Instructions

These questions need to be answered based on the first Harry Potter book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Questions: 

1. Describe Hermione Granger physically, then pick three adjectives that capture her personality and find three passages that support or demonstrate this.

2. Describe Ron Weasley physically, then pick three adjectives that capture his personality and find three passages that support or demonstrate this.

3. Describe Albus Dumbledore physically, then pick three adjectives that capture his personality and find three passages that support or demonstrate this.

4. Describe Rubeus Hagrid physically, then pick three adjectives that capture his personality and find three passages that support or demonstrate this.

5. What do sports symbolize?

6. Was Hermione justified to cast a spell on Neville?

7. Why did Ron sacrifice himself during the chess game in the chamber? Was it necessary?

8. What was significant about Harry’s confronting Quirrell alone?

9. What is the Sorcerer’s Stone, what does it do, and should it have been destroyed?

10. Why didn’t Dumbledore intervene in the rift between Harry and Snape? Do you think he should have?

11. What does the Mirror of Erised show and what does it symbolize?

12. Was it fair for Dumbledore to award so many points that the Gryffindors replaced the Slytherins as house champions?