Hogwarts Professor

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapters 3-4

Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.” Write your answers to the discussion points in the com boxes below.

1._____ Harry sends angry letters to Ron, Hermione, and Sirius demanding information – and winds up waiting three days in his room. He objects when Uncle Vernon locks him in one night before the Dursley family goes for a drive.

2._____ Eight witches and wizards come to guard Harry Potter’s exit from Privet Drive. “A surprising number of people volunteered to come and get you.”

3._____ Nymphadora Tonks, a Metamorphmagus, helps Harry pack. She is an Auror despite almost failing Stealth and Tracking. Her inborn ability to change clothes instantly “got top marks in Concealment and Disguise.” [Read more…]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapters 1-2

Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.” Write your answers to the discussion points in the com boxes below.

1._____ Order of the Phoenix opens with Harry in the flower bed outside 4 Privet Drive. He is listening to the evening news on television because he believes there must soon be reports of Lord Voldemort’s return even on the Muggle news.

2._____ After something of a fight with Uncle Vernon about a loud noise in the street, Harry goes for a walk in Little Whinging. He remembers gratefully the mail he has received from Ron, Hermione, and Sirius. Then he meets Dudley. [Read more…]

Goblet of Fire: Whole Book O.W.L.

Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F” for Part 1. For Part 2, write your answers to any or all of the short answer questions in the com boxes below.

Part 1: True/False Questions

1._____ Goblet of Fire opens with the story of the mysterious murder of three Muggles in “the Riddle House” in Little Hangleton. The patrons in ‘The Hanged Man’, the local pub, believe there was dark magic involved.

2._____ Harry wakes up on Privet Drive when the scar on his forehead burns “beneath his fingers as though someone had just pressed a white-hot wire to his skin.” He goes to the mirror with a vivid recollection of his dream in his head.

3._____ Dudley Dursley’s school asked his parents to put him on a diet over summer vacation because “the school outfitters didn’t stock knickerbockers big enough for him anymore.” Grapefruit quarters for breakfast! Yummy.
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