- Neeraja31st October

1. How is this café in Edinburgh important to the Harry Potter franchise?

2. "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!"—Professor Snape to Harry

Which was the spell that Snape had invented, which Harry used against him just before this revelation?

*3. This character, who prefers to be known by the surname Y, has X as the first name. X literally means "Gift of the ____”. ____ are nature spirits in Greek mythology who rule trees, sacred groves, streams and the ocean. '____' is also the name of the immature stage of a dragonfly or damselfly before it moults, before metamorphosing into a winged adult. This could be a reference to Y's metamorphosing skills.A 'Y'(singular) literally means, 'a fool or idiot', 'a powerful hit or strike'. This could be related to Y's clumsiness. Who is this? Full name needed.

4. Where can you find the following engraved?

Enter, stranger, but take heedOf what awaits the sin of greedFor those who take, but do not earn,Must pay most dearly in their turn.So if you seek beneath our floorsA treasure that was never yours,Thief, you have been warned, bewareOf finding more than treasure there.

5. “Mr. A presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. B agrees with Mr. A, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. C would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. D bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”

Name A, B, C, D. Order not important.

6. What is this?

7. Amortentia is the most powerful ___ ___ (2 words) in the world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to each person, according to what attracts them. FITB.

*8. Anti charm of Lumos and its meaning?

*9. ID X, who in real life, was a French scribe and manuscript seller.

X appears in the 1995 novel Indiana Jones and the ___ as the owner of the ___.X is an unseen character in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, portrayed as Albus Dumbledore's friend.X is mentioned in The Da Vinci Code as one of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion.X is mentioned in the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity, in which the protagonist must obtain a _____ said to be crafted by him.

10. What does Voldemort’s name mean?

*11. How is a basilisk born/hatched? What is its natural enemy?

12. Ingredients of which potion? The final ingredient is missing.

*13. Rowling stated that she chose the name X, which roughly translates as “white bumblebee", because of this character’s love of music: she imagined him walking around "humming to himself a lot". Who is X?

14. JK Rowling shares her birthday with two of her Harry Potter characters. Whose and when?

15. What does the Hogwarts motto mean?"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus“?

Answers ahead!!

1. How is this café in Edinburgh important to the Harry Potter franchise?

Answer:

JKR wrote a significant part of the first book here.

2. "You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!"—Professor Snape to Harry

Which was the spell that Snape had invented, which Harry used against him just before this revelation?

Answer:

Sectumsempra

*3. This character, who prefers to be known by the surname Y, has X as the first name. X literally means "Gift of the ____”. ____ are nature spirits in Greek mythology who rule trees, sacred groves, streams and the ocean. '____' is also the name of the immature stage of a dragonfly or damselfly before it moults, before metamorphosing into a winged adult. This could be a reference to Y's metamorphosing skills.A 'Y'(singular) literally means, 'a fool or idiot', 'a powerful hit or strike'. This could be related to Y's clumsiness. Who is this? Full name needed.

Answer:

Nymphadora Tonks

4. Where can you find the following engraved?

Enter, stranger, but take heedOf what awaits the sin of greedFor those who take, but do not earn,Must pay most dearly in their turn.So if you seek beneath our floorsA treasure that was never yours,Thief, you have been warned, bewareOf finding more than treasure there.

Answer:

Gringott’s Wizarding Bank

5. “Mr. A presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. B agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. C would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. D bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”

Name A, B, C, D. Order not important.

Answer:

Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs

6. What is this?

Answer:

Coat of arms of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

7. Amortentia is the most powerful ___ ___ (2 words) in the world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to each person, according to what attracts them. FITB.

Answer:

Love potion

*8. Anti charm of Lumos and its meaning?

Answer:

Nox, meaning ‘night’

*9. ID X, who in real life, was a French scribe and manuscript seller.

X appears in the 1995 novel Indiana Jones and the ___ as the owner of the ___.X is an unseen character in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, portrayed as Albus Dumbledore's friend.X is mentioned in The Da Vinci Code as one of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion.X is mentioned in the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity, in which the protagonist must obtain a _____ said to be crafted by him.

Answer:

Nicolas Flamel

10. What does Voldemort’s name mean?

Answer:

In French, vol de mort – ‘flight of death’ or ‘stealing from death’

*11. How is a basilisk born/hatched? What is its natural enemy?

Answer:

- From a chicken egg, hatched beneath a toad- Rooster: its crow is fatal

12. Ingredients of which potion? The final ingredient is missing.

Answer:

Polyjuice Potion

*13. Rowling stated that she chose the name X, which roughly translates as “white bumblebee", because of this character’s love of music: she imagined him walking around "humming to himself a lot". Who is X?

Answer:

Albus Dumbledore (white + old English for bumble bee)

14. JK Rowling shares her birthday with two of her Harry Potter characters. Whose and when?

Answer:

Harry and Neville - July 31st

15. What does the Hogwarts motto mean?"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus“?

Answer:

Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon"