Answers to the Other Riddle

The answer you’ll be getting is an anagram. The first set of numbers [in square brackets] denotes the length of the answer. The second set – after a hyphen – denotes a letter of particular importance.

1. Result of cross-breeding? Or faulty genetic engineering?
P.S. He’s not a nightingale. [7] – 3

Ans. Firenze.
He’s a centaur, a half-breed. And the name is the masculine form of Florence (The Florence Nightingale ?); therefore the ‘he’ has particular significance.

2. No gazing into its deep, deep eyes for sure. [8] - 2

Ans. Basilisk.
I think it is self-explanatory. Its looks can really kill.

3. We’re sure this spell’d be verrry useful when you have a bunch of Cornish Pixies loose. [10, 10] - 10

Ans. Peskipiksi Festernomi.
Maybe you don't remember. Maybe you do. It's the spell Gilderoy used in Book 2, against pixies.

4. If she’s as vain as that Greek guy, she’d better learn swimming [8] – 6

Ans. Narcissa.
Narcissa is the feminine version of Narcissus. Narcissus, if you'll remember was a vain guy in Greek mythology, who fell into a pool and drowned because,

1. he was staring at his own reflection

2. he didn't know swimming.

5. The toilets are not THAT private a place with her around [7,6] – 13

Ans. Moaning Myrtle.
I don’t think you would have forgotten her that easily. The friendly ghost who haunts toilets.

6. T’is easy. A Prankster, a Poltergeist … [6] – 6

Ans. Peeves.
The P! The P! Also he’s the only poltergeist we’ve met so far.

7. Opiumated and nursey [5,7] – 6

Ans. Poppy Pomfrey.
It's not 'opinionated', but 'opiumated'. Poppy? Opium? Geddit?

8. She can chase well. Better than an angry bull when it comes to large, red balls [5,4] – 7

Ans. Katie Bell.
Large, red balls in question are the quaffles. Quidditch chasers have to run after them, you see.

9. Not as sinister as her name, surely [8] – 3

Ans. Sinistra
She’s the Astronomy teacher.

10. Ve(e)la girl [5] – 5

Ans. Fleur.
Bill’s love interest in the plot as well a girl with killer good looks because of her veela lineage.

11. I swings more than mood swings [5] – 3

Ans. Moody.
The ‘swings’ is significant. It’s not just a grammatical error. The ‘I’ is used instead of the easier ‘eye’; both are homophones. And as we all know, a person with mood swings is, er, ‘moody’. Duh.

12. Acrophobia and motion sickness has no place here [9] – 7

Ans. Quidditch.
Oh come. You KNOW this.

Taking the letters, we get:

R A I S E S P E N R O T

An anagram of: SERPENSORTIA

It is the name of a spell used in Book 2 to make a snake appear.