Harry Potter is one of the most popular book and movie franchises of all time. Fans of the boy wizard love to test their Harry Potter knowledge with fun riddles and brain teasers. Below are 59 riddles about characters, places, spells, and more from the Harry Potter universe, along with their answers.
Riddles about Harry Potter Characters
1. What Harry Potter character has no parents?
Answer: Tom Riddle (Voldemort)
2. What Harry Potter character can turn into a rat?
Answer: Peter Pettigrew
3. What Harry Potter character is obsessed with the Dark Arts?
Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange
4. What Harry Potter character is a servant to the Malfoy family?
Answer: Dobby
5. What Harry Potter character is killed by a giant spider?
Answer: Aragog
6. What Harry Potter character teaches Divination at Hogwarts?
Answer: Professor Trelawney
7. What Harry Potter character is Harry’s godfather?
Answer: Sirius Black
8. What Harry Potter character marries Lupin?
Answer: Nymphadora Tonks
9. What Harry Potter character can change her appearance at will?
Answer: Nymphadora Tonks
10. What Harry Potter character is killed by Molly Weasley?
Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange
11. What Harry Potter character is a Metamorphmagus?
Answer: Nymphadora Tonks
12. What Harry Potter character is killed by Nagini?
Answer: Severus Snape
13. What Harry Potter character is killed while fleeing Hogwarts?
Answer: Vincent Crabbe
14. What Harry Potter character has an obsession with the number seven?
Answer: Tom Riddle (Voldemort)
15. What Harry Potter character marries Bill Weasley?
Answer: Fleur Delacour
Riddles about Hogwarts
16. What is the name of the entrance to the Hogwarts kitchens?
Answer: The painting of the fruit bowl
17. What is the name of the haunted bathroom at Hogwarts?
Answer: Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom
18. What forbidden forest surrounds Hogwarts?
Answer: The Forbidden Forest
19. What mode of transportation takes students to Hogwarts?
Answer: The Hogwarts Express train
20. What lake is located at Hogwarts?
Answer: The Black Lake
21. What bridge connects Hogwarts to Hogsmeade?
Answer: Covered Bridge
22. What creature pulls the carriages that transport students from Hogsmeade Station to Hogwarts?
Answer: Thestrals
23. What is the name of the house-elf who first tells Harry about the Room of Requirement?
Answer: Dobby
24. What tree violently attacks anyone who comes near it on Hogwarts grounds?
Answer: The Whomping Willow
25. What chamber hidden at Hogwarts contains a basilisk?
Answer: The Chamber of Secrets
Riddles about Spells
26. What spell is used to levitate objects?
Answer: Wingardium Leviosa
27. What spell is used to disarm another wizard?
Answer: Expelliarmus
28. What spell is used to conjure a protective shield?
Answer: Protego
29. What spell is used to open locked doors and objects?
Answer: Alohomora
30. What spell causes objects to fly?
Answer: Locomotor
31. What spell provides light from the end of a wand?
Answer: Lumos
32. What spell heals minor injuries?
Answer: Episkey
33. What spell reveals secrets and hidden openings?
Answer: Revelio
34. What spell turns vinegar into wine?
Answer: Aguamenti
35. What spell creates water?
Answer: Aguamenti
Riddles about Magical Objects
36. What object shows the names and locations of everyone at Hogwarts?
Answer: The Marauder’s Map
37. What object can Dumbledore use to see through invisibility cloaks?
Answer: The Deluminator
38. What objects are used to communicate through fireplaces?
Answer: Floo Powder
39. What objects allow you to glimpse the future?
Answer: Crystal balls
40. What objects store memories that can be viewed in the Pensieve?
Answer: Vials
41. What object can be thrown into fire to allow travel between places?
Answer: Floo Powder
42. What object shows the past, present, and future?
Answer: The Time-Turner
43. What objects allow you to see through walls?
Answer: Omnioculars
44. What object can be used to speak to someone far away?
Answer: Two-way mirrors
45. What object stores memories that can be viewed in a Pensieve?
Answer: Vials
Riddles about Creatures
46. What creatures guard Azkaban prison?
Answer: Dementors
47. What creatures pull the Hogwarts carriages?
Answer: Thestrals
48. What creature has eight legs and is frequently used as potion ingredients?
Answer: Acromantulas
49. What creatures deliver mail to witches and wizards?
Answer: Owls
50. What creature resembles a plant and has tentacles that strangle?
Answer: Devil’s Snare
51. What creatures live in the Black Lake at Hogwarts?
Answer: Merpeople/Merfolk
52. What creature does Harry have to get past in the Triwizard Tournament?
Answer: Dragon
53. What creature takes over Professor Quirrell’s body?
Answer: Voldemort
54. What creatures pull the Beauxbatons carriage?
Answer: Abraxan flying horses
55. What creatures does Hagrid teach students about in his Care of Magical Creatures class?
Answer: Blast-Ended Skrewts, Hippogriffs, Flobberworms, Fire crabs, Bowtruckles, and more
Riddles about Places
56. Where do witches and wizards get their wands?
Answer: Ollivander’s Wand Shop in Diagon Alley
57. Where does Harry live with the Dursleys?
Answer: 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey
58. Where do wandmakers get wand cores?
Answer: Garrick Ollivander gets cores from magical creatures
59. Where do Hogwarts students go during summer and winter breaks?
Answer: Home with their families
Conclusion
How did you do with these Harry Potter riddles? Test your knowledge and stump your friends. Harry Potter trivia is always fun for fans of the wizarding world. Looking for more riddles and puzzles? There are many more mysteries and brain teasers hidden throughout the Harry Potter books and movies!
