Even a muggle would have a hard time escaping the publicity surrounding the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, released at midnight last night. See if you know your Hogsmeade from your horcrux by matching these Harry Potter terms (1-24) with their meanings (a-x). Answers are below.

1. Animagus

2. Azkaban

3. The Daily Prophet

4. Diagon Alley

5. Dumbledore’s Army

6. Floo network

7. The Forbidden Forest

8. The Half Blood Prince

9. Hogsmeade

10. Hogwarts Express

11. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

12. Horcrux

13. Invisibility cloak

14. Mudbloods

15. Muggles

16. The Order of the Phoenix

17. Parselmouth

18. Pensieve

19. Patronus spell

20. Portkey

21. Quidditch

22. The Sorting Hat

23. The Shrieking Shack

24. Whomping Willow

a. A wizard who can talk to snakes. Harry has this gift.

b. The fast, dangerous sport of wizards, it’s played on broomsticks over a field.

c. The giant tree on the Hogwarts grounds that hides a passage below. But it is best known for beating anyone who gets too close.

d. The only totally wizarding village in England.

e. A receptacle in which a wizard has hidden a fragment of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality. Its creation requires the creator to commit a murder which rips the soul apart.

f. The spot where student Lupin went as a werewolf to keep Hogwarts safe from his attacks.

g. It surrounds Hogwarts and is home to magical creatures like thestrals, centaurs, and other, less friendly creatures.

h. Non-wizarding folks like the Dursleys.

i. A wizard who can transform into an animal, such as a dog, rat or cat.

j. A group of students taught by Harry who practiced spells and tactics for defense against the dark arts when they weren’t taught them in class.

k. Comes out at the beginning of each new school year at Hogwarts and determines into which of the four houses — Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw — a student is assigned.

l. The wizard prison, staffed by Dementors.

m. Where young wizards matriculate for seven years starting at age 11.

n. The newspaper serving the wizarding community, delivered daily by owl post.

o. A simple object, such as a shoe, that has been charmed to serve as a travel aid for wizards.

p. Passed on to Harry from his father, it keeps him out of sight for his adventures.

q. The street full of stores that equip young wizards for school. Buy your cauldrons, wands and magical creatures here.

r. Muggle-born wizards. Hermione is one, a wizard daughter born to muggle parents. A derogatory term that has a chilling effect.

s. The way wizards travel, from fireplace to fireplace. Blow powder on them and off they go. Sometimes they even get where they mean to go.

t. It protects wizards from Dementors and other attacks on their person. Harry’s takes the form of a white stag.

u. Severus Snape.

v. A stone receptacle where witch or wizard memories are revealed.

w. The train that takes students from London to Hogwarts Castle. Catch it on track 9 3/4.

x. A group of wizards united in the battle to defeat Voldemort.

ANSWERS

1. i

2. l

3. n

4. q

5. j

6. s

7. g

8. u

9. d

10. w

11. m

12. e

13. p

14. r

15. h

16. x

17. a

18. v

19. t

20. o

21. b

22. k

23. f

24. c