Harry Potter Riddles

1. I'm a tiny golden ball with silver wings, worth more points than anything else on the pitch, and the game ends the moment I'm caught. What am I? Easy

2. I hang on the castle walls, but don't count on finding me at home. I like to wander off and visit my neighbors' frames. What am I? Medium

3. I judge a thousand minds a year, yet I never leave my stool. Put me on and I'll shout where you belong. What am I? Easy

4. Look into me and you won't see your face. You'll see your deepest wish instead, and the happiest person alive sees only himself. What am I? Medium

5. You can walk straight through me at King's Cross station, but only if you don't stop to think about the bricks. What am I? Easy

6. I deliver the mail but I'm no postman, and I'd trade my whole route for one dead mouse. What am I? Easy

7. I'm a bank with no human tellers, buried deep under London, where a dragon might guard your gold. What am I? Easy

8. I become the thing you fear the most, and the only weapon that beats me is a good laugh. What am I? Medium

9. Drink me and your best friends will swear they've never met you. One hair is my secret ingredient. What am I? Medium

10. I'm a blank piece of parchment until you swear you're up to no good, and then I'll show you every corridor and every wandering footstep. What am I? Medium

11. Throw me over your shoulders and even your shoes vanish. I've been handed down as a very useful heirloom. What am I? Easy

12. I'm the only tree on the grounds that hits back. What am I? Medium

13. Every other common room wants a password. I only want a clever answer. What am I? Medium

14. I'm the smallest letter with the loudest voice. Open me quickly and cover your ears, or I'll only get angrier. What am I? Medium

15. The Ravenclaw door might ask: what belongs to you, yet other people use it far more than you do? Easy

16. A sphinx might ask: my first is the opposite of day, my second is a female horse, and together I gallop through your sleep. What am I? Medium

17. I have a hundred and forty-two staircases, and they refuse to stay where you left them. What am I? Medium

18. I'm a dragon's breath and a common room's comfort. Feed me and I grow. Give me water and I die. What am I? Easy

19. I have three heads, terrible breath, and a soft spot for music that puts me right to sleep. What am I? Medium

20. I'm the room you can only find when you really, truly need me. Walk past three times and think hard. What am I? Medium

21. You don't pick me. I pick you, and Mr. Ollivander remembers every match I've ever made. What am I? Easy

22. Which creature makes Harry answer a riddle in the Triwizard maze? Medium

The sphinx blocks the fastest path and lets Harry pass only after he solves her riddle.

23. How do students get into the Ravenclaw common room? Medium

The bronze eagle knocker asks a riddle. Tickling the pear opens the kitchens instead.

24. Which potion gives the drinker a run of pure good luck? Medium

Felix Felicis is known as liquid luck. Harry wins a vial of it in Potions class.

25. What does the spell Lumos do? Easy

Lumos lights the tip of the wand. Nox turns it off again.

26. Which platform does the Hogwarts Express leave from? Easy

Platform nine and three quarters, hidden between platforms nine and ten.

27. Hermione's cat is named Crookshanks. Easy

Crookshanks is the squashy-faced ginger cat she buys in Diagon Alley.

28. The Sorting Hat once belonged to Salazar Slytherin. Medium

It belonged to Godric Gryffindor. The founders enchanted it to sort students after them.

29. A Patronus takes the form of an animal. Easy

A corporeal Patronus appears as a silvery animal, like Harry's stag.

30. ⚡ + 👦 Easy

31. 🦉 + ✉️ Easy

32. 🐍 + 🏠 Easy

33. Turn me a few careful times and yesterday afternoon opens up again, but whatever you do, never let anyone see two of you at once. What am I? Medium

34. I glide without feet and feed without a mouth, and one happy memory is the last thing I'll ever leave you. What am I? Medium

35. Toss a pinch of me into the fire, step into the green flames, and say where you're going clearly, or you'll tumble out of the wrong grate. What am I? Medium

36. I look like a rusty old boot no one would bother to pick up, but touch me at the right second and I'll yank you across the country by the navel. What am I? Medium

37. Stick out your wand arm on a dark street and I'll bang to a halt, purple and triple-decker, ready to fling you between the beds inside. What am I? Medium

38. I burst into flame on my worst day and crawl out of the ashes as a chick. My tears can heal a deadly wound, and I stay loyal to a good headmaster. What am I? Medium

39. I'm a small brown stone taken from the stomach of a goat, and swallowing me will save you from most any poison. What am I? Medium

40. Repot me with earmuffs on, because my scream is deadly until I'm fully grown. Mashed up, I can wake those who've been petrified. What am I? Medium

41. I'm soft and harmless until something shiny catches my eye, then I'll dig up every coin, ring, and gold watch you own. What am I? Medium

42. Bow to me first and mean it, and I might let you climb on my back. Insult me and you'll regret it. I'm half eagle and half horse. What am I? Medium

43. I'm a glass ball that fills with red smoke the moment you've forgotten something, though I'm never any help at telling you what. What am I? Medium

44. Order me at the Three Broomsticks. I'm warm, foamy, and barely magical, though I'd still leave a house-elf tipsy. What am I? Medium

45. Eat me before I leap off the trolley, but save the card tucked inside, because a famous witch or wizard is waiting to be collected. What am I? Easy

46. Every color is a gamble with me. You might taste cherry, you might taste earwax, and one flavor really is straight-up vomit. What am I? Medium

47. To make me, a dark wizard tears his own soul in two and hides a piece inside an object, so that killing his body is never enough. What am I? Hard

48. I'm the monster of the Chamber, and a single look into my eyes is your last, so the castle pipes were the perfect place for me to slither and hunt. What am I? Medium

49. I'm a rough wooden cup crowned with blue-white flames, and once I spit out a name, that champion is bound by a contract they cannot break. What am I? Medium

50. Pour a silvery strand of memory into my stone basin, then lower your face to the surface and relive the whole moment exactly as it happened. What am I? Medium

51. I'm the eldest of three brothers' gifts and the most powerful wand ever made, yet I stay loyal only to whoever last defeated my owner. What am I? Medium

52. Play me and the pieces march on their own, smashing one another to rubble whenever they capture. Ron happens to be rather brilliant at me. What am I? Medium

53. I'm one of a matching pair, and whatever you shut inside me steps out of my twin, no matter how many miles apart the two of us stand. What am I? Medium

54. I'm a snowy white owl, a birthday gift from Hagrid, and I carry Harry's letters across the country. Who am I? Easy

55. Free me with a single sock and I'll be the most loyal friend you ever had, though I once served a cruel wizard family. Who am I? Easy

56. I keep the keys and grounds at Hogwarts, I'm half giant, and I have a soft spot for dangerous pets. Who am I? Easy

57. My emblem is a lion, my colors are scarlet and gold, and I welcome the brave at heart. Which house am I? Easy

58. Play me on flying broomsticks with four balls in the air, and catching the smallest one usually wins the match. What sport am I? Easy

59. Most wizards are too scared to say my real name, so they whisper You Know Who instead. Who am I? Easy

60. Swish, flick, and pronounce me just right, and a feather drifts up off the desk. Hermione insists it is levi-O-sa. What spell am I? Easy

61. Point me at a locked door, say the word, and the bolt clicks open by itself. What spell am I? Easy

62. I've got red hair, a crowd of brothers, and a pet rat who turns out to be more than he seems. I'm Harry's first friend on the train. Who am I? Easy

63. I flew to a trapped boy in the Chamber, blinded a deadly serpent with my claws, and my tears sealed his poisoned wound. Only a great headmaster could truly summon me. Who am I? Hard

64. I served the Dark Lord as pet, spy, and one of his hidden soul-pieces, though I was once a woman bound by a lifelong curse. Who am I? Hard

65. Dumbledore left me to Ron in his will. I click a whole street's lights out into myself, but my truest gift is guiding a lost friend home by a voice in a ball of light. What am I? Hard

66. Hagrid raised me from an egg and hid me in a cupboard, and by the end I led a whole colony of my kind deep in the Forbidden Forest. Who am I? Hard

67. Turn me thrice in your hand and the dead return as shadows, close but never truly back. I hid inside a cracked ring and later inside a Snitch. What am I? Hard

68. I'm the curse Harry finds scrawled For Enemies in a borrowed potions book, and I slash invisible wounds as if from a sword. What spell am I? Hard

69. I scribbled better instructions than any textbook in the margins of a used Potions book, and my odd nickname joined my mother's maiden name to a royal word. Who am I? Hard

70. Long before the newest Dark Lord rose, I hunted the Hallows in the name of the greater good, until my old friend Dumbledore beat me in a legendary duel. Who am I? Hard

71. I'm a lost crown said to sharpen the mind, twisted into a soul-piece by the Dark Lord and buried among the junk of a hidden room. What am I? Hard

72. I'm a small golden cup stamped with a badger, multiplied by burning gold in a deep bank vault, and I cradle a shard of a broken soul. What am I? Hard

73. A brave elf and his master stole me from a cave, a note signed R.A.B. sat where the real me belonged, and I hung heavy and cold around each hunter's neck. What am I? Hard

74. I muttered insults under my breath, guarded the Black family's darkest secrets, and turned gentle only once someone handed me my late young master's locket. Who am I? Hard

75. Force two wands that share a single core to duel, and this rare effect binds them in golden light, making one spit out ghostly echoes of its last spells. What am I? Hard

76. I'm a skeletal winged horse who pulls the school carriages, yet only those who have watched someone die can see me at all. What am I? Hard

77. No spell can banish me, I drop water balloons and unscrew the chandeliers, and only the Bloody Baron and a pair of red-haired twins ever earn my respect. What am I? Hard

78. Brewed correctly and swallowed each night before the full moon, I let a cursed man keep his human mind while his body still changes. What am I? Hard

79. I'm a witch or wizard who trained, at real risk, to turn into one particular animal at will, and the Ministry insists I register. What am I? Hard

80. Forged by goblins and set with rubies, I appear to a true Gryffindor in need, and because I only absorb what strengthens me, I now shatter soul-jars. What am I? Hard

81. Squeezed unseen between two ordinary London houses, number twelve became the secret headquarters of the Order and a mansion crammed with dark heirlooms. What am I? Hard

82. In this quiet village you'll find a famous graveyard, a ruined cottage, and the very spot where a baby survived a killing curse one Halloween night. What am I? Hard

83. Add a sopophorous bean crushed rather than cut, and I become a sleeping potion so deep the drinker seems truly dead. What am I? Hard

84. I'm the most dangerous potion in the room, a mother-of-pearl brew whose spiraling steam smells like whatever each person loves the most. What am I? Hard

85. Three careful drops of me and you will answer any question with the plain truth, whether you meant to or not. What am I? Hard

86. I was Sirius's younger brother and a marked follower who lost his nerve. I stole the real locket, left a note signed with my initials, and died alone in a cave. Who am I? Hard

87. I'm burned into a follower's forearm to call him to his master, and I'm flung into the sky as a green skull with a serpent for a tongue wherever the killers have struck. What am I? Hard