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The Hardest Harry Potter Quiz You'll Ever Take

Think you know the Potterverse? Prove it September marks the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’s American arrival, following J. K. Rowling’s enchanting debut in the U.K. the previous summer . The book was dutifully translated , lest Americans readers determine that “sellotape” — that is, “Scotch tape” — must be one of those Wizarding neologisms alongside “Muggle” and “Quidditch. For last year’s British anniversary, TIME introduced the union of magic and science in our research-based Sorting Hat quiz , developed in partnership with personality experts at the University of Cambridge . In that same spirit, we now present a trivia contest based on our in-house data analysis of the complete text of the series, which is north of a million words long. Needless to say, the answers and following commentary contain copious spoilers.10 POINTS By Chris Wilson @CHRISWILSONDC - September 5th, 2018 0  POINTS The Hardest  Harry Potter  Fan...