Q1 - Who do you think would be the best person thus far to replace Dumbledore as headmaster?

• “Let me at him,” Ron growled, as Harry and Dean hung onto his arms. “I don’t care, I don’t need my wand, I’m going to kill him with my bare hands—”

Q2 - Is it irresponsible for Harry to leave the cloak at Hagrids because he doesn’t think he’ll need it.

Q3 - What animal do you hate or that creeps you out more than any other?

• “And you … you didn’t come from the Chamber of Secrets?” said Harry, who could feel cold sweat on his forehead.
• “The thing that lives in the castle,” said Aragog, “is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others. Well do I remember how I pleaded with Hagrid to let me go, when I sensed the beast moving about the school.”
• Even as he reached for his wand, Harry knew it was no good, there were too many of them, but as he tried to stand, ready to die fighting, a loud, long note sounded, and a blaze of light flamed through the hollow.

Q4 - At this point, who do you think had opened the Chamber?

• Harry looked down at the pair of white rabbits he was supposed to be turning into slippers.

Q1 - What was Percy doing? Just kidding…

Q2 - Do we condone tearing out pages from old library books?

• “The heir of slytherin,” said professor McGonagal, who was very white, “left another message. Right underneath the first one. Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.” Professor Flitwick burst into tears. “Who is it?” said Madam Hooch, who had sunk, weak-kneed into a chair. “Which student?” “Ginny Weasley,” said Professor McGonagall. Harry felt Ron slide silently down onto the wardrobe floor beside him.

Q3 - Should they wait for another night to send the students home or should they send the students home immediately?

Q4 - Did you know Lockhart was a fraud from the beginning?

Q5 - Why did Dumbledore hire him?

• “No idea,” said Myrtle in hushed tones. “I just remember seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away…” She looked dreamily back at Harry. “And then I came back again. I was determined to haunt Olive Hornby, you see. Oh she was sorry she’d ever laughed at my glasses.”

• A tall, black-haried boy was leaning against the nearest pillar, watching. He was strangely blurred around the edges, as though Harry was looking at him through a misted window. But there was no mistaking him. “Tom — Tom Riddle?”

Q1 - Did you suspect Tom Riddle?

• “Haven’t I already told you,” said Riddle quietly, “that killing mudbloods doesn’t matter to me any more? For many months now, my new target has been — you.”

Q2 - What is your impression of Tom Riddle?

• “No one knows why you lost your powers when you attacked me,” said Harry abruptly. “I don’t know myself. But I know why you couldn’t kill me. Because my mother died to save me. My common Muggle-born mother.”

Q3 - How do you think Voldermort lost his powers?

Q4 - How do you think Tom concealed himself in the diary? How does that magic work?

Q1 - What do you think of the Tom Riddle backstory?

• “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see its brain.”

Q2 - 200 points a piece for Gryffindor?!

Q3 - What do you think about Voldermort giving some of his powers over to Harry?

• “It is our choices that make us what we are, far more than our abilities.”

Q4 - How much of a tool is Lucious Malfoy?

Q5 - Do you think it’s irresponsible for Dumbledore to let Harry have the diary back?

Q6 - What do we think of Dobby?

• Collective yays when Dobby is a free house elf.

Q7 - Is Elf magic as powerful as wizard magic?

• “Harry Potter is greater by far than Dobby ever knew.”

• “So Dobby stopped us getting on the train and broke your arm…” He shook his head. “You know what, Harry? If he doesn’t stop trying to save your life he’s going to kill you.”

Q1 - At this stage of their schooling, which Wizard or Witch would you want to duel and which would you not want to duel?

• “Scared?” muttered Malfoy, so that Lockhart couldn’t hear him. “You wish,” said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Q2 - If you could talk to any animal, which one would you choose?

Q3 - Do you think Harry is Slytherin’s descendant?

• “No one knows how he survived that attack by You-Know-Who. I mean to say, he was only a baby when it happened. He should have been blasted into Smithereens. Only a really powerful Dark wizard could have survived a curse like that.” He dropped his voice until it was barely more than a whisper, and said, “That’s probably why You-Know-Who wanted to kill him in the first place. Didn’t want another Dark Lord competing with him.”

Q4 - Do you think Ernie is right here?

Q5 - What do you think a blood-sucking Bugbear is?

Q6 - Why are the students getting petrified rather than killed?

• “Fawkes is a Phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. Watch him…”

Q1 - Would you want to have a Phoenix as a pet?

Q2 - Should Harry have confided in Dumbledore?

• No one, not even someone dreading taking Polyjuice Potion later, could fail to enjoy Christmas dinner at Hogwarts.

Q3 - Which character would you want to impersonate for an hour after taking some polyjuice?

Q4 - What do you think Draco’s parents are doing that is keeping Draco at Hogwarts for the holidays?

• Mr Weasley was unavailable for comment, although his wife told reporters to clear off or she’d set the family ghoul on them.
• “And Father won’t tell me anything about the last time the Chamber was opened, either. Of course, it was fifty years ago, so it was before his time, but he knows all about it, and he says that it was all kept quiet and it’ll look suspicious if I know too much about it.”

Q5 - Theories on who opened it the first time?

• “Let’s all throw books at Myrtle, because she can’t feel it! Ten points if you can get it through her stomach! Fifty points if it goes through her head!”

Q1 - Is Myrtle quoting from the official counting book for the point system of Hogwarts?

Q2 - Do you think ghosts can die?

• “Because Filch made me polish his shield about fifty times in detention,” said Ron resentfully. “That was the one I burped slugs all over. If you’d wiped slime off a name for an hour, you’d remember it too.”

Q3 - What do you think T.M. Riddle’s special services to the school award was for?

• “He sounds like Percy,” said Ron, wrinkling his nose in disgust. “Prefect, Head Boy — probably top of every class.” “You say that like it’s a bad thing,” said Hermione, in a slightly hurt voice.
• Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

Q4 - You ever get a valentine?

• “It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.”

Q5 - How do you think Hagrid opened the Chamber?

• And if, as a boy, Hagrid had heard that a monster was hidden somewhere in the castle, Harry was sure he’d have gone to any lengths for a glimpse of it.

Q1 - Do you think Hagrid’s love for misunderstood creatures is endearing or foolish?

• In the end, he chose the same new subjects as Ron, feeling that if he was rubbish at them, at least he’d have someone friendly to help him.
• “Yet again, Cornelius, I tell you that taking Hagrid away will not help in the slightest,” said Dumbledore. His bluey eyes were full of a fire that Harry had never seen before.

Q2 - What are your first thoughts of Fudge?

• “Take him away, an’ the Muggle-borns won’ stand a chance! There’ll be killings next!”
• “However,” said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly, so that none of them could miss a word, “you will find that I will only truly have left the school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

Q3 - What do you think Dumbledore means?