A quiz to prep for Harry Potter finale

Nearly a dozen years have gone by since the first Harry Potter book ascended best-seller lists, and nearly a decade have passed since it become a movie.

Finally on Friday, after an intermission of more than seven months, the last film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 finishes the story of the series' seventh and concluding novel.

So fans can be forgiven if they're fuzzy or confused about a lot of details.

Herewith, then, is a Harry Potter quiz that should serve like a refresher course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Or final-exam prep. Count on many things mentioned here coming up in the movie.

1. As Part 1 ends, the evil schnoz-challenged Voldemort takes one of the three "deathly hallows" from the coffin of Dumbledore, Hogwart's murdered headmaster. What was it?
(a) The Elder Wand.
(b) The Sword of Gryffindor.
(c) The Golden Snitch.
(d) A pack of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans.

2. Another of the "deathly hallows" is a Resurrection Stone. What's the third?
(a) "Mad Eye" Moody's glass eye.
(b) Harry's Cloak of Invisibility.
(c) The Goblet of Fire.
(d) Dumbledore's Pensieve, a magical basin that stores memories.

3. The Weasley family includes parents Arthur and Molly and their children - oldest son Charlie, Ron, Ginny, and the prank-loving twins. What were their names?
(a) Martin and Louis.
(b) Ogdorp and Marvin.
(c) Mona and Myrtle.
(d) George and Fred.

4. Harry knows that Voldemort is almost unkillable because he hid fragments of his soul in objects or living things, creating what are called horcruxes. Harry unwittingly destroyed the first one, using a basilisk tooth, in the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. What was it?
(a) The Bottomless Sewer Ewer.
(b) The Whomping Willow.
(c) The diary of Tom Riddle, the student who became Lord Voldemort.
(d) The Mirror of Erised.

5. Before he was killed, Dumbledore caught on to Voldemort's horcrux plan. But in destroying one, he fatefully injured his hand. What was it?
(a) Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem.
(b) Neville Longbottom's Quidditch Broom.
(c) A black-stoned ring owned by Tom Riddle's granddaddy Marvolo Gaunt.
(d) The Sloman Shield.

6. During Part 1, Harry and his pals, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, find and destroy a horcrux, a locket snatched from the vile Dolores Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic. What did Ron use to destroy it?
(a) A spell called the Jelly-Legs Jinx.
(b) The Sword of Gryffindor, found at the bottom of a pond.
(c) Two drops of Polyjuice Potion.
(d) The Illuminator bequethed to him by Dumbledore.

7. In Part 1, Ron gets jealous that Hermione fancies Harry. The Boy Who Lived does dance with her at one point to cheer her up, but with whom does he share a romantic kiss?
(a) Luna Lovegood.
(b) Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister.
(c) Bathilda Bagshot.
(d) Beatrix Bloxam.

8. At the end of Part 1, Potter and his pals escape, but the house elf Dobby dies, wounded by a dagger thrown by perhaps the series' nastiest, shriekiest villainess. Her name is:
(a) Narcissa Malfoy.
(b) Pansy Parkinson.
(c) Fridwulfa.
(d) Bellatrix Lestange.

9. A prophecy predating Harry's birth ominously foretold a fight to death with Voldemort. What did it say?
(a) "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches."
(b) "The Dark Lord will mark him as his equal."
(c) "Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives."
(d) All of the above.

10. Perhaps the teacher Harry hated most was Severus Snape. At the end of Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore says "Severus . . . please," but Snape hurls a killing curse. What odious thing does Snape, new headmaster at Hogwarts, do early in Part 1?
(a) He tells Voldemort when Harry will be moved from the safety of his home.
(b) He tortures a Muggles Studies teacher.
(c) He imprisons Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna's dad.
(d) He puts itching in the Sorting Hat.

11. The Forbidden Forest near Hogwarts was home to all sorts of exotic creatures, including centaurs, unicorns, trolls, and a giant named Grawp. Who was Aragog?
(a) One of the flying horses known as thestrals.
(b) A three-headed dog.
(c) A giant carnivorous spider who had many babies.
(d) A walking, talking redwood.

12. During Part 1, Harry and Hermione visit the place where Voldemort, after killing James and Lily Potter, wound up nearly destroyed by a rebounding spell that failed to kill their baby, leaving little Harry with the famous lightning bolt scar on his forehead. Dumbledore also lived there. Where?
(a) Godric's Hollow.
(b) Little Whinging.
(c) Durmstrang.
(d) Diagon Alley.

13. When the scar hurts, Harry sometimes has what experience?
(a) He knows if it's going to rain.
(b) He turns into a werewolf.
(c) He psychically senses what Voldemort sees, hears and thinks.
(d) Projectile vomiting.

14. The platinum-haired Malfoy men seem to have a thing for taking or losing wands. At the beginning of Part 1, Voldemort takes Lucius' and at the end, Harry takes son Draco's. Draco, though, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (the sixth book and film) importantly disarmed someone of a wand. Who?
(a) Snake charmer Salazar Slytherin.
(b) Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilberoy Lockhart.
(c) Dumbledore, before Snape killed him.
(d) Regulus Black, who first realized the locket was a horcrux.

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