The Dursleys & Harry’s Childhood
What is the name of the street where the Dursleys live?
Answer: Privet Drive
What begins arriving for Harry shortly before his eleventh birthday?
Answer: Letters addressed to him
Who tells Harry that he is a wizard?
Answer: Hagrid
What is the first major place Hagrid takes Harry to in Diagon Alley?
Answer: Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Who helps Harry find Platform 9¾?
Answer: Mrs. Weasley
Who teaches Potions at Hogwarts?
Answer: Professor Snape
What does Draco Malfoy challenge Harry to do?
Answer: Meet him for a midnight wizard’s duel
What spell are the students learning in Charms class?
Answer: Wingardium Leviosa
Where does Harry sleep at the beginning of the story?
Answer: In the cupboard under the stairs
Where does Uncle Vernon finally take the family to escape the letters?
Answer: A hut on a rock in the sea
What school does Harry learn he has been accepted to?
Answer: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
What does Harry discover in his Gringotts vault?
Answer: A small fortune in wizard money
Who becomes Harry’s first close friend on the Hogwarts Express?
Answer: Ron Weasley
What subject does Professor McGonagall teach?
Answer: Transfiguration
Who agrees to be Harry’s second for the duel?
Answer: Ron Weasley
Why does Hermione become upset after Charms class?
Answer: Ron makes an unkind comment about her
What unusual thing does Professor McGonagall transform into while watching the Dursleys’ house?
Answer: A tabby cat
What was in the package Uncle Vernon purchased when the Dursleys were trying to hide from the letters?
A gun
What happened to Harry’s parents?
Answer: They were killed by Voldemort
What pet does Hagrid buy Harry?
Answer: An owl
Why do the Chocolate Frog cards surprise Harry?
Answer: The people in the photographs move
What subject does Professor Flitwick teach?
Answer: Charms
Why does Hermione follow Harry and Ron when they leave Gryffindor Tower?
Answer: She tries to stop them from breaking school rules
What creature gets into Hogwarts on Halloween?
Answer: A mountain troll
What animal does Harry talk to at the zoo?
Answer: A python
What birthday is Harry celebrating when Hagrid arrives?
Answer: His 11th birthday
What is unusual about Harry's encounter with Voldemort?
Answer: Voldemort’s curse failed to kill him and no one ever survived Voldomort
What is the owl’s name?
Answer: Hedwig
Which house does the Sorting Hat consider placing Harry in before choosing Gryffindor?
Answer: Slytherin
Who melts Neville’s cauldron during Potions?
Answer: Neville does, by making the potion incorrectly
What creature do Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville discover in the forbidden corridor?
Answer: A giant three-headed dog
Where and with whom is the troll eventually found?
Answer: In the girls’ bathroom with Hermione
What happens to Dudley at the zoo?
Answer: He ends up inside the snake enclosure after the glass disappears
What does Hagrid bring Harry for his birthday?
Answer: A birthday cake
What mark did Voldemort’s attack leave on Harry?
Answer: A lightning-shaped scar
What is the name of the shop where Harry buys his wand?
Answer: Ollivanders
Who is the first student to be sorted during the Sorting Ceremony?
Answer: Hannah Abbott
How does Snape treat Harry during the first Potions class?
Answer: He singles him out, questions him harshly, and criticizes him
What does Hermione notice beneath the three-headed dog?
Answer: A trapdoor
How does Hermione protect Harry and Ron after the troll is defeated?
Answer: She tells the teachers that she went looking for the troll and that Harry and Ron came to rescue her