Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Chapter 7
Mark True statements with a “T” and False statements with an “F.”
- _____ Chapter Seven, The Boggart in the Wardrobe, begins in Potions class where Malfoy enters in bandages. He asks Professor Snape for help with his work on the Shrinking Solution – and Severus makes Harry and Ron do the hard stuff.
- _____ Malfoy implies Harry is a coward for not hunting down Sirius Black himself instead of being in school. “If it was me,” he says, “I’d want revenge.”
- _____ Professor Snape takes five points from Gryffindor because Neville’s toad becomes a lizard instead of shrinking properly.
- _____ Professor Lupin takes the class into the Staffroom for a lesson about changing Professors into boggarts.
- _____ A real boggart is in the Staffroom wardrobe and Lupin takes this opportunity to teach the class how to defeat the Shape-changer that tries to frighten its antagonist: laughter.
- _____ Neville’s boggart turns into Professor Snape but he finishes him off with the Riddikulus charm and turning him into a lizard wearing a dress and a funny women’s hat.
- _____ Ron is afraid of spiders but succeeds in defeating his boggart by using the Riddikulus charm and putting roller skates on its many legs.
- _____ Lupin’s boggart turns into a “silvery white orb hanging in the air” which he defeats by using the Riddikulus charm and turning it into a cockroach.
- _____ Harry is upset at the end of class because he wasn’t able to turn his Dementor boggart into anything; the monster scared him so much that he almost passed out before Lupin intervened.
- _____ The chapter ends with Ron, Harry, and Hermione agreeing that Professor Lupin’s class was the best Defense Against the Dark Arts class they’d ever had. Hermione wishes she had had a chance against a boggart.
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Ooh, going to give this a try, but it’s been a long time since I’ve reread PoA or any of the other books. I’ve been enjoying your chapter quizzes, but it’s definitely time for a series reread!
1. T
2. T
3. F – Neville’s toad turns into a guppy. (Snape still takes points from Gryffindor.)
4. F – The lesson is about how to defeat boggarts.
5. T
6. F – Neville’s boggart turns into Snape dressed as his grandmother. (Why all the lizards?)
7. F – I can’t remember exactly, but I think Ron just removes the spider’s legs.
8. F – I’m pretty sure Lupin’s boggart doesn’t turn into a cockroach.
9. F – Lupin intervenes before Harry gets a chance to fight the boggart.
10. T
If we did a re-read here at Hogwarts Professor (or at the Substack site), what form would you want it to take?
Oh hm, great question. I know podcasts are all the rage now, but I also know they’re a lot of work, and it’s not like there’s a lack of Harry Potter reread podcasts. (In fact, I think the only reason I remember so much from this chapter of PoA is that Lorrie Kim recently covered it on her Harry Potter After 2020 podcast.)
It might be fun to stick with the trivia theme you’ve got going on, and with every chapter, have readers come up with and comment with one trivia question and explain why they picked it. As someone who was really into Harry Potter trivia back in the day, I’m always fascinated by how trivia quiz masters picked questions. It might also be an interesting look into how fans decide something is “trivia-worthy.”
A ring theory reread might also be fun!