Harry Potter on the Big Screen – answers and explanations
Here are the answers to all 15 questions in the Harry Potter on the Big Screen quiz, each with a short explanation. How well do you remember the eight Harry Potter films? Haven't played yet? Take the quiz first and compare your score.
Play the quiz · 15 questions1. Which spell, Harry's signature move, knocks a wand out of an opponent's hand?
Answer: Expelliarmus
Expelliarmus is the Disarming Charm, which forces an opponent to drop their wand. It became Harry's signature spell, and in Deathly Hallows Part 2 his Expelliarmus meets Voldemort's Killing Curse in their final duel.
2. What kind of magical creature is Buckbeak?
Answer: Hippogriff
Buckbeak is a hippogriff, a creature that is half eagle and half horse. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry and Hermione save him from execution and then fly him to free Sirius Black.
3. Who directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)?
Answer: Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). He took over from Chris Columbus, who made the first two films, and gave the series a darker look.
4. What is the name of the Weasley family's ramshackle home?
Answer: The Burrow
The Weasleys live at the Burrow, a crooked, lopsided house near the village of Ottery St Catchpole. Harry first visits it in Chamber of Secrets after Ron rescues him in the flying Ford Anglia.
5. In Chamber of Secrets, Harry stabs which object with a basilisk fang?
Answer: Tom Riddle's diary
In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry stabs Tom Riddle's diary with a fang from the basilisk, which destroys the memory of Riddle and saves Ginny Weasley. The diary later turns out to be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
6. What is the name of the three-headed dog guarding the trapdoor in the first film?
Answer: Fluffy
Fluffy is the three-headed dog Hagrid owns, which guards the trapdoor to the Philosopher's Stone. Harry, Ron and Hermione find out that music puts Fluffy to sleep and get past him that way.
7. What animal form does Harry's Patronus take?
Answer: A stag
Harry's Patronus is a stag, the same form his father James took as an Animagus. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry casts it across the lake to drive off a swarm of Dementors.
8. Which Hogwarts house is dreamy, eccentric Luna Lovegood sorted into?
Answer: Ravenclaw
Luna Lovegood is a Ravenclaw. Evanna Lynch plays her, starting with Order of the Phoenix (2007), where Luna joins Dumbledore's Army.
9. Which magical object lets Hermione attend extra classes in Prisoner of Azkaban?
Answer: Time-Turner
Professor McGonagall gives Hermione a Time-Turner so she can go to classes that run at the same time. Later, she and Harry use it to save Buckbeak and Sirius Black.
10. Who kills Albus Dumbledore at the end of Half-Blood Prince?
Answer: Severus Snape
Severus Snape kills Dumbledore with the Killing Curse on top of the Astronomy Tower, after Draco can't bring himself to do it. Deathly Hallows Part 2 later shows that Dumbledore had planned his own death with Snape.
11. Which position does Harry play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
Answer: Seeker
Harry plays Seeker for Gryffindor, the player who has to catch the Golden Snitch. McGonagall recruits him in his first year after seeing him fly, which makes him the youngest house player in a century.
12. What are the hooded, soul-sucking guards of Azkaban prison called?
Answer: Dementors
Dementors are hooded creatures that guard Azkaban and feed on human happiness. Their 'kiss' can suck out a person's soul. They first appear in Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and the Patronus Charm drives them away.
13. Who directed the last four Harry Potter films, from Order of the Phoenix onward?
Answer: David Yates
David Yates directed Order of the Phoenix (2007), Half-Blood Prince (2009) and both parts of Deathly Hallows (2010–2011). He later directed the Fantastic Beasts films too.
14. Which spell do first-years practise to make a feather float in the first film?
Answer: Wingardium Leviosa
In Professor Flitwick's Charms class, first-years practise Wingardium Leviosa to make a feather float. Hermione famously corrects Ron's pronunciation: 'Levi-O-sa, not Levio-SA.' Ron later uses the spell to knock out a troll.
15. Which Hogwarts champion is killed in the graveyard at the end of Goblet of Fire?
Answer: Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff champion played by Robert Pattinson, is killed in the Little Hangleton graveyard. Wormtail kills him with the Killing Curse on Voldemort's orders after the Triwizard Cup, which is a Portkey, carries him and Harry there.