Table of Contents

Introduction

In this roleplaying system based on the world of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, the game world is run by a Game Master (GM) who guides the story, while the group consists of about 3 or 4 players controlling characters they've designed themselves. The characters are students at Hogwarts.

To play this game, you'll need a set of at least three six-sided dice (3d6) and one twenty-sided die (1d20) for each player. Alternatively, you can store on the table six six-sided dice (6d6) and two twenty-sided dice (2d20) that everyone shares.

Explaining the System to a Younger Audience

When playing this game with children who are too young for a lengthy explanation of the game's systems and rules, follow the guidelines below.

1. Help them through the character creation process before doing any explanation of the system. Don't influence them to make certain decisions over others. It's important that it's their choice.
2. Don't worry about explaining anything on the GM's side, like how difficulty of checks works. Focus only on what their character can do, and make sure they know that they can attempt to do anything they like, but they'll have to roll well.
3. Explain that every time they make a check, it's really two rolls -- one to see if they succeed, and the other for the random chance of something good happening or something bad happening as a result of their character's actions. We need that second roll because you can't always guess what will happen!
4. Use "Socratic Dialogue" to help them understand how to complete and identify the results of a check. "What number do you have for Charisma?" "How many dice do you roll if your Charisma is 3?" "Did you roll higher, or did I roll higher?" "What about the side effects, what do we roll for that?" "What effect do you think should happen based on this roll?" Et cetera. Be patient -- the worst possible thing you can do is interrupt them and feed them the answer before they're ready to come up with it on their own.
5. For more complicated rules like backfire thresholds, you can cover them as a GM for the first few sessions. For backfires, each time a character casts a spell, you can roll the d20 yourself and narrate the results for your players. As long as you explain what you are doing every time you do it ("I'm rolling to see if your spell backfires. Oh, I rolled a 7 -- that's lower than 10, which means the spell backfires! What does it say happens on a backfire in the spell's description?") children will be smart enough to pick up on it and might be able to start incorporating the rule themselves.
6. If you don't want to use a big complicated die like a d20, you can swap it out for a d6 as long as the dice you roll for success/failure are visibly different (size, colour, etc) to the ones you use for serendipity/complication.
7. Don't be afraid to define words like "serendipity", "backfire", and "quirk" -- there's nothing wrong with building vocabulary, especially if the words are fun to say out loud.
8. Don't be afraid to roll behind the screen and fudge things in their favour.

These guidelines can also help if you're dealing with a particularly stubborn older person who has decided ahead of time that they don't understand. Adults often don't give themselves enough credit with their ability to learn new things.

Character Creation

Example Sheet

Quirks

The first step to creating a character is to choose a quirk that provides something special or unique about your character, something that justifies them being a major character in the story you are about to tell together. The GM might also assign your character additional quirks based on the events of the plot (such as being bitten by a werewolf).

Choose a quirk based on the flavour, not on the mechanics. Don't worry about what the mechanics mean until you've finished your entire character. Keep your focus on the storytelling, not on meticulously constructing the most powerful character you can.

Many of these quirks are forbidden at Hogwarts and must be kept secret. You can still pick a "secret" quirk, but you will need to keep that quirk hidden, as if it is discovered, you may be expelled.

House Elf Companion

A house elf is indebted to you. He or she follows you around and attempts to help you out in any way it can. At Hogwarts, house elves stay in their own quarters at night and their movements around the castle are heavily restricted.

Your house elf occasionally helps you with your problems, potentially ensuring you achieve a serendipity result on your checks at the GM's discretion.

Obliviated

Your memory was permanently erased by a powerful casting of obliviate. You woke up on the Hogwarts Express with no memory of who you were or how you got here.

The GM will later assign you a second quirk when your character discovers the reason your memory was erased.

Parseltongue

You can speak the language of snakes. While this quirk is not forbidden, it does make others suspicious of you.

Prophet

You receive vague premonitions of the future. Work with the GM to provide your character with interesting metaphorical visions of what horrors are to come in the year.

Scar

You have a scar across your forehead from an attempt on your life as a baby. The great wizard who failed to kill you with the killing curse is now inextricably linked to you. Your scar burns when you are exposed to those tainted by his evil presence, and your dreams are haunted by his specter. Your scar makes you a legendary hero, the One Who Lived.

You gain a +1 to checks to identify signs or agents of evil.

Stolen Wand

You possess a wand stolen from a much older and more powerful wizard. It is a better wand than you could ever hope to own, but it is not yours, and it knows it.

At character creation, pick three spells to add to the spells you know: one 3rd-year spell, one 4th-year spell, and one 5th-year spell. When you reach 7th year, you can also add one restricted spell.

Your backfire threshold is increased by 3.

This quirk must be secret.

Undead

Through dark magic, you were brought back from the dead. You are practically impervious to pain and barely realize when you have been wounded.

You gain a +1 to Resistance checks.

This quirk must be secret.

Unforgivable

Your conscience is forever tainted by casting an unforgivable curse. You are equally haunted with regret yet enticed by the power you felt when you cast it.

You know one of the three unforgivable curses: avada kedavra, crucio, or imperio.

This quirk must be secret, and you must obtain permission from your GM to select this quirk, as the ability to murder, torture, or violate the free will of other students may not be compatible with the kind of game that the GM wishes to run.

Veela

Through your veins swims the blood of the veela, a race of seductive monsters that are said in legends to have led sailors to their watery graves.

At character creation, your Charisma score increases by 1.

This quirk must be secret.

Werewolf

You suffer from the curse of lycanthropy. Under the light of the full moon, you transform into a terrible half-human, half-wolf hybrid that fights with unnatural strength and cannot be killed. Your clothes and equipment don't transform with you. You return to your human form at dawn, retaining no memories of the night time.

In your hybrid form, you retain your Courage, Dexterity, and Perception scores. Your Brawn becomes 5, your Charisma becomes 1, and your Intelligence becomes 1. You can't speak or cast spells. You don't remember your life as a human.

This quirk must be secret.

Witness to Death

You have watched someone you know die. With this sorrowful knowledge, your third eye has been awakened to many melancholy truths, such as the nature of the thestrals that guide students to Hogwarts' gates, or the sadness of the ghosts that wander Hogwarts' halls.

Abilities

There are six abilities in the game.

• Brawn
• Charisma
• Courage
• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Perception

Your score in each ability corresponds to how many ability dice you roll when making a check. For example, if your Brawn score is 3, you roll 3d6 when making a check that relates to your Brawn.

Common Checks

There are certain checks that used frequently enough in the game to warrant their own section. It may be useful to list them on your character sheet as a reminder.

Supplies

As a first year student, you are required to have the following supplies. These supplies are necessary for certain aspects of life as a student in Hogwarts.

Pet

Choose one of the following pets and give it a name and a personality trait. Your pet allows you to send and receive letters to and from other students and the outside world, and it also gives you 1 point in its associated ability through its magical connection to you. If you are already at the maximum score for your pet's ability, you can choose to increase any other ability instead.

You can also select one of the following personality traits for your pet or make up your own.

• Devoted
• Extroverted
• Greedy
• Hostile
• Inconsiderate
• Introverted
• Jealous
• Loud
• Mischievous
• Rebellious
• Serious
• Sentimental
• Suspicious
• Vain
• Wild

Wand

You require a wand to cast spells. It is your most valuable possession. Your GM will select your wand for you based on your character. It's usually best to wait until the end of character creation.

Wands are not technically sentient beings, but they do seem to present with personalities and preferences that become more apparent the better they have bonded with their wielder.

Wand Cores

The core of a wand determines the kind of magic that the wand is best suited to casting.

Choose a 1st-Year spell of the wand's associated type to learn when you receive the wand from your GM. You also learn one spell of the associated type from each subsequent year at Hogwarts (for example, when going into your third year, you learn one 3rd-Year spell of the associate type).

Houses

As a first year student, you don't receive a house at character creation. Instead, you are given a house by the GM during the sorting hat ceremony while playing the game.

The sorting hat recognises inner strengths within you that you may not have realized were there yourself. As such, receiving your house makes you aware that one of your abilities is lower than it should be.

If you're already at the maximum score for either or both of the associated ability scores, you can instead increase another ability score of your choice by 1.

Spells

Going into your first year at Hogwarts, you already have a decent grasp on two spells from the 1st-Year list, plus any extra spells you know from your quirks or your wand core.

See the Spells section for a list of spells to choose from and general rules on magic.

Year of Entry

Your group may agree to start in 2nd year or later, rather than 1st. To accommodate this choice, the tables on the following page show what resources you have available to you.

Character Progression Table (New Game)

Magic

Spells

Spells are organised by the year in which you learn them at Hogwarts. More spells become available to you up until 5th year, at which point all spells become available and you can focus your final years of study on mastery.

Nox

Counter-Spell

You extinguish the effects of lumos in a wand.

Backfire. Another light source nearby sucks up the wand's light and illuminates itself.

Pack

Charm

Objects you have arranged in front of a trunk or other piece of luggage pack themselves neatly inside if they can fit.

Backfire. They just jam themselves in there with no regard for neatness.

Petrificus Totalus

Curse

A human's legs and arms become locked to their side for one minute. The target usually falls down.

Backfire. Your arms and legs become locked to your side instead.

Point Me

Charm

Your wand is lightly and insistently pulled in the cardinal direction North for one minute.

Backfire. The direction is random.

Quietus

Counter-Spell

A human's magically-magnified voice is reduced to its normal volume.

Backfire. You completely remove their ability to talk for 1 minute.

Quaff

Jinx

You compel a human to drink from a cup in front of them. This spell has no effect if the liquid in the cup is harmful.

Backfire. The target doesn't open their mouth and the drink splashes all over their clothes.

Reparo

Charm

You mend a small object. If constituent pieces have broken off, they fly back together and reform.

Backfire. The object is mended incorrectly and takes on a different form or function.

Sonorus

Charm

You amplify a human's voice for one minute.

Backfire. The amplification is painfully loud for anyone who can hear it.

Wingardium Leviosa

Charm

You levitate a small object for one minute. You can control the object's movement through the air.

Backfire. The object levitates uncontrollably higher and higher.

2nd-Year Spells

Expulso

Curse

You cause a small object to violently explode, potentially causing harm to those around it.

Backfire. Half a dozen more objects nearby also violently explode.

Ferula

Healing

You set a human or animal's broken bone with a magically-conjured bandage and splint.

Backfire. The bandage and splint are applied improperly and must be fixed by hand.

Frigoriflam

Charm

A flame's heat is nullified, rendering the fire harmless to animals and humans for 1 hour. The flame still burns objects.

Backfire. The flame roars and spreads quickly if left unchecked. It's still harmless, but should probably be extinguished before the hour is up.

Limax Vomite

Hex

You force a human to vomit a slug. The target vomits another slug every 10-20 minutes for the next few hours.

Backfire. You vomit slugs instead.

Mobilicorpus

Hex

You levitate a human a few centimeters above the ground for one minute. You control where they float.

Backfire. The target floats in random directions uncontrollably.

Noink

Charm

You permanently make invisible a short message you have written in ink.

Backfire. The message becomes garbled, like it was passed through a game of telephone.

Objectum Mutatio

Transfiguration

You turn an object into another object of the same size for one hour.

Backfire. The object transforms into a completely different random object once a minute until the hour is up.

Oppugno

Hex

If cast immediately following a transfiguration spell that conjured objects or animals, they become hostile to a target of your choice and attack them.

Backfire. They become hostile to everyone, not just to a target of your choice.

Perpendiculum

Jinx

You cause a human to trip.

Backfire. You also trip.

Protego

Counter-Spell

You create a magical shield that reflects jinxes, hexes, and curses back at their caster, making them the target of the spell instead of you. The shield lasts for one minute or until it is hit with a jinx, hex, or curse.

This spell can be cast quickly in response to a wizard casting a jinx, hex, or curse, shielding yourself immediately; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. The new target of the spell is randomly determined.

Protero

Charm

Speak the name of an object within 1 metre of you. It flies to a spot you determine within 100 metres of you.

Backfire. It flies off in a random direction.

Reducio

Counter-Spell

An object or animal that has magically increased in size returns to its normal size.

Backfire. One randomly-determined part of the object or animal remains in its engorged size.

Regularis Figura

Counter-Spell

You cause an animagus or transfigured object to take its normal shape. Objects or animals created through a transfiguration spell disappear into nothingness.

Backfire. One randomly-determined part of the object or animal does not return to its normal shape (or disappear).

Rennervate

Counter-Spell

You awaken a human or animal that has been magically put to sleep.

Backfire. You awaken them very roughly and suddenly.

Rictusempra

Jinx

A human becomes overwhelmed as though they were being violently tickled.

Backfire. You also feel as though you are being violently tickled.

Serpentsortia

Transfiguration

You conjure a small non-poisonous snake that slithers from the tip of your wand.

Backfire. You conjure a dozen snakes, one after the other.

Silencio

Charm

You silence an object, animal, or human for one minute.

This can be cast to quickly prevent a wizard from uttering an incantation; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. You are silenced instead.

Tarantellegra

Jinx

You cause a human's legs to dance uncontrollably.

Backfire. You join them in the dance, as though you were partners.

3rd-Year Spells

Expecto Patronum

Charm

An incarnation of your innermost positive emotions bursts forth in a bright explosion of light from your wand, pushing back creatures of evil, such as dementors. The spell usually takes the form of a burst of light, but with sufficient positive emotions, it can also take the form of a spirit animal, a patronus, unique to you. Furthermore, with one hundred percent of your positive energy poured forth into the spell, it explodes in a 50-metre sphere of pulsing magical light emanating from your patronus.

Your GM determines the form that your patronus takes. Your patronus can also be used to travel long distances and deliver messages in your voice.

Backfire. Due to insufficient positive emotion, your wand makes a sad "mwah mwow" noise instead.

Flagrate

Charm

You leave a fiery mark on an object that leaves a burn in the shape you have drawn.

Backfire. The object catches fire.

Impedimenta

Jinx

You prevent a human or animal from moving closer to your position for one minute. It doesn't repel them, just prevents them from willingly moving closer.

Backfire. You can't move for one minute.

Impervious

Charm

You enchant a small object to repel substances such as water or effects such as heat.

Backfire. Instead of the substance being repelled from the object, the object is repelled by the substance, causing it to be flung violently away on contact.

Incarcerous

Hex

You restrain a human with magical ropes for one minute.

Backfire. The wand tries its best to tie the knots, but it's not very good at it.

Ingressum

Charm

You prevent sounds and objects from entering or exiting a room or container for one minute.

Backfire. Several out-of-context words or phrases you utter are ejected out of the room periodically.

Liberacorpus

Counter-Spell

You free a human or animal from magical restraints, such as those from the impedimenta spell. The target is freed without harm being done to them; for example, if they are held aloft in the air, they are lowered gently to the ground.

Backfire. The target is freed, but you fall under the restraining effects yourself.

Orchideous

Transfiguration

A bouquet of beautiful, pleasantly fragrant flowers bursts forth from the tip of your wand.

Backfire. The flowers are ugly and smell bad.

Remedium

Healing

You cure a human of a minor nonmagical sickness, such as a cold or a sinus infection.

Backfire. The target sneezes uncontrollably for one hour.

Respirabulla

Charm

A bubble of air forms around a human or animal's head, allowing them to breathe comfortably for one hour.

Backfire. The air in the bubble has an unpleasant odour.

Riddikulus

Charm

You compel a boggart to take the form of something you are concentrating on.

Backfire. The boggart instead takes the form of your greatest fear.

Scourgify

Charm

You clean an object of visible grime.

Backfire. The amount of visible grime is doubled.

Sentis Incommodum

Hex

You cause a human to develop stinging red welts that are painful, itchy, and inflamed.

Backfire. You gain red welts instead.

Stupefy

Hex

You knock a human unconscious for one minute.

Backfire. The target is only knocked unconscious for a few seconds.

Tenaxi

Charm

You adhere one object to another indefinitely. The effects have the strength of regular adhesive glue.

Backfire. You accidentally adhere the wrong objects together.

Videodolum

Counter-Spell

For one minute, you can see objects, animals, or humans that would otherwise be hidden through magic.

Backfire. You see objects, animals, or humans that are not there.

Volatus

Charm

You imbue an object with the ability to fly when commanded by a wizard.

Backfire. The object develops a bratty personality.

4th-Year Spells

Portus

Charm

You imbue an object with the powers of a portkey. Portkeys can be found in the Objects of Power section.

Backfire. The object immediately activates, teleporting you instantly.

Reducto

Curse

You disintegrate a small object, or burn a human-sized hole in a large object.

Backfire. You are knocked backwards by the sudden burst of heat and energy.

Relashio

Hex

You create a burst of hot sparks that causes a human to drop what they are holding. This spell can be cast quickly to prevent another wizard from completing the casting of a spell; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. The sparks cause everyone within 10 metres of you to drop what they're holding.

Sanamente

Healing

You soothe the mind of a troubled human, bringing them peace through meditation for 1 hour.

Backfire. The target's anxieties return worse than before.

Specialus Revelio

Counter-Spell

You force an object to reveal its magical properties, which emanate from the object as a shadowy echo. If the object is a potion, its ingredients are also revealed.

Backfire. A random unrelated magical effect is revealed instead.

5th-Year And Over Spells

Occlumens

Counter-Spell

You shield your mind from magic, such as from spells like legilimens and obliviate, for one minute. You can cast this spell quickly to prevent a wizard accessing your mind; to do so, you must succeed on a Quick Draw check.

Backfire. You transmit your thoughts to everyone nearby for ten seconds.

Prior Incantato

Counter-Spell

You target a wizard's wand. A shadowy echo of the last spell cast from that wand emanates from its tip.

Backfire. A spell randomly chosen from further back in its history appears instead.

Repello Muggletum

Charm

You enchant a building or room to repel muggles for 7 days. Muggles find themselves unable to perceive the room or building with their normal senses and feel magically compelled to leave if they stumble inside. They retain no memory of the place.

Backfire. The target repels both muggles and wizards.

Revivify

Healing

Immediately after a human or animal dies of unnatural, nonmagical causes, you bring them back to life on a successful Quick Draw check.

Backfire. They are permanently scarred by their experiences, mentally and physically.

Sensamagna

Charm

Your natural senses are heightened for one hour. You can see in all directions at once, you can hear whispers as loud as a scream, and your sense of smell is good enough to track the scents of individual creatures.

Backfire. You suffer from sensory overload.

Restricted Spells

These spells are not made available to students at Hogwarts through regular channels, and you can't select them through your wand core, quirks, or other features unless they explicitly say you can. They can only be learned by secretly researching them in the Restricted Section, practicing them in secret in places like the Room of Requirement, or by being taught by a specialist.

Some teachers may decide that the crisis calls for some spells being introduced to students so they know what they might be up against. These special classes do not usually include a practical component.

The use of restricted spells is an indicator that a student is practicing the Dark Arts. Being caught could mean expulsion.

Levicorpus

Hex

You flip a human upside down and hang them aloft by their ankle for one minute. This spell cannot be resisted.

Backfire. You drop them on their head after a few seconds and the effects end.

Morsmordre

Curse

You trace a tattoo of evil on the arm of a human, a Dark Mark. For the effects of the Dark Mark, see its section in Quirks.

Backfire. The target's skin blisters and burns where the tattoo is applied.

Muffliato

Hex

You cause a loud buzzing in the ears of a human, deafening them for one hour. This spell cannot be resisted.

Backfire. Everyone within 30 metres of you develops buzzing in their ears, including you.

Necromancum

Healing

You reanimate the corpse of a human or animal. The corpse has no mind of its own and follows your commands.

Backfire. You can't control the corpse. It wanders aimlessly.

Obliviate

Curse

You erase a human's memory of the past few days. Powerful wizards can extend the amount of memory that is erased.

Backfire. Your memory is erased instead.

Sectumsempra

Curse

You slash your wand in the direction of a human, as though you were slicing them with a sword. Deep gashes appear in their body where your wand would slash them.

Backfire. Instead of gashes, you completely sever bits off of the target's body.

Squibify

Counter-Spell

You permanently remove the ability of the target to use magic.

Backfire. The target regains their magical abilities after 7 days, and you permanently lose yours.

Taboo

Charm

You designate a word or phrase. For the next 7 days, when that word or phrase is spoken anywhere in the world, you know the exact location of the speaker.

Backfire. You are no longer able to speak the word or phrase yourself until the effects end.

Variant Spell Rules

There are two variant rules which may make casting spells more interesting and challenging for your party. The GM should discuss these rules with the players to better suit the kind of challenge that they want to face in the game.

Potions

Potions have particular magical effects when drunken. Usually, the brewing of a potion is handled by an Intelligence check. Like spells, a potion's effects may backfire (roll upon drinking), which are a representation of the risk of incorrectly mixing ingredients as well as the chaotic nature of magic in general.

The potion's ingredients and instructions are assumed to be handwaved, as the story that is told as a result of the potion is more important than the specifics of how it is made. Some ingredients may be mentioned for their story potential.

• Common. These potions are learned and mastered by all students at Hogwarts. They usually take an hour or two to brew and require success on an Easy ability check.
• Rare. These potions require specialised study or training. They usually take weeks or months to brew and require success on a Medium ability check.
• Restricted. These potions are not made available to students at Hogwarts through regular channels. They invariably take many months to brew and require success on a Hard ability check.

Common

Rare

Restricted

The ingredients and instructions for restricted potions can only be learned through research in the Restricted Section, experimenting in secret, or by being taught by a specialist. The brewing of a restricted potion is an indicator that a student is practicing the Dark Arts. Being caught could mean expulsion.

Objects of Power

Objects of power have a variety of strange and wondrous effects. These are divided into common items that might be found around Hogwarts and legendary items that are one-of-a-kind. Legendary objects of power are items that witches and wizards have died to obtain, or been killed by jealous rivals just for possessing them. Such is their power.

Deluminator

Flicking the striker of this lighter absorbs the light from nearby light sources, extinguishing them. Its wielder can choose instead to release all of the light collected by the deluminator in a flash of brilliance that stuns everyone that can see it.

Exploding Snap Cards

This deck of cards can be played similar to the game Snap. The loser’s cards burst in a puff of smoke and are temporarily destroyed, reforming on the next dawn with the rest of the pack.

Floo Powder

This magical dust transports the user through the Floo Network, a set of fireplaces connected through magical leylines. To use it, you must throw the dust at your feet and clearly state your destination. If used incorrectly, you will be randomly transported to another fireplace in the network.

Gillyweed

Eating gillyweed lets you breathe underwater for 1 hour.

Golden Snitch

This magical flying ball darts manically around like a hummingbird.

Howler

Using a howler, you record an angry message and send it through the owl network. The envelope folds itself into a mouth and screams your message at the recipient.

Invisibility Cloak

This cloak has been enchanted to render its wearer totally invisible. The wearer can still be detected through other senses like hearing and smell, or through magical sensors like a probity probe. You can add a +1 to any check made to hide from others. Common invisibility cloaks lose their potency after only a few uses or if they suffer even minor rips or tears.

Mokeskin Pouch

This pouch can only be opened by its owner.

Omnioculars

This magical double-spyglass can zoom in and out at great distances according to the watcher’s whim.

Portkey

A portkey is an object enchanted with the portus spell. A portkey is linked to a specific location, transporting people to that location when a parameter is triggered (usually touching the portkey or uttering a password).

Probity Probe

When this rod is waved in front of a human or object that has been enchanted to conceal its identity or deceive others, the tip of the rod glows brightly.

Quaffle

This magical ball is enchanted to resist the effects of gravity.

Remembrall

When you hold this glass sphere, red liquid swims within if you have forgotten something important.

Revealer

Using this rubber on magical invisible ink renders the ink visible.

Sneakoscope

This glass spinning top leaps upright, spins wildly, lights up, and lets off a high-pitched whistle if in the presence of deception or criminal activity.

Trunk of Holding

This normal-sized magical trunk contains 30 square meters of space within. Some wizards prefer their trunk of holding to take the form of a suitcases or purse.

Wizard’s Chess Set

This enchanted chess set functions as regular chess, but the pieces come alive and murder each other when they are captured. Destroyed pieces reform at dawn each day.

Legendary

Invisibility Cloak

This cloak has been enchanted to render its wearer totally invisible. The wearer can still be detected through other senses like hearing and smell, or through magical sensors like a probity probe. You can add +1 to the result of any check made to hide from others. Unlike its common variant, this unique legendary invisibility cloak is unbreakable and does not lose its potency over time.

Marauder’s Map

This detailed map of Hogwarts shows the location and true identity of everyone within its walls, represented by footprints.

Mirror of Erised

When gazing into this mirror, you see a representation of your greatest desire, visible only to you. The mirror can be enchanted to store objects which can only be retrieved by those who see them as their greatest desire.

Pensieve

This large silver bowl contains the memories of wizards who extract their own memories with legilimens and place them inside, taking the form of a swirling silver liquid. A wizard can plunge their head into the bowl to experience a memory for themselves, walking around as though they were there. The pensieve accurately reflects the past, meaning that an observer can potentially experience details that the original source of the memory did not remember. Powerful wizards like Dumbledore routinely search their own memories in the pensieve for information that they might have missed.

Philosopher’s Stone

This stone restores the youth of its holder.

Ravenclaw’s Diadem

This silver diadem appears to its chosen hero in times of great need. Wearing this tiara makes the owner irresistibly charming. Their Charisma is set to 5 and they gain a +1 to all Charisma checks.

Resurrection Stone

This stone returns a dead human to life. The target of the stone is stripped of emotions and affection and dies again after 7 days unless the stone is used continuously on them.

Slytherin's Locket

This golden locket appears to its chosen hero in times of great need. The wearer can summon and control snakes at will, creating potentially hundreds of snakes of the wearer’s choice, each of which follow the wearer’s command. The locket can also be used to control reptilian monsters such as dragons and basilisks.

Sorting Hat

This magical black hat is sentient and can read the wearer’s innermost thoughts and desires. At Hogwarts, the sorting hat determines a student’s house by declaration.

Time Turner

This magical timepiece, taking the form of a clockwork hourglass on a necklace, allows the wielder to travel back in time. To do so, they must wind the hourglass back a certain number of hours (maximum twenty-four hours). The wielder can only remain in the past for up to five hours, and they are unable to change the future, as their actions in the past have already occurred.

Threats

2nd Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 10

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 2
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, incendio, lumos, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: expelliarmus, frigoriflam

2nd Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 3

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, episkey, lumos, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: eruptum, ferula

2nd Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo

2nd-Year: engorgio, silencio

2nd Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 1

Spells

1st-Year: descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox

2nd-Year: aparecium, serpensortia

3rd Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 3
• Charisma 2
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, incendio, lumos, nox, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: expelliarmus, ferula, frigoriflam, protego

3rd-Year: flagrate, stupefy

3rd Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 3

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, episkey, lumos, muspoculum, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: eruptum, ferula, rennervate, rictumsempra

3rd-Year: crescerossa, orchideous

3rd Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, colormutatio, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo

2nd-Year: avis, engorgio, oppugno, silencio

3rd-Year: animutatio, exemplum contentio

3rd Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 1

Spells

1st-Year: colloportus, descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox

2nd-Year: aparecium, expulso, perpendiculum, serpensortia

3rd-Year: allucinatio, incarcerous

4th Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 3
• Charisma 2
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, incendio, lumos, nox, pack, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: frigoriflam, expelliarmus, mobilicorpus, protego, protero

3rd-Year: expecto patronum, flagrate, liberacorpus, stupefy

4th-Year: piertotum locomotor, relashio

4th Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 4

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, episkey, lumos, muspoculum, nox, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: eruptum, ferula, regularis figura, rennervate, rictumsempra

3rd-Year: crescerossa, expecto patronum, orchideous, tenaxi

4th-Year: nitor, sanamente

4th Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, colormutatio, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: avis, engorgio, oppugno, protego, silencio

3rd-Year: animutatio, appareo, evanesco, exemplum contentio

4th-Year: duro, custodicelium inimecus

4th Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 4
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 1

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, colloportus, colormutatio, descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox

2nd-Year: aparecium, expulso, perpendiculum, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, impedimenta, incarcerous, riddikulus

4th-Year: nitor, reducto

5th Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 4
• Charisma 2
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, diffindo, incendio, lumos, nox, pack, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: frigoriflam, expelliarmus, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, regularis figurae

3rd-Year: expecto patronum, flagrate, impervious, liberacorpus, stupefy

4th-Year: finite incantatum, piertotum locomotor, relashio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: sensamagna, occlumens

5th Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 1
• Charisma 2
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 4

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, colloportus, episkey, lumos, muspoculum, nox, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: eruptum, ferula, expelliarmus, regularis figura, rennervate, rictumsempra

3rd-Year: crescerossa, expecto patronum, orchideous, remedium, tenaxi

4th-Year: iteramimplus, nitor, sanamente, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consolus tempus, revivify

5th Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 3

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, colormutatio, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: avis, engorgio, oppugno, protego, silencio

3rd-Year: animutatio, appareo, evanesco, exemplum contentio, riddikulus

4th-Year: duro, custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, specialus revelio

5th-Year: erecto, prior incatato

5th Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 10

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 4
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 1

Spells

1st-Year: alohomora, colloportus, colormutatio, descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox

2nd-Year: aparecium, expulso, objectum mutatio, perpendiculum, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, conjunctivitus, impedimenta, incarcerous, riddikulus

4th-Year: finite incantatem, nitor, reducto

5th-Year: confringo, deprimo

6th Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 4
• Charisma 2
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, colloportus, diffindo, incendio, lumos, nox, pack, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: frigoriflam, engorgio, expelliarmus, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, regularis figurae

3rd-Year: expecto patronum, flagrate, impervious, liberacorpus, stupefy, volatus

4th-Year: finite incantatum, nitor, piertotum locomotor, relashio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: legilimens, sensamagna, occlumens

6th Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 4

Spells

1st-Year: accio, aguamenti, anapneo, colloportus, episkey, lumos, muspoculum, nox, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: eruptum, ferula, expelliarmus, regularis figura, rennervate, rictumsempra, silencio

3rd-Year: crescerossa, expecto patronum, liberacorpus, orchideous, remedium, tenaxi

4th-Year: iteramimplus, flagrante injurium, nitor, sanamente, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consolus tempus, geminio, revivify

6th Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 3

Spells

1st-Year: aguamenti, colormutatio, diffindo, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: avis, engorgio, oppugno, protego, regularis figurae, silencio

3rd-Year: animutatio, appareo, evanesco, exemplum contentio, riddikulus, scourgify

4th-Year: duro, custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, impedimenta forte, specialus revelio

5th-Year: erecto, geminio, prior incatato

6th Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 4
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: alohomora, colloportus, colormutatio, descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: aparecium, expulso, objectum mutatio, perpendiculum, regularis figurae, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, conjunctivitus, impedimenta, incarcerous, riddikulus, sentis incommodum

4th-Year: finite incantatem, flagrante, nitor, reducto

5th-Year: confringo, deprimo, duro homenum

7th Year Gryffindor

ash wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 4
• Charisma 2
• Courage 5
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: accio, colloportus, diffindo, incendio, lumos, muscopoculum, nox, pack, reparo, sonorus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: frigoriflam, engorgio, expelliarmus, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, reducto, regularis figurae

3rd-Year: expecto patronum, flagrate, impervious, liberacorpus, riddikulus, stupefy, volatus

4th-Year: finite incantatum, nitor, piertotum locomotor, portus, relatio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consulus tempus, legilimens, sensamagna, occlumens

7th Year Hufflepuff

larch wand of wampus cat hair
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 4

Spells

1st-Year: accio, aguamenti, anapneo, colloportus, colormutatio, episkey, lumos, muspoculum, nox, pack, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: aparecium, eruptum, ferula, expelliarmus, regularis figura, rennervate, rictumsempra, silencio

3rd-Year: crescerossa, expecto patronum, liberacorpus, orchideous, remedium, riddikulus, tenaxi

4th-Year: finite incantatem, flagrante injurium, iteramimplus, nitor, sanamente, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consolus tempus, geminio, occlumens, revivify

7th Year Ravenclaw

walnut wand of thunderbird tail feather
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 5
• Perception 3

Spells

1st-Year: alohomora, aguamenti, colormutatio, diffindo, locomotor, lumos, muscpoculum, nox, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: avis, engorgio, expelliarmus, oppugno, protego, reducto, regularis figurae, silencio

3rd-Year: animutatio, appareo, evanesco, exemplum contentio, riddikulus, scourgify, tenaxi

4th-Year: duro, custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, impedimenta forte, piertotum locomotor, specialus revelio

5th-Year: erecto, geminio, prior incatato, repello muggletum

7th Year Slytherin

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 7

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 4
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 2

Spells

1st-Year: alohomora, colloportus, colormutatio, descendo, diffindo, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, petrificus totalus, wingardium leviosa

2nd-Year: aparecium, expulso, objectum mutatio, perpendiculum, regularis figurae, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, conjunctivitus, impedimenta, incarcerous, riddikulus, sentis incommodum, stupefy

4th-Year: finite incantatem, flagrante, impedimenta forte, nitor, reducto

5th-Year: confringo, deprimo, duro homenum, legilimens

Teacher

redwood wand of kelpie hair
backfire threshold: 5

---

• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 3

---

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to their known spells, the teacher knows any spell they are teaching to students.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, episkey, locomotor, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, pack, point me, quietus, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: aparecium, engorgio, eruptum, expelliarmus, ferula, frigoriflam, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, reducio, regularis figurae, rennervate, silencio

3rd-Year: appareo, antiapparate, crescerossa, deletrious, evanesco, exempla bordus, exemplum contentio, flagrate, impedimenta, impervious, ingressum, liberacorpus, remedium, scourgify, stupefy, tenaxi, videodolum

4th-Year: custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, flagrante injurium, homenum revelio, iterumimplus, piertotum locomotor, relashio, sanamente, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consulus tempus, geminio, legilimens, occlumens, prior incantato, repello muggletum, revivify, sensamagna

Muggle

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 1

Items

Smartphone. If a muggle's cell phone is not disabled, they can call other muggles for help, take notes, or make a video recording of any magic they see.

A wizard can react quickly to prevent the muggle from using their smartphone by casting relashio (or another spell to disarm the muggle or destroy the phone) and succeeding on a Quick Draw check.

Dangerous Muggle

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 5
• Perception 3

Items

Gun. The muggle shoots a target. The target must succeed on a Hard Resistance check or die. Every hour without receiving healing or medical attention, the target must make this check again.

If circumstances would prevent the muggle from aiming properly, the muggle must succeed on a Courage check to maintain their composure and land the shot.

If fired at a wizard under the effects of the felix filicis potion, the shot misses.

A wizard can react quickly to prevent the muggle from firing by casting relashio (or another spell that will disarm the muggle, prevent the muggle from aiming properly, or destroy the gun) and succeeding on a Quick Draw check.

Squib

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 3

Items

Magical Knowledge. The squib always achieves a serendipity result when recalling information about the magical world.

Death Eater

elm wand of basilisk horn
backfire threshold: 7

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 3
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 3

---

Dark Mark. The death eater bears the mark of an evil wizard, a tattoo on the death eater's forearm that twists with black magic. The death eater can cast morsmordre to project their tattoo onto storm clouds.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, alohomora, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, incendio, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, petrificus totalus, point me, quietus, quaff

2nd-Year: aparecium, confundo, expulso, mobilicorpus, oppugno, perpendiculum, protego, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, appareo, antiapparate, conjunctivitus, deletrious, evanesco, exemplum contentio, impedimenta, incarcerous, ingressum, sentis imcommodum, stupefy, tanaxi, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: costodicelium inimecus, duro, finite incantatum, homenum revelio, impedimenta forte, nitor, piertotum locomotor, portus, reducto, relashio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: apparate, confringo, defodio, deprimo, duro homenum, legilimens, lingua vinculum, occlumens, revivify

Restricted: avada kedavra, crucio, imperio, morsmordre, obliviate

Dark Wizard

yew wand of basilisk horn
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 5
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 5
• Perception 3

---

Backfire Resistant. If a spell cast by the dark wizard backfires, they can choose for it not to backfire instead. Once they've done this three times, they must wait until dawn before they can do it again.

Hidden Wand. The dark wizard keeps their wand in a specialised hidden location on their person. The dark wizard can upgrade an ability die on checks to resist their wand being taken from them.

Silent Caster. The dark wizard doesn't need to speak any spell of 4th-year or lower out loud.

Spells

1st-Year: descendo, diffindo, point me

2nd-Year: protego, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, appareo, antiapparate, evanesco, ingressum, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: costodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, homenum revelio, piertotum locomotor, portus, reducto, specialus revelio

5th-Year: apparate, deprimo, legilimens, lingua vinculum, occlumens, repello muggletum, sensamagna

Restricted: avada kedavra, crucio, fidelio, fiendfyre, imperio, jusjurandum perpetuus, morsmordre, necromancum, obliviate, squibify, taboo

Named NPCs

These NPCs represent specific characters from the Harry Potter series which may show up in the course of play. These characters have specific quirks or abilities that set them apart from others. Teachers at Hogwarts that don't have a statblock here just use the generic teacher statblock.

Filch

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 4

Items

Draught of Peace. When this potion is drunk, the drinker's mind is soothed and their anxieties melt away. The effects wear off after one hour, but the drinker's mood is lifted for the rest of the day. Backfire. After the effects wear off, the drinker's mood is soured for the rest of the day.

Probity Probe. The squib waves the probity probe in front of a human or object. If the target has been enchanted to conceal its identity or deceive others, the tip of the rod glows brightly.

Gilderoy Lockhart

cherry wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 15

---

• Brawn 3
• Charisma 5
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

---

Spells

1st-Year: accio, descendo, episkey, locomotor mortis, lumos, pack, point me, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: confundo, eruptum, expulso, ferula, frigoriflam, mobilicorpus, perpendiculum, protego, regularis figurae, rennervate, silencio

3rd-Year: crescerossa, evanesco, exempla bordus, flagrate, impedimenta, incarcerous, ingressum, remedium, scourgify, stupefy

4th-Year: flagrante injurium, iterumimplus, piertotum locomotor, relashio

5th-Year: deprimo, legilimens, sensamagna

Restricted: obliviate

Remus Lupin

cypress wand of unicorn hair
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 4

---

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to his known spells, Lupin knows any spell he is teaching to students.

Werewolf. Under the light of the full moon, Lupin transforms into a werewolf. His clothes and equipment don't transform with him. He returns to his human form at dawn, retaining no memories of the night time.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, anapneo, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, episkey, locomotor, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, pack, point me, quietus, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: aparecium, engorgio, eruptum, expecto patronum, expelliarmus, ferula, frigoriflam, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, reducio, regularis figurae, rennervate, silencio

3rd-Year: appareo, antiapparate, crescerossa, deletrious, evanesco, exempla bordus, exemplum contentio, finite incantatum, flagrate, impedimenta, impervious, ingressum, liberacorpus, remedium, riddikulus, scourgify, stupefy, tenaxi, videodolum

4th-Year: custodicelium inimecus, flagrante injurium, homenum revelio, iterumimplus, piertotum locomotor, relashio, sanamente, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consulus tempus, geminio, legilimens, occlumens, prior incantato, repello muggletum, revivify, sensamagna

Remus Lupin (Werewolf)

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• Brawn 5
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 5

---

Cursed Bite. A bite from Lupin transmits his werewolf curse to his victim.

Minerva McGonagall

fir wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 3
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 4

---

Animagus. McGonagall can transform into a cat and back to her human form. Once she has returned to her human form, she must wait a few hours before she can do it again. Her clothes and equipment are transformed with her.

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to her known spells, McGonagall knows any spell she is teaching to students.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, locomotor, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, pack, point me, quietus, reparo, sonorus

2nd-Year: aparecium, engorgio, eruptum, expelliarmus, frigoriflam, mobilicorpus, protego, protero, reducio, regularis figurae, rennervate, silencio

3rd-Year: appareo, antiapparate, deletrious, evanesco, exempla bordus, exemplum contentio, flagrate, impedimenta, impervious, ingressum, liberacorpus, remedium, scourgify, stupefy, tenaxi, videodolum

4th-Year: custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, homenum revelio, piertotum locomotor, relashio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: consulus tempus, geminio, legilimens, occlumens, prior incantato, repello muggletum

Minerva McGonagall (Cat)

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 3
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 4

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Quick: McGonagall can add a +1 to any check made to resist being caught.

Mad Eye Moody

cedar wand of jackalope antler
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 3
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 5

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Duelist. Moody can add +1 to the result of his Quick Draw checks.

Mad Eye. Moody can make a Perception check to identify magically-hidden or magically-disguised targets. He knows the target's true form.

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to his known spells, Moody knows any spell he is teaching to students.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, locomotor, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, pack, petrificus totalus, point me

2nd-Year: aparecium, avis, engorgio, expelliarmus, expulso, mobilicorpus, objectum mutatio, oppugno, perpendiculum, protego, protero, reducio, regularis figura, silencio, tarantellegra

3rd-Year: allucinatio, animutatio, appareo, antiapparate, deletrious, evanesco, exempla bordus, exemplum contentio, expecto patronum, flagrate, impedimenta, ingressum, stupefy, tenaxi, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: custodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, flagrante, homenum revelio, impedimenta forte, nitor, piertotum locomotor, portus, reducto, specialus revelio

5th-Year: apparate, confringo, defodio, deprimo, erecto, legilimens, lingua vinculum, occlumens, prior incantato, repello muggletum, revivify

Restricted: avada kedavra, crucio, imperio

Snow Sterling

aspen wand of dragon heartstring
backfire threshold: 7

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 4
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 3

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Figgefoog. Snow is a painted wizard that has escaped her portrait and now walks among the living. She is treated as an object instead of a human for the purpose of magical effects. She leaves paint smears where she touches. A successful Hard Perception check can identify her as non-human if there is reasonable suspicion that she isn't who she says she is.

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to her known spells, Snow knows any spell she is teaching to younger students.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, aguamenti, colormutatio, descendo, diffindo, locomotor, lumos, nox

2nd-Year: aparecium, nitor, noink, oppugno, regularis figurae, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, appareo, evanesco, expecto patronum, impervious, remedium, riddikulus, tanaxi, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: finite incantatum, flagrante injurium, nitor

5th-Year: confringo, deprimo, duro homenum, geminio

Restricted: obliviate

Severus Snape

elm wand of kelpie hair
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 3
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 3

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Dark Mark. Snape bears the mark of an evil wizard, a tattoo on the his forearm that twists with black magic. Snape can cast morsmordre to project his tattoo onto storm clouds.

Redirect. When Snape reflects a spell with protego, he can retarget the spell to anyone nearby.

Teacher's Knowledge. In addition to his known spells, Snape knows any spell he is teaching to students.

Spells

1st-Year: accio, alohomora, colloportus, descendo, diffindo, incendio, locomotor mortis, lumos, nox, petrificus totalus, point me, quietus, quaff

2nd-Year: aparecium, confundio, expulso, mobilicorpus, oppugno, perpendiculum, protego, serpensortia, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, appareo, antiapparate, conjunctivitus, deletrious, evanesco, exempla bordus, exemplum contentio, expecto patronum, impedimenta, incarcerous, ingressum, sentis imcommodum, stupefy, tanaxi, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: costodicelium inimecus, duro, impedimenta forte, finite incantatum, homenum revelio, muffliato, nitor, piertotum locomotor, portus, reducto, relashio, specialus revelio

5th-Year: apparate, confringo, defodio, deprimo, duro homenum, legilimens, occlumens, revivify

Restricted: avada kedavra, levicorpus, morsmordre, muffliato, sectumsempra

Lord Voldemort

yew wand of phoenix feather
backfire threshold: 5

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 5
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 5
• Perception 4

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Backfire Resistant. If a spell cast by Voldemort backfires, he can choose for it not to backfire instead. Once he has done this three times, he must wait until dawn before he can do it again.

Silent Caster. Voldemort doesn't need to speak any spell of 4th-year or lower out loud.

Spells

1st-Year: descendo, diffindo, point me

2nd-Year: protego, silencio

3rd-Year: allucinatio, appareo, antiapparate, evanesco, ingressum, videodolum, volatus

4th-Year: costodicelium inimecus, finite incantatum, homenum revelio, piertotum locomotor, portus, reducto, specialus revelio

5th-Year: apparate, deprimo, legilimens, lingua vinculum, occlumens, repello muggletum, sensamagna

Restricted: avada kedavra, crucio, fidelio, fiendfyre, imperio, jusjurandum perpetuus, morsmordre, necromancum, obliviate, squibify, taboo

Items

Horcruxes. Voldemort possesses seven horcruxes that contain a portion of his soul, each with personal significance to him. As long as one of these horcruxes exists, Voldemort has the means to return to life after death.

Monsters

For the purpose of magical effects, a monster is stated to be an animal, a humanoid (considered to be the same as a human), or an object.

Basilisk

animal

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• Brawn 5
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 3

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Petrifying Gaze: Anyone who makes eye contact with the basilisk dies. Seeing the basilisk through a reflection will petrify the target for 7 days instead.

Venomous: A bite from the basilisk will kill the target in 1 minute. Nonmagical healing and healing magic (short of phoenix tears or a unicorn's touch) cannot stop the effects of the venom. Its venom is strong enough to destroy a horcrux.

Very Large: The basilisk always achieves a serendipity result on Brawn checks.

In the Books

The basilisk is an enormous snake that lives only to kill. Tom Riddle was able to summon a basilisk from a secret vault underneath the girl's washroom.

Blast-Ended Skrewt

animal

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

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Fire Carapace: The blast-ended skrewt burns painfully on contact with skin.

Vice Grip: The blast-ended skrewt can add a +1 to any check made to maintain its grip on a target.

In the Books

A blast-ended skrewt is a headless crustacean that smolders with an internal flame.

Boggart

object

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 4
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 1

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Shapechanger: The boggart takes on the visual appearance of its target's greatest fear. While the target can see the boggart in its fearful form, the target always achieves a complication result on any checks they make.

A wizard can take control of the boggart's shapechanging trait by casting riddikulus.

In the Books

Professor Lupin used a boggart as part of his Defence Against the Dark Arts curriculum, keeping it locked up in a wardrobe. A boggart's true form is unknown.

Centaur

humanoid

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• Brawn 4
• Charisma 1
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 3

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Nature Knowledge: The centaur always achieves a serendipity result on checks made to recall information about nature.

In the Books

A tribe of centaurs live in the Forbidden Forest on the outskirts of Hogsmeade. The centaurs have roughly human intelligence, and one of them, Firenz, even took a job as a Divinations teacher at Hogwarts.

Dementor

humanoid

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• Brawn 3
• Charisma 4
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 3

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Chilling Presence: The air goes cold in a 30 metre radius around the dementor.

Flying: The dementor can fly.

Soul Absorption: The dementor can feed off a target's soul, incapacitating them and tearing away their positive memories. After one minute of sustained feeding, the target dies.

A wizard can repel a dementor or cancel its soul absorption effect with expecto patronum.

In the Books

In the hunt for the fugitive Sirius Black, dementors from the wizard prison Azkaban descended upon Hogwarts. Worried for the safety of the students with ghastly soul-sucking apparitions floating around the premises, many teachers taught students to master expecto patronum to keep the dementors at bay.

Dragon

animal

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• Brawn 7
• Charisma 4
• Courage 6
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 4

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Flying: The dragon can fly.

Fire Breath: The dragon can breathe a jet of flame that severely burns its target. If left untreated, the target will die of their burns in 1 hour.

Very Large: The dragon always achieves a serendipity result on Brawn checks.

In the Books

During the Tri-Wizard tournament, dragons were incorporated into one of the events, where the competitors must steal an egg from its nest. There are many different breeds of dragons which vary in size and appearance. Harry Potter faced a Hungarian Horntail, the nastiest of them all.

Fairy

humanoid
backfire threshold: 15

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 4
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 2

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Flying: The fairy can fly.

Mischievous Magic: The fairy can cast any 1st-year or 2nd-year spell, randomly determined.

Quick: The fairy can add a +1 to any check made to resist being caught.

In the Books

Fairies (and pixies) are tiny, proud, vicious little creatures. Without a competent teacher, fairies can easily take control of a classroom and send the entire class into chaos. Gilderoy Lockhart presents a good example of what not to do: insist that he has things under control without taking any of the necessary precautions.

Ghost

humanoid

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 2
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 2

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Ethereal: The ghost can move through solid objects.

Flying: The ghost can fly.

In the Books

Before death, a wizard can prepare their body and mind to become a ghost, persisting in the material world rather than pass on to the afterlife. Ghosts are a constant sight around Hogwarts, with some ghosts even teaching classes. Ghosts are celebrated rather than feared, with many hosting "death day parties" and other festivities to dispel the notion that they are dangerous.

Giant

humanoid

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• Brawn 6
• Charisma 1
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

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Very Large: The giant always achieves a serendipity result on Brawn checks.

In the Books

Giants struggle to keep their existence hidden from muggles due to their size. The result of the mating of a giant and a wizard (usually requiring magic) is a half-giant such as Rubeus Hagrid.

Giant Squid

animal

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• Brawn 7
• Charisma 2
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

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Ink: The giant squid can eject a large cloud of black ink to ward off targets.

Swimming: The giant squid can swim.

Very Large: The giant squid always achieves a serendipity result on Brawn checks.

In the Books

A giant squid, much older and larger than any muggle's traditional idea of a squid, lives in the Black Lake around Hogwarts. It's not a type of animal one would expect to live in a lake, but it seems to be doing alright.

Goblin

humanoid

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 1
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 4
• Perception 2

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Magic Resistant: When a spell is cast on a goblin, it can immediately make a Resistance check to completely ignore the effects.

In the Books

Goblins, renowned for their bookkeeping skills, are the primary accountants and receptionists for Gringotts Bank.

Hippogriff

animal

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• Brawn 4
• Charisma 2
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 3

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Flying: The hippogriff can fly.

In the Books

Buckbeak, a magical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a horse, was under the care of Rubeus Hagrid until the hippogriff was blamed for the assault of a student who had mishandled him.

House-Elf

humanoid
backfire threshold: 7

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 3
• Perception 3

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Bound: The house-elf is sworn to serve a particular wizarding family and must follow the orders of anyone of that family's name.

Giving a house-elf an item of clothing frees it of its servitude.

Innate Magic: The house-elf can cast any spell of 3rd-year or lower without needing a wand or an incantation.

In the Books

Hogwarts has a small community of house-elves that live in quarters separate from students and teachers, and some house-elves accompany children to Hogwarts to assist with living away from home. Some, like Dobby of the Malfoy family, have managed to free themselves but still enjoy living at Hogwarts.

Mandrake

object

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 1
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 1

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Scream: The mandrake's scream can knock any nearby humans or animals into a coma that lasts up to 30 days.

With sufficient ear protection, the scream causes only discomfort and mild ear pain.

In the Books

Mandrake roots were used to cure petrified Hogwarts students during the outbreak associated with the basilisk.

Merperson

humanoid

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 2
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

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Swimming: The merperson can swim.

In the Books

The merpeople of the Black Lake showed hostility to the competitors of the tri-wizard tournament and nearly cost the lives of the students meant to be rescued from the depths of the lake.

Phoenix

animal

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 4
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 3

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Flying: The phoenix can fly.

Healing Tears. The phoenix's tears perfectly heal all wounds.

Rebirth: When the phoenix dies, it disintegrates in a burst of flame and emerges as a chick from the ashes after 1 minute.

In the Books

Fawkes is the pet phoenix of headmaster Albus Dumbledore. A feather from Fawkes' tail makes up the core of the wand of Lord Voldemort.

Poltergeist

humanoid
backfire threshold: 15

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• Brawn 2
• Charisma 1
• Courage 3
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

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Ethereal: The poltergeist can move through solid objects.

Flying: The poltergeist can fly.

Innate Magic: The poltergeist can cast impedimenta, locomotor, and protero without needing a wand or an incantation.

Invisibility: The poltergeist can turn invisible or visible at will.

In the Books

The mischievous poltergeist Peeves haunts Hogwarts' halls at night, catching students off guard who have snuck out of bed.

Thestral

animal

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• Brawn 4
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 3

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Invisibility. The thestral is invisible to anyone without the Witness to Death quirk.

In the Books

After their first year, Hogwarts students unload from the Hogwarts Express and take horse-drawn carriages to the castle gates. Most students assume that the carriages draw themselves, as they can't see any actual horses drawing them. Some unfortunate students know the truth.

Three-Headed Dog

animal

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• Brawn 4
• Charisma 2
• Courage 5
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 5

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Guardian. Fluffy doesn't need to sleep. At least two heads can be awake at any time.

A wizard can put all three heads to sleep by playing a specific tune on a flute.

Three-Headed: Magical effects that would knock the three-headed dog out or affect its mental state affect only one of its three heads.

Very Large: The three-headed dog always achieves a serendipity result on its Brawn checks.

In the Books

The massive three-headed bloodhound Fluffy, cared for by Rubeus Hagrid, guards a hidden hallway where great secrets have been kept behind locked doors for many years in the hopes that dark wizards will never be able to find them.

Troll

humanoid

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• Brawn 6
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 1

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Stupid: The troll always achieves a complication result for Intelligence checks.

Very Large: The troll always achieves a serendipity result for Brawn checks.

In the Books

Trolls are big, lumbering, morons. One was once set free in Hogwarts' dungeon as a distraction for a dark wizard to infiltrate its hidden vaults.

Unicorn

animal

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• Brawn 4
• Charisma 4
• Courage 4
• Dexterity 2
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 3

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Healing Touch: The unicorn's touch perfectly heals all wounds.

Dark wizards can stave off the effects of old age and decay by drinking a unicorn's blood. From the moment the blood touches their lips, they suffer from a Half Life (see the Affliction quirk).

In the Books

There are a few unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, but after one of them was killed by a dark wizard, they have remained elusive and refuse to show themselves even to innocent students.

Werewolf

humanoid

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• Brawn 5
• Charisma 1
• Courage 2
• Dexterity 3
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 5

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Cursed Bite. A bite from the werewolf transmits the Werewolf quirk to its victim.

In the Books

Under the light of the full moon, professor Remus Lupin transformed into a werewolf and terrorised students that he cared for. He returned to his human form at dawn, retaining no memories of the night time.

Some evil werewolves, like Fenrir Greyback, intentionally transmit their curse to anyone they can get their hands on.

Veela

humanoid
backfire threshold: 7

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• Brawn 1
• Charisma 5
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 4
• Intelligence 2
• Perception 2

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Alluring: The veela always achieves a serendipity result on its Charisma checks.

Innate Magic: The veela can cast any of its known spells without needing a wand or an incantation.

Spells

1st-Year: episkey, nox, quietus

2nd-Year: confundo, eruptum, ferula, perpendiculum, rennervate

3rd-Year: allucinatio, conjunctivitus, crescerossa, orchideous, remedium, respirabulla

4th-Year: iterumimplus, nitor, sanamente

5th-Year: duro homenum, erecto, legilimens, revivify

Restricted: imperio, obliviate

In the Books

Impossibly beautiful, Veela inspired the legends of sirens luring sailors to death, or of forest nymphs seducing lost travellers and drowning them in ponds. Traditionally seen to be evil, Veela are an independent race with both hostile and friendly people among them, and they even occasionally interbreed with humans.

Whomping Willow

object

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• Brawn 5
• Charisma 1
• Courage 1
• Dexterity 1
• Intelligence 1
• Perception 1

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Very Large: The whomping willow always achieves a serendipity result on its Brawn checks.

In the Books

The whomping willow sits rooted in place at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, lashing out violently with its branches at anyone who approaches.

A Year at Hogwarts

Crisis

The characters come face-to-face with the main crisis of the year, where their lives are suddenly put in serious peril. This crisis won't be solved immediately and will persist throughout the rest of the year, potentially affecting the entire school. In The Philosopher's Stone, the release of a troll from the dungeon not only provides an encounter where the students must use what they've learned in class, but also puts the whole school on edge when it becomes apparent a dark wizard is attempting to cause harm to students from within the very school.

Group Classes

The characters come together for another group class where they have another opportunity to learn new spells and skills. This time, however, the crisis has a direct effect on the whole class. New restrictions are put in place, dangerous spells are taught for self-defense reasons, or the replacement of a lost teacher introduces new difficulties in the classroom.

Calm Before the Storm

The characters have a chance to cool down and relax, following up on interpersonal relationships, talking things out with rivals, doing research in the library, playing games like Wizard's Chess, or catching up with their family back home. This is also a good opportunity to advance the story without bringing it to the climactic showdown just yet.

Exams

The characters prepare for and take their exams, which are usually a few ability checks. A complication might arise (such as a herd of centaurs bursting into the exam room, or gravity being reversed) that makes things more thrilling for the students. Exams might also include a quidditch final or another event that tests the characters' skills.

Crisis Resolution

At the end of the school year, the crisis rears its head again and the characters deal with it directly, facing multiple difficult death-defying challenges against the odds. As an example, at the end of The Philosopher's Stone, Harry, Ron, and Hermione undergo a series of tests in order to reach the eponymous stone before the dark wizard can retrieve it.

Graduation

To cap off the school year, the characters have a feast and Albus Dumbledore provides a recap of the year's events. The winners of the House Cup and the Quidditch Cup are announced. The characters have a chance to say goodbye before they head home for the summer.

The Empty Portraits

A 1st-Year Hogwarts Adventure

This sample adventure takes a group of players through their 1st year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Key Monsters

Fairies and thestrals are used in Care of Magical Creatures. The escaped portraits, or figgefoogs, use the statblocks of regular students (as above) or monsters (boggarts, dementors, and werewolves). Figgefoog wizards can cast spells and interact with the world as normal, and they have the same wands and other equipment that they have in their portraits. The main difference is the figgefoog trait as follows.

1: The Hogwarts Express

The train ride to Hogwarts is an opportunity for the group to get to know one another personally before all the craziness of the year begins. Read out the following text to the players.

Get each player to describe their character to the rest of the group, starting with their name and physical appearance. Make sure that they ask each other lots of questions. Once the characters have had a chance to chat, their rivals arrive.

2: The Sorting Hat

As the group gathers outside of Hogwarts' Great Hall, awaiting the signal to enter, a large red ball smacks into the back of someone's head and bounces down the stairs. Someone's pet toad leaps after it.

If none of the characters go for the quaffle, a very short, squat, curly-haired boy with freckles eventually comes up, quaffle under his elbow.

The first years are led into the Great Hall, where an old floppy black hat sits on a stool.

One by one, the students are called up to the stage. The students see the lumpy boy Gonzo G'nache take the stage and smile way too widely when the sorting hat is placed on his head, his eyes glassy, mind elsewhere.

The group sees the tired girl Jemini Juniper, star struck at the sight of Dumbledore, barely realize where she is when it's placed on her head.

The group hears a suppressed cackle as Josephine Juniper shoves her sister off and plants the hat forcefully on her head.

The teachers have to pry Romeo Roots' quaffle out of his hands before they finally get him to sit down.

3: Potions

Potions classes are taught by Professor Severus Snape, a very tall, gaunt, pale man with greasy black hair and a look that could petrify a basilisk.

Students in potions class must make Intelligence checks to keep up with Snape's rapid-fire delivery of the instructions for a Pepperup Potion.

Everyone in the class makes another Intelligence check and receives a Pepperup Potion on a success.

If anyone goes after Jemini, they find her in the hallway being comforted by a much older Slytherin girl with striking white hair and piercing violet eyes. She is kneeling down by Jemini's side, comforting her, but stands straight up when approached. She is very tall.

The Slytherin girl, Snow Sterling, teaches Jemini and any other character present the spell geminio. She demonstrates it with a small notebook for Herbology class (her own, with very detailed illustrations of plants, complete with beautiful painted colours that seem to have been smeared over time) and lets Jemini keep the duplicate. Characters can add geminio, a 5th-year spell, to their list of spells.

4: Quidditch Try-Outs

We smash cut to the day of quidditch try-outs. Heavy autumn rains beat down on the students' heads. Lightning crackles in the distance. The quidditch coach, Madam Hooch, assures the students that the storm won't roll completely over Hogwarts.

5: Individual Classes

Each character has a chance to pursue elective classes. The following choices are available to them.

• Astronomy
• Transfiguration
• Charms

Multiple students can take the same classes and will be part of the scene together. The GM can also decide that everyone takes these classes together as one group.

Charms

Charms class is taught by Professor Flitwick, a tiny, gnomish man with a tinkly laugh.

Flitwick takes the class close to the quidditch field. A light dusting of snowfall covers the field in white. Students immediately start trying to summon snowballs in such a way that their friends get hit in the side of the head.

The group spots some 2nd year Hufflepuff students practicing quidditch on the field, caked in brown, slushy snow. They pass quaffles back and forth while riding their broomsticks for what seems like the very first time. One student throws a bludger in the air which gets confused by snowflakes and starts spinning in circles. Another is trying to set up makeshift hoops on the ground level rather than use the more difficult professional ones on the field. They don't seem to have a golden snitch, which is fine as they also don't have a seeker.

Romeo nudges one of the characters.

The group might approach the challenge in a variety of ways. They might need to roll Dexterity to sneak up on the quidditch players, Charisma to convince others to join in, Intelligence to correctly cast the spell, Courage to overcome the cold and the mud, or Brawn to score points on the Hufflepuffs. They also might use spells like accio and locomotor creatively to control the quaffle and bludger, diffindo or descendo to sabotage the makeshift hoops and reparo to restore them, or aguamenti or incendio to scare the enemy team.

After the third goal is scored, one of the Hufflepuffs becomes angry and tries to smash Romeo off his broomstick with a bludger.

Flitwick moves the students away from the very sad-looking Hufflepuff team. He mutters something like "sufficient to demonstrate understanding" to the class, then grabs Gonzo by the ear and drags him away.

6: Care of Magical Creatures

Care of Magical Creatures class opens up after Christmas. The class is taught by Rubeus Hagrid, a half-giant.

The learning goals for Hagrid's class are for the students to correctly locate and muzzle an invisible creature. He uses thestrals, horses that are invisible to any without the "Witness to Death" quirk, as his example. He also has a fairy that he feeds chocolate brownies as a bribe. The fairy turns invisible with the spell allucinatio and has agreed not to torment the students too much.

Hagrid approaches his classes from an exploratory-learning standpoint and provides a few examples of methods for students to use without locking them into any particular approach. Snow demonstrates how flecking paint on a creature can help you identify its outline. Offering food and other treats also can bring the invisible creature to you, at which point you can feel around for its snout and apply the muzzle gently as it eats. Hagrid also has the class stand in place, close their eyes, and engage their other senses (hearing and smell) to identify the creature's location.

The group is each assigned a thestral and must use any method available to them to locate it. A student with the Witness to Death quirk will be able to see their thestral, and can request a fairy instead, no questions asked. Hagrid just gravely nods and gestures for the fairy to help them out.

A mishandled thestral will bolt and run on a particularly badly-handled ability check. This ties into the next section; if everyone successfully muzzles their thestral, Romeo Roots will screw up his attempt by accidentally whacking it in the jaw with a bludger.

Snow picks the group to accompany her. The group leaves Hagrid's class behind and treks out into the woods. There's more snow on the ground under cover of trees and the walk is quite difficult. The group has a chance to ask Snow Sterling questions and perhaps learn a new spell (if pestered, she will teach them videodolum to help them see creatures like the fairy that use spells to make themselves invisible).

Snow freezes up when they come to a clearing where, underneath a beautiful canopy of blooming white cherry trees, a stone building sits in peace. A small mausoleum. A memorial to the students lost in the fire fifty years ago. When she spots something galloping through the trees outside of the clearing, she breathes a sigh of relief.

Snow has accidentally given chase to a centaur instead of to the thestral. The thestral has actually gone into the mausoleum, and the longer the group waits, the more obvious this becomes. At one point the thestral even pokes its head out, sees them, and trots back inside; those who can't see the thestral will definitely hear its footsteps and see the tracks it makes in the wet dirt.

7: The Figgefoog Address

We fade to the school feast in the evening. Huntley Hogawney sits next to them, and they almost don't recognise him without his green skin. He's stolen some food from the 7th year Slytherin table, the most delicious food at the feast, and shares it with the group. It just so happens to be some of each of the characters' favourite food.

The festivities are cut short when the whole school hears Dumbledore clear his throat.

Hagrid

Hagrid puts on a pot of tea for the group in his hut. The spring air is cool at night, and the pollen makes Hagrid sneeze uncontrollably. He admits that he messed around with some magic he found in the restricted section in the library.

Hagrid has not been creating any of the figgefoogs aside from the twelve students. He has no idea who summoned the boggart, the dementors, or any other terrible creatures from paintings. That must be someone else. Maybe the same person who stole his books.

Hagrid knows how to return the figgefoogs to their paintings, he just doesn't want to do it. His mind is set and, even if the students successfully roll Perception or Charisma to determine that he's lying about something, he maintains his resolve with a Courage check not to reveal anything further to prevent putting the figgefoog students in danger. He won't even reveal their names.

The students may, however, make a Charisma check to convince Hagrid to trust them and join in on his plan. If they agree, he'll tell them the names of the figgefoogs and instruct them to cover for those students wherever possible while Hagrid figures out who has stolen his book and who has been summoning the monstrous figgefoogs.

After speaking with the group, Hagrid has a think alone in his hut, and then decides to come clean to Dumbledore. After all, Hagrid is the only one who knows how to reliably return them to their portraits without hurting them. Of course, Hagrid is only responsible for the student figgefoogs, not the monsters. Still don't know who's doing that part.

Lupin

Lupin is crossing the Hogwarts bridge above the lake in quite a hurry. The cloudy spring night has turned the sky a perfect black, and he looks to the skies with a deeply worried expression. He will attempt to shove past the group, and they can stop him through an ability check contested with his Brawn.

Lupin isn't lying about the figgefoogs. He isn't responsible in the slightest for them. He is, however, a werewolf and is worried that the clouds will part and expose him to the full moon while young students are talking to him. He hurries away as fast as he can.

Snow

Snow can be found in the owl roost, teaching Jemini how to cast expecto patronum. The owls are very active in the night-time in the spring, swooping from the rafters to gobble up fireflies. Jemini's patronus is quite advanced already, even managing to produce a magnificent atlas moth (an owl attempts to eat it, to no avail). Snow gives her a pat on the head and then addresses the group.

Josephine, Jemini, Romeo, and Gonzo

Josephine stands and examines the empty portrait outside the Gryffindor common room where the Fat Lady would normally sit. Romeo has shown her where to find it. Jemini and Gonzo sit on the edge of the stairs nearby, both of them bored and exhausted while their two more charismatic family members run the show.

Clearly these four first year students have nothing to do with the release of the figgefoogs. Josephine truly intends to seek them out in an attempt to get on Dumbledore's good side. The party can either agree to help her, decline, or lie. If they tell her they are with her, she'll tell her that the figgefoogs probably leave paint trails wherever they go, you know, being technically made of paint and all. If the group doesn't agree to help her, she just tells them to stay out of her way.

Huntley and Breeny

Huntley can be found in the house-elf common room giving the house-elves scrapings from his plate at the feast. Breeny is following him and shyly gives the house-elves what's left of her plate as well.

If asked about the figgefoogs, both Huntley and Breeny first attempt (badly) to lie, then come clean if they are accused of being figgefoogs themselves.

They don't know who's been creating the monstrous figgefoogs, and they beg the group to keep their secret. The Fat Lady has also been staying with the house elves and has enjoyed her newfound freedom.

8: Defence Against the Figgefoogs

Professor Lupin begins his Defence Against the Dark Arts class visibly shaken. He tells the students that a very dangerous portrait has gone empty overnight. Under the light of a full moon, a werewolf may run amok through the school. A few students scream and Lupin casts silencio on the class for a minute as they get it out of their system. When sound returns, he continues: he will teach students how to deal with a figgefoog werewolf.

9: Figgefoog Hunt

At night, in each of the house common rooms, Josephine and her lackeys attempt to convince the group to join them in hunting down the other eleven figgefoog students.

Main Goal

Regardless of whether the group is with Josephine or against her, the most useful thing the group can be doing is finding out the names of the twelve figgefoog students. Knowing their names will either help the school narrow down who is and isn't a figgefoog, or it will give the group a head start in finding the figgefoog students and giving them protection.

The Mausoleum

The plaques where the students' names were written have been wiped clean. A successful Intelligence check can identify that the names were erased with the spell noink and that the spell aparecium or a revealer (a magical eraser) can reveal the words that have been hidden.

Quarius Quilt has already been returned to his painting. He sits on a tire swing, looking forlorn. He refuses to speak.

Learning Aparecium

The students can ask Professor Flitwick, the charms teacher, to teach them how to cast aparecium, but he will refuse as it's meant to be a 2nd-year spell. He assures them they'll learn it next year, not to worry. If they've accidentally hidden important notes with noink, they can always borrow a revealer from the library.

The students can also ask Snow if she'll teach them an advanced spell. She'll just say she doesn't know that spell as she never found it useful. Go ask someone else or come to her with a more exciting request.

Obtaining a Revealer

The librarian, Irma Prince, is a stern middle-aged woman with enormous spectacles and a hat adorned with black swan feathers. She regretfully informs the group that all of her revealers have been signed out by Miss Jemini Juniper.

Jemini refuses to lend her revealers to the party or explain why she has so many. In actual fact, she doesn't have any of them; Snow made her sign them all out and then vanished them all with evanesco.

Secretly, Snow is using Jemini to further her schemes.

Lupin

Remus Lupin can be found in his office and may agree to teach the students aparecium if he's convinced that it will help bring the figgefoogs in. He feels somewhat responsible for the danger the students are in as the werewolf figgefoog is in fact his own portrait that Snow brought to life. There's a copy of Lupin running around.

In fact, there is a chance that the students will run into the figgefoog copy of Lupin instead of the real one. The copy looks much younger and handsomer, with a much less scruffy beard. A successful Perception check will identify that Lupin's lesson schedule on the board says that he should be in class now, and also all of his lesson plans and books are smeared with paint.

Figgefoog Lupin will cast relashio to stun the group with a glob of paint and then make his escape.

Dumbledore will be very interested in the presence of a figgefoog Lupin running around. If this is brought to his attention, he'll reward the students with a revealer.

Other Methods

The students can talk to Dumbledore to get a copy of the student records. Dumbledore will search through the archives, but it seems that someone has gotten to them first and expunged the names of the twelve students (this was Snow, who snuck into the archives while Dumbledore was delivering his speech at the feast a few weeks back). He has a revealer lying around and might give it to the students, instructing them to report back with the names once they are done. If the plight of the figgefoog students is explained to him, he might be sympathetic but still insist that they are tracked down and captured.

Hagrid might also know the names of the students that he set free, but he says that he can't remember. There were twelve of them and he's always had trouble remembering names. If pestered or persuaded, he might reveal that Snow Sterling is a figgefoog, but that's all. He remembers her name because she's been very helpful as his assistant and he thinks she has a lot of promise as a wizard. She's great with younger students and always seems to bring out the best in everyone in terms of magical ability.

The group can also interrogate the Fat Lady in the house-elf common room, who sighs and says they already know Huntley and Breeny, and she knows about Snow Sterling, but can't remember the names of the rest of them. She says that one house-elf, Nesbitt, might agree to reveal the plaques if you ask him nicely and bribe him with some food. Nesbitt can cast aparecium and will do so for a slice of pie from dinner.

List of Names

When the party enters the mausoleum, they find that quite a few figgefoogs have already returned to their portraits. There's only about four or five remaining. The teachers must have been very effective in weeding out any students that weren't supposed to be there.

Standing next to the portraits of their friends are Breeny and Huntley, who lay their hands on the paintings in sombre solidarity for those who have already been caught.

Neither Breeny nor Huntley will stop the party from recovering the list of names from the plaques, but they will be very sad about it. The names can be found in the Key NPCs section at the beginning of the chapter.

Once the names have been recovered, the group hears Josephine and her posse approaching. If they sought the services of Nesbitt the house-elf, he immediately apparates away, not wanting any trouble.

Fighting Breeny and Huntley

A Quick Draw check determines who gets the drop on whom in the duel. Being first year students, they only know a few spells. They're outnumbered and outmatched, but they try to defend themselves anyway. They cast petrificus totalus, which traps the victim in a magical picture frame for the duration in addition to its regular effects. They use the sarcophagi as cover and attempt to make a break for the exit.

If the dementor escaped earlier, it returns here and attempts to suck the soul from Breeny. Finding no soul to suck, it moves on to the humans. The group will need to use expecto patronum that they learned from Snow in order to drive the dementor back.

While the group fights the dementor, Breeny and Huntley take the opportunity to escape. The party can stop them by first succeeding on a Perception check to notice them escaping then stop them with locomotor mortis, tanaxi, a Brawn check to tackle them, or any other method the party can come up with. The two figgefoogs and the list of names can then be brought to Dumbledore for praise and adoration.

Fighting Josephine and Her Posse

A Quick Draw check determines who gets the drop on whom in the duel. Breeny and Huntley attempt to escape while the group fights Josephine, Jemini, Romeo, and Gonzo. Like in the other option, a dementor arrives shortly into the duel and forces everyone to work together momentarily to ward it off.

• Josephine is a cunning manipulator who has practiced a few higher-level spells. She will taunt her opponents into casting a jinx, hex, or curse, which she will attempt to reflect back at them with protego. If cornered, she'll cast serpensortia and modify it with oppugno to set a snake on her enemy.
• Jemini is a very timid fighter. She's not confident in her own ability to pick appropriate spells, so she'll just copy what other people do. She has a bit of a crush on Romeo so she'll probably copy whatever he casts, i.e. casting locomotor on a sarcophagus lid and trying to ram her opponent with it. If that doesn't work, she'll cast petrificus totalus if Romeo has cast it. Otherwise she'll just copy whatever her opponent picks.

• Romeo is very competitive, so he'll pick the character he thinks is the biggest threat and take them out first. He'll cast locomotor on his bludger and use it to try to bash his opponent into submission. If that doesn't work, he'll cast petrificus totalus in an attempt to dominate them completely.
• Gonzo, oddly enough, is probably the most dangerous duelist of the group. He can make a Dexterity check to quickly transform into a toad and hide, or to avoid a spell being cast at him. From his hiding place he can transform back to his human form and then cast furnunculus to throw off his opponents and allow his friends to gain the upper hand. If Romeo's bludger is in a good spot, he'll also cast accio, hoping that it will hit someone on its way to him, then toss it back to Romeo for another use.

After the dementor is warded off, or when one side wins, everyone takes a moment to calm down. They're all first year students, so there's no real chance of anyone getting seriously hurt aside from their pride.

If Josephine and her posse win, Josephine demands that the party stays out of her way. She goes to grab Breeny and Huntley, but the two figgefoogs have escaped. She growls and says that next time she won't be so merciful. She leaves in a huff.

If Josephine and her posse are defeated, Josephine admits that maybe it was a bad idea to antagonise you guys so much considering that you all seem to be expert duelists. She says she'll stop with her personal witch hunt if everyone collectively agrees not to let the teachers know that they were fighting. She can't promise that Dumbledore and the other teachers won't be hunting for the figgefoogs, but she's not gonna do any more of it herself.

10: Exams

It's getting late into the school year, and the air grows hot and humid as spring begins to turn to summer. We're now all the way to exams season. Over the next few weeks as everyone studies, almost all of the figgefoog students are caught, and many more monsters are successfully destroyed by Lupin. Hagrid knows how to return the figgefoogs to their paintings, but often a monster is too dangerous and needs to be exploded instead.

Potions

The students must produce a perfect Pepperup Potion, requiring a successful Intelligence check. The check is made complicated by the fact that the cauldron is a figgefoog and will melt into a puddle of paint when fire seeds are added.

Charms

The students must accio a specific Wizard's Chess piece while they engage in bloody warfare with each other. It requires a Dexterity check when their piece presents the opportunity. The check is made complicated by the fact that a figgefoog student gets caught in someone else's accio and starts knocking everything over.

Astronomy

The students must demonstrate the motion of the solar system using locomotor on a large wooden model, requiring an Intelligence check for accurate motion. The check is made complicated when a figgefoog student gets caught in the locomotor spell and starts spinning around in Saturn's place.

Care of Magical Creatures

The students must locate an invisible fairy in the exam room and capture it using any method they see fit. The task is made complicated by the fact that there are two fairies, one of which is a figgefoog.

Defence Against the Dark Arts

The students must prevent a specific Wizard's Chess piece from reaching the other side of the board by casting tanaxi with a successful Dexterity check. This check is made complicated when a werewolf bursts into the exam room.

The werewolf seems to have been triggered by the fake moon from the Astronomy solar system model.

Dumbledore calls Lupin into his office. Exams are finished. Good job everyone. Go back to your dorms. If students listen in to Dumbledore's office, they might hear something about how stupid it is to cast a dangerous spell like confringo with a student so close to the target, and also how Dumbledore knows that Lupin is ... and then nothing, as Dumbledore casts ingressum on his office.

Quidditch

If any character plays quidditch, they must play for their house team to win the Quidditch Cup. Due to a perfect tie, all four house teams will be playing at the same time on the quidditch field, which has been adapted for four teams. It's extremely hot and the air is thick with swarms of insects. The rules are otherwise the same: any goal scored by your team counts as ten points (regardless of whose net, other than your own) and the golden snitch counts as 150 points. There are more quaffles and bludgers on the field than usual, but still only one golden snitch.

At least, that's what everyone thinks, because almost immediately as soon as the game starts, two golden snitches buzz onto the field, whacking into each other a few times before separating off in two directions.

Quidditch is played narratively. A character playing quidditch must make either Brawn checks (throwing quaffles, whacking bludgers, smacking other players off their brooms) or Dexterity checks (dodging bludgers, chasing the snitch) in response to the changing landscape of the game. With four teams playing at once, the emphasis should be on chaos.

Characters watching the game can cast spells from the sidelines to aid their friends, but must make Dexterity checks to keep their casting a secret or they'll be removed from the audience. They can also cheer on their team with Charisma checks.

Romeo is a particular problem in this game. As a beater, he delights in smacking important players off of their broomsticks and taking them out of the game entirely. He ignores the snitch and quaffles entirely and will lock onto specific power players, doing everything in his power to defeat them. At one point in the game, he identifies at least one member of the group as a key player and will hone in on them, showering them with bludgers and even flying in close to smack their broomstick with his stick.

To catch the golden snitch, the seeker must first make a hard Perception check to identify which snitch is real and which is a figgefoog, being unable to distinguish them on a failed check. Then, they have to make a Dexterity check to catch up to the snitch and a Brawn check to snatch it tightly. If they catch the figgefoog, it explodes into golden-flecked paint in their hands, blinding them until they cast scourgify or manage to clear the paint from their eyes.

In addition, if the figgefoog dementor is still alive, it joins the game and attempts to take the snitch for itself, seeing it as a source of positive joy and wanting to destroy it. It will attempt to suck the soul out of anyone in its way. The dementor also can't distinguish between the real snitch and the figgefoog snitch. Near the end of the game, if the dementor is still a dangerous factor, Professor Snape will fly out onto the field on his broom and personally take the dementor out, first with expecto patronum (a doe) and then with confringo once it is safely away from the students.

The winner of the game is the Quidditch Cup Champion.

11: That's Snow Werewolf!

After being saved by Lupin from the werewolf, Jemini has become obsessed with Lupin and has traded some of her jewellery for a chocolate frog with Lupin's face in it. Any Ravenclaw characters will be able to see the exchange in the Ravenclaw common room. At each dinner feast, Jemini sits at the table alone and stares at the portrait of Lupin that she keeps in a locket. Josephine complains that all Jemini talks about these days is becoming a witch as powerful and decisive as Lupin.

Characters who succeed on a Perception check can also overhear Professor Sinistra complaining that a student seems to have made off with her large solar system model after the exams.

After dinner, Jemini looks around suspiciously, makes sure nobody is following her, and then races up to the owl roost. Characters who notice her leave can make a Dexterity check to follow her. Josephine may ask the group to help her track Jemini as her sister has been acting suspiciously lately.

A Duel With Snow

Snow duels the group in the barren summer fields around Hagrid's hut. There's cover within the hut as well as behind large rocks, hay bales, bushes, and some tall thin trees.

Snow knows that she will be outnumbered, so she has made special preparations for her duel. She has cast volatus on herself so that she can fly and geminio to create a copy of herself that is currently sneaking up on the group from behind. The group will have to fight two flying Snows at the same time. While fighting, they can also simultaneously attempt to reason with her, as below.

Snow takes advantage of having two of herself by casting evanesco and appareo to blink herself in and out of existence. This is her defensive option. She'll need to succeed on a Quick Draw check to quickly vanish and re-summon herself to avoid enemy spells, which she can also use to quickly disorient her enemies and get the drop on them.

Offensively, she uses aguamenti (summoning paint instead of water) combined with oppugno, creating fragile paint monsters that take the form of vicious winter foxes. She also blinds her opponents with a burst of paint using nitor, as well as painfully trapping her opponents in an illusory frame of a painting with crucio to remind them of what she is trying to escape.

If present, Jemini can protect other characters from Snow's paint effects with impervious and may garner the courage to cast confringo on Snow when Snow has been sufficiently weakened by the party, blowing her into smithereens.

An Argument With Snow

The group can attempt to convince Snow to back down (and even simultaneously pursue this line of attack while fighting her through more traditional means). They will need to bring up the following arguments and succeed on a Hard Charisma check. Instead of a test of wizarding skill like the duel, this is a test to see how well the players have picked up on the central themes of the character of Snow.

• Hagrid saw potential in Snow where nobody else did. Without Hagrid, she would have fallen through the cracks and been forgotten.
• Snow's actions have sabotaged the acceptance of her and other figgefoogs among the Hogwarts faculty and students. It's possible to solve her problems without violence.
• Snow has made a difference to the group by teaching them powerful spells and making them better wizards. She is a good mentor who sees the best in people. The world would be worse without her.

Each of these arguments will increase the result of their Charisma check by 1. On a success, Snow will agree to back down. She merges with her copy and heals Hagrid's wounds with flagrante injurium and remedium (you can't be cursed by a figgefoog werewolf, but it will still make you very sick). Hagrid, after taking a few minutes to recover, accompanies her back to the mausoleum where he returns her to her portrait with the other figgefoogs.

12: Graduation

The year at Hogwarts comes to a close. For the graduation ceremonies, the entire school gathers together in the Great Hall for a feast and for closing speeches.

Have the group each describe what food their character will eat at the feast (individualised for every student). While they eat, their exam results are provided.

Dumbledore's Speech

Outcomes for the Figgefoogs

Dumbledore asks to speak with the group privately after the feast. He calls them into his office and sits them down on a big comfy sofa. His pet phoenix, Fawkes, observes them with interest, letting out a squawk now and then. Dumbledore casts ingressum to protect against eavesdroppers.

The group can suggest to Dumbledore what they want to happen to the figgefoogs. It's entirely up to the players. Perhaps they want all the paintings destroyed so that it can never happen again. Perhaps they wish for the figgefoogs to be allowed to venture out of their paintings once in a while and join classes. After all, aren't there ghost teachers? Why not figgefoog students?

The group can also choose to defer to Dumbledore instead. Dumbledore will declare that the figgefoogs shall remain in their paintings as they always have.

One way of secretly going behind Dumbledore's back on this and allowing the figgefoog students to be part of Hogwarts is for copies to made with geminio. While a figgefoog is participating at Hogwarts, their copy takes their place in the painting. No more shall their existence be discovered by the presence of an empty portrait.

Final Goodbyes

The Hogwarts Express takes them home. Each character has a chance to say goodbye to everyone else as they all head off from Platform 9 and 3/4. The year is finally over, but their adventures have only begun.

Summer Break

Each major character in the story has their own small epilogue. The players are encouraged to think about their own epilogues while listening to the others.

• Hagrid keeps his job as the groundskeeper and teacher of Care of Magical Creatures. Many teachers like Professor Snape correctly deduced that Hagrid had a lot to do with the figgefoog incidents, but they know that Hagrid is a personal friend of Dumbledore and probably won't face any longterm punishment. They resent him a little for it.
• Lupin was confronted by Dumbledore, who figured out that Lupin was a werewolf around exam season. Although Dumbledore is sympathetic to Lupin's curse, he knows that having a teacher transform into an uncontrollable monster with a highly contagious affliction once per month is a very bad idea. Lupin will not be returning to Hogwarts next year, prompting many to suspect him (falsely) of having something to do with the figgefoog incident.
• Josephine has poured herself into studies of how to protect herself from magical effects. She spends all summer forcing Jemini to attempt to cast jinxes, hexes, and curses on her, which she then practices reflecting with protego. Jemini has gained the confidence to occasionally say no to these sessions, but she has resigned herself to the fact that her sister's resolve will always be much greater than hers.
• Romeo and Gonzo join a quidditch camp over the summer. While Romeo continues to hone his aggression as a beater, Gonzo realizes that he also has a talent for it. Realizing that he now has a rival, Romeo has vowed to bring Gonzo down and never let him play as a beater for any Hogwarts team for as long as Romeo can influence him. Gonzo has no idea that Romeo feels so strongly about this and just enjoys whacking bludgers with a bat.