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Can you tell your hippogriffs from your Hedwigs? What about your house-elves, centaurs goblins, and ghosts? If so, this is the quiz for you! Grab your wand and prove how well know the magical creatures of the Harry Potter universe.
Let's start off easy. What kind of creature is Norbert, Hagrid's (hidden) pet?
dragon
Hagrid isn't exactly a cat person. Maybe he would be if cats could breathe fire and fly.
goose
centaur
What pesky creatures must be regularly removed from the garden?
voles
gnomes
Gnomes are constantly popping up in the Weasley garden, and pulling them is a regular chore.
goblins
A hippogriff is part horse and part what other animal?
hawk
eagle
Half-eagle and half-horse, hippogriffs are all kinds of temperamental.
rabbit
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What mythically beautiful creatures are a lot less pretty when Harry first encounters them in the "Goblet of Fire"?
fairies
unicorns
merpeople
In Harry's world, mermaids and mermen are not beautiful sirens but creatures with bad skin and terrible teeth.
Who can see thestrals?
kids under the age of eight
those who have seen death
The winged, skeletal horses are invisible to most of the children at Hogwarts, who have not yet seen death.
non-Muggles
What language do snakes speak?
Slytherin
Ssssssspanish
Parseltongue
Harry — and Voldemort — are Parselmouths and can speak to snakes.
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To free a house elf, their master must give them what?
chocolate frogs
clothing
Dobby was freed with the help of a sock.
a wand
Kreacher the house elf was loyal to who?
The Black Family
Kreacher had to change his loyalty after he was gifted to Harry.
The Malfoy Family
Hagrid
What is the name of Dumbledore's phoenix?
Avery
Johnson
Fawkes
Fawkes lamented Dumbledore's death, and was never seen again.
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What is Harry's father's patronus?
doe
lion
stag
Just like Harry, James Potter's patronus was a male deer.
Fleur Delacour is part veela. What are veelas known for?
blonde hair
irresistible beauty
Veela's are entrancingly — and sometimes dangerously — beautiful.
weird laughter
What does the blood of a unicorn do?
keeps you alive, but leaves you with a cursed life
While avoiding death may seem like a terrific deal, the life you lead will be marked with darkness.
prevents indigestion
destroys dementors
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What magical creature had a feather in Harry Potter's wand?
phoenix
Fawkes — Dumbledore's phoenix — had a feather in the wands of Harry and Voldemort.
Golden Snidget
dragon
What creature guards the Sorcerer's Stone?
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mountain troll
The biggest and meanest of the troll breeds guards the Sorcerer's Stone. (Don't believe us? Reread chapter sixteen.)
giantess
How do you make a three-headed dog calm down?
rub the ears on the far right side
play him some music
While they might look nasty as all get-out, just lull the pups to sleep with a song.
tug his tail
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What kind of creature is Buckbeak?
griffin
eagle
hippogriff
While Hagrid took care of the hippogriff, he eventually belonged to Harry.
What kind of owl is Hedwig?
snowy owl
Harry's loyal owl Hedwig was a snowy owl, a species not native to Britain.
barn owl
double disappearing owl
Who does Hermione's cat hate?
Scabbers, Ron's rat
Or more specifically, Peter Pettigrew in animagus form.
Harry
Ron
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What is the Weasley family's owl named?
Danny
Trevor
Errol
Poor Errol was an old bird, and not the sharpest beak in the bunch.
Who is Firenze?
house elf
centaur
Friendly with Hagrid, Firenze eventually becomes a professor at Hogwarts.
George Weasley's pet
Who is Nagini?
a Gringott's guard
a Diagon Ally merchant
Voldemort's snake (and a horcrux)
Just to make his snake even scarier, Voldemort made it a Horcrux so it had a piece of his soul.
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What creature does NOT guard Gringotts?
dragons
spiders
Save the giant spider for the Forbidden Forest.
goblins
What is the name of the giant spider that threatens to feed Ron and Harry to his children?
Aragog
While loyal to Hagrid, that doesn't mean Aragog didn't want the best for his children.
Eragorn
Arachnegor
Who could control the Serpent of Slytherin?
Tom Riddle
Other Parselmouths couldn't control her; only Slytherin's One True Heir could lay claim on her actions.
Harry Potter
Severus Snape
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What kind of skrewt does Harry encounter in the third task of the Triwizard Tournament?
a blast-ended skrewt
Found in the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament, blast-ended skrewts moved about with a bang from their backsides.
a blind skrewt
a whacking skrewt
Who gives Harry an inscrutable riddle during the Triwizard Tournament?
Cedric Diggory
a small child
a sphinx
A correct answer to the sphinx's riddle gets Harry closer to the cup in the Triwizard Tournament.
What shape does a boggart take on?
winged serpents
whatever each of us fears the most
While most boggarts are truly terrifying, Hermione's is just receiving failing grades.
a ghostly mist
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What lives in the Weasleys' attic, keeping Ron up at night?
a noisy ghoul
A bit different than a ghost, the Weasleys' ghoul is harmless but loud.
a squealing bat
a flustered ghost
Who can become a ghost?
a person whose death came violently
a Dark Arts practitioner
a wizard
Only wizards can become ghosts, if they so choose.
Who is Gurg?
leader of the Giants
What better name for a giant than "Gurg."
Ministry of Magic Chief of Security
Neville Longbottom's distant relation
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