75+ Harry Potter Would You Rather Questions
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A good harry potter would you rather question doesn't ask which chapter you liked best. It asks whether you'd take a wand that always works but only for small spells, or a powerful one that fails once every five tries — and then it sits back and watches a perfectly calm room turn into a debate club. If you grew up on wizarding-school stories, you already have opinions about wands, houses, brooms and unfairly strict teachers. This page just gives them somewhere to go.
Below are 78 questions across six categories, built for a themed party, a sleepover, a rainy classroom afternoon or a long car ride where somebody has already asked "are we there yet" four times. They need no props, no board, no screen — just one person willing to read the first one out loud.
A quick note: this is an unofficial, fan-made list. It isn't affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by the author, the publisher or the film studio. Every question is written around general wizarding-school ideas — a magic wand, a house sorting, a flying broom sport, a potions class — rather than anything lifted from the books or films, so nobody needs to have memorised a single page to play. And if you'd rather skip straight to playing, the free game on this site deals out questions one at a time with live vote percentages.
Why Wizarding Questions Make Great Debates
Fans arrive with opinions already loaded. Ask a group what they'd do with a spare afternoon and you get shrugs. Ask whether they'd rather be sorted into the house they want or the house that genuinely suits them, and three people start talking at once. Fandom questions skip the warm-up entirely, because everybody has already spent years quietly deciding where they'd belong.
The world is built out of trade-offs. That's what makes it such good raw material. Magic in these stories always costs something — power comes with danger, talent comes with pressure, and the impressive thing is rarely the practical thing. So the questions write themselves: speed or control, fame or competence, a spell that saves you once or a skill that helps you forever. There's no obviously correct answer, which is the entire point of the game.
It works across every age at the table. A seven-year-old will happily argue about riding a dragon. A teenager will argue about the house sorting. An adult will quietly admit they've thought about which subject they'd have been worst at. Because the questions run on imagination rather than trivia knowledge, the youngest player is never at a disadvantage — and that's rare for anything fandom-related.
It's nostalgia with a job to do. Plenty of fandom activities are just quizzes, and quizzes reward whoever re-read the series most recently. These reward whoever argues best, which is far more fun to listen to and far easier to join late.
And it travels well. These questions cost nothing to run and need nothing to set up, which makes them equally useful in a car, a queue, a classroom on the last day of term, or a party where the food isn't ready yet. You don't need a screen, a pen or a single prop — just the list and one person willing to start.
78 Wizarding Would You Rather Questions, Sorted Into 6 Categories
Start here. Everyone has already decided what kind of wizard they'd be, and this section makes them defend it out loud.
- Would you rather have a wand that always works but only for tiny spells, or a powerful one that fails once every five tries?
- Would you rather choose your own wand or have the wand choose you?
- Would you rather be able to repair anything broken or clean any mess with a single flick?
- Would you rather cast every spell silently or have to shout every single word?
- Would you rather be brilliant at protective magic or brilliant at healing magic?
- Would you rather summon anything you've ever lost or seal anything you own so nobody else can open it?
- Would you rather turn invisible for one minute or float weightlessly for one hour?
- Would you rather your magic grow stronger when you're perfectly calm or when you're absolutely furious?
- Would you rather light up any dark room from your fingertips or start a fire with a single look?
- Would you rather lose your wand for a week or lose your voice for spellcasting for a day?
- Would you rather carry a wand that hums whenever you tell a lie or one that glows when someone near you is lying?
- Would you rather be able to unlock any door or make any door open somewhere new?
- Would you rather have magic nobody can see or magic everybody can see but nobody understands?
Castles, dormitories, staircases that move when you're halfway up them. This is the section that starts the longest arguments.
- Would you rather be sorted into the house you've always wanted or the house that genuinely suits you best?
- Would you rather sleep in a tower dormitory with a view or a warm cellar one under the lake?
- Would you rather deal with staircases that move while you're standing on them or a corridor that only appears on Tuesdays?
- Would you rather have talking portraits in every hallway or suits of armour that follow you around?
- Would you rather eat at a feast that never runs out or have a kitchen that cooks whatever you imagine?
- Would you rather get your school letter delivered by owl or watch it appear in your bedroom mirror?
- Would you rather share a room with someone who mutters spells in their sleep or someone who sets off small explosions before breakfast?
- Would you rather have a headteacher who is terrifying but fair or lovely but completely useless?
- Would you rather take a long enchanted train to school or step through a portal in your kitchen cupboard?
- Would you rather have homework that marks itself or a textbook that reads itself aloud to you?
- Would you rather win the house points cup or the school sports trophy?
- Would you rather know a secret passage nobody else has found or own a map showing where everyone in the castle is?
- Would you rather wear robes that never get dirty or shoes that never let your feet get tired?
Brooms, broken bones and bad weather. Ask these outdoors and somebody will start miming a dive within thirty seconds.
- Would you rather ride a very fast broom that's hard to steer or a slow one that will never let you fall?
- Would you rather guard the goals or chase the fastest ball in the game?
- Would you rather fly high and freezing above the clouds or low and fast between the trees?
- Would you rather be the best flyer in your school or the best duellist?
- Would you rather play a whole match in pouring rain or in fog so thick you can't see the other team?
- Would you rather own a broom that can outrun anything or one that can turn invisible mid-air?
- Would you rather score the winning point or make the save that wins the match?
- Would you rather fly on a broomstick or on the back of an enormous bird?
- Would you rather crash spectacularly and walk away laughing or never crash but never win?
- Would you rather be team captain or the loudest fan in the stands?
- Would you rather fly a battered broom passed down through your family or a brand-new one nobody has touched?
- Would you rather commentate on every match or referee every match?
- Would you rather fly to school every morning through the weather or arrive instantly and miss the view?
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- Would you rather look after a three-headed guard dog or a nest of fire-breathing lizards?
- Would you rather have an owl that delivers your post or a cat that can tell when someone is lying to you?
- Would you rather meet a friendly giant or a very small, very rude goblin?
- Would you rather ride a dragon once or talk to any animal for the rest of your life?
- Would you rather keep a creature that changes shape whenever it likes or one that turns invisible whenever it's scared?
- Would you rather feed a herd of winged horses or groom one extremely grumpy unicorn?
- Would you rather have a house spirit that tidies while you sleep or a garden creature that makes anything you plant grow overnight?
- Would you rather befriend a giant spider or a sea serpent?
- Would you rather live with a creature that hoards your socks or one that hoards your homework?
- Would you rather understand every snake or every bird?
- Would you rather keep a fire-bird that keeps setting your curtains alight or a tiny dragon that keeps escaping?
- Would you rather cross a forest full of centaurs or a lake full of merfolk?
- Would you rather have a magical creature that follows you everywhere or one that only turns up when you're in trouble?
Bubbling cauldrons, biting plants and exams nobody revised for. Older players get unexpectedly emotional about this one.
- Would you rather be brilliant at potions and hopeless at flying, or the other way round?
- Would you rather brew a potion that gives you luck for one day or courage for one week?
- Would you rather study ancient writing nobody can read or learn to see the future in tea leaves?
- Would you rather your potion explode all over the classroom or quietly turn your teacher's hair green?
- Would you rather make any plant grow instantly or identify any ingredient by smell alone?
- Would you rather sit the hardest exam of your life with no notes or teach the class you're worst at?
- Would you rather drink a potion that shows you your worst memory or one that shows you your future?
- Would you rather own a cauldron that never burns anything or a knife that chops perfectly on its own?
- Would you rather revise in a library where the books argue with you or one where they whisper answers that are wrong half the time?
- Would you rather be taught by a ghost or by someone who is secretly a creature in disguise?
- Would you rather learn to turn objects into animals or animals into objects?
- Would you rather have lessons in a greenhouse full of biting plants or a dungeon full of bubbling cauldrons?
- Would you rather forget an entire year of magical training or be made to repeat it?
Magic going gloriously wrong. Save this section for last, because once you start it nobody wants to play anything else.
- Would you rather own a hat that insults you every morning or a mirror that compliments you insincerely?
- Would you rather wear robes that change colour with your mood or robes that shrink every time you tell a lie?
- Would you rather be followed everywhere by a small rain cloud or a very loud invisible band?
- Would you rather sneeze glitter or hiccup bubbles?
- Would you rather have a broom that refuses to fly on Mondays or a wand that only works while you're singing?
- Would you rather turn into a frog for one hour a day or speak only in rhyme for a whole week?
- Would you rather own a portrait of yourself that gossips about you or a diary that corrects your spelling out loud?
- Would you rather be haunted by a polite ghost who never leaves or a rude one who visits twice a week?
- Would you rather have every meal taste of exactly one flavour or every drink change flavour at random?
- Would you rather have shoes that wander off without you or a hat that flies away every time you step outside?
- Would you rather duel your own reflection or your own shadow?
- Would you rather accidentally turn your teacher into a chair or your best friend into a teapot?
- Would you rather be famous across the magical world for something embarrassing or completely unknown but genuinely brilliant?
Play It at a Themed Party
Sort everyone into teams first. The single best thing you can do at a themed party is split guests into four groups before you read a question. Write four made-up house names on scraps of paper, let people draw one blind, and suddenly strangers have a side. Read a question, give each team sixty seconds to agree on an answer, then one speaker per team defends it in a single sentence. Teams that can't agree lose their turn, which is funnier than it sounds.
Run a house-points variation. Award one point for the best argument and a bonus point for the funniest, judged by whoever's hosting — an openly unfair judge is part of the entertainment. Keep a running tally somewhere everyone can see it, and hand out ridiculous point deductions for interrupting, groaning or saying "both". Twelve questions is usually enough for a full round; a whole category of thirteen makes a proper tournament.
Try sleepover rounds. With a smaller group, drop the teams and play in a circle. Everyone answers the same question in turn, and the last person to answer has to justify their pick without repeating a reason anyone else gave. It slows the game down in a good way, and it's perfect for the part of the night when nobody wants to move but nobody wants to sleep either. The Silly Wizarding Scenarios section is the one to keep in reserve for midnight.
Or make it the arrival activity. Print one category, leave it on a table, and let early guests work through it while you're still cutting up food. It solves the awkward first twenty minutes better than any playlist.
For Younger Fans
For children roughly five to eight, stick to Magical Creatures, Silly Wizarding Scenarios and most of Magic & Wands. All three run purely on imagination — dragons, invisible bands, sneezing glitter — and need no knowledge of any story at all. Little kids answer these instantly and then keep going with their own inventions, which is usually the best part of the game.
Flying & Magical Sports works well from about seven upwards, once a child has played enough team sport to care about the difference between scoring and saving. A couple of picks involve crashing, which most children find hilarious rather than worrying, but you know your audience.
One small trick makes the whole thing work better with a mixed-age group: let the youngest player go first. If an eight-year-old picks the dragon and explains why, everyone older has to build on that rather than talk over it — and children who'd normally go quiet in a room of adults end up setting the terms of the argument. It costs nothing and it changes the tone of the entire round.
Life at a Wizard School and Potions & Classes are the two to save for older kids and teenagers. They lean on things like exams, being sorted somewhere you didn't want and choosing between a subject you love and one you're good at — real trade-offs that land harder once school has started to feel like something with consequences. Read the same questions to adults and you'll get the longest answers of the night.
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Do you need to have read the books to play?
No. Every question here is written around general wizarding-school ideas — wands, houses, flying lessons, potions, magical creatures — so anyone who has ever seen a fantasy film can answer. Superfans will bring more opinions to the argument, but nobody gets locked out for not knowing the details.
Are these wizarding would you rather questions kid-friendly?
Yes, all of them are clean and family-safe. The magic, creatures and silly sections are the gentlest and work well from about age five. A few of the school-life and potions picks involve exams, being sorted somewhere you didn't want, or facing something a bit scary — so read those with your audience in mind.
Are these good for a themed party?
They're one of the easiest party activities going. Split guests into four teams, read a question, and award a point to whichever team argues its side best. It needs no props, fills the awkward first twenty minutes while people arrive, and gets louder as the night goes on.
Is this an official Harry Potter question list?
No. This is an unofficial, fan-made list. It isn't affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by the author, the publisher or the film studio, and the questions are built from generic wizarding-school ideas rather than anything taken from the books or films.
Can I play would you rather online instead?
Yes — play the free Would You Rather game right here. It deals out questions one at a time and shows live vote percentages from everyone else who answered, so you can see whether your group is weird or perfectly normal. No download and no sign-up, on any phone.
