR’s website…..but I was too lazy to figure it out. I’m like that–lazy.
No problem. I just finished rereading the series, see.
I wish…..I managed to make the time to read HBP prior to seeing the, er, do I have to use the term “movie” to describe it? Utter piece of total trash is a much more apt description……It does not deserve to have the name “Harry Potter” in the title. It was not Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the movie, but Harry Potter and Teenage Hormones Run Amuck Between Utterly Pointless Battles Absent in the Series.
But I digress.
I quite liked the movie, actually. True, they overemphasized the hormones and stuck in a random battle at the Burrow, but I felt like they at least got the essence of most of the events in the book in there. Unlike in the dreadful previous couple movies, where they basically took a chainsaw to the plot and chopped out everything that wasn’t absolutely essential.
But they took a chainsaw to this plot way worse than any other! I mean, the horcruxes–Dumbledore, in the book, told Harry what he believed the Horcruxes to be, whereas in the movie, Harry was left not only not knowing the locations, but not knowing what the Horcruxes were, either. And in the movie Dumbledore as good as told Harry he was a Horcrux, with that meaningful look he gave Harry at one point.
The whole thing with the Horcruxes was screwed up so horribly in the movie, I haven’t a clue on how they plan to salvage it. I personally found this one to be the least loyal to the book of them all. Five was pretty bad, too, but it was by the same guy (David Yates), so unsurprising.
Sure, previous ones took out “extraneous” stuff (stuff I would have liked to see, don’t get me wrong–i wish the movies were 100% loyal to the books) but this one not only took out some of that same tyype of stuff, but completely butchered every single thing they did keep, and not just minor things either (although it had its fair share of that, just like previous movies).
*sigh* I guess we shall just have to agree to disagree.
Hmm. Now, you do have a point about the horcruxes. The seventh movie is going to be really contrived. They already left out Sirius’s mirror too, and that’s vital to the plot.
Luna, have you seen A Very Potter Musical? It’s ingenious. Not for everyone’s sense of humor, but I loved it.
Oh, wow, I’d completely spaced out the mirror! Yes, I don’t know what they’re going to do there, or with the locket in Grimmauld place that was absent from the film. And the skipped over Kreacher and Mundungus stealing things form Grimmauld Place, so not sure how they’re going to segue into Harry and company going to the Ministry to get the locket from Umbridge after she stole it from Mundungus who stole it from Kreacher….
I don’t know what on earth Yates plans to do to sort out the seventh movie. I do so wish they’d bring Columbus back–he was the best of all the HP directors. But, alas, 3 1/2 of the 7 1/2 movies will be done by the worst director in the history of HP directing: Yates. *sniffle*
A Very Potter Musical? No, I don’t believe I have. I’ll have to go look it up.
Those’ll definitely pose a problem too. They might just have to preface the movie with, “Here’s all the stuff we forgot to tell you.”
Tell me what you think when you see it!
Honestly? I haven’t seen the movies yet, but as long as they got chapters three and four right, I’ll forgive them everything. Those are my two favorite chapters in the series, I think.
YAY! Someone else hated the HBP movie for the exact same reasons I did!
muselover–those were only a tiny fraction of my reasons for hating it. Every single change, and every little innuendo between Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione, that didn’t occur in the books had me gesticulating wildly with my hands (well, my parents said I could yell at the screen in the theatre) and getting increasingly frustrated and pissed off. For instance, the intro scene, with Harry hitting on some Muggle girl. What the cake???????
Grrrrr. I don’t even remember all the reasons I hated it, but the serious Horcrux plot changes, the intro scene, no “other minister” scene, the way the Borgin and Burkes scene played out, the lack of suspense over Malfoy’s activities, the way they failed to leave any doubt about Snape’s loyalties, the way Dumbledore as good as said Harry was a Horcrux, Harry sass when on Felix, that whole “I am the Chose One” nonsense Harry would NEVER say, and basically every other blasted change.
Oh, like the whole action scene at the Burrow? Seriously, that didn’t happen: SKIP IT. Included the battle at Hogwarts, instead. I mean, if they were so big on action scenes, then keep the ones in the book and skip adding fake ones. They could ahve had a marvelous battle at Hogwarts, instead of just having Bellatrix run around smashing things. I mean, really. They should seriously consider sacking yates as director. He SUCKS.
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I hated those too! YOU PWN, LUNA!
Harry: Daniel Radcliffe
Hermione: Emma Watson
Ginny: Bonnie Wright
Neville: Matthew Lewis, wasn’t it? Maybe?
Luna: Evanna Lynch
Malfoy: Tom Felton
Actors:
Harry – Daniel Radcliffe
Hermione – Emma Watson
Ginny – Bonnie… someone.
Neville – someone
Luna – also, surprise surprise, SOMEONE!
Malfoy – Senior or Junior? Tom Felton is the younger one.
I’m not a big fan of the movies.
And I’d think of the answer to the first question but I’ve got to go now.
Another trivia question!
In Deathly Hallows, who marries who and what are the names of all of their kids?
243:
Harry marries Ginny, they have three kids:
-James Sirius Potter II – entering his second year in the epilogue of DH
-Albus Severus Potter – entering his first year in the epilogue
-Lily Luna Potter II – two years before her first year at Hogwarts
Ron marries Hermione, they have two kids:
-Rose Weasley – entering her first year in the epilogue
-Hugo Weasley – like Lily Potter II, too young to go to Hogwarts just yet
Draco Malfoy marries some unknown woman, they have one kid:
-Scorpius Malfoy – entering his first year in the epilogue
That would all be correct.
Re; Kinglsley’s Potterwatch Name (because of the STUPID NESTIES I can’t check to see if anyone’s answered this) The name is Regal. Ie, KINGsley…
Can anyone, (without the book, no cheating plz) recite the Hogwarts School Song?
You can always use Ctrl+F to search the page. (Though I don’t see the relevance of “nesties” one way or another in this case, other than MissSwann’s delight in fulminating against them.)
Actually, his Potterwatch name was “Royal” not “Regal”.
Yes, I can recite it by memory, but I don’t have time right this second–gotta run, free pizza, y’know.
I’ll type it later, when I get back. (No cheating, promise)
Ok, I’m back: And I’ve got time now.
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something, please!
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees!
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff!
For now they’re bare and full of air,
dead flies and bits of fluff!
So teach us things [stuff? I always get it wrong] worth knowing,
Bring back what we’ve forgot!
Just do your best, we’ll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot!
245 – Hogwarts, Hogwarts
Hoggy warty Hogwarts
Teach us something please
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees
Our heads could do with filling
With lots of useful stuff
For now they’re bare and full of air
Dead flies and bits of fluff
So teach us things worth knowing
Bring back what we forgot
We’ll do our best
You’ll do the rest
And learn until our brains all rot
I knew that would come in handy someday. I’m not sure if the line breaks are right.
Here’s three.
What is the color of Hermionie’s robes at the Yule Ball?
Who is Feur’s date at the Yule Ball?
Who are the four people that try to make Harry fall off his broom in the third book?
Periwinkle blue (in the books, pink in the movies)
Roger Davies
In the third book? Like, when they use the dementors? Erm, Crabbe, Goyle, Draco, uh, Pansy?
Crabbe, Goyle, Draco, and Marcus Flint.
Free pizza and HP trivia-’tis a good life….
1. Where did Lupin’s name come from?
2. What did Dumbledore find in the Room of Requirement?
3. What did Ron say about Percy’s sense of humor in GoF?
4. What was Harry’s first impression of Dumbledore?
5. In SS, what are the challenges one must pass to get to the Sorcerer’s Stone, and who creates them?
1. Lupin is from lupus, wolf. Remus was the brother of Romulus, the founder of Rome, and they were both raised by wolves.
2. Chamber pots!
3. He wouldn’t know a joke if it danced in front of him naked wearing Dobby’s tea cozy, or something like that.
4. I can’t remember what he thought when he saw him on the Frog card… but at the feast he asked Percy if Dumbledore was “a bit mad,” so I’ll go with that. A bit mad.
5. Fluffy – Hagrid
Devil’s Snare – Sprout
Flying keys – Flitwick
Giant chess set – McGonagall
Troll – Quirrell
Logic potions – Snape
Don’t forget Dumbledore’s Mirror of Erised.
oh, that’s right! Not bit him on the nose, but danced nake in Dobby’s tea cozy….Oh, dear, I’m getting forgetful in my old age. *sigh*
I never did understand how the joke could be naked if it was wearing a tea cozy.
I never put enough thought into it to understand/not understand. But now that you point it out……That would be a very difficult feat.
I assumed that since the tea cozy isn’t considered clothing, the joke could still be naked.
Yeep! I read your first line on the comment bar, and did a double take–I couldn’t remember saying that! And then I looked closer, and saw that it was “Lovegood”, not “the Lovely”……. *headdesk*
1. Remus: One of the two twins (Romulus and Remus) who were raised by wolves and built/founded Rome. I believe Romulus killed Remus.
Lupin: derivative of “lupus”, the second part of the genus species of wolf (Canis lupus). Very fitting, as Remus is a werewolf (as far as I know, his middle name, John, has no particular significance).
2. All sorts of different chamberpots (he needed a toilet very badly)
3. Erm, I don’t recall. Er, wait, something about he wouldn’t know a joke if it bit him on the nose? I dunno.
4. I can’t remember on that…..
5. Ooooh, this is one of the ones in my (still incomplete) trivia game! w00t!
a. Fluffy the three headed dog (based upon Cerberus of legend), Rubeus Hagrid’s task
b. Devil’s Snare: Pomona Sprout’s challenge
c. Flying Keys: Filius Flitwick’s challenge
d. Chess Set: MInerva McGonagall’s challenge
e. Defeating a troll (already done, courtesy of Quirrel): Quirrel’s task
f. Solving the riddle to choose the right potion and make it through the flames: Severus Snape (may he rest in peace)
g. Discovering the “secret” of the Mirror of Erised: Albus Percival Wulfric Brain Dumbledore’s task.
What is the one question Harry asked Dumbledore that Harry felt Dumbledore had not answered truthfully?
249- Oh, I know this! Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw when he looked in the mirror or Erised and Dumblesore said he saw himself holding a pair of thick woolly socks.
Harry asked what he saw in the mirror of Erised, and Dumbledore said, “I? I see myself holding a pair of nice, thick, woollen socks. People do always insist upon giving me books.” Or something along those lines. I’ve always wondered what, exactly, he saw.
I believe it was himself with his family, his father and mother and Ariana alive and Aberforth reconciled to him.
Hmmmm, yes, that would certainly make sense. Much like Harry in that regard, no?
I think it was that, judging by something in the seventh book, the exact quote of which I don’t remember, but was implied that that was it. I’ll look it up when I get home, or else ask my cousin to look it up for me. I don’t know where it is though, so it’s hardly fair to ask her.
250&251: yup! Now ask me one, I’m bored.
247- Perriwinkle
Rodger Davies
Uhh…. Not sure.
248-
1. Lupin is from ‘lupine’ latin for wolf, I think, Remus is from the legend about the founding of Rome.
2. A fine collection of chamber pots.
3. He doesn’t have one? Bleh.
4. Something about great energy?
5. In order:
The Devil’s Snare, Prof. Pomona Sprout.
The Key Room, Prof. Fillius Flitwick.
The Chess Game, Prof. Minerva McGonagal.
The Troll, Prof. Quirell.
The Potions, Prof. Severus Snape.
The Mirrior of Erised, Prof. Albus Dumbledore.
(I forgot Fluffy, until after I looked at other’s answers. I feel stupid now.)
What he saw when he looked in the Mirror of Erised.
Some ridiculously hard questions my cousin asked me:
What color was Aunt Petunia’s coat when they were leaving in the seventh book?
What color was the carpet to the front of the Marqee at Bill and Fleur’s wedding?
When Harry was kissing Ginny near the beginning of the seventh book, what did Harry describe it as ‘better than’?
(In case you were wondering, she asks me such ridiculously hard questions, because I can answer all the easier ones. Quite a confidence booster, at least until I come on here.)
Ok, here’s some…..Don’t even know what they are, I just c+p’d them from my list of questions that I c+p’d from my WIP trivia game when MissSwann and I were having our competition…..
What is Lily Potter’s date of birth?
Who killed Dobby?
What is the name of the Muggle Studies professor Voldemort murdered in the first chapter of Deathly Hallows?
What kind of wood was Lucius Malfoy’s wand made from?
What was the core of Lucius Malfoy’s wand?
What phrase was engraved on Lily and James Potter’s tombstone?
Which arm do the Death Eaters raise in a sort of salute to pass through the gates of Malfoy Manor?
What is the title of the book Ron got Harry for his seventeenth birthday?
Mr. and Mrs. Weasley got Harry a watch for his seventeenth birthday. Who previously owned this watch?
What was the date of Fleur and Bill’s wedding?
Erm.. 30 January 1960.
Bellatrix Lestrange.
Charity Burbage.
Can’t remember.
Dragon heartstring.
“The last enemy to be conquered is death.” Or something of the sort.
Can’t recall. I’d guess left.
Something Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches
Her brother Fabian Prewett
August 1
2- Bellatrix Lestrange! Grr!
5- Dragon Heartstring?
6- The Last Enemy to be Defeated is Death.
7- Left? That’s the one with the Dark Mark.
9- Uhh… Ron’s uncle something.
254-
January 21, I think
Beletrix Lestrange.
Charity Bubrage? Something like that.
Ergh.
Dragon Heartstring?
“The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
Left?
“Seven Fail-Proof Ways To Charm Witches”
Mrs. Weasley’s brother Fabian Prewett, leading to the discovery that Molly Weasley was formerly Molly Prewett.
September 1st.
In the seventh book, when Harry is searching #12, Grimauld Place, he picks up three pieces of paper, one of which was his mother’s lettter. What were the other two?
Umm…. The ripped photo of baby him on a broomstick and the… the… photo of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs?
Nope. *evil grin*
Oh, dear, I must actually go and remind myself of the answers…..
Tesseract:
1. Correct
2. Correct
3. Correct
5. Correct
6. Close
7. Correct
8. Skip the something and you’ve got it: IT’s just Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches
9. Yup
10. Yup
SudoRandom:
2. Correct
5. Correct
6. Close
7. Correct
9. Yup
Errata:
1. Nope
2. Correct
3. Correct
5. Correct
6. Very close
7. Correct
8. Nope
9. Yup
10. Nope
255–grrrrrr, I can’t remember.
No? Well, it was January something, right?
Wow, I’m consistent. You asked the same question earlier on this thread, and I answered the same thing as this time. Spooky…
Twelve. Darn. (looked at your answer to Tesseract)
Sorry, it would be August 1st.
Yes, January something (see Tesseract’s, if you want to know the exact date).
Yup, August 1st, the day after Harry’s birthday celebration.
I was close! My cousin asked me that question too, and I couldn’t remember for anything. I remembered more next time.
Yeah, I misremembered when Harry’s birthday was.
*is excited to have found thread*
*even though no one has posted on it for months*
In Harry’s first year at Hogwarts, what present does he open first?
*doesn’t remember answer and has to go look it up*
Wasn’t it the flute from Hagrid? The one that “sounded a bit like an owl”? (That is not a direct quote, by the way…..)
257 – Hmm…I’m not sure, but I’m glad you came and reminded me to post on here.
Something from Ron maybe? I’m going to guess Chocolate Frogs although I have no clue…
Wrong! It was a flute from Hagrid.
My name really fits on this thread!
Okay.
What is the name of the person who comes over to the Dursley’s in the second book (I think) who is doing business with Uncle Vernon? Harry blows up his wife.
Uhhhm…Oh yes! Mr. Mason.
He blows up Aunt Marge, doesn’t he? (And that was in the third book.)
Mr. Mason was when Dobby came. (I think.)
The Masons were in the second book. They came on Harry’s birthday and Uncle Vernon was going to make a deal while Harry sat in his room making no noise and pretending he wasn’t there. Then Dobby showed up and used the hover charm. An owl came from the Ministry, and Mrs. Mason ran away shrieking. Mr. Mason stayed long enough to inform the Dursleys that his wife was terrified of birds and to ask if it was supposed to be some sort of joke. Then Harry was locked in his room for the rest of the summer.
Harry blows up Aunt Marge in the third book when she makes cruel comments about his parents.
I found that I could recall that passage pretty well.
I’ve got an image in my head now of the eyes in the bushes at the beginning of the chapter when Harry first meets Dobby, as well as an image from the movie of Dobby dropping the cake/pudding on Mrs. Mason’s head……
And thinking of the image in the book at the start of the chapter has in turn made me think of how the British editions (Bloomsbury) lack these little illustrations, which is turn makes me think of what I noticed the other day: My Doctor Who and Torchwood books smell exactly like my Bloomsbury editions of the HP books. They have that same delicious paper scent, a flavor unique (until now) to my Bloomsbury HP’s…..I think I like British books. They smell good.
I’ve been thinking about getting a British edition of one of the books for a while, but I can’t decide if it’s worth it.
Mr. and Mrs. Mason came over, but Harry didn’t blow up the wife. That was Aunt Marge in the third book whom he inflated.
Into whose pajamas did Fred and George put bulbadox powder? (grammar? I had a hard time phrasing that…)
The sentence is perfectly grammatical and clear.
*headdesk* I forget…..
Oh, goodness, I forget too. I have to reread.
Cormac McLaggen’s? That’s probably wrong, though. haven’t read it in a while either.
Kenneth…something, something with a T…Kenneth…Tur-something?
I scrolled up to the top of this thread and saw that Luna had, over a year ago, asked if anyone knew the Sphinx’s riddle. I’m not sure if I remember all of it, but I’d like to give it a shot all the same.
First think of a person that lives in disguise, [something] in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next [something] always the last thing to mend, the middle of middle and end of the end.
[Something something] a sound often heard during a search for a hard-to-find word.
Now put it together and riddle me this: What is the creature you wouldn’t want to kiss?
Or… something close to that. I know I probably messed up the phrasing in some places, but hey, it’s enough to answer the riddle: spider. I remember Harry’s initial thought was a blast-ended skrewt.
*applause* Yay!
Couple corrections/fill in the blanks:
First think of
athe personthatwho 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
athe sound often heardDuring the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now
put itstring them together, andriddleanswer me this,What is the creature you wouldn’t want to kiss?Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?
260 – Kenneth Towler, if I remember correctly.
What did Umbridge mistakenly say the “S” on Slytherin’s locket stood for?
Selwyn. She claimed them as ancestors.
She claimed that it stood for the Selwyn family name (and it wasn’t a mistake, it was most definitely intentional, if a lie), and that it was “a pity that the same can’t be said about you, Miss [forgot her name]… Parent’s Professions: Greengrocers.”
Harry then got ticked off at her and Stupefied both her and Yaxley. Good times
Yeah I know, but I couldn’t think of any other word to describe it at that point…
Oh, and it’s Mrs. Cattermole, the wife of the guy that Ron was impersonating.
Hmmm. OK, so where did Harry find Hedwig’s name?
In History Of Magic, by Bathilda Bagshot.
I believe Hedwig is also the name of a saint, who ran a orphanage, or something. I don’t quite remember.
Correct! *pies*
))
(( By the way, it took me a very long time to figure out what HBP meant – I thought it was a misspelling of HPB. Psuedo just told me what it was
Who sends Harry his first letter at Hogwarts and what does it say? ( Easy! Doesn’t have to be word for word. Altho I bet Luna could quote it )
Hagrid, inviting Harry over for tea on Friday.
Hagrid, but I’m afraid I couldn’t quote it…..Something about believing Harry had Friday morning/afternoon (forget which) off and would he like to come over for tea or some such.
And something about telling him, (Hagrid) about Harry’s first week. I don’t remember it exactly either…
That’s right.
History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
What did Harry think Wood was?
That is, that Harry thought Wood was a cane with which McGonagall was going to beat him for his misbehaviour of flying his broomstick when Madam Hooch had issued a no flying instruction when she took Neville up to the infirmary for his broken wrist.
A cane.
264~ A stick of wood that McGonigal was going to beat him with for flying his broomstick when he shouldn’t have after Neville was injured and Draco provoked him.
In fact, Wood was the captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team.
Yay, I knew the answer to that one.
How much does one tip a newspaper-bearing owl?
One knut, wasn’t it?
That’s probably not spelled right… Maybe it is. I’m terrible at spelling.
Some number of Knuts (the little bronze ones, as Hagrid said), but I don’t recall the precise amount. And I’m not sure it was a tip, as opposed to actual payment for the paper.
“Hagrid, there’s an owl–”
“Pay him,” grunted Hagrid.
“What?”
“it wants payin’ for deliverin’ the paper.”
or something along those lines. Again, from memory, so hazy on the exact wording.
5 Knuts. I was just reading this in French.
266.1 – Yes!
Question: What are the lyrics to the school song of Hogwarts?
Question: In the American versions of the Harry Potter books, who is the illustrator?
Anyone out there want to answer these…? *looks hopeful*
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please!
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff!
For now they’re bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff!
So teach us things worth knowing,
bring back what we’ve forgot!
Just do you’re best,
We’ll do the rest,
and learn until our brains all rot!
[and, yes, that was entirely by memory–no cheating]
Marie (or Mary, I forget) Grandpré
Mary Grandpré, but great job with the Hogwarts school song! Pseudo and I memorized that about five years ago!! Not sure why…
How many staircases are there at Hogwarts?
142
Over 300?
IT’S OVER 9000!!
No it’s not. It’s 142, very clearly stated in Philosopher’s Stone.
*laughs* That’s always the answer, isn’t it?
I think I missed something, somewhere along the lines…….
She means 42. But let me go check, I actually don’t remember the number. Only that there is a specific figure…*leaves room* Yes, 142 is right. But I just realized, many of my questions seem to come from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Here’s one from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which I just finished…What does SPUG stand for?
Something along the lines of “Society for the Protection of Ugly Goblins”. Ron wanted to know if Hermione was going to start it, in addition to SPEW (Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare)
Correct! *glee* Here’s another one: What color are the seats in the Top Box at the Quidditch World Cup?
Yeep, um, I don’t remember…..Purple?
Just a lucky guess….Lots of things seem to be purple in the books–Quirrel’s turban, Hogwarts school color, etc.
Purple is the color of royalty, afterall (I think, unless I forgot my history–which I probably did)
No, I mean over 9000. It’s a meme.
Some random questions pulled from my trivia-game-in-progress (let’s just say Philosopher’s Stone and Deathly Hallows is complete, the others not so much……)
1. Where did Harry buy Hedwig?
2. How much did Harry’s wand cost?
3. How many presents did Dudley Dursley get the summer Harry turned ten?
4. What does Mrs. Figg’s house smell like?
5. What country did the boa constrictor come from that Harry unknowingly helped escape from the zoo?
6. What department at the Ministry of Magic is Amelia Bones head of?
7. What is Amelia Bones’ middle name?
8. How old was Broderick Bode when he died?
9. According to Snape, where are kappas most commonly found?
10. What were the tests of the seven people who helped guard the sorcerer’s stone?
11. What does powdered root of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood make?
12. What is a bezoar?
13. How many birthday presents was Dudley given in book one?
14. Who defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald?
15. In what year was the dark wizard Grindelwald defeated?
3. 38?
12. A stone found in a goat’s stomach that counteracts some kind of poison?
5. Brazil?
4. Cats?
Note to self: Don’t ask questions you don’t remember all the answers to…..
3–Nope
12–A stone found in the stomach of a goat that is thought to save you from most poisons. So, yeah, that’s close enough.
5–yup
4–Nope. Although, with all the cats she has, it probably does smell like that, but that’s not what is mentioned in the book.
Oh, wait, sorry–I got the numbers mixed up–38 is indeed the correct answer to number 3. My bad.
1 – Eeylops Owl Emporium.
3 – Thirty..six?
4 – Cats. Oops, Pseudo says it’s cabbage.
5 – Brazil.
6 – Umm…
10 – The Devil’s Snare, the flying keys, the troll, the potions, the three-headed dog…the chess game…annnnddd…the Mirror of Erised, if that counts, and – um – were there really seven?
11 – The Draught of Peace, or something. A sleep potion..?
12 – A stone found in the stomach of a goat.
13 – Thirty-four?
14 – Dumbledore.
15 – I don’t remember it ever being specified.
1-yes
3-no–and y’all need to specify Knuts/Sickles/Galleons, too
4-Pseudo would be correct
5-yes
6-sorry, no.
10-yes, there really are 7, and yes, the Mirror of Erised counts. And counting those up, it looks like you got ’em all.
11-No, not Draught of Peace
12-yes
13-nope
14-yes
15-it was. On the chocolate frog card, I believe.
1. Er… he didn’t buy her, Hagrid did.
2. 7 sickles?
3. 30?
4. Old cats and cat food.
5. Brazil.
6. No clue.
7. Er… does it begin with J?
8. 923.
9. Bogs and swamps.
10. Fluffy, Devil’s snare, troll, winged keys, chess game, poisons, mirror.
11. Um, I know this…
12. It is found in the stomach of a goat and is a powerful antidote.
13. 33.
14. Dumbledore.
15. 1862.
Wow, Dumbledore’s OOOLD
Okay, then, where did Hagrid buy Hedwig for Harry?
2-7, yes, but not Sickles.
3-nope
4-nope
5-yes
6-hehe
7-Nope
8-uh, no. Not even close.
9-Looking for a country, here.
10-Yes, although the troll came after the chess game. But I suppose I didn’t ask for ’em in order, did I?
11-I should hope so.
12-Yeah
13-no
14-yes.
15-slightly less than a hundred years off.
6. Magical Law and Order or something?
*snork*
Well, that’s not what it’s actually called, but that’s the right idea: Department of Magical Law Enforcement
I was close…
1. The owl place in Diagon Alley (not remembering the name right now)
2. Not sure
3. 37
4. Cabbage
5. Brazil (Borneo in the movie)
6. Law Enforcement or something like that
7. Not sure
8. Over 9000! (Yeah, I don’t know.)
9. Mongolia
10. Fluffy, devil’s snare, keys, troll, chess, potions, Mirror of Erised
11. The drought of living death
12. A stone found in the stomach of a goat that is an antidote for most poisons
13. 39, once you add the 2 he was bought at the zoo.
14. Dumbledore
15. 1942, I think. Definitely sometime in the 40’s, because I remember it was sort of a World War II reference.
3-no
4-yes
5-Actually, Burma in the movie, but Brazil is right for the book
6-yup, Magical Law Enforcement
8-uh, no
9-yup
10-yes, although troll was after chess.
11-Draught of Living Death–but spelling aside, yes.
12-perfect
13-yup
14-yup
15-So close, just a smidge early. Think Hitler
3. 32?
4. Cabbage
8. Brazil
9. Mongolia
10. Fluffy, flying keys, giant chess set, troll, potions and riddle, mirror
11. Draught of Living Death
12. A stone taken from the stomach of a goat that will cure most poisons.
14. Dumbledore
15. 1945
3-no
4-yes
8-yes
9-yes
10-yes
11-yes
12-yes
14-yes
15-Perfect–the year that Hitler killed himself, the first sign of a parallel between Grindelwald and Hitler–a parallel which is made even more obvious when you reach DH. Sad, isn’t it, that I only remember what year Hitler committed suicide because it’s the year Grindelwald was defeated?
I never realized that… Oh, duh.
1. Eelop’s Owl Emporium. (Probably spelled wrong…)
2. Twelve Gallions?
3.
Oh oh oh… I want to say thirty-seven, plus the two after they went out. It’s not right, but…(Looking back, I see I misread the question. It would be thirty eight, if I take my first guess as right. Though I think it might have been fourty seven and eight…)4. Cabbage. The Alchemy store also smelled like rotten cabbage, and pollyjuice potion tasted like it, thus causing some complex conjecture pointing at Mrs. Figg being a witch. (Only partly right, but still ingenious.)
5. Brazil.
6. Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
7. I saw this below, so I won’t answer. (I promise I didn’t see the rest of the answers!)
8. …46?
9. Mongolia.
10. Fluffy, Hagrid. Keys, Flitwick. Chess, McGonagal. Troll, Quirell. Potions, Snape. Devil’s Snare, Sprout. And of course, The Mirror of Erised, Dumbledore.
11. “A sleep potion so powerful it’s known as The Draught of Living Death.”
12. “A stone found in the stomach of a goat that will cure most poisons.’
13. Is this different from 3? Wait… Okay, So that means it would be this one that was thirty (Or fourty) seven and nine.
14. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
15. 1945
1. Eeylop’s, but yes.
2. no
3.yes
4. yup
5. yup
6. yup
7. um, ok.
8. uh…..
9. close
10. yes, but wrong order. Sprout’s in the wrong place.
11. don’t remember if sleep potion was specified, but, yes, Draught of Living Death (sorry, only got 6 hours of sleep, so brainis fuzzy)
12. yup
13. Yes, it’s different. “36? That’s two less than last year.” “You missed this one here from Aunt Marge, and tell you what,w e’ll by you two more when we’rea t the zoo” “So I”ll have thirty…..thirty….thirty…..” “thirty nine, sweetums” Or a similar conversation, anyway. so, yeah, you’re correct.
14. yup
15. yup
Seven Galleons, then, I saw a reply to somebody else’s guess.
Yeah, I have no clue how old he was. Random guess.
Not Mongolia? What’s close to Mongolia? What? I’m confused…
You didn’t say in order, did you? No.
I’m fairly sure it was. I haven’t read the book recently, but…
Yes, 7.
It’s okay. I’m confused too–like I said, somewhere, I was still asleep when I posted. Okay. #8 the “uh…..” was me going and looking up the answer because I couldn’t remember if 47 was correct. The “close” that I gave for #9 was supposed to be tacked onto #8 after the “uh…..”. Because 47 is very close to the correct age.
I missed #9 entirely. Mongolia is the correct answer. Sorry for the confusion….I only got 6 hours of sleep last night, and wasn’t very coherent this morning after spending the first 30 minutes of being up trying (unsuccessfully) to find the link to the housing contract for next year, that was supposed to be up at 7 am. But was not up. At all. So, yeah…..
And, no, I didn’t specify in order.
Question:
In The Goblet of Fire, what flew out of the end of Krum’s wand when Ollivander was testing it?
Birds–Ollivander cast the incantation Avis
Keiffer,
The answer is that Ollivander said “Avis” and a number of small birds flew out of the end.
Luna/TreeCafe- Correct.
Obscurity: where does Snape hide in HP7 when he wants to send his Patronus to guide Harry to the sword?
Presumably he’s hiding somewhere in the Forest of Dean, as that’s where the sword is hiddenNo, wait, you don’t have to be in the same location as your Patronus, elsewise it wouldn’t do much good for the Order to use them as a way of conveying messages. So, yeah, dunno. Perhaps the Room of Requirement?I think it is the forest, Luna. I could be wrong…Oh no, wait, it’s Dumbledore’s office.
I do believe he was conversing with Dumbledore’s portrait and he sent out his Patronus (a deer, by the way) and Dumbledore remarks upon the fact that the Patronus is still a deer. I think that’s what happened.
A doe, to be precise. Just like Lily Evans Potter’s patronus.
I don’t remember exactly, but I’m fairly certain it was implied that he was hiding behind a few trees.
Vanillabean, I think that Dumbledore’s comment about still a deer was a different time. When Dumbledore was explaining to Snape about Horcruxes.
How long was Hagrid’s wand before it was snapped? ( This is hard! )
Sixteen inches, wasn’t it? Made of oak?
“Fifteen (Or sixteen, I can’t remember) inches, Oak, rather bendy.”
Some questions from OoP:
What is Amelia Bones’s middle name?
What is the name of Bellatrix Lestrange’s husband?
Susan. Amelia Susan Bones, who has a niece named Susan attending Hogwarts, who asks Harry if his Patronus is a corporeal patronus during the first meeting of the DA in Aberforth’s pub, the Hogs Head, at which point Harry flashes back to Amelia’s questioning of him at his trial at the Ministry in front of the Wizengamot at the Ministry of Magic, and he inquire what her name is/asks if she’s related to Amelia Bones.
Rodolphus Lestrange, brother of Rabastan Lestrange. The three of them (definitely Rodolphus and Bellatrix, anyway) tortured Frank and Alice Longbottom (Neville’s parents) into insanity, which is why they are permanent patients at St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, located on the same wing as former Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, the incredibly vain and narcissistic Gilderoy Lockhart. Also the same wing on which Broderick Bode was living, before his untimely death at the hands of a potted plant–Devil’s Snare, to be precise.
Oh…..sorry, did you not want all the additional information? I just couldn’t resist.
The three of them, and possibly a fourth. Who I won’t mention until I’m fairly sure this won’t get into the recent comments, out of courtesy for those MBers who haven’t read HP. I had several rather bad spoilers for Harry Potter, usually concerning which characters died, and I hope to avoid causing everybody else to have the same experience.
Anyway, I can now point out that it was never really made clear whether Barty Croutch Jr. helped or not either.
Oooh, him. He’s hot. Yes, I forget if it was made clear whether he helped or not. And, yes, I did say hot. But that’s because I can’t think of that particular character without seeing his movie incarnation, which, well, is played by a certain um actor…..Yeah, I imagine this is out of recent comments now to. Cuz he’s played by the 10th Doctor, and that’s all I see when I watch that movie, now. Or all I saw when I watched it last November. So, yeah, i was drooling over BC Jr. ’twas great fun.
TMI?
Questions from earlier which nobody answered…
Some ridiculously hard questions my cousin asked me:
What color was Aunt Petunia’s coat when they were leaving in the seventh book?
What color was the carpet to the front of the Marqee at Bill and Fleur’s wedding?
When Harry was kissing Ginny near the beginning of the seventh book, what did Harry describe it as ‘better than’?
Uhhhhhhhhh. gosh. I dunno. The last one, though, I think I’ll hazard a guess: “Better than flying?” But I dunno.
Oh,what the heck:
1. blue
2. purple
again, no clue.
1. Nope.
2. I don’t actually remember at this moment… But that’s one of the two things it could be, certainly. Let me check.
Purple is indeed correct. It was that or gold, and I couldn’t remember.
3. Also incorrect.
I got two out of three of these wrong, and my cousin accidentally gave me the answer of the third, so it wasn’t hard. We enjoy quizzing each other. She thinks of absolutely ridiculously hard ones, since I don’t have problems with the easier ones, and I think of slightly less hard ones, though I sometimes pull out a really hard one.
Oh, another question:
In DH, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are staying in Grimmauld Place, the first morning Harry goes up to Sirius’s old room. He picks up three pieces of paper. What were they?
One piece was a picture of a little boy (himself) flying on a toy broomstick. One was the first page/half of a letter from Lily. The second half was in Snape’s possession, because it was signed “Love, Lily” or some such thing. The third……probably a page out of a book, I forget.
Wasn’t Aunt Petunia’s coat salmon-coloured? Dudley was wearing a leather jacket…and Uncle Vernon was wearing a fawn zip-up jacket.
275
1. salmon pink… I think. Unless that was just her cocktail dress in book 2.
2. purple
3. “Better than firewhiskey”.
275.1.1
a) The letter from Lily
b) The torn picture of Harry riding a toy broomstick
c) Hmm… can’t remember
Wow, 100% on the first ones. Impressive.
a) Correct.
b) That was later, actually. So I guess it was four papers. But there were two other things he picked up the first time, which were of absolutely no importance whatsoever.
Somewhere there were muggle pictures of women in bikinis, but those I think were just permastuck to the walls. You know, with one of those permanent sticking charms that for the life of me i can’t remember what they’re called, but like what was used on his mum’s portrait in the entry hall, and the portrait in the Prime Minister’s study.
I think they actually are called, amazingly, permanent sticking charms.
But yes, they were on the walls rather than the floor.
*puts on tin foil hat and backs away slowly*
Oh, come on, I’m not an alien. Really, I’m not. I’m perfectly harmless.
But speaking of tinfoil hats…..What was that movie called? I forget. I just remember Mel Gibson, a cute kid who was always leaving glasses of water all over the place (this sticks in my mind, because I always do the same thing…..especially when I was younger), and the girl commenting that one of the glasses of water was no good anymore because her brother’s amoebas were in it.
I liked that movie.
Wouldn’t that be mostly harmless? Although given your DW obsession, you could be an alien…
But I could be a good alien…..Like the Doctor. And a large percentage of the aliens are obviously alien. Although the Sliteen (that’s their family name, not their species, I forget if we learned their species) can take on human for–or, rather, they zip themselves into a human skin-suit, taken from a dead human–but as far as I know they still need the skin from a large human, not a skinny 19 year old. And as I can’t even spell Raxacoricofallapatorius, I couldn’t possibly be from there (I’ve always wanted an excuse to say the word, typing it is almost as cool).
And….yeah. I’m not an alien. I swear. Or, if I am, I’m not aware of it.
Really, Luna, “perfectly harmless” could mean anything at this point.
The movie was “Signs.”
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1) In book two, when Dobby shows up at the Dursleys, he ruins a joke of Uncle Vernon’s due to the noise of his self-imposed punishment. What was the joke about?
2) Why did Trelawney assume that Harry was born in midwinter?
3) Who does George Weasley get married to? (this is obviously not a book question)
1. Ohhhh. Shoot. I forget.
2. Something about planets aligning, probably, but I don’t recall….
3. Angelina Johnson, I believe.
1) A golfer?
2) He was….um….unlucky?
3) Um…..nobody? Or he died? Cho Chang? I have no idea. Is this from AVPM or something?
The answer to 3) is on JKR’s website. I don’t know what it is, but JKR posted Weasley family tree a while ago.
And I made a nice, lovely hand done copy of it and thumbtacked it to my ceiling in my bedroom back home. I think I did a rather nice job, too.
1) I’m somehow remembering Mongolian Golfer. That’s almost certainly not right. But I think it was about golf.
2) Ugh. I’m pretty sure I remember that conversation, but I don’t remember the context.
3) I agree with Luna, Angelina.
1. Japanese golfer
277.1
2) Getting there
3) Correct!
277.2
1) Yes, a golfer, but what kind?
277.3
1) Wrong ethnicity
3) Correct!
277.4
1) Correct!
REVIVE.
HARRY POTTER. 
*employs effective attention-getting strategy*
Where did Harry first see Sirius? ( Hint: in dog form. )
I can’t think of another one.
Uhm, wasn’t it…. Where he got on the Knight Bus?
Magnolia Crescent, wasn’t it? (LOL) At least, the alleyway between Magnolia Road and Wisteria Walk. Harry saw what he thought was the Grim right before he boarded the Knight Bus.
Yeah, that’s it. I was reading the book and I was like, “Whoa!” Ha.
The first time in person, or the first time, period? The second question would actually be a bit before that, on television.
And presumably he’d seen him before that, before his parents died.
Yeah, but her hint was that he was in dog form at the time, so it can’t have been on television.
Yes, but I was pointing out that her question had some holes in it.
Oh. That is true.
Sorry. I guess I meant see Sirius in person.
Well, presumably, back when his parents were alive, Sirius had at least once visited his family…
279.4 – Yes, but seeing as Harry was only a year old – or less – it is virtually impossible that Harry would remember.
Who does Barty Crouch Jr. come into court with?
Umm…Bellatrix and her husband?
How many points did Harry and Ron receive for bringing Ginny back from the Chamber of Secrets?
I believe 200 each…
I-Man is correct.
Three other kids, one had sandy hair, and two dementors.
280.1- 100 each? Might have been 50…
1. What is the code you dial when you go into the telephone box to get to the Ministry of Magic?
2. What is Cornelius Fudge’s middle name?
3. How do you distinguish a crup from a Jack Russel terrier?
4. How do you distinguish a knarl from a hedgehog?
5. Who teaches Arithmancy?
6. What are the names of the two Beaters that join the team in Harry’s fifth year after Umbridge bans Fred and George from playing Quidditch?
7. What two charms did Harry mix up in his Charms O.W.L.?
8.What does N.E.W.T. stand for?
10 Potterpoints to anyone who gets all eight correct.
Answers
1. 62442
2. Oswald
3. By the forked tail
4. Offer them milk. The knarl will think you are trying to poison it.
5. Professor Vector
6. Kirk and Sloper
7. Ah…can’t remember
8. Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests
I’ve got some more.
1. What color is Luna Lovegood’s hair?
2. Why did Cormac McLaggen not make it onto the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
3. How did Romilda Vane try to give Harry the love potion?
4. What is the name of the potion that makes you lucky?
5. Why did Ron fail his Apparition test?
Please answer these, someone.
SFTDP
1. Dirty blond
2. Because Hermione Confunded him
3. In Chocolate Cauldrons supposedly filled with firewhiskey
4. Felix Felicis
5. He left behind half an eyebrow