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New spooky portraits await

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The unlucky wordsearch

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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The Forbidden Forest wordsearch 

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Good luck!

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The Peeves Challenge Quiz

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What did Professor loony loopy Lupin send straight up my left nostril? 

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Which of these foods is the best for throwing at Moaning Myrtle while calling her spotty? 

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What did Filch believe I had thrown down the stairs when it was potty wee Potter who did it? 

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If you want to create chaos at Hogwarts, which Hogsmeade shop would you go to?  

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Where is a great place to hide in Hogwarts when you want to belt out rude Christmas carols? 

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What curse did crackpot Potter use to stick my tongue to the roof of my mouth? 

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Which caretaker tried (and failed) to trap Peevesy in a giant bell jar in 1876? 

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If Peeves the mischief maker extraordinaire were to set a quiz, what kind of silliness would he include? We have studied the tricksy poltergeist very closely and come up with this Peeves-worthy challenge! 

The Hallowe'en at Hogwarts quiz

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In the Philosopher’s Stone book, what food was Harry helping himself to from the feast when Quirrell burst in?   

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How many house points were Harry and Ron awarded for defeating the troll? 

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In Chamber of Secrets book, why were Harry, Ron and Hermione not at the Hallowe’en feast? 

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Who was Petrified by the Basilisk on Hallowe’en? 

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In Harry’s third year, who broke into Hogwarts on Hallowe’en? 

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And which Hogwarts portrait did Sirius Black vandalise? 

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On Hallowe’en night, who was the first Triwizard Champion to be announced? 

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From trolls in the dungeon to Basilisks in the pipes – Hallowe’en at Hogwarts was always eventful! But what can you remember about this spooky holiday? Try our quiz and find out…

The werewolf wordsearch

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This puzzle will have you howling if you don't get them all quickly! Good luck! 

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The fear & Boggarts crossword

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Do not be afraid! But today's puzzle is indeed all about Boggarts and fears. So, channel your inner Remus Lupin for this one. 

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The extra hard wordsearch of scary things 

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Fill in the blank letters of these magical words and then, once you've figured them out, drag your cursor across the letters on the board.

How quickly can you find them all? As this is an extra-scary wordsearch, you only have one chance to get them right! We do enjoy a trick more than a treat sometimes... 

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Complete the quote quiz: ghosts of Hogwarts edition

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Moaning Myrtle: I do have feelings, you know, even if I am ___ 

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Fat Friar: Hope to see you in ___! ... My old house, you know.

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Peeves: And Voldy’s gone___, so now let’s have fun!  

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The Grey Lady: I stole the ___ from my mother.’ 

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Nearly Headless Nick: Well, this Hallowe’en will be my ___ deathday 

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Moaning Myrtle: ‘Wait till everyone finds out you’ve got ___!’ 

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Peeves: What is it this time, my fine Potty friend? Hearing voices? Seeing visions? Speaking in – ___?’  

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From Moaning Myrtle to Nearly Headless Nick, the ghosts (and the poltergeist) of Hogwarts certainly add some character to the castle. How well can you recall some of their most memorable lines?

The Hallowe'en at Hogwarts crossword

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Boo! We mean, good luck!

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The Hogwarts Legacy villains wordsearch

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Can you uncover these hidden villains?

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to put on Hallowe’en nights in New York

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Ah, spooky season! We can practically taste the pumpkin spice as we type. And down in New York, the award-winning production of *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* is putting on five special Hallowe’en themed evenings to celebrate, running every Tuesday across October. 

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## October 3rd: A Dark Mark takeover 

For the first of *Cursed Child* New York’s special evenings, you may find yourself surrounded by Death Eaters! Inconvenient! But don’t worry – Lord Voldemort hasn’t been recruiting. The Lyric Theatre are simply offering audience members temporary Dark Mark tattoos, alongside a special Dark Mark window card, signed by the cast. 

## October 10th: Bewitching beverages

You thought Butterbeer was delicious, but tonight, *Cursed Child* are serving up another lovely libation. For this performance, fans will get to sip on free samples of the non-alcoholic specialty autumnal beverage. This evening looks to be far more about treats than tricks in other ways too – with Hershey’s Chocolate World offering up a raffle in Times Square, alongside free seasonal treats for ticket-holders, courtesy of Chip City. 

## October 17th: Ghost stories and Hallowe’en pins 

Who doesn’t love a spooky ghost story this time of year? For attendees of this performance, you’ll be entertained by theatre historian Tim Dolan of Broadway Up Close, who will be enrapturing the Lyric with a few terrifying tales before the show. Brittany Zeinstra, who plays Moaning Myrtle in the New York production, will also be around to help make things extra spirited. 

No offence to Nearly Headless Nick, but this sounds a bit better than the mouldy cheese from his Deathday Party, doesn’t it?

There will also be an opportunity to discover a limited-edition *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* pin, especially created for Hallowe’en 2023. You’ll be practically floating with glee if you get your hands on one of these. 

## October 24th: A mind-bending panel 

The special effects in *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* are some of those magical in Broadway, and to celebrate, this evening’s themed event will feature a demonstration of mind-bending illusions for the first 100 people in line for tonight’s production. A special gift will be given out post-show for all patrons too!

## October 31st: Costume contests and pumpkins with pomp  

And of course, the big night itself! Hallowe’en evening at *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* is set to be a spooktacular (yep, we said it) extravaganza, with ticket-holders invited to an epic Harry Potter costume contest. The top 10 costumes will feature on the *Cursed Child* social channels – and there’ll even be a special photo op set up at the venue to make your costumes really shine. 

And it wouldn’t be Hallowe’en without a couple of pumpkins, would it? Professionally-carved pumpkins from Maniac Pumpkin Carvers will be on display in the lobby, so do make sure to take a few snaps.

You can learn about [Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s Hallowe’en evenings on the official website.](https://broadway.harrypottertheplay.com/)

The Death Eaters return for a Hallowe’en spectacular at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London 

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Starting 15th September to Sunday 5th November (that’s right, Hallowe’en season really isn’t that far away…) visitors to the [Studio Tour](https://www.wizardingworld.com/discover/experiences/warner-bros-studio-tour-london-the-making-of-harry-potter) will find the Harry Potter film sets once again adorned in Jack-o-Lanterns, cauldrons full of lollipops and, sorry to say it – but, troll snot.

Yes, it’s time to discover the darker side of the Wizarding World once again, as the Studio Tour experts take you behind-the-scenes of some of the murkier elements of the Harry Potter story, from the gloopy drool of Fluffy the three-headed dog, right up to Lord Voldemort and his menacing followers, the Death Eaters. And we’re not just talking props and costumes: visitors can expect dressed-up Death Eaters at the Tour, performing the wand choreography you remember from the films, as developed by wand choreographer extraordinaire, Paul Harris. 

Voldemort’s symbol, the Dark Mark, will be scattered around too, inviting brave visitors to track them, with the help of the Studio Tour’s official passport, which can help you navigate all of the Tour’s quiddities and curiosities. 

The return of the Studio Tour’s Dark Arts feature also means we are once again looking forward to new [‘Hogwarts After Dark’ events](https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/?utm_source=wwd_web&utm_medium=newsarticle&utm_campaign=WBSTLDarkArts). On the 5th and 6th October 2023, fans can gather together to enjoy canapés and smoking dry ice cocktails, then be seated for a lavish 2-course feast between the sets within the Studio Tour. Just watch out though - the Death Eaters will once again be looming. 

[Find out more from the Studio Tour website.](https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/) 

The scariest Harry Potter moments 

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Here are some of the most frightening incidents from the stories.

## Is that dog looking at me?

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> ‘Lumos,’ Harry muttered, and a light appeared at the end of his wand, almost dazzling him. He held it high over his head, and the pebble-dashed walls of number two suddenly sparkled; the garage door gleamed, and between them, Harry saw, quite distinctly, the hulking outline of something very big, with wide, gleaming eyes.<br>
>*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
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We’ll start off with one of the nicer ones. 

There are few more unsettling things than feeling like you’re being watched. When Harry caught the Knight Bus from Magnolia Crescent, he thought he could discern a mysterious (‘but massive’) dog skulking in the shadows. Back at Hogwarts, Ron unhelpfully suggested it might have been a Grim, which would have resulted in Harry’s immediate death. Thanks, Ron!

Later, during a game of Quidditch, he almost came off his broom when he saw ‘the silhouette of an enormous shaggy black dog’ in the otherwise empty top row of seats in the stand. As it happened, a pitch invasion of about a hundred Dementors made sure of that. The dog later dragged Ron into a gap of the roots of the Whomping Willow, breaking his leg in the process. Although it is soon revealed as Sirius, the sightings of the giant black dog provide the unsettling undercurrent throughout *Prisoner of Azkaban*.

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We get introduced to the wraith-like Dementors, guardians of Azkaban, in *Prisoner of Azkaban*. But it’s actually the opening of the *Order of the Phoenix* where they make their most frightening intervention. Up until this point, you might have been under the impression that Little Whinging was a relatively safe – positively boring - haven for Harry. But after a bitter altercation with Dudley, in which Harry threatened him with his wand, something strange happened.

> The balmy evening was suddenly piercingly, bitingly cold. They were surrounded by total, impenetrable, silent darkness, as though some giant hand had dropped a thick, icy mantle over the entire alleyway, blinding them.<br>
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The sound of ‘long, hoarse, rattling breaths’ can only mean one thing and the pair are swiftly ambushed by two Dementors. The smell of the Dementor’s putrid breath filling the air, his head a confusion of shrill laughter, all his happiness leaving him, it took all of Harry’s resolve to cast his Patronus to save Dudley from the Dementor crouched over him, preparing to kiss.

Harry Potter is full of deadly creatures – but the thought of having your soul sucked out is scarier than all of them put together. 

## When the Inferi made us never want to go back into the water

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Hordes of zombies can be disconcerting, at the best of times. Early on in *Half-Blood Prince*, when Dumbledore explained the origins of the Inferi to Harry – that they are dead bodies bewitched to do a Dark wizard’s bidding, and that Voldemort had killed enough people to make an army of them – perhaps we should have taken that as a strong warning of what was to come.

> A slimy white hand had gripped his wrist, and the creature to whom it belonged was pulling him, slowly, backwards across the rock. The surface of the lake was no longer mirror-smooth; it was churning, and everywhere Harry looked, white heads and hands were emerging from the dark water, men and women and children with sunken, sightless eyes were moving towards the rock: an army of the dead rising from the black water.<br>
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In this climactic sequence in the cave, Dumbledore was prostrate on the floor having drained a cup of potion one too many times. As Harry desperately tried to revive him, he was helpless to repel the numbers of Inferi climbing out of the icy water that surrounded them – he tried numerous ineffective spells in the process (in fact, you could say he had an *Inferi-ority* complex). Even Sectumsempra was useless when the assailants had no blood left to spill. Luckily, Dumbledore snapped out of it in time to unleash a huge ring of fire, which consumed the Inferi and led to their escape – but the mere memory of them still sends icy chills.

## That Bathilda Bagshot moment

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Following one of the most moving sequences in the stories, where Harry visited the grave of his parents, so cruelly murdered by Voldemort, the visit to Bathilda Bagshot’s cottage came as a huge shock. Maybe Harry and Hermione should have read the signs of the bad smell, or the poor state of Bathilda’s skin, or the fact that she doesn’t seem to be up for a chat. And certainly Bathilda’s seeming insistence for Harry to go upstairs with her, *just the two of them*. When he thought she had led him directly to the sword of Godric Gryffindor… Well, you know the rest… 

> And in the instant that he looked away, his eyes raking the tangled mess for a sword hilt, a ruby, she moved weirdly: he saw it out of the corner of his eye; panic made him turn and horror paralysed him as he saw the old body collapsing and the great snake pouring from the place where her neck had been.<br>
>*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows*
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## Harry encounters a baby Lord Voldemort at Kings Cross station 

> He recoiled. He had spotted the thing that was making the noises. It had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breath.<br>
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There is no more surreal and disturbing scene than when Harry awoke in a white space full of cloudy vapour – at some strange point between life and death. The place, it transpired, was King’s Cross, with its glittering glass roof high above him. It seemed empty, apart from the ‘thumping and whimpering noises’ coming from the horrible creature he then encountered, which he instinctively wanted to comfort, but it repulsed him too much. 

Dumbledore appeared in this dream-like space to explain how Harry was Voldemort’s seventh Horcrux and to relate his own history with Grindelwald, during which Harry has to ignore the creature whimpering behind them. It is a revelatory moment in the stories, but the creature’s presence makes it a strange and horrifying pause before Harry finally fulfils his destiny.

## Lavender’s horrible sweetheart necklace

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> ‘It’s from Lavender,’ said Ron, sounding revolted. ‘She can’t honestly think I’d wear…’<br>
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One for all you lovers out there… sometimes the scariest things can come in strange forms. Never mind giant spiders, Ron’s Christmas present from Lavender Brown in *Half-Blood Prince* had the power of nightmares, and the essence of bad dreams for many teenage boys. The thick gold chain might have been bad enough, but the large gold letters spelling the words *‘My Sweetheart’* certainly sealed the deal. We’re sure Lavender meant well, but the level of saccharine is too much to handle. 

What are some of your favourite (or least favourite) scary moments? Let us know on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/pottermore).

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## Hagrid

For Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds, the Forbidden Forest was practically his back garden. His fascination with its creatures showed him to be an eternally curious man with a need to champion the underdog.

The first time we saw Hagrid in the Forbidden Forest he was looking to rescue a unicorn. He clearly spent a lot of time there – it was where he hid his brother Grawp, after all, and as Care of Magical Creatures teacher, he usually used the forest as a good place to find beasts to teach his class about.

And then there was Aragog, Hagrid’s childhood friend who just so happened to be a giant, hairy, talking spider. That’s the Aragog who caused Hagrid’s expulsion from Hogwarts and offered Ron and Harry as lunch to his children, of course. Hagrid sure knew how to pick ’em.

We got an insight into why Hagrid was drawn to frightening creatures in *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire*, when the truth about his giantess mother emerged and he went into hiding. Dumbledore wouldn’t accept his resignation, refusing to judge Hagrid on his parentage – much like Hagrid, who refused to judge any creature on their frightening appearance.

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## Draco Malfoy

The Forbidden Forest showed Malfoy for what he was: a classic school bully, all sneering bravado and no actual bravery. Well, not in *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone*, anyway; then, he was a terrified first-year who tried to get out of entering the forest by calling it ‘servant stuff’, and implying that his father wouldn’t stand for such a punishment.

Malfoy often relied on his family name to intimidate others, as Hagrid found out in *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*, when Malfoy’s overreaction to a Hippogriff skirmish led to a death sentence for Buckbeak. Neville Longbottom was another particular target. In *Philosopher’s Stone* Malfoy deliberately frightened Neville in the Forbidden Forest, causing Hagrid to partner Malfoy up with Harry instead.

It was all a bluff, though. When Harry and Malfoy came face to face with a certain someone drinking the blood of a unicorn, it was Malfoy who ran. He didn’t even have the presence of mind of Neville, who at least remembered Hagrid’s instruction to send up red sparks.

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## Ron

If Malfoy was all bravado and no bravery, then Ron was the exact opposite. In *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* Ron revealed he was frightened of spiders.

‘You wouldn’t like them either if you’d been holding your bear and suddenly it had too many legs…’ he says to Hermione, about the time Fred turned his teddy bear into a giant spider.

He might have been terrified, but when Hermione was attacked by the creature lurking in the Chamber of Secrets and the only way of getting answers was to follow the spiders, Ron put his fears aside. He and Harry followed those spiders to the Forbidden Forest where they came face to face with Aragog and his many hungry children.

Ron’s terror when he saw Aragog was obvious. He never tried to hide his fear, but he also never hid behind it. Ron had his faults, but he was honest and brave and those are traits that served him well, inside and outside the Forbidden Forest.

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## Hermione

In their first year Hermione helped Harry get the Philosopher’s Stone by solving Snape’s Potions puzzle, for which she was rewarded 50 points. Dumbledore praised her ‘use of cool logic in the face of fire’.

It’s a statement that sums up a lot about Hermione. Her quick thinking got Harry and Ron out of many a fix, and in *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* she really held her nerve. When the members of Dumbledore’s Army were caught in Umbridge’s office, Umbridge prepared to use the Cruciatus Curse to force Harry to reveal what they were doing. Hermione stopped Umbridge by pretending they were hiding a weapon in the Forbidden Forest, tricking her into following them.

In the Forest, Hermione attracted the attention of the centaurs, counting on Umbridge to reveal her worst prejudices. Umbridge obliged, calling the centaurs ‘filthy half-breeds’. Hermione didn’t quite get it right, as the centaurs resented her presumption, but she still managed to get out of a tricky situation.

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## Harry

Harry’s experiences in the Forbidden Forest were mostly chaotic and they often had some connection to Voldemort, as he learnt more about his destiny and the people around him.

But in *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows* – at the close – Harry experienced a calmer moment in the Forest. He whispered those words to the Snitch left to him by Dumbledore, and as it opened to reveal the Resurrection Stone he saw his family, waiting to accompany him as he offered his life to Voldemort.

The Forbidden Forest was often dark and frightening but in the end, it was not the place in which Voldemort killed Harry. It was the place where Harry finally understood, the place where he saw his loved ones, and the place where he came back.

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Want to watch [Claudia Kim and Dakota Fanning reading Chapter Fifteen, 'The Forbidden Forest' again? You can find it here](https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-forbidden-forest). 

Ghostly Helping: 6 times ghosts were more friendly than frightening

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### That time Nearly Headless Nick caused a commotion to distract Filch 

> ‘‘‘Harry! Harry! Did it work?’
> Nearly Headless Nick came gliding out of a classroom. Behind him, Harry could see the wreckage of a large black and gold cabinet which appeared to have been dropped from a great height.
> ‘I persuaded Peeves to crash it right over Filch’s office,’ said Nick eagerly. ‘Thought it might distract him –’
> ‘Was that you?’ said Harry gratefully. ‘Yeah, it worked, I didn’t even get detention. Thanks, Nick!’’

### That time Moaning Myrtle revealed the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets…  

> ‘…They said something funny. A different language, I think it must have been. Anyway, what really got me was that it was a boy speaking. So I unlocked the door, to tell him to go and use his own toilet, and then –’ Myrtle swelled importantly, her face shining, ‘I died.’
> ‘How?’ said Harry.
> ‘No idea,’ said Myrtle in hushed tones. ‘I just remember seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away ...’ She looked dreamily at Harry. ‘And then I came back again. I was determined to haunt Olive Hornby, you see. Oh, she was sorry she’d ever laughed at my glasses.’
> ‘Where exactly did you see the eyes?’ said Harry.
> ‘Somewhere there,’ said Myrtle, pointing vaguely towards the sink in front of her toilet.’

### That time Peeves gave Umbridge the farewell from Hogwarts she deserved…  

> ‘Professor Umbridge left Hogwarts the day before the end of term. It seemed she had crept out of the hospital wing during dinnertime, evidently hoping to depart undetected, but unfortunately for her, she met Peeves on the way, who seized his last chance to do as Fred had instructed, and chased her gleefully from the premises whacking her alternately with a walking stick and a sock full of chalk. 
> Many students ran out into the Entrance Hall to watch her running away down the path and the Heads of Houses tried only half-heartedly to restrain them. Indeed, Professor McGonagall sank back into her chair at the staff table after a few feeble remonstrances and was clearly heard to express a regret that she could not run cheering after Umbridge herself, because Peeves had borrowed her walking stick.’

### That time the Grey Lady helped Harry work out the location of Ravenclaw’s lost diadem…  

> "‘And ... and the diadem?’
> ‘It remained where I had hidden it when I heard the Baron blundering through the forest towards me. Concealed inside a hollow tree.’
> ‘A hollow tree?’ repeated Harry. ‘What tree? Where was this?’
> ‘A forest in Albania. A lonely place I thought was far beyond my mother’s reach.’
> ‘Albania,’ repeated Harry. Sense was emerging miraculously from confusion, and now he understood why she was telling him what she had denied Dumbledore and Flitwick. ‘You’ve already told someone this story, haven’t you? Another student?’
> She closed her eyes and nodded.
> ‘I had ... no idea ... he was ... flattering. He seemed to ... to understand ... to sympathise ...’
> Yes, Harry thought, Tom Riddle would certainly have under- stood Helena Ravenclaw’s desire to possess fabulous objects to which she had little right.
> ‘Well, you weren’t the first person Riddle wormed things out of,’ Harry muttered. ‘He could be charming when he wanted ...'"

### That time Moaning Myrtle helped the Hogwarts Champions out with their Triwizard clues…  

> "Oh ... I see ...’ said Myrtle, picking at a spot on her chin in a morose sort of way. ‘Well ... anyway ... I’d try the egg in the water. That’s what Cedric Diggory did.’
> ‘Have you been spying on him, too?’ said Harry indignantly. ‘What d’you do, sneak up here in the evenings to watch the Prefects take baths?’
> ‘Sometimes,’ said Myrtle, rather slyly, ‘but I’ve never come out to speak to anyone before.’
> ‘I’m honoured,’ said Harry darkly. ‘You keep your eyes shut!’
> He made sure Myrtle had her glasses well covered before hoisting himself out of the bath, wrapping the towel firmly around himself and going to get the egg.
> Once he was back in the water, Myrtle peered through her fingers and said, ‘Go on, then ... open it under the water!"

### That time Peeves fought for good in the Battle of Hogwarts… 

> “Harry, Ron and Hermione raised their wands at once, ready to strike, but the duellers were weaving and darting around so much that there was a strong likelihood of hurting one of their own side if they cast curses. Even as they stood braced, looking for the opportunity to act, there came a great ‘wheeeeeeeeeeee!’ and, looking up, Harry saw Peeves zooming over them, dropping Snargaluff pods down on to the Death Eaters, whose heads were suddenly engulfed in wriggling, green tubers like fat worms."


Your roundup of all the spooky Wizarding World crafts this Hallowe’en

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## Try our Make it Magic Hallowe’en crafts…
If you enjoy nothing more than filling your home with Hallowe’en creations, you needn’t look any further than our Make it Magic video. We have five completely different crafts for you to get stuck into. Watch our video and learn how to make menacing bug filled lanterns, paper pumpkins, balloon owls, scary spiders and even house themed banners. 

[Download the Gryffindor house mascot here](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/5WNpP2Wf0IK8yGJSWJmelJ/587ef05929f8165a97c4ee07141b2361/MiM_House_Mascots_G.pdf)

[Download the Slytherin house mascot here](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/3n1NtEKZJEWBVzyTwEq6F8/07abbb55fcd4906b43781a7221959dc7/MiM_House_Mascots_S.pdf)

[Download the Hufflepuff house mascot here](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/2e6zd30uvtaT678MoWVP1w/12f01c59bb3b54978927b2861dadde9c/MiM_House_Mascots_H.pdf)

[Download the Ravenclaw house mascot here](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/jMSIsSjwrLcpPG5U1W3Em/720bbfba1daf38f99865d50f0b92003b/MiM_House_Mascots_R.pdf)

*__This video involves sharp tools, so adults should always supervise children__*

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## Carve your own wizarding pumpkins…
Nothing quite says Hallowe’en like carving a pumpkin and we’ve got the perfect templates for you. Watch as the Pumpkin Freak shows you how to carve your very own magical designs in his video tutorials. If you’re looking for something basic, why not try the Snitch? Or if you fancy a challenge, you should give the Hogwarts crest a go. If that’s not enough, you can also download step-by-step guides as well as both templates from our website.

[Download your Hogwarts crest here](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/3JCosfZF09FvTlr3xUexC7/782494f7de20db7fd63b8d4efae7bae0/HP20th_20Moments_Pumpkins_Moment12_PumpkinCarving_Crest_220x310mm.pdf)

[Download your Snitch here!](https://assets.ctfassets.net/usf1vwtuqyxm/1ZpQw6npgZaxQcNC9CmjH8/5f334864c40bc64fc71e9c7c6e244e32/HP20th_20Moments_Pumpkins_Moment12_PumpkinCarving_Snitch_220x310mm.pdf)

*__This video involves sharp tools, so adults should always supervise children__*

From pumpkin carving to making your own eerie lanterns, there are plenty of excellent wizarding Hallowe’en crafts that you can try at home. Here’s a roundup of all the creepy creations that you need for this spooky season…

Is there a ghostly chill in the air? Or is that just Nearly Headless Nick? Yes, if you are on this page, it is likely to be near to Hallowe'en season! Or - maybe you just love Hallowe'en all year round and you came here anyway. Either way, enjoy this little collection of the best spooky delights from the wizarding world. From pumpkin pasties to poltergeists, embrace your Hallowe'en spirit with us.

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