Harry Potter Trivia Quiz # 9

Ron and Harry find out that the monster is a snake with help from Hermione and Aragog.

A great, though short performance. Maybe he should have played Dumbledore.

JK Rowling has bewitched the world. Harry walked into her mind while she was travelling in a train. She spent the next 5 years constructing the plots of the seven books.

Professor Dumbledore made the announcement in the Great Hall that, due to the circumstances, all final exams would be cancelled. This news however, did not go over well with Hermione.

JK Rowling named Filch's cat after Jane Austen's unpleasant, snooping Mrs Norris in "Mansfield Park". With this association meaning little to French readers, a different name was needed. 'Teigne' is French for ringworm, or slang for an irritating person.

This part is really funny! The medicine took away Harry's arm bones, so it became all wiggly. Gilderoy Lockhart says that the point of that spell was to make it more flexible and also so that Harry would have no pain.

When the keys slam into the door, it reminds me of a much gorier scene in the movie 'Carrie.'

Ents, in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, are guardians of the forest, who are supposed to protect the trees from all perils, such as Orcs. The Ents also look like trees, and more specifically the trees that they look after.



The most well-known Ent would have to be Treebeard, who also happens to be the oldest living Ent. We first meet Treebeard in the fourth chapter entitled "Treebeard" in "The Two Towers", the second book in the trilogy. Treebeard is described as "...a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck," and basically just a very Tree-like character. He picks Merry and Pippin up in Fanghorn Forest. Treebeard becomes a very likeable character, and plays a part in the defeat of Isengard.



In the "Harry Potter" series, we are first introduced to Bowtruckles in Chapter 13 of "The Order of the Phoenix" titled "Detention with Dolores". In a Care of Magical Creatures lesson with Professor Grubbly-Plank, Hermione correctly identifies "tiny pixie-ish creatures made of wood, each with knobbly brown arms and legs, two twiglike fingers at the end of each hand and a funny flat barklike face in which a pair of beetle brown eyes glittered."



Bowtruckles, like Ents, are tree guardians which live in wand-trees and eat woodlice, or fairy eggs when they can get their hands on them. When one wants to retrieve wood from a wand tree, it would be a good idea to have a plate of woodlice on hand, as, even though they don't look all that dangerous, they are not nice little creatures when they are angered, and will try to gouge out human eyes with their sharp little fingers. In the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (really written by J.K Rowling for money to be donated to the fund, Comic Relief,) Bowtruckles are given a Ministry of Magic Classification of XX (harmless/may be domesticated).



In "Harry Potter", we don't actually meet individual Bowtruckles, as we do in "The Lord of the Rings". However, while there is a remarkable size difference, in that Ents are documented as being able to reach up to 15 feet in height, and Bowtruckles are commonly 8 inches long, both are unmistakably tree guardians.

Yes, we learn in the second movie that McGonagall had been uneasy because of prior convictions against Hagrid.