POTTERMANIA

1. Where did Rowling get the name for the headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore?

Correct answer: Old English for 'bumblebee'

2. What was JK Rowling's profession before she became a full time writer?

Correct answer: A French teacher

3. Who read the whole of the first book in an eight-hour marathon on Radio 4?

Correct answer: Stephen Fry

4. What is the racial slur for a wizard with non-magical genes?

Correct answer: Mudblood

5. Where was JK Rowling when she first imagined Harry?

Correct answer: On a train from Manchester to London

6. What's the drawback with leprechaun gold?

Correct answer: It melts away

7. Harry's American editor changed such words as 'wonky', 'barking mad'
and 'bogey' for a US audience. How did he translate 'cracking'?

Correct answer: Spanking good

8. Which journalist and writer wrote that "reading [Harry Potter books] is an
activity marginally less testing than watching Neighbours"?

Correct answer: Anthony Holden

9. What do you see in the Mirror of Erised?

Correct answer: Your dearest wish

10. Which is the worst spell to use on another human?

Correct answer: Avada Kedavra

11. Which US director walked away from the Harry Potter film after JK Rowling
refused to allow an American child actor to play Harry?

Correct answer: Steven Spielberg

12. What was the name of the three-headed dog that guarded the philosopher's
stone?

Correct answer: Fluffy

13. When is Harry's birthday?

Correct answer: July 31

14. Hagrid is forbidden to practise magic, but Harry suspects he's kept his
wand - disguised as what?

Correct answer: An umbrella

15. What has JK Rowling included on the flyleaf of some of the books?

Correct answer: A fan letter from a child

16. Which of the following does Harry not use as a method of transport?

Correct answer: Owl

17. JK Rowling faced a writ for plagiarism from another children's book writer,
Nancy Stouffer. What was Stouffer's hero called?

Correct answer: Larry Potter

18. Which of the following publishers DID NOT turn down the original Harry
Potter manuscript?

Correct answer: Bloomsbury

19. What is Uncle Vernon's newspaper of choice?

Correct answer: The Daily Mail

20. What is Parseltongue?

Correct answer: The ability to converse with snakes