Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What sound from the painting on the wall lets the Prime Minister of Muggles know that the Minister of Magic is requesting a meeting?

A soft cough.

2. How is the Prime Minister's schedule phone call with the president "rearranged"?

The president is made to forget about it.

3. What does Fudge say his purpose of his meeting with the Prime Minister is?

He wants to introduce him to his successor.

4. What animal does the Prime Minister's Junior Minister act like?

A duck.

5. What does the Prime Minister learn about his new secretary from the Minister of Magic?

That he's really a wizard.

6. Who is Rufus Scrimgeour?

The new Minister of Magic.

Chapter 2

1. What rude name do Narcissa and Bellatrix call Snape's house as they approach it?

A "Muggle dunghill".

2. Who does Snape make fetch drinks when Bellatrix and Narcissa...
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