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#HarryPotterBookNight
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Kick off this special year
with Harry Potter Book Night, a global event that’s all about passing on the magic of J.K. Rowling’s
amazing books to the next generation of readers, as well as celebrating with devoted fans. We are
delighted that you will be joining our celebration by hosting your own Harry Potter Book Night event!
This year’s magical theme is Fantastic Beasts.
In this kit you will find all the inspiration and practical resources you will need to host a magical
event—whether it is in a school, library, bookstore, or community setting.
From invitations to suggested readings, from magical games to wizarding worksheets, this kit has a
myriad of spellbinding suggestions to help you enchant your audience.
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Plan Ahead
One week before your event, photocopy a supply of the activity sheets and gather plenty of pencils,
pens, markers, and any other necessary supplies for the games and activities you decide to do.
On event day, set up chairs and cushions for people to sit on, and tables for activities.
1. HAGRID’S HUT
Rubeus Hagrid is the Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. He also teaches the Care of Magical
Creatures classes at Hogwarts and is fascinated by rare (and dangerous) beasts.
Students meet outside Hagrid’s hut for Care of Magical Creatures class. The classes often happen outside,
in surrounding paddocks, or on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest.
Here are some decorating ideas:
1. A sign reading HAGRID’S HUT.
2. A large wooden table covered with large teapots, massive mugs, and plates of rock cakes.
3. A large iron cage with copies of The Monster Book of Monsters in it.
4. A long table with twigs (Bowtruckles) on it.
5. Use yellow, orange, and red paper to make a crackling fire. Set a black dragon’s egg inside.
6. Design a cover for Dragon-Breeding for Pleasure and Profit and set it on a chair by the fire along
with copies of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
7. Set Fang’s dog basket on the floor and hang pictures of hams and pheasants from the ceiling.
8. Harry and his friends study many beasts in their Care of Magical Creatures classes. Write
the beasts’ names on a large blackboard: Blast-Ended Skrewts, Bowtruckles, Crups,
Flobberworms, Hippogriffs, Knarls, Kneazles, Porlocks, Nifflers, salamanders, and unicorns.
9. Don’t forget to include Hagrid’s battered pink umbrella!
2. A MAGIZOOLOGIST’S LIBRARY
To recreate your own corner of a Magizoologist’s library, gather a collection of books with jackets you’ve
made featuring these titles:
• The Monster Book of Monsters
• Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland
• From Egg to Inferno, A Dragon Keeper’s Guide
• Dragon-Breeding for Pleasure and Profit
• Dreadful Denizens of the Deep
• Fowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality
Don’t forget to include your copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from the Hogwarts Library,
as well as the newly illustrated edition.
6. OWL POST
Write the names of Hogwarts students—and/or those attending your event—on a selection of cream
envelopes and then suspend them from the ceiling, using threads of cotton, or place them on shelves or
around a fireplace to create the illusion of the arrival of the owl postal service.
If you have any plush owl toys, you could even attach the envelopes to their beaks for maximum effect.
TRANSFORM . . . INTO . . .
Cream Sodas or Root Beer Floats Butterbeer
Still or Sparkling Water Gillywater
Apple Juice or Orange Soda Pumpkin Juice
Lollypops Acid Pops
Licorice Sticks Licorice Wands
Jelly Beans Bernie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans
Red-Hot Cinnamon Candies Pepper Imps
Cupcakes Cauldron Cakes
SORTING CEREMONY
We suggest you begin your Harry Potter Book Night event with the Sorting Ceremony to sort your
guests into the four Hogwarts houses.
If you have a group of more than 30 guests, consider how to adapt this activity to suit your number of
would-be wizards and witches. You may want to assign houses to classes or year groups prior to the
night, or you could have more than one Sorting Hat to speed up the process.
WHAT TO DO:
Prepare by placing pieces of paper with
GRYFFINDOR, HUFFLEPUFF, RAVENCLAW, and
SLYTHERIN into a box or container. You’ll need one
piece of paper for each child attending.
You can read the Sorting Hat song to get people
in the mood (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,
Chapter 7, pages 125–126), or you could print out
a large copy of the words and have everyone sing it
together.
One by one get your guests to sit on the chair and
place the Sorting Hat on their head, while they select
a piece of paper with their house name from the
container.
You can find out more about each of the houses and
their characteristics at harrypotterbooknight.com.
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WHAT TO DO:
Divide your group into teams of four or five.
You can play as many rounds of this game
as you like; just make sure each member
of the team has a chance to be a Wizard
Actor or Wizard Artist—see below.
For each round, select one player from the team. This
player then decides whether they are a Wizard Actor
or a Wizard Artist.
The Wizard Actor or Wizard Artist pulls out one piece of
paper from the container and they have one minute to
describe or draw their beast to their team without
speaking. Wizard Actors can use charades and
Wizard Artists must draw their beast.
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ON GUARD!
A Magizoologist needs to be aware of how to protect themselves from, or placate, the magical beasts
they study, just in case things get out of hand!
Divide the group into teams of three or four and give each team a set of these cards—you will need to
make copies and cut them out ahead of time. Have the groups match the defense to the beast it would
work against.
Lethifold Bowtruckle
Fwooper Yeti
Erkling Ashwinder
Bundimun Werewolf
Sphinx Avoid!
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xx Harmless/may be domesticated
x Boring
1. Acromantula 6. Horklump
2. Chimaera 7. Lethifold
3. Chizpurfle 8. Niffler
4. Dragon 9. Troll
5. Flobberworm
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MY MAGIZOOLOGIST PROFILE
Fill in the card below to create your own Magizoologist profile.
• Which fantastic beast would be your specialist subject?
• Which country would you most like to visit to further your fieldwork studies of fantastic
beasts?
• Don’t forget to draw your favorite beast too.
• When you’re done, cut out the card and fold it in half. You can keep it in your pocket!
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BEAST SEARCH!
Find these magical creatures in the grid below. Words can
read up, down, across, diagonally, and backwards.
ACROMANTULA
S Y A B V H O R K L U M P
BASILISK
BEAST
CRUP A N E C K X I N E O H P O
DOXY
FLOBBERWORM L E A T S D L T D A O F G
GHOUL
GLUMBUMBLE A F I L I O U S E C D L R
GNOME
GRIFFIN M F E X L X O A F R A O E
GRINDYLOW
HIPPOGRIFF A I L E I Y H E I O G B B
HODAG
HORKLUMP N R B L S P G B G M N B I
IMP
KAPPA D G M Z A Y R A N A O E N
KNARL
KNEAZLE E O U A B E P I S N M R I
MOKE
NIFFLER R P B E D P F M H T E W F
PHOENIX
PIXIE O P M N A F O P I U E O F
PLIMPY
POGREBIN B I U K I K N A R L I R L
SALAMANDER
SNALLYGASTER E H L R E C R U P A P M E
TEBO
THUNDERBIRD
T J G R I N D Y L O W K R
YETI
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DRAGON SPOTTING
There are ten known breeds of dragon. Can you spot the right dragon from the given clue? Draw
a line to match the clue with the dragon, and see if you would make a good dragon handler like
Charlie Weasley!
PERUVIAN VIPERTOOTH
Silvery-blue in color, and also
breathes blue flame
ROMANIAN LONGHORN
Pearly scales and multicolored eyes
SWEDISH SHORT-SNOUT
Green scales and a melodious roar
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Round 1:
Cute and Furry
Round 2:
Feathered Beasts
Round 3:
Vicious and
Venomous
Round 4:
Miscellaneous
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Question 2 for 20 points: What kind of trees do Bowtruckles Question 2 for 20 points: The griffin has the front legs and
normally live in? head of which animal?
Answer: Wand-trees Answer: A giant eagle
Question 3 for 50 points: Fred and George Weasley breed Question 3 for 50 points: Which beast, known by the
miniature Puffskeins to sell at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. nickname of “Hairy MacBoon,” is found on the Isle of Drear
What name do they give these miniature creatures? in Scotland?
Answer: Pygmy Puffs Answer: The Quintaped
Question 4 for 100 points: How can you tell the difference Question 4 for 100 points: There are three types of troll:
between a Knarl and a hedgehog? mountain, forest, and river. In their first year at Hogwarts,
Answer: Offer them all food. The Knarl will savage your Harry, Ron, and Hermione defeat a troll. What type was it?
garden, as it will think you’re trying to trick it. Answer: Mountain
Question 5 for 150 points: What kind of a dog does a Crup Question 5 for 150 points: Name three of the ten known
look like? breeds of dragon. Bonus 50 points if you can name two
Answer: A Jack Russell terrier additional breeds.
Answer: Common Welsh Green, Hungarian Horntail,
Round 2: FEATHERED BEASTS Antipodean Opaleye, Norwegian Ridgeback, Swedish
Question 1 for 10 points: What is the name of Dumbledore’s Short-Snout, Chinese Fireball (also known as Liondragon),
faithful phoenix? Hebridean Black, Peruvian Vipertooth, Romanian Longhorn,
Answer: Fawkes and Ukrainian Ironbelly
HOUSE NAME:
1. 10 points
2. 20 points
3. 50 points
4. 100 points
5. 150 points
ROUND SCORE:
1. 10 points
2. 20 points
3. 50 points
4. 100 points
5. 150 points
ROUND SCORE:
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1. 10 points
2. 20 points
3. 50 points
4. 100 points
5. 150 points
ROUND SCORE:
ROUND 4: MISCELLANEOUS
1. 10 points
2. 20 points
3. 50 points
4. 100 points
5. 150 points
ROUND SCORE:
TOTAL SCORE:
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ANSWER SHEET
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