100 Spellbinding Harry Potter This or That Questions (+ Free Printable)
These Harry Potter questions are fun, easy, and a creative way to bond with others! Choose between food, characters, and more.
Connect and learn about the story while sharing laughs. You may be surprised by your kids’ answers!
How to Play This or That
Grab someone and ask the questions! This or that Harry Potter edition is the perfect game to play before or after one of the movies. It’s also great for:
- dinner table talk
- road trip fun
- a brain break
- family game night
- Halloween
- while camping
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Fun Harry Potter Questions for Kids
First, these lively questions for this or that will get you talking!
1. Flying car or flying broomstick?
2. Go to Gringott’s bank or the Ministry of Magic?
3. Pass all your O.W.L’s with flying colors or be the best quidditch player?
4. Speak Parseltongue or have Moody’s mad eye?
5. Visit Hogwarts or Diagon Alley?
6. Own a time turner or the Marauder’s Map?
7. Spend a day at Azkaban or the Forbidden Forest at night?
8. Grow your arm’s bones back or receive a Howler in front of your friends?
9. Spend a day at Zonko’s joke shop or at Honeydukes?
10. Be a seeker or a beater in Quidditch?
11. Have your future told by professor Trelawney or see your past in Dumbledore’s pensieve?
12. Quidditch or Wizard’s Chess?
13. Own Harry’s Invisibility Cloak or the Marauder’s Map?
14. Thestral or Hippogriff?
15. Visit Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley?
16. Say Voldemort’s name or say “he who must not be named”?
17. Own the Elder wand or own the Resurrection Stone?
18. Own a Time Turner or Pensieve?
19. Fly on a broom or use floo powder?
20. Face Dementors or Death Eaters?
21. Read The Quibbler or The Daily Prophet?
22. Go to the Three Broomsticks or The Leaky Cauldron?
23. Own a pet owl or a pet cat?
24. Learn how to make Polyjuice potion or Veritaserum?
25. Ride Hagrid’s Motor bike or the Knight Bus?
26. Own a Remembrall or own a Deluminator?
Harry Potter Food This or That Questions
Next, we all love food. So, these questions could spark a hot debate!
27. Butterbeer or Pumpkin Juice?
28. Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans or Chocolate Frogs?
29. Eat Bertie Bott’s Vomit bean or Earwax flavour bean?
30. Pumpkin Pasties or Cauldron Cakes?
31. Exploding Bonbons or Ton-Tongue Toffees?
32. Eat the Christmas feast or Halloween feast at Hogwarts?
33. Acid Pops or Fizzing Whizbees?
34. Treacle tart or Harry Potter’s birthday cake?
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Hogwarts This or That
Who doesn’t love this school of witchcraft and wizardry?! Pick and choose to decide what you love most.
35. Chase the golden snitch or have a chat with a Hogwart’s ghost?
36. Talk to the Sorting Hat or find the Room of Requirement?
37. Choose your Hogwarts house or let the Sorting Hat choose for you?
38. Be in the Gryffindor common room or the Great Hall?
39. Go to Herbology or Potions?
40. Go to Defense of the Dark Arts or Potions?
41. Go to Divination or Care of Magical Creatures?
42. Take Divination with professor Trelawney or Defence Against the Dark Arts with Gilderoy Lockhart?
43. Visit the Hogwarts Astronomy Tower or the Library?
44. Run from giant spiders or fight a basilisk?
45. Be invited to the Headmaster’s office or to Hagrid’s hut?
46. Be in the Forbidden Forest or the Chamber of Secrets?
47. Attend the Yule Ball or attend the Quidditch World Cup?
48. Be a house prefect or captain of quidditch team?
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Funny This or That Harry Potter
49. Give Dudley a pigtail or blow up Aunt Marge?
50. Be able to transform into an animal or read minds?
51. Get stuck in a Troll bogie or a dragon dropping?
52. Drink Polyjuice Potion or Felix Felicis?
53. Be stuck in Snape’s dungeon or lost in the Room of Requirement?
54. Have a potions explosion or charms catastrophe?
55. Vomit slugs or have your farts sound like the crying of Mandrake root?
56. Sneak into the restricted section of the Hogwart’s library or the Ministry of Magic?
57. Get stuck under the Whomping Willow or lost in the Forbidden Forest?
58. Explore the Shrieking Shack or the Chamber of Secrets?
59. Receive a Howler or go howling with Lupin?
60. Fred and George’s pranks or Peeves’ mischief?
61. Hear a Mandrake Scream or see Snape scowl and come towards you?
62. Smell Dobby’s socks or eat Gillyweed?
63. Fight the three headed dog or a Hungarian Horntail dragon?
64. Learn all of Dumbledore’s secrets or all of Voldemort’s secrets?
65. Be a metamorphmagus like Tonks or animagus like Sirius?
66. Learn the art of Apparition or learn how to block your mind from others?
67. Find out that your Patronus is a turtle or a skunk?
68. Have to face a Boggart or Aragog (the giant spider)?
69. Be a living player in Wizard’s chess or fight a troll?
70. Be teleported into someone’s diary or spend a day on the Hogwart’s Express?
71. For a password in Hogwart’s Castle, “Pig Snout” or “Fairy Lights”?
72. For a password in Hogwart’s “Sherbet lemon” or “Cockroach cluster”?
73. Live in a house no one can see or walk into a wall no one can see?
74. Have a phoenix or a dragon on your side?
75. Have a Niffler that helps you find treasure or a Deluminator that stores light for you?
76. Be in charge of the Sorcerer’s stone or find out you were connected to Voldemort?
77. Turn the Room of Requirement into your own library or your own jungle gym?
78. Find out your pet was actually a person or find out your Godfather was also an animal?
79. See what you want most in the world (but don’t have) or see your worst fears (Boggart)?
80. Be helped by Dobby or helped by Gilderoy Lockhart?
81. Receive a surprise creature from Hagrid or be told of a dramatic doom by Professor Trelawney?
82. Study muggle artifacts with Arthur Weasley or go on an outing in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid?
83. Find out that Peter Pettigrew betrayed your parents or that Snape is not who you thought?
Harry Potter Character’s Questions
Finally, these questions dig into what you thought of the main characters.
84. Hang out with Moaning Myrtle or Nearly Headless Nick?
85. Spend a day with Argus Filch or Lucius Malfoy?
86. Gilderoy Lockhart or Dolores Umbridge?
87. Sirius Black or Remus Lupin?
88. Have Buckbeak or Fawkes as a friend?
89. Nearly Headless Nick or the Grey Lady?
90. Minerva McGonagall or Sybill Trelawney?
91. Who was worse: Bellatrix Lestrange or Lucius Malfoy?
92. Xenophilius Lovegood or Cornelius Fudge?
93. Neville Longbottom or Luna Lovegood for a best friend?
94. Fred or George Weasley?
95. Who’s the better sidekick: Crabbe or Goyle?
96. Who was more of a bully: Malfoy or Dudley?
97. Who was a better elf: Dobby or Kreacher?
98. Lucius Malloy as your father or Dolores Umbridge as your mother?
99. Who was the worst? Aunt Marge or Uncle Vernon?
100. Fleur Delacour or Viktor Krum?
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Fun Game Variations to Try
Here are a few ways to make this game different:
Play In Groups
Have kids go to different areas of their room depending on what “side” they are on!
Then, let the debates begin on which is better. And why.
Guess Who
Write down your answers without saying your name. This variation is like an anonymous vote. Then, players guess which way they think other players voted.
Free This or That Harry Potter Printable
Circle your answers in this fun free pdf.
What’s Next?
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