Defense Against the Dark Arts Quiz

During his first year at the school, Harry took lessons from Professor Quirrell, who had trouble teaching due to the small distraction of Lord Voldemort living on the back of his head.

The students learned about doxies — biting fairies — during some of their earliest Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons.

Verdimillious sends green sparks shooting out of the wand and is useful for dueling.

Periculum sends a shower of red sparks, which can serve as a powerful signal flare for a wizard in trouble.

Harry and his classmates were subject to the egotistical exaggerator Gilderoy Lockhart during their second year at Hogwarts.

While Lockhart claimed to once cure a werewolf using this charm, there is no known spell to permanently cure a werewolf of its curse.

Petrificus Totalus renders a victim completely paralyzed, resulting in a full body bind.

The Melofors jinx encases the victim's head in a pumpkin temporarily and is a popular prank at Hogwarts.

Harry's third DADA teacher was none other than Remus Lupin, a werewolf and a former best friend of Harry's father.

A boggart takes the shape of the viewer's worst fear, which means that this creature looks different for everyone.

The Riddikulus spell transforms a boggart into something funny, making it easy to laugh the creature away.

Harry uses the powerful Patronus spell to conjure up his signature stag and take on dementors.

In Harry's fourth year, the DADA teaching position was filled by none other than Barty Crouch, who was posing as the legendary Auror Alastor Moody.

In DADA class, Harry watches a spider writhe in pain after Moody performs the Cruciatus curse upon the creature.

The Imperius curse gives a wizard complete control over another person, from the victim's thoughts to his actions.

Only the sacrifice of love, like Harry's parents dying for him, can save someone from Avada Kedavra.

Performing one of the three unforgiveable curses — Crucio, Imperio or Avada Kedavra — is enough for a life sentence in Azkaban.

Dolores Umbridge took on the role of professor and taught a very tame ministry-approved curriculum.

Diminuendo shrinks an object or person, which can help a wizard escape an attack.

In Harry's sixth year, Snape was finally given the DADA teaching job, a position he had long coveted.

Inferi are the terrifying reanimated corpses of the dead. They fear heat and can be defeated using the Firestorm curse.

The spell causes a victim to rise upside-down, as if he is suspended by his ankle with his head pointed to the ground.

Harry and his friends formed Dumbledore's Army during his fifth year to learn practical defense skills.

Impedimenta freezes a person or object for just a few seconds, giving a victim time to escape.

The Reductor spell smashes an object into lots of pieces.

DADA classes are mandatory in years one through five, but you must score high on your O.W.L. to take the class in later years.

As the wizarding world waged war, death eaters infiltrated Hogwarts, and the evil Amycus Carrow took over as the DADA teacher.

In book seven, Neville reveals that Professor Carrow forced the students to perform the unforgiveable Cruciatus curse on students in detention.

Expelliarmus is a simple yet effective DADA skill for disarming an opponent.

After Tom Riddle — later Lord Voldemort — was twice denied the DADA teaching position, he put a curse on the job so that no teacher would last more than a year.