Harry Potter Character Quiz: 25 One-Clue Questions

Harry Potter Character Quiz: Can You Name All 25 From One Clue?

A scar, a pet, a missing ear: how many Harry Potter characters can you identify from one clue? Try all 25 questions and check your score.

Five silhouetted figures in a candlelit Hogwarts-style hall beneath a Harry Potter character quiz title.

A lightning-shaped scar gives one character away immediately. Others take a little more thought, especially when a clue involves a missing ear or a wand’s allegiance. This Harry Potter character quiz starts with familiar faces before moving into details you might have forgotten. Each question gives you one clue and four names to choose from.

Each of these 25 clues works in both the Harry Potter books and films. Expect spoilers from across the series.

Choose one answer for each clue. Your final score is out of 25.

1. I have a lightning-shaped scar on my forehead.

Harry gets the scar when Voldemort’s Killing Curse rebounds. It remains his most recognizable feature throughout the series.

2. My parents are both dentists.

Hermione’s parents are Muggles who work as dentists. She grows up outside the wizarding world before receiving her Hogwarts letter.

3. I sacrifice myself in a giant chess game so Harry can move forward.

Ron plans the winning move and lets his knight be taken. His sacrifice allows Harry and Hermione to get past the chessboard.

4. I’m Hogwarts’ Keeper of Keys and Grounds.

Hagrid looks after the Hogwarts grounds. Filch is the caretaker inside the castle—a different job.

5. My phoenix is named Fawkes.

Fawkes lives in Dumbledore’s office. He comes to Harry’s aid in the Chamber of Secrets, bringing the Sorting Hat and healing his wound.

6. I was born Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Tom Marvolo Riddle rearranges the letters of his name to spell “I am Lord Voldemort.” Harry learns the connection in the Chamber of Secrets.

7. My father publishes The Quibbler.

Luna’s father, Xenophilius Lovegood, publishes The Quibbler. Its unusual stories fit the Lovegoods’ outlook rather well.

8. My Animagus form is a tabby cat.

McGonagall can transform into a cat. She appears in that form outside the Dursleys’ home at the beginning of Harry’s story.

9. Mrs Norris helps me catch students breaking the rules.

Mrs Norris is Filch’s cat and a regular presence in the Hogwarts corridors. Students trying to sneak around have good reason to avoid her.

10. Tom Riddle’s diary possesses me during my first year at Hogwarts.

Ginny confides in the diary without realizing what it contains. Riddle uses it to control her and reopen the Chamber of Secrets.

11. I send Ron a Howler after his trip to Hogwarts in a flying car.

Molly’s furious message reaches Ron in the Great Hall. A Howler makes it rather difficult to keep a family argument private.

12. The adventures in my bestselling books actually happened to other people.

Lockhart takes credit for other wizards’ achievements. He uses Memory Charms to keep the real heroes from exposing him.

13. I was sent to Azkaban for murders I didn’t commit.

Sirius is blamed for killing Pettigrew and a group of Muggles. He is also wrongly believed to have betrayed Harry’s parents.

14. Fenrir Greyback bit me when I was a child.

Greyback’s attack leaves Lupin a werewolf. Bill is also attacked by Greyback, but as an adult and under different circumstances.

15. I was born with the ability to change my appearance at will.

Tonks is a Metamorphmagus. Changing her features is an inborn ability, so she doesn’t need Polyjuice Potion to do it.

16. The Goblet of Fire chooses me as Hogwarts’ champion before Harry becomes the fourth competitor.

Cedric is the first Hogwarts champion selected. Harry’s unexpected entry leaves the school with two competitors.

17. My grandmother raised me after Death Eaters tortured my parents.

Neville’s parents survive the torture but are left unable to care for him. His grandmother brings him up.

18. I teach Divination and have a habit of predicting my students’ deaths.

Trelawney’s lessons often come with alarming predictions. Her first reading of Harry’s tea leaves includes the Grim, an omen of death.

19. My office walls are decorated with plates of kittens. Who am I?

Umbridge’s kitten plates are a distinctive feature of her office in both the book and film versions of Order of the Phoenix.

20. I lose an ear during the flight from Privet Drive.

George loses his ear during the Battle of the Seven Potters. It’s George, rather than Fred—the distinction this question is testing.

21. Lucius Malfoy accidentally frees me with a sock.

Harry tricks Lucius into passing a sock to Dobby. Receiving clothing from his master frees the house-elf.

22. My Quick-Quotes Quill helps turn interviews into scandalous newspaper stories.

Rita uses the quill while interviewing people for her articles. Harry soon discovers how little her stories resemble what he actually said.

23. Voldemort replaces my sacrificed hand with a magical silver one.

Pettigrew sacrifices his hand in the ritual that restores Voldemort’s body. Voldemort then gives him a silver replacement.

24. My silver doe Patronus guides Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor.

Snape sends the doe that leads Harry to the sword in an icy pool. The Patronus reveals who was helping him from a distance.

25. The Elder Wand’s allegiance passes from me to Harry after he overpowers me at Malfoy Manor.

Draco gains the wand’s allegiance by disarming Dumbledore. Harry later overpowers Draco; he doesn’t need to take the Elder Wand itself.

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