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.

*Drumrolls* Another Riddler

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.
It's relatively easier than the previous riddle. But even then, some of it's answers are drawn from deep expeditions into the world of Harry Potter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Opiumated and nursey [5,7] – 6

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

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

10. Ve(e)la girl [5] – 5

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

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

And there you GO.

Answer: Arsenius Jigger

[>>Sahil got that one. =D]

The smarter ones might have guessed this by checking up book-lists that Hogwarts students receive every term. What makes it easy is that throughout the book, only one Potions book had been recommended. And that's th one in Book 1.

However, if you want the links between the answer and the poem, here you are:

The ‘she’ is Perenelle Flamel, wife of Nicolas Flamel. The ‘he’ is Nicolas himself. Bumblebee translates to Dumbledore in Latin. He finished off Grindlewald in 1945. Throughout all the books, the only other pieces of information regarding Perenelle and Grindlewald are that she lived to be 658 (the poem hints at her age) and that Grindlewald was killed in 1945 (the poem hints at his death).

If you play around with both these numerical values, you’ll find that,

6 + 5 + 8 = 19
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 = 1
and,

1 + 9 + 4 + 5 = 19
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 = 1

If you can actually get to this part, you’ll see, that in a numerical sequence, ‘A’ is the first letter and ‘J’ is the tenth letter.

However, to make it easier, there is, like I said, only one Potions’ book author mentioned.

So you Thought You Knew it All?

She drank the elixir to stay alive
Her husband too, so did strive
She was, I must say, rather old
Now, you know that. Need you be told?
And he was (in Latin) Bumblebee's great friend
The same who took Grindelwald to his end
The final answer that you're searching for
Is a potion book's author.


Tell you what, just go by the last two sentences and you'll do it. There is a twisted way of getting to the answer too.

Answers after a week.