| Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone Chapter Questions |
| Chapter 1 : The boy who lived 1. Where does Mr Dursley work? 2. What did the Dursley family think of the Potters and why? 3. What are Muggles? 4. What is a put-outer and who used it? Why? 5. Who is 'you-know-who' and why is he called this? 6. Who are Lily and James and what happened to them? 7. Why are Dumbledore and McGonagall at the Dursley's home? 8. Why is Harry a legend? 9. What does Hagrid bring and how does he arrive? 10. What was Mrs Dursley's reaction when she opened the front door the next morning? |
| Chapter 2 : The vanishing glass 1. Where do the Dursley's live? 2. Where did Harry sleep? What sort of conditions did he live in? 3. What was the first rule Harry had to obey? 4. What did Harry need almost every week? 5. Who was Mrs Figgs and what sort of person was she? 6. What was the one thing that Harry liked about his appearance? 7. Where did Harry end up one day, after being chased? 8. Why was Harry able to go to the zoo? 9. How does Harry believe his parents died? 10. What did Harry dream about? |
| Chapter 3 : The letters from no-one 1. What earned Harry his longest ever punishment? 2. How did Harry get his new school uniform and which school was he going to? 3. How was the letter addressed, so that there was no mistake as to who it was intended for? 4. How did the Dursley's react to Harry receiving mail? 5. What did Uncle Vernon do one night that he had never done before? 6. Why do you think he did this? 7. What was Harry's plan to get his mail? What happened to prevent this? 8. How was Harry able to get his mail on Sunday (when there is no postal service)? 9. How old woulld Harry be on his next birthday? 10.What sort of birthday do you think Harry imagined? |
| Chapter 4 : The keeper of the keys 1. Who is Rubeus Hagrid and what does he look like? 2. What does Hagrid do for a living and where? 3. How did the Dursleys react to Hagrid and why? 4. Why was Hagrid so mad at the Dursleys? 5. How did Harry's parents really die? 6. Why was this kept from Harry? 7. Why did Hagrid hesitate before saying Voldemort's name? 8. Who is Voldemort? 9. How did Harry get his scar? 10. Who is the headmaster at Hogwarts? |
| Chapter 5 : Diagon Alley 1. What are owls used for? 2. What is the wizrd money system? 3. Who runs the bank and what is it called? 4. What pet does Hagrid want? 5. What are first years not allowed to have? 6. What did Hagrid buy Harry for his birthday? 7. How are wands chosen for students? 8. Which wand did Harry get? 9. Who else has a similar wand? Why is this significant? 10. How does Harry feel about becoming a wizard? |
| Chapter 6 : The journey from platform nine and three quarters 1. What did Harry name his owl and where did he find the name? 2. What time does Harry have to be at the platform? 3. What are the twins' names? 4. How do you get onto the platform? 5. Who sits with Harry? 6. What sort of candy was on the cart? 7. What was strange about the card game? 8. What books are Harry in? 9. What house was Dumbledore in? 10. How do they get to the castle and who shows them the way? |
| Chapter 7 : The sorting hat 1. Who shows the students to the great hall? 2. How are the students sorted? 3.Which house does Harry definately not want to be in? Why? 4. What was strange about Dumbeldore's 'few words' before dinner? 5. How was dinner served? 6. Who is the Gryffindor ghost? 7. Who is the Slytherin ghost? 8. What was strange about the way the school song was done? 9. What house was Harry put into? 10. Which houses were Hermione, Ron, and Draco put into? |
| Chapter 8 : The potions master 1. What kinds of staircases are there at Hogwarts? 2. Who is Peeves? What does he do? 3. What is the caretaker's name? What sort of person is he? 4. What class does Professor Flitwick teach? What is he like? 5. Describe Professor McGonagall's teaching manner. 6. What was the most dangerous magic you could learn at Hogwarts? 7. Why did Hagrid want to see Harry? 8. Who or what is Fang? 9. What was the newspaper clipping about? 10. What is Hagrid's problem? |
| Chapter 9 : The midnight duel 1.Who does Harry hate more than Dudley? 2. Why was Harry no longer looking forward to flying lessons? 3. What did Draco do while Madam Hooch was not there? 4. What did Harry do in response to this? 5. What is Harry's position on the Quidditch team? 6. What was Draco Malfoy's challenge to Harry? 7. What is a 'second'? 8. What animals was found by Harry and his companions in the forbidden corridor? 9. What was the animal standing on? 10. What was Harry's conclusion? |
| Chapter 10 : Halloween 1.What did Harry get from Professot McGonagall? 2. What broom does Malfoy have? 3. How did Harry get on the team? 4. Does Wood know about Basketball? Why? 5. Is the Golden Snitch important in Quidditch? 6. How many points is the Snitch worth? 7. What does 'wingardium leviosa' mean? 8. Why does Hermione get upset after class? 9. How do they beat the troll? 10. What is the password for the Gryffindor common room? |
| Chapter 11 : Quidditch 1. Was position was Harry going to play in Quidditch? 2. What does Harry have to do in this position? 3. What hurt Snape's leg? 4. What colour robes did Slytherin and Gryffindor have to wear for the Quidditch match? 5. Who was the Slytherin seeker? 6. What was making Harry's broom go out of control? 7. Who was winning at the start of the match? 8. Who set Snape on fire? 9. What happened to Harry in the middle of the game? 10. What did Hagrid lend to Dumbledore? |
| Chapter 12 : The mirror of Erised 1. What did Harry get for Christmas? 2. How did Harry end up in the room with the mirror? 3. What did Harry see in the mirror? 4. Who did Ron see in the mirror? 5. What does everyone see in the mirror? 6. Why did Harry go the library? 7. What did Hermione give Harry and Ron? 8. What does the mirror look like? 9. Who was Harry trying to find out information on? 10. What does Dumbledore want for Christmas? |
| Chapter 15 : The Forbidden Forest 1. What was the tallest tower at Hogwarts? 2. Who is Norbert? 3. Who was caught out of bed and how did they get punished? 4. When he was hated by everyone, what did Harry want to do? 5. Where did Hagrid take the students? 6. What was the silver stuff on the ground? 7. What were the centaur's names? 8. What happened when the beast touched Harry? 9. What happens when you drink unicorns blood? 10. Who does Harry think needs thr Philosopher's Stone? |
| Chapter 13 : Nicolas Flamel 1. What was Harry having nightmares about? 2. What was Wood's bad news? 3. Who found the information on Flamel? 4. The Philosopher's Stone stops you from what? 5. How old is Flamel? 6. What did Harry have a feeling Snape could do? 7. Who thinks the Gryffindor team has 'students to feel sorry for' in it? 8. Who won the match? 9. Who is Snape talking to about the stone? 10. Who is Fluffy? Why is this name amusing? |
| Chapter 14 : Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback 1. Who helped to guard the Philosopher's Stone? 2. Why were they at Hagrid's house the first time they saw the dragon's egg? 3. What was the danger with Hagrid wanting a dragon? 4. How did Hagrid get the dragon egg? 5. Who did they decide to give th egg to? 6. What does he do? 7. What did they feed the dragon? 8. What did they use to sneak the dragon up to the tower? 9. Who did Professor McGonagall catch and give detention to? 10. Which books were taken from the library? |
| Chapter 17 : The man with two faces 1. What did Quirrell say was the key to finding the stone? 2. What does Harry see when he looks into the mirror of Erised? 3. What does Harry tell Quirrell he sees? 4. Does Voldemort know that Harry has the stone in his pocket? 5. What did Fred and George Weasley send to Harry? 6. What happened to the stone? 7. How does Dumbledore describe the truth? 8. What is the one thing that Voldemort cannot understand? 9. Who sent Harry to invisibility cloak? 10. What was the present that Hagrid gave Harry? |
| Chapter 16: Through the trap door 1. What kept happening to Harry after he went into the forest? 2. Where did Hermione, Ron and Harry go after exams? 3. When Harry's scar hurts, what does he think it means? 4. What image did Harry remember after he went into the forest? 5. How did Professor Quirrell find out how to get past Fluffy? 6. Who do Harry, Hermione and Ron go to when they discover what Hagrid told the stranger? 7. Where was Dumbledore when the children wanted to speak to him? 8. What do Harry and Ron send Hermione to do? Is she successful? 9. How did they use the invisibility cloak? Who senses their presence? How do they past him? 10. Who tried to stop them from going? How did they overcome this person? |