CLEOPATRA’S COBRA
PLUS
A COMMAND TO STOP
GIVES US THIS ROAD SURFACE
ASPHALT
ASP + HALT
THIS RAVENCLAW STUDENT AND MEMBER OF DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY LATER BECAME A NATURALIST AND MARRIED ROLF SCAMANDER, GRANDSON OF NEWT.
LUNA LOVEGOOD
BETTE DAVIS PLAYS MARGO CHANNING, AN AGING BROADWAY STAR, IN THIS 1950 FILM THAT INTRODUCED THE PHRASE "FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS, IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY NIGHT."
ALL ABOUT EVE
THIS LANDLOCKED COUNTRY, BORDERED BY POLAND, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, LATVIA, AND LITHUANIA, IS OFTEN CALLED "EUROPE'S LAST DICTATORSHIP.
BELARUS
TO ASK FOR SPARE CHANGE
PLUS
ONE NINTH OF A BASEBALL GAME
GIVES US THIS STARTING PLACE
BEGINNING
BEG + INNING
THE MARAUDERS CREATED THEIR MAP USING THESE FOUR NICKNAMES: MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT, AND THIS STAG-RELATED ALIAS FOR JAMES POTTER.
PRONGS
THIS 1944 BILLY WILDER FILM NOIR FEATURES FRED MACMURRAY AND BARBARA STANWYCK IN AN INSURANCE FRAUD MURDER PLOT INSPIRED BY A REAL 1927 CASE.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS FORM A NATURAL ARC THROUGH SEVERAL COUNTRIES, WITH THEIR HIGHEST PEAK, GERLACHOVSKÝ ŠTÍT, LOCATED IN THIS COUNTRY.
SLOVAKIA
ONE PIECE OF BUTTER
PLUS
PUBLIC GROUP VIOLENCE
GIVES US THIS NATION LOVER
PATRIOT
PAT + RIOT
THIS SPELL, USED BY HERMIONE ON HER PARENTS BEFORE HUNTING HORCRUXES, PERMANENTLY ERASES SPECIFIC MEMORIES RATHER THAN SIMPLY MODIFYING THEM.
OBLIVIATE
GRACE KELLY TRADES HOLLYWOOD FOR ROYALTY AFTER STARRING OPPOSITE CARY GRANT IN THIS 1955 HITCHCOCK THRILLER SET ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA
TO CATCH A THIEF
THIS BULGARIAN CITY ON THE BLACK SEA COAST WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ODESSUS BY THE GREEKS AND IS NOW THE COUNTRY'S MAIN MARITIME CAPITAL AND LARGEST PORT.
VARNA
A CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS SERVICE
PLUS
A STANDARD UNIT OF AREA
GIVES US THIS WANTON SLAUGHTER
MASSACRE
MASS + ACRE
DUMBLEDORE TELLS HARRY THAT THIS FOUNDER'S ARTIFACT—A SMALL GOLDEN CUP WITH TWO FINELY-WROUGHT HANDLES AND A BADGER ENGRAVING—BECAME A HORCRUX AFTER VOLDEMORT MURDERED HEPZIBAH SMITH.
HELGA HUFFLEPUFF'S CUP
JOAN CRAWFORD PLAYS A WEALTHY WIDOW ROMANCED BY A CHARMING GIGOLO IN THIS 1945 FILM NOIR DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CURTIZ.
MILDRED PIERCE
THE ONLY LANDLOCKED COUNTRY IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, THIS NATION DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM SERBIA IN 2008
KOSOVO
A SHARK APPENDAGE
PLUS
A TYPE OF BEER
GIVES US THIS MUSICAL CONCLUSION
FINALE
FIN + ALE
THIS WIZARD INVENTED THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE AND CELEBRATED HIS 665TH BIRTHDAY DURING HARRY'S FIRST YEAR AT HOGWARTS.
NICOLAS FLAMEL
JAMES DEAN'S FINAL FILM BEFORE HIS DEATH, THIS 1956 EPIC IS BASED ON EDNA FERBER'S NOVEL ABOUT A TEXAS RANCHING FAMILY.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
LAKE BALATON, CENTRAL EUROPE'S LARGEST LAKE AND A POPULAR RESORT DESTINATION, IS LOCATED IN THIS COUNTRY
HUNGARY