Harry Potter Characters by Death

Can you name the Harry Potter character based on how they died?

Clues reference the books - not necessarily the movies

Contains spoilers, duh

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First submitted	September 2, 2012
Times taken	116,872
Average score	50.0%
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Death	Character
Rebounding killing curse	Lord Voldemort
Killed by Severus Snape	Albus Dumbledore
Knife in the chest	Dobby
Voldermort, then eaten by Nagini at a meeting	Charity Burbage
Bellatrix, then fell through the veil	Sirius Black
Died trying to protect her son	Lily Potter
Strangled by his own, magical hand	Wormtail
Nagini attack in the Shrieking Shack	Severus Snape
Voldemort in his father's old house after he was spotted by Nagini	Frank Bryce
Hit by a stray curse during the flight from Privet Drive	Hedwig

Death	Character
Stared directly into the eyes of the Basilisk	Moaning Myrtle
Almost completely beheaded	Nearly Headless Nick
Too much lettuce	Flobberworms
Strangled by Devil's Snare	Broderick Bode
Old age in the forbidden forest	Aragog
Drowned by the inferi	Regulus Black
Out of control FiendFyre	Vincent Crabbe
Perhaps hit by a killing curse and/or falling from his broom	Mad Eye Moody
An explosion in the castle	Fred Weasley
Poison in her cup - house elf was framed	Hepzibah Smith

Level 12

May 2, 2012

Snape wasn't killed in the Shack, he was killed in the boathouse....

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Level 25

May 3, 2012

He was killed in the Shrieking shack in the book, the boathouse in the film but I'll make this clearer

+24

Level 89

Apr 15, 2019

With a candlestick by Colonel Mustard.

Level 63

May 5, 2012

good quiz!

+11

Level 18

Dec 21, 2014

Nice Quiz! I liked the flobberworms "to much lettuce" part

Level 59

Jan 28, 2019

My first thought was the Fat Friar for the lettuce, just because I thought he might be there

Level 21

May 10, 2012

GREAT quiz idea!

Level 51

Jun 3, 2012

The most common Spelling of Lily is with two 'L's i think Lilly Potter should be accepted as well as lily potter

Level ∞

Jun 3, 2012

That will work now.

Level 17

Sep 9, 2012

Not trying to be weird or anything, but Lilly looks so odd to me because I've always seen it spelled Lily. Oh, and it's really funny how people refer to Lily still as Lily Evans even after she was married!!

Level 35

Jun 21, 2014

Could be because Harry's daughter is Lily Potter?

Level 51

Apr 20, 2017

Hermione and Ginny are only married to anyone during one chapter in all of the seven original books.

+20

Level 46

Jun 3, 2012

For the ones I missed, I kept thinking things like, "It was that guy, in that one chapter. Dear lord, what was his name?"

Level 25

Jun 3, 2012

I hate it when that happens, you have my sympathy ;)

Level 20

Jun 3, 2012

"Voldermort in his father's old house" confused me. It seemed like it could have been Tom Riddle Sr. or Morfin Gaunt because it was unclear about whose house.

Level 92

Aug 2, 2012

Agreed. The "his" in the clue is somewhat ambigous. "Voldemort in the Riddle house" might be clearer

Level 15

Apr 25, 2013

disagree

Level 13

Nov 2, 2023

And Voldemort is spelled wrong in the quiz btw. ;)

Level 5

Jun 3, 2012

i think that mertle should be accepted b/c i, personally, didnt know how to spell it correctly

Level 73

May 14, 2019

By that logic Veldamorty should be accepted for Voldemort!

Level 14

Jun 5, 2012

This is a really good quiz but I think that for Nearly Headless Nick you should also accept sir nicolas de mimsy popington. Thats what I was typing the whole time and it didn't accept it. Nearly headless nick is his nickname so I tyhink you should accept both answers

Level 25

Jun 5, 2012

That should be accepted now, thanks

Level 75

Mar 8, 2015

It's Porpington, not Popington.

Level 27

Jun 5, 2012

Can you add Gibbon to Crabbe? He was also a death eater and killed by friendly fire (idiotic word) at the end of the 6th book.

Level 25

Jun 6, 2012

Fiend fire, not friend fire. Fiend fire is the enchanted flames that destroy horcruxes. Friendly fire is something completely different

Level 19

Jul 16, 2012

Nice quiz, but you ought to look at your spelling!

Level 86

Aug 16, 2012

Spoiler alert much?

+11

Level 83

May 6, 2018

I mean, it's a bit weird if you're doing this quiz without having read the books or seen the films.

Level 39

Aug 29, 2012

I think Nicholas should be accepted for Nearly Headless Nick.

Level 25

Aug 30, 2012

Nicholas will be accepted now

Level 65

Aug 31, 2012

It doesn't mess up any of the answers, but in the last clue on the left column, you spelled Voldemort incorrectly by adding an extra R before the M. Just thought you might want to know.

Level 14

Oct 8, 2012

kept spelling burbage wrong...half of these were on just the tip of my tongue.

Level 18

Feb 9, 2013

Moody was actually killed by Snape:

During the flight from Privet Drive, Snape sent a curse flying, attempting to hit Moody's pursuer, because Snape was helping Harry's cause. It accidentally hit Moody, which caused him to fall from his broom and die.

Level 35

Nov 8, 2019

This is incorrect, Snape accidentally hit George with his sectumspempra curse, blowing his ear off. Moody was killed when Voldemort went after him and Mundungus, and he either was hit by a curse or fell off his broom; it is unclear.

Level 24

Mar 17, 2013

You should have added Lupin, Tonks, James, and Bellatrix.

Level 25

Mar 18, 2013

I did do a second quiz with a few on - Harry Potter characters by death II

Level 51

Apr 1, 2013

Hepzibiah has an i in it and should accept flobberworm, singular. great quiz though

Level 82

Apr 4, 2013

I wish this quiz was about 3 times longer.

Level 45

Apr 4, 2013

Accept Alastor Moody for Mad Eye? That was his name after all...

Level 61

Apr 18, 2013

no cedric diggory? he was the first character to die in the books.

Level 75

Oct 9, 2016

No, he wasn't.

Level 14

May 2, 2013

It wouldnt accept Moaning Mrytle but accepted Myrtle!

Level 19

May 2, 2013

i liked the quiz, a challenge for sure...but Snape wasn't killed in the Shrieking Shack...he was killed at the boathouse by the lake at Hogwarts....

Level 25

May 5, 2013

The clues reference the books, not necessarily the movies. In the book snape was killed in the shrieking shack

Level 44

May 20, 2013

Loved the quiz. Thanks.

Level 9

Jul 21, 2013

I've noticed that you have to answer in a specific order. Is there a chance that could be changed. i might know the answers to some that would come later, but not able to answer them before i reach them, which i will never do, because i can't answer them in order

Level 25

Jul 22, 2013

If you want to answer a different one, press the tab key until you reach it, or alternatively just click on the one you want to answer in

Level 36

Aug 3, 2013

great quiz LegendBlackKyurem 18/20 didn't know about myrtle and forgot about bode

Level 27

Oct 2, 2014

flobberworms lol

Level 77

Dec 1, 2014

"VoldeRmort then eaten by Nagini" - looks stupid with that random r that has invaded the word.

Level 18

Dec 21, 2014

Yeah, it's Version Voldemort, not Voldermort.

Level 23

Dec 24, 2014

GOT WITH 2:48 LEFT

Level 51

Dec 25, 2014

"muggle studies teacher" should be acceptable as answer for charity burbage, i had to google her name even though i knew exactly who you meant...

Level 75

Mar 8, 2015

Should also accept "that teacher who was floating above the table whose name I can't remember".

Level 51

Jan 29, 2015

didn't accept hepziba...

Level 21

Apr 14, 2015

Alistor Moody should be accepted for Mad Eye Moody too please.

Level 56

Jun 23, 2020

Its Alastor.

Level 32

Apr 16, 2015

No Cedric....he was first one

Level 75

Oct 9, 2016

Except for James, Lily, Sirius, Frank Bryce, Barty Crouch Sr, flobberworms...

Level 76

Feb 3, 2018

Sirius died a full book after Cedric. All of the others technically died off-screen, except possibly Frank Bryce. Certainly, Cedric was the first death that Harry actively witnessed in the narrative.

Level 75

May 15, 2019

I stand corrected on Sirius. No idea why I included him, I knew better. Harry was present at his mother's death and remembered bits of it although since she was covering him I suppose one couldn't actually say he witnessed it. I still don't think Cedric counts as the first one but it would have been interesting to include him since he was killed by Peter Pettigrew.

Level 66

Dec 12, 2023

you forgot my boy Quirinus Quirrell

Level 10

Aug 3, 2015

Got 12, not too bad! Had 'Flubberworms'.... SO CLOSE!

Level 17

Aug 13, 2015

Draco Malfoy killed Dumbledore, not Snape!!

Level 26

Aug 13, 2015

No, the whole point is that Draco is not bad enough to kill Dumbledore, so Snape does, because Dumbledore asked him to.

Level 76

Feb 3, 2018

Yeah, Draco defeated Dumbledore, which is why he (and later Harry) became the master of the Elder Wand, but Snape was the one who actually killed him.

Level 23

Aug 23, 2015

Should acsept TOM RIDDLE

Level 43

Aug 26, 2015

Great quiz!!

Level 22

Oct 9, 2015

I didn't even think of animals as a possibility, I think that the instructions were slightly misleading as animals aren't usually referred to as characters

Level 14

Nov 10, 2015

great quiz

Level 15

Sep 20, 2016

You should accept Crabbe for Vincent Crabbe

Level 44

Jan 27, 2017

19/20. How did I get Broderick Bode but not Dobby? *facepalm*

Level 61

Feb 18, 2017

In the books, Sirius wasn't hit by a Killing curse. he was knocked into the veil by an unnamed curse and died that way. Otherwise Harry wouldn't have thought he'd pop out the other side.

Level 52

Mar 3, 2017

Forgot about Hedwig, Aragog and Bode. I feel so stupid for forgetting the first two because I was thinking of animals!

Level 28

May 6, 2017

love this quiz!!

Level 57

Aug 5, 2017

I do think it's safe to assume that Moody was hit by a killing curse. Although it the book didn't explicitly state that, I feel as though Moody was probably powerful enough to use magic to survive a fall.

Level 48

Aug 22, 2017

Voldemort was a trigger-happy guess

Level 6

Nov 1, 2017

nice quiz.,i knew about the queen but i didnt know her name. hokey got blamed

Level 52

Nov 24, 2017

RAB for regalus black please

Level 63

Jan 8, 2018

I laughed at the Flobberworms reference. I probably wouldn't have gotten it though if I hadn't recently re-read the third book.

Level 55

May 4, 2018

"Voldemort in his father's old house after he was spotted by Nagini." This hint really suffers from vague pronoun use; does "his" refer to the subject of the clue, or to Voldemort? (From the answer, I guess it's the latter.)

Level 49

May 15, 2019

exactly

Level 51

Jun 27, 2018

for frank bryce I kept on typing old man, old dude, etc.

Level 52

Aug 26, 2018

You should add Bellatrix, Remus, Nymphadora, Cedric and the Basilisk

Level 89

Apr 15, 2019

People actually die in Harry Potter movies?

Level 22

Apr 16, 2019

Full marks! Where is Miss Hermione Granger?

No, but seriously, I love it when it's sly. Haha, you had me in stitches at 'too much lettuce'.

Level 15

May 9, 2019

the picture at the top, tho....

also: R.I.P. to every character mentioned on this quiz. excluding the flobberworms.

Level 72

May 14, 2019

Can you accept Flubberworm for those of us that used the audiobooks?

Level 72

May 14, 2019

Can you add RAB for Regulus Arcturus Black? It doesn't really matter but that's what I typed first.

Level 75

May 15, 2019

Fun quiz! My kids and I just made a new Harry Potter quiz - please check it out: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/102112/harry-potter-by-the-numbers

Level 47

May 16, 2019

Spoiler Alert!!!!! ;)

Level 29

Aug 14, 2020

For the 4th question, it’s Voldemort not VoldeRmort

Level 65

Mar 11, 2021

I'd welcome the acceptance of some alternate Myrtle spellings. Well at least "Mertle" anyway....

Level 28

May 25, 2021

I tried sir nicolas de mimsy porpington and the headless horseman- it makes sense to add those