Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Questionnaire:

Chapter One
1. What did the reader learn about Mr. and Mrs. Dursley in the book’s first paragraph?
2. What did Mr. Dursley do for a living?
3. What big secret did Mr. and Mrs. Dursley want to keep?
4. What was the first unusual thing that Mr. Dursley thought he saw as he left for work?
5. What was unusual about the people Mr. Dursley saw while he waited in a traffic jam?
6. When he went to the baker’s at lunchtime, whom did Mr. Dursley think he heard people
talking
about?
7. What unusual occurrences were mentioned that night on television news?
8. Who was the cat on Privet Drive really?
9. What person suddenly appeared next to the cat?
10. Why was Albus Dumbledore in the Dursley’s neighborhood?
11. How did Hagrid arrive in the Dursley’s neighborhood?
12. What did Harry Potter’s scar look like?

Chapter Two
1. What dream was Harry having when his aunt woke him in the morning?
2. Where in the Dursley house did Harry sleep?
3. What was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys?
4. Who got all of the good things in the Dursley household?
5. What was Dudley Dursley’s complaint about his birthday presents?
6. Who was Mrs. Figg?
7. Why did Harry finally get to go to the zoo with the Dursley family?
8. What kind of strange things often happened around Harry?
9. What strange occurrence happened in connection with Harry at the reptile house?
10. What strange vision did Harry have about his dead parents?

Chapter Three
1. What was Dudley’s favorite sport?
2. What was the difference in the schools Dudley and Harry were going to attend?
3. What was the difference in the two boys’ school uniforms?
4. What was unusual about the mail that arrived at the Dursley residence the day before
Harry’s
eleventh birthday?
5. Why did Mr. and Mrs. Dursley move Harry into a different bedroom?
6. What was in Harry’s new bedroom?
7. What about Harry’s second letter convinced Mr. Dursley that someone was watching the
family?
8. Why did Mr. Dursley nail the mail slot shut?
9. Why did Mr. Dursley make everyone leave the house?
10. What strange thing happened at the hotel?

Chapter Four
1. Who arrived with a BOOM at the little shack?
2. What letter did Harry receive from Hagrid?
3. How did Hagrid communicate with Professor Dumbledore from the shack?
4. What were Muggles?
5. What did Harry learn about himself from Hagrid?
6. What did Harry learn about how his parents died?
7. Who was Voldemort?
8. What caused Harry’s scar?
9. What did Harry remember for the first time about the night his parents died?
10. What magic did Hagrid strike Dudley with?

Chapter Five
1. How did Hagrid get to the shack in the middle of the water?
2. What was Gringotts?
3. Where was Gringotts?
4. Who ran Gringotts?
5. How were the high security vaults at Gringotts guarded?
6. What did Hagrid and Harry need to purchase in Diagon Alley?
7. What was the name of the pub Hagrid and Harry visited?
8. What was Professor Quirrell’s most notable trait?
9. What did Hagrid pick up at Gringotts?
10. What was so unusual about the wand Harry got at Ollivander’s?

Chapter Six
1. How did the Dursleys treat Harry when he returned home?
2. What was the name of Harry’s owl?
3. From what platform did Harry’s train to Hogwarts leave?
4. How did Harry get through to his train platform?
5. Who were Percy, Fred, George, and Ron Weasley?
6. Who did Harry meet for a second time at the train station?
7. Why did everyone at the train station stare at and want to meet Harry?
8. What were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans?
9. Why didn’t Ron buy anything to eat on the train?
10. What came inside the Chocolate Frogs that Harry bought?
11. What girl did Harry meet on the train?
12. Who lost and then found his toad on the train?

Chapter Seven
1. Who was the tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes who met Hagrid and the first-
year
students at the door of Hogwarts?
2. What were the names of the four houses at Hogwarts?
3. What was the purpose of the Sorting Ceremony?
4. Which house did the Hat choose for Harry?
5. What were the four words Professor Dumbledore spoke before the banquet at Hogwarts?
6. What was the real name of the ghost called “Nearly Headless Nick”?
7. What was the name of the Slytherin ghost?
8. What part of the Hogwarts grounds were forbidden to students?
9. Who was the Hogwarts caretaker?
10. What area inside of Hogwarts was out of bounds to everyone?

Chapter Eight
1. Who was the Potions Master at Hogwarts?
2. How many staircases were there at Hogwarts?
3. Who was always tricking first-year students at Gryffindor?
4. What was the name of Filch’s cat?
5. What did the cat do?
6. Who was the dumpy little witch who teaches Herbology?
7. Who was Professor Flitwick?
8. What course did Professor Quirrell teach?
9. Who invited Harry to come to visit for a cup of tea?
10. Which professor picked on Harry in class?
11. Who was Fang?
12. What interesting news was found in the Daily Prophet?

Chapter Nine
1. What was the only class that Gryffindors and Slytherins took together?
2. What gift did Neville’s grandmother send to him?
3. Who was the teacher for flying lessons?
4. What happened to Neville when he first flew?
5. How did Harry get chosen for the Quidditch team?
6. Who was Oliver Wood?
7. What was the password to get past the portrait of the fat lady?
8. Who challenged Harry to a duel?
9. How was Harry tricked about the duel?
10. What creature frightened Harry and his friends in the forbidden third-floor corridor?

Chapter Ten
1. What was in the long, thin package sent to Harry in the Great Hall?
2. How many players were on a Quidditch team?
3. What was the Quidditch ball called?
4. What was Harry’s position on the Quidditch team?
5. When was a Quidditch match over?
6. How many points were awarded for catching the Golden Snitch?
7. Why didn’t Harry and Ron return to their dormitory when they heard about the troll?
8. In what room did Harry and Ron lock the troll?
9. What were the words of the spell that Ron used on the troll?
10. Who took the blame when Professor McGonagall found that Ron, Harry, and Hermione
were
not in their dormitory?

Chapter Eleven
1. What book about Quidditch did Hermione lend to Harry?
2. What did Harry see happening between Snape and Filch?
3. What did Hermione do to Snape when she thought he was putting a spell on Harry’s
broomstick?
4. How did Harry win the Quidditch game for the Gryffindors?
5. What was the score of the game that Gryffindor won against Slytherin?
6. What name did Hagrid inadvertently give to Harry, Ron, and Hermione?

Chapter Twelve
1. As Christmas approached, how was Malfoy taunting Harry?
2. How did Ron, Harry, and Hermione try to find out about Nicolas Flamel?
3. What was the name of the librarian at Hogwarts?
4. How was wizard chess different from regular chess?
5. What Christmas gifts did Harry receive?
6. How did Harry decide to test the invisibility cloak?
7. What did Harry see in the Mirror of Erised?
8. What did Professor Dumbledore say the mirror showed people?

Chapter Thirteen
1. Who was the referee for the home championship Quidditch game?
2. What curse was put on Neville by Malfoy?
3. How did Harry finally remember having read something about Flamel?
4. What was said about Flamel in Hermione’s book?
5. What was the Sorcerer’s Stone said to be able to do?
6. What did Malfoy constantly taunt Ron about?
7. How did the championship Quidditch game end?
8. How long did the championship Quidditch game last?
9. What interaction did Harry think he had witnessed between Snape and Quirrell?
10. Why was Harry not interested in the victory party in the Gryffindor common room?

Chapter Fourteen
1. What did Hermione keep nagging Ron and Harry to do?
2. What was Hagrid looking up in the library?
3. What was Hagrid keeping illegally in his hut?
4. Who knew how to get past Fluffy?
5. What was in the huge black egg in the middle of the fire in Hagrid’s hut?
6. Who looked in the window and saw the dragon at Hagrid’s?
7. What was the dragon’s name?
8. How did Ron, Harry, and Hermione get the dragon out of Hogwarts territory?

Chapter Fifteen
1. What did Professor McGonagall say that lessened somewhat the severity of Harry,
Hermione,
and Neville’s actions?
2. Why did Harry suddenly become one of the most hated students at Hogwarts?
3. What were the students supposed to find in the forest?
4. What were the beasts in the forest who were part man and part horse?
5. How was Harry rescued from the cloaked figure who drank the unicorn’s blood?
6. What was the note that Harry found pinned to the invisibility cloak when it was returned to
him?

Chapter Sixteen
1. How were the written exams bewitched?
2. What were the practical exams?
3. Who gave away the secret of how to get past Fluffy?
4. Why did Harry decide to risk going after the Sorcerer’s Stone himself?
5. How did Hermione keep Neville from going with her, Ron, and Harry to seek the Stone?
6. How did Harry, Ron, and Hermione get past Peeves?
7. What immediately put Fluffy to sleep?
8. What did Ron and Harry fall into when they dropped through the trap door?
9. What were the objects that looked like small, jewel-bright birds?
10. What did Ron, Hermione, and Harry have to do to get past the chessboard?

Chapter Seventeen
1. What was Harry’s great revelation about Snape and Quirrell?
2. Who was Quirrell’s master?
3. How did Harry wind up in possession of the Sorcerer’s Stone?
4. Where did Harry see Voldemort’s face revealed?
5. How was Quirrell kept from doing a curse on Harry?
6. What ultimately happened to the Sorcerer’s Stone?
7. Why was the Sorcerer’s Stone ultimately not such a wonderful thing?
8. How did Harry’s mother’s love for him protect him against Quirrell?
9. Why had Professor Snape tried to protect Harry?
10. How had Harry managed to get the Sorcerer’s Stone out of the mirror?
11. What present did Hagrid bring to Harry in the hospital wing?
12. How did Gryffindor wind up winning the house cup?
13. Which student was most surprised at being awarded points?
14. Why did Harry say that he would actually have a good holiday with the Dursleys?