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THE ALAN RICKMAN MEMORIALHarry Potter Quiz!PRELIMS
1) • A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed.
• What is Benkinersophobia ?
Fear Of Not Receiving a Letter from Hogwarts at 11
2)• X was initially a fortress which was home to the evil wizard Ekrizdis, known for luring Muggles onto his island where he tortured and murdered them. After his death, the concealment charms he had cast faded away and the Ministry of Magic acknowledged the island's existence for the first time.
• Even then, the place was infested with Ys. The island is unplottable and is said to have been created/enlarged using magical means. The island was left alone for years, before the establishment of the International Statute of Secrecy before being adopted by Damocles Rowle for the purpose it is known to serve.
• The name is inspired from a Hebrew word, meaning 'place of destruction' or 'depths of hell' and also draws inspiration from the _______ off the coast of San Francisco.
X-AZKABAN Y-DEMENTORS
3) • J. K. Rowling stated that the word X was from the West African Sidiki dialect used in geomancy and has the literal meaning "Friendly to thieves".
• Although it is unknown who invented it , it was brought to Britain and hence to the world in the 17th century by Eldon Elsrickle. He used it to terrorise London, stealing from homes of Muggles and wizards alike.
• The Janus Thickey Ward at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries requires the use of X. Healers and visitors may enter, but patients are unable to get out.
• ID X
X-Alohomora
4) • Athena is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, olive oil, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
• She is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose.
• Her image can be found in the shields of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where her owl is the symbol of the Faculty of Chemistry.
• A certain character in the series is said to be inspired from her. Who?
Minerva Mcgonagall
5) • X is located on the seventh floor in the left corridor of the Hogwarts castle and an entrance opposite the tapestry depicting the attempt of Barnabas the Barmy to teach trolls ballet.
• During the 1997-1998 school year, Neville Longbottom and several other students used X as a hideout to escape the wrath of the new Death Eater professors, the Carrows. The problem was the lack of food, as it was one of the exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration.
• So it adapted by adding an eighth passage into Hogsmeade, connected to the Hog's Head pub, whose owner, provided food. Also, this advantage allowed members of the Order of the Phoenix to enter the school without setting off the Caterwauling Charm on the village.
• ID X
6) • Whenever a beloved character has their ethnicity changed by a new casting, there is nearly always a mini furore over it among a portion of their fans.
• But X largely received an overwhelmingly warm response on social media following the formal announcement of her casting as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• The following slide has a tweet. • ID the veteran stage play Actress.
7) • "A jet of green light issued from Voldemort's wand just as a jet of red light blasted from Harry's — they met in midair — and suddenly Harry's wand was vibrating as though an electric charge were surging through it; his hand seized up around it; he couldn't have released it if he'd wanted to — and a narrow beam of light connected the two wands, neither red nor green, but bright, deep gold. Harry, following the beam with his astonished gaze, saw that Voldemort's long white fingers too were gripping a wand that was shaking and vibrating.“
• Description of what?
PRIORI INCANTATEM
8)• In 1827, Ottaline Gambol rose to the office of Minister for Magic, and she made a daring and controversial suggestion to solve an ages-old problem.
• The Minister saw the potential of using X as a secure and comfortable alternative to Portkeys or to unregulated means of commute.
• The Ministry of Magic conducted a large-scale operation involving one hundred and sixty-seven Memory Charms, as well as the biggest Concealment Charm ever performed in Britain, in order to acquire X.
• ID X
9)• The Philosopher’s Stone was placed in a special chamber and guarded by seven enchantments and creatures, provided by the professors at Hogwarts.
• Hagrid's massive three-headed dog, Fluffy, guarded the trap door through which the chamber lay.
• Professor Sprout's web of Devil's Snare.
• Flying keys, charmed by Filius Flitwick.
• A life-size board of Wizard's Chess, transfigured by Professor McGonagall.
• Professor Quirrell's mountain troll.
• X
• The Mirror of Erised, placed there by Albus Dumbledore.• ID X
X-SNAPE’S POTION RIDDLE
10)• The motto of X is Fortius Quo Fidelius, a Latin phrase that means "Strength through loyalty”.
• The entrance to X leads into a small entrance hall and another set of doors. Engraved on these silver doors are the words:
Enter, stranger, but take heedOf what awaits the sin of greedFor those who take, but do not earn,Must pay most dearly in their turn.So if you seek beneath our floorsA treasure that was never yours,Thief, you have been warned, bewareOf finding more than treasure there.
X may be derived from the word which means a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining.
•ID X
X-GRINGOTTS
11)• The French for a word sounds similar to piscine, which means pool or swimming pool. The German is a nice combination of Denk from denken, meaning to think, and ium, as in gymnasium, creating a work that approximates the original.
• The first time Harry Potter saw X was in his fourth year, which he used to view the Death Eater trials at the end of the First Wizarding War. It was there that Harry witnessed the trial of Barty Crouch Jr. and the others who tortured the Longbottoms to insanity.
• The word is a portmanteau. The latter is an object in which something may be sorted or separated. The former is derived from the French word meaning “to ponder”.
• Which word?
PENSIEVE
12)• It may have had a very slight alcohol content, which could get house-elves in a drunk-like state, though an antidote to this existed. This is likely due to house-elves having both significantly smaller bodies as well as a slightly different body chemistry than humans, thus increasing their vulnerability to the effects of alcohol in any volume.
• Winky, a house-elf, took to getting a drunk-like state off of it after losing her job with the Crouch family, an addiction from which she never fully recovered.
• At the Hog's Head, customers were charged two sickles for it(£0.60 approximately), but it was not certain whether this was a universal price for it, or if this varied from location to location.
• The earliest reference was from, 'The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin' published in London in 1588 A.D.
•What?
13)• The entrance to the Ravenclaw common room is located on the west side of Hogwarts at the top of a spiral staircase, presumably located on the fifth floor, and is a door without a doorknob or keyhole, but a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. In order to enter the room, a person must answer a riddle asked by the eagle knocker; if they answer incorrectly, they must wait for someone else who gets it right.
• One among the riddle is as follows:
• "Which came first, the phoenix, or the flame?"
• What is the solution to the riddle?
14) •Identify the glitch in this book cover.
HEDWIG IS REPRESENTED AS A BARN OWL & NOT A SNOW OWL
15)• "BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF MAGICCustomers are reminded that until further notice, Dementors will be patrolling the streets of Hogsmeade every night after sundown. This measure has been put in place for the safety of Hogsmeade residents and will be lifted upon the recapture of Sirius Black. It is therefore advisable that you complete your shopping well before nightfall.Merry Christmas!" —Notice on X’s door during the escape of Sirius Black.
• ID X
16)•Triwizard Cup •The head of a golden statue •A small, silver-backed hairbrush •A blackened kettle•A rusty oilcan•A bent coat hanger •Nonexhaustive list of what?
PORTKEYS
17)• The witch and wizard are the two focal points of X, with the other, "lower" beings looking up in "awe and adoration." This is very unrealistic, as centaurs and goblins consider themselves superior to wizards and witches. House-elves, on the other hand, have no other joy in life other than to be in the service of wizards.
• X supposedly represented harmony in the wizarding world, although Albus Dumbledore thought otherwise.
• After the fall of the Ministry in 1997, it was temporarily replaced by the Magic is Might monument.
• ID X
FOUNTAIN OF MAGICAL BRETHREN
18)• Ambrosius Flume – Owner of Honeydukes
• Barnabas Cuffe – Editor of the Daily Prophet (as of 1996)
• Dirk Cresswell – Former Head of the Goblin Liasion Office who had insider information of Gringotts, killed during the Second Wizarding War.
• Gwenog Jones – Captain of the Holyhead Harpies (as of 1996-97)
• Lucius Malfoy – Of the rich and influential Malfoy family, a Death Eater, a respected high-ranking Ministry of Magic official.
• Severus Snape – A good student who was brilliant at Potions and making new spells. Became a Death Eater, but defected.
• Lily Evans – A good student with particular talent in Potions. Murdered during the First Wizarding War.
• Harry Potter – "The Boy Who Lived" and "The Chosen One", son of Lily Evans
• EXHAUSTIVE LIST. PUT FUNDA
MEMBERS OF THE SLUG CLUB
19) •X is from the English word, ultimately derived from Latin caritas meaning "generous love". Caritas was in use as a Roman Christian name. The English name came into use among the Puritans after the Protestant Reformation.
•When about to die, X says the same last words that Albus Dumbledore did, except she adds another 'please'.
X-CHARITY BURBAGE
20) • X is a book written by British author J. K. Rowling, which was published on December 4, 2008. Issued nearly a year and a half after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it stands as the most recent book published based upon the Harry Potter universe.
• The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling.
• One of them was offered for auction in late 2007 and was expected to sell for £50,000 ultimately it was bought for £1.95 million by Amazon.com, making the selling price the highest achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript.
21) • X was a drill-making company in Surrey, England. Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter's uncle, was the director of the company. Mr. Dursley worked for the company since at least 1981, when Harry was brought to live with the Dursleys.
• The office was across the street from a bakery. Vernon Dursley's office was on the ninth floor of the building.
• The name may have started as an onomatopoeia for the noise of a large drill in operation.
• ID X
