Unfogging the Future Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hufflepuff's cup

Voldemort thought that having a vault at Gringotts was a mark of prestige, so he had Bellatrix hide one of his Horcruxes inside the bank. From this chapter in "Philosopher's Stone" Harry also learns two vital pieces of information that will later help him steal the Horcrux: that a dragon is thought to guard the high security vaults, and that it would be foolish to try to break into a vault without a goblin accomplice.

At the time of the break-in, Harry was already in possession of the sword of Gryffindor. A fake one had been hidden in the Lestranges' vault.

Answer: A wand

In "Philosopher's Stone" it is revealed early on that Harry's and Lord Voldemort's wands have cores which came from the tail feathers of the same phoenix. In "Goblet of Fire" we find out that Dumbledore's pet, Fawkes, was the donor.

Harry first encountered Draco Malfoy while buying his new robes at Madam Malkin's; it was unpleasant, but had nothing to do with Voldemort. Hedwig was given as a gift to Harry from Hagrid, and Harry never purchases a solid gold cauldron (although he considers it).

Answer: Hangman's noose

In his sixth year, as a punishment for Lucius Malfoy's having bungled matters at the Ministry of Magic the year before, Draco Malfoy is made a Death Eater in his father's place and is set the improbable task of killing the Hogwarts headmaster. One of Draco's failed attempts involves the cursed necklace.

The vanishing cabinet in Borgin and Burkes was one end of a portal that allowed Voldemort's Death Eaters to enter Hogwarts. As Draco leads them through the school, he darkens the corridors with Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder and uses the withered hand to light his own way through. We learn when Draco asks about it in the shop that it is called a Hand of Glory and when a candle is inserted it provides light only for the person who is holding it.

Answer: Ron Weasley

This was another failed attempt of Draco's to kill Professor Dumbledore, by poisoning a bottle of mead which Professor Slughorn intended to give the headmaster as a Christmas gift. The mead, however, fails to make its way to its intended victim, and it was lucky for Ron there was a bezoar among Professor Slughorn's potion supplies and that Harry had the perspicacity to look for it.

Answer: Remus Lupin

We learn near the end of "Prisoner of Azkaban" (or near the beginning, if the reader is familiar with Roman mythology and Latin) that Professor Lupin is a werewolf. This, however, does not stop Headmaster Dumbledore from offering young Remus a place at the school, but at each full moon Remus must be taken to a safe location where he won't harm his schoolmates.

The Whomping Willow was planted over the entrance to a secret tunnel out of the school to make sure that students didn't come across him accidentally while he was transformed and dangerous.

Answer: He can talk to snakes

Harry actually talks to a snake for the first time in "Philosopher's Stone", but the reader isn't aware until "Chamber of Secrets" that it is an ability he shares with Lord Voldemort. It turns out that Voldemort is Slytherin's heir and Harry, who has been imbued with part of Voldemort's soul, has likewise inherited the ability to communicate with snakes.

In Harry's world, snake language is called Parseltongue and those who can speak it are called Parselmouths. The ability is closely associated with Dark Magic.

Answer: Ravenclaw's diadem

Riddle's diary and Hufflepuff's cup were both destroyed by being stabbed with a Basilisk fang. Ron destroys the locket after rescuing Harry and the sword from a pond in the Forest of Dean, and while the reader isn't present when Gaunt's ring is destroyed, it is revealed by (the portrait of) Phineas Nigellus that Dumbledore used the sword to destroy it the summer before Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. Ravenclaw's diadem is destroyed by the Fiendfyre cast by Vincent Crabbe in the Room of Requirement.

Nagini was also killed with Gryffindor's sword but, as a mortal being, probably could have been destroyed without Basilisk venom. Depending on your interpretation of how Voldemort's snake might have been affected by becoming a Horcrux, Nagini could be counted as a fifth Horcrux destroyed specifically by the venom.

Answer: True

Professor Trelawney's prediction is revealed in "Order of the Phoenix". It begins: "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies..." Voldemort assumed this meant one-year-old Harry Potter, and it was the reason that he attacked the Potters' home in Godric's Hollow.

In several of Harry's Divination classes Professor Trelawney's predictions appear to have validity--Neville's breaking a favoured pink teacup, for example--but based on Dumbledore's count of her real prophecies and Rowling's tendency to portray Trelawney as a fatuous bumbler, the reader is led to believe that these were perhaps nothing more supernatural than lucky guesses.

Like Professor Lupin, Professor Trelawney's name is also appropriate to her circumstance. In Greek the word "sibylla" means "prophetess".

Answer: Professor Moody

Earlier in the book Arthur Weasley was asked to investigate a disturbance at Alastor Moody's residence that was likely a false alarm. We can only assume that this was when Barty Crouch, Jr. locked the ex-Auror in the magical trunk and assumed his form using Polyjuice Potion.

Polyjuice Potion also features extensively in the last book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". On their quest to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, Harry, Ron and Hermione use Polyjuice Potion to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and steal Slytherin's locket from Dolores Umbridge. After escaping from Malfoy Manor, Hermione again uses Polyjuice Potion to assume the form of Bellatrix Lestrange to access the Lestranges' vault at Gringotts.

Answer: Garrick Ollivander

Voldemort had kidnapped the wandmaker hoping that Ollivander could explain why Harry's wand and his own had behaved so strangely when they duelled near the end of "Goblet of Fire". Ollivander was later tortured into revealing that another wandmaker, Gregorovitch, was rumoured to possess the legendary Elder Wand.

Florean Fortescue was kidnapped around the same time as Ollivander, but it appears that he had already been killed before Harry, Ron and Hermione were taken by the Snatchers; in any case, he wasn't with the others at Malfoy Manor. Rowling had originally intended for Fortescue's disappearance to be related to Voldemort's search for the Elder Wand, but the idea fizzled and didn't make it into the published works. Fortescue became just another kind wizard who was senselessly killed by Voldemort in his quest for power and domination.