Twenty years ago, the Boy Who Lived left his cupboard under the stairs and entered a magical world of witches and wizards, of friendship and adventure. And our world has never been the same.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Wizarding World it has spawned since its release in 1997, has inspired countless tributes—including our own Wizard School scavenger hunts. They challenge hunters to answer fun, tricky questions about works of art with characters, creatures, or themes reminiscent of those in the Harry Potter books and films. They also challenge hunters to come up with the wittiest, weirdest team names they possibly can. Here are some of our favorites.
Our Favorite Wizard School Team Names from…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Expecto-to-Winno
Snapes on a Plane
Slytherin to Victory
Grab ’em by the Crookshanks
Art Institute of Chicago
Fantastic Beasts (And We’re Gonna Find Them)
Hungry, Hungry Hippogriffs
Fizzing Quizbees
Dumb & Dumbledore
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Salazar Slytherin’s Slimey Scavengers, aka “SSSS”
The Harry Spotters
Hey, Hey We’re the Muggles
Quid-Itching Your Scabbers
Granger Things
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
We’re Not Hypocrites, We’re Hippogriffs!
D.A. Met! (Dumbledore’s Army – Magical Exploration Team)
Geriatrics of Gryffindor
Bellatrix Up Our Sleeves
Granger Danger
Dumbledorable
The Emma Watson Adventures
The Wand-erers
Snapes in the Grass
Slytherin Through the Met
Slytherin into First Place
Slytherin to the Finish
Philadelphia Museum of Art
This is a Toupee, Not a Hedwig
Raven Clue
Expecto Matrimonius
Hagrid and the Gryffindorables
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Voldemorticians
2 Legit to Quidditch (Hey, Hey)
Neville Gonna Give You Up, Neville Gonna Let You Down
Let Diagons Be Diagons
Donald Trump Is a Parseltongue
Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
That’s So Ravenclaw
Long Live Alan Rickman
Raven Clever
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