Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle FAQ
662 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Set Up
- How is the Villain deck ordered when Villains from several game boxes are combined?
- In a multiplayer game, do you give each Hero a player board or one board per player?
- If a Death Eater is revealed during setup, do the Heroes take its damage before the game starts?
- Are Heroes and proficiencies chosen by the players or dealt at random?
- Do you shuffle the Basilisk Fang into your deck at setup, or set it aside?
- How do you set up Game 2?
- Do Heroes keep the cards they bought when moving on to the next game?
- Do Hogwarts, Dark Arts and Villain cards carry over into later games?
- How is Lord Voldemort placed in later games?
- How many Villains are in the Villain deck for a full run through all seven games?
- How many Villains start face up at setup?
- Do you shuffle all the decks at setup, or use the exact opening cards shown in the instructions?
- How do you set up the Hogwarts market in Game 5?
- What changes in the setup for Game 6?
- How do you get the Year 6 proficiency cards?
- Can you skip straight to a later game box, such as Box 5 or Game 7, without playing the earlier ones?
- Can you play the base game with fewer than four Heroes?
- Can the base game be played with five or six Heroes?
- Can Luna or Ginny replace one of the four base Heroes in the base game?
- Can Heroes choose different proficiency cards for a later game?
- Is drawing four Villains and keeping three an official setup rule?
- Can you use the Monster Box and Charms and Potions expansions together, and which Encounters are used?
- How do you add an expansion box to the base game?
- What changes in the setup for Game 3 compared with Game 2?
Card Anatomy
- Do Villain-Creature cards count as both Villains and Creatures for card effects?
- Does Dolores Umbridge's health loss use the printed value of a card bought for less?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger when you choose the discard for a Villain or Dark Arts effect?
- Does Stupefy still draw a card if there is no Control token to remove?
- Do starting cards have a cost or value of zero for cost- and value-based effects?
- For effects that check a card's value, is it the Influence cost or the Influence the card provides?
Turn Order and Playing Cards
- Do you discard unplayed cards left in your hand at the end of your turn, and then draw five?
- Do you have to play every card in your hand?
- Can you draw or play again a card you already played this turn?
- Can you start your turn with more than five cards in hand?
- Can you acquire a card and then draw it the same turn?
- If your draw deck is empty when a card makes you draw or reveal, do you shuffle your discard pile first?
- If your discard pile is empty when a card says to search it, do you get nothing?
- Can the Charms proficiency be used on another player's turn, or on each player's turn?
- Does the Charms proficiency let you play the spells before discarding them?
- Do discards forced by a stun, or by another card's draw-and-discard, count toward the Charms proficiency?
- Does the Potions proficiency need an Ally, an Item and a Spell in the same turn?
- Does Luna Lovegood's item bonus apply once for each Item you play?
- Can Luna's once-per-turn Patronus ability be used on other players' turns?
- Can one discarded card pay for both Luna's Patronus and a Charm?
- Can Harry's Patronus prevent a stun on another player's turn?
- If a spell and a proficiency both give the same bonus in one turn, do both apply?
- Do 'if you discard this, gain' effects trigger when a stun, a Villain or a proficiency makes you discard?
- Do discard bonuses trigger when cards go to the discard pile at end of turn?
- Do you gain a card's benefit just by discarding it?
- Does discarding a spell count toward Hermione's play-four-spells ability?
- When a card says draw then discard, can you discard a card you did not just draw?
- When a card says to discard, can you discard from your draw pile instead of your hand?
- What counts as your hand, and where do discarded cards go?
- Can a stunned Hero gain or lose Health for the rest of the turn?
- When does a stunned Hero recover to full Health?
- In what order do effects resolve during a turn?
- If Sunshine Daisy leaves you already stunned, do you still draw two cards?
- On Sunshine Daisy, do you draw the two cards before or after discarding for being stunned?
- If a stun in Step 3 leaves you with no cards, do you draw five and discard half?
- Can you play a card while stunned?
- Are you stunned when your Health drops to 1, or only at 0?
- If a card lets you choose between a penalty and a discard, but you cannot pay the penalty, must you take the other option?
- Are attack and influence tokens gained on another Hero's turn kept until your turn?
- Do unspent attack and influence tokens carry over past the end of your turn?
- In Step 3, must you play cards, assign Attack and use Influence in a set order?
- When an effect says all Heroes choose one, do they choose together or separately?
- Does 'a Hero of your choice' include the Hero whose turn it is?
- When an effect makes all Heroes draw a card, do the other Heroes keep the card?
- Does Grawp's check on six cards use your hand size when he resolves?
- Does Dolores Umbridge's penalty trigger when a Hero draws cards?
- Does Hermione's Time-Turner effect last for the rest of the game?
- Must your hand stay hidden from the other Heroes?
- When Neville's ability gives every Hero a third heart, does each Hero get the proficiency's card?
- Does a 'first time each Hero gains a heart on your turn' bonus apply only once per turn?
- When a card says to draw a card, can you search your deck for a specific card?
- If you reveal the top card of your deck and its effect does not trigger, where does that card stay?
Hogwarts Cards and Market
- During Step 3, can you play cards, assign attacks and acquire Hogwarts cards in any order and repeat them?
- Can you clear the whole Hogwarts market instead of buying, once per game, when no card is affordable?
- Can you stack duplicate Hogwarts cards in the market in the base game?
- When a card rolls a House die, do all Heroes get the die's benefit, including when an Ally or Hogwarts: A History causes the roll?
- Does Boggart's creature reward make every Hero roll the creature die?
- Does the Elder Wand double or copy the effect of a Spell played with it?
- Does the Elder Wand also count Spells that were played before it in the turn?
- Can you play a Spell with no effect, such as Finite with no tokens in play, to gain the Elder Wand's bonus?
- Can the Elder Wand or Accio pull a card you already played this turn back into your hand or from the discard pile?
- Does Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans count Allies played before it in the turn, or only Allies played after it?
- Does discarding an Ally with a discard effect count as playing it for Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans?
- Does Polyjuice Potion copying an Ally trigger Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans again?
- Does Time Turner's put-Spells-on-top-of-your-deck effect work while the card is still in your hand?
- Can you use Flying Lessons, discarding 5 Influence, on another player's turn?
- Does an Alohomora! in hand count as Influence toward Flying Lessons' five-token cost?
- Does Gilderoy Lockhart's draw-then-discard happen only once, and can you discard the card you just drew?
- If you play Gilderoy Lockhart, is he discarded, and what happens if another effect discards him?
- With the Basilisk or Petrification in play, does a draw-then-discard card like Crystal Ball, Cho Chang or Lockhart still make you discard?
- Does a discard bonus, such as Remembrall or Chocolate Frog, trigger when another effect makes you discard the card?
- Can you voluntarily discard a card for its discard bonus, such as Chocolate Frog?
- Can Transfiguration fetch a starting card?
- Can Transfiguration search your deck while the Basilisk or Petrification prevents drawing?
- Can you use Transfiguration's discard-to-search before the Dark Arts cards for the turn are revealed?
- Does Divination resolve before or after an item's effect, such as Crystal Ball?
- If discarding Marauder's Map triggers Transfiguration, does the Map's draw resolve before the Transfiguration search?
- When a Dark Arts event makes all players discard and one player discards Marauder's Map, what is the resolution order?
- Must a Hogwarts card's effects be resolved in their printed order?
- When a card tells you to roll a die to attack a Horcrux, can you apply the roll as a normal effect if the result is not useful?
- Must the die symbols needed to destroy a Horcrux all be rolled in the same turn?
- Can you use a die symbol you rolled for a different Horcrux, or keep it for a later turn?
- Can you use a defeated Horcrux's discard-to-roll ability to attack the active Horcrux?
- Can every player use a Horcrux's discard-to-roll ability on every turn?
- Can a negative Dark Arts die roll, or a Hogwarts or History of Magic card that rolls dice, destroy a Horcrux?
- If two Horcrux abilities each require a discard to roll their die, does one discard cover both rolls?
- Do Dark Arts or Villain effects that force discards resolve before a proficiency or Hogwarts effect that also triggers?
- When are purchased Hogwarts cards replaced, and can you buy a newly revealed card on the same turn?
- Does the Basilisk's no-extra-draw rule stop buying cards, or the end-of-turn hand draw?
- Do played Allies or other played Hogwarts cards stay in play for the next turn?
- When the Dark Arts stack runs out partway through a reveal, is the card just resolved shuffled back in?
- If your draw deck is empty, do you reshuffle your discard pile for Divination?
- Can a stunned Hero gain Health from a card such as Chocolate Frog?
- Can you discard Detention cards while you are stunned?
- If Dolores Umbridge stuns you after a purchase, do you still get a full hand at the end of your turn?
- Must you play all your cards, assign all your attacks, or buy a Hogwarts card on your turn?
- Can Herbology draw more than one card per turn when a Hero gains 3 or more Health several times?
- Does Herbology's draw trigger when a Hero at or near maximum Health is healed?
- Does Botanical Degree let every player draw a card, and how often per turn?
- When does the History of Magic proficiency give Influence?
- With Arithmancy, can you roll the die twice and keep the result you want, or does a re-roll keep both results?
- Does the Arithmancy re-roll apply to dice rolled for Dark Arts events or Villain effects?
- Does a 'cannot draw' effect override a card that lets you draw extra cards?
- With the Basilisk in play, does rolling a card icon on a House die give you a card?
- If Felix Felicis gives 2 Attack and all of it defeats the Basilisk, can you still take its draw 2 option?
- Can Felix Felicis's 'choose 2' pick the same effect twice?
- Does the Charms proficiency reward trigger when a stun or a Villain makes you discard Spells?
- Does a Hero at full Health still get the bonus from Advanced Potion Making?
- When Neville's healing bonus and Advanced Potion Making both apply, which resolves first?
- Does Pettigrew's 'value of your top card' mean the coin cost in the Market?
- Can you play Detention cards, and do they count as Items?
- Once a Location has been controlled by the Villains, or is empty of control tokens, can you go back to it later to remove a control token?
- Can you keep removing control tokens from Hogwarts Castle every turn to stall?
- Can you buy a card first, then discard the remaining Hogwarts cards with Flagrante?
- Does a 'defeat a Villain' bonus on a Hogwarts card need the defeat to happen right after the card is played?
- If two Hogwarts cards each reward defeating a Villain, or you defeat two Villains with one card's reward, do you collect the reward more than once?
- How do lightning bolts work on an Encounter card?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts (DADA) trigger when a Dark Arts event's die roll makes you discard a card?
- When Buckbeak makes you discard a card, can you discard Buckbeak itself, and what do you get for discarding an Ally?
Heroes, Items and Proficiencies
- Can one Hero take both halves of a card that says "Any two Heroes each gain one Influence and one Heart"?
- Does the French Neville card work differently from the English one?
- Does a card that says "any one Hero" let you pick your own Hero?
- Does Harry's Invisibility Cloak protect every Hero from losing more than 1 Health?
- Does Neville's Health ability trigger when he heals himself?
- Can you permanently remove cards from your deck?
- Does copying a Spell with Priori Incantatem count as playing an extra Spell for Hermione's four-spells bonus?
- Does Dolores Umbridge's "acquires a card worth 4 or more coins" refer to the card's cost?
- If a card says "if X, then Y", do you still get Y when X cannot be fully carried out?
- What happens when a Hero gains Health while already at maximum?
- How often does Harry's ability trigger when Dark Mark control tokens are removed?
Dark Arts and Villains
- Can you pause a card mid-resolution to assign its Attack, then finish its other effects such as a draw?
- After you defeat the Basilisk, can you still draw its reward card and play it the same turn?
- If a card's Attack defeats the Basilisk, can that same card's own draw still happen?
- When a Villain or Dark Arts effect and a Hogwarts card both happen in one turn, which resolves first?
- After you defeat a Villain mid-turn, can leftover Attack go to its replacement that same turn?
- If the Villain you attacked is defeated this turn, can you Petrificus Totalus its replacement?
- When do you take a defeated Villain's reward, and can you save it for your next turn?
- Do Villain rewards that make heroes draw apply at once, and can you play the drawn cards that turn?
- Do Attack tokens assigned to a Villain stay on it between turns?
- Must you assign all of your Attack tokens to Villains each turn?
- Can you spread Attack tokens across several Villains in one turn?
- When a card removes 2 Attack from ALL Villains, does it take 2 from each Villain or 2 in total?
- Can you assign Attack or Influence to Voldemort before the other Villains are defeated?
- In Game 7, must the Horcruxes be destroyed before Voldemort can take damage?
- Can you cast Petrificus Totalus on Voldemort?
- Can Confundus remove a Dark Mark while Voldemort is in play along with other Villains?
- Does Voldemort's ability start as soon as he is revealed face up?
- In what order do Villain abilities resolve?
- Do extra Dark Arts events from Bellatrix or a Villain resolve in Step 1, before the Villains?
- If a Dark Arts event makes you reveal another card that also says to reveal another, does the chain keep going?
- If one turn draws several Dark Arts cards, do the earlier cards' effects still apply, and do they all affect you?
- Do Dark Arts event cards stay in play after they are revealed?
- Who is the active hero when Dark Arts cards are revealed?
- Does Finite Incantatem limit Dark Arts draws to one even when other effects add draws?
- Does Silencio's 'do not reveal Dark Arts events next turn' affect the next player?
- After you are stunned, do you still resolve the remaining Dark Arts cards and Villain abilities that turn?
- If you are stunned partway through a card's or Villain's effect, do its remaining steps still resolve?
- Do cards discarded because you were stunned still give their discard rewards, and can they pay a Horcrux's discard cost?
- When a Dark Arts or Villain effect offers a choice, can you pick an option you cannot do?
- Can Harry's Stag Patronus save Luna from a stun when a Dark Arts card makes them both lose Health at once?
- At end of turn, are defeated Villains replaced before the next hand is drawn and before stunned heroes recover?
- If a Dark Arts card stops you gaining Health, do you still get a Villain's Health reward when you defeat it?
- Does Fenrir's ability stop stunned heroes recovering, and do they still get his reward?
- Does Crabbe & Goyle make every hero lose Health when a Dark Arts card or Villain makes all heroes discard?
- Does Crabbe & Goyle cost you Health when a discard is forced on another hero's turn, or when Tom Riddle makes you discard?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger on other players' turns each time you are forced to discard?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger when a stun, Horcrux or Encounter makes you discard?
- If a Villain makes you discard two Allies, do you gain the Defense Against the Dark Arts reward twice?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts prevent a stun when a Villain makes you discard and also lose Health?
- When does Tom Riddle check your hand, and does an Ally drawn later in the turn count toward his cost?
- When Tom Riddle triggers with several Allies in hand, how many times does the penalty apply?
- Does Tom Riddle's Diary reward (play two or more Allies, gain 2 Health) have a once-per-turn limit?
- Can Tom Riddle's reward pull back a card you played earlier this turn?
- When several Villains are revealed at once, how often does a Death Eater trigger?
- If Voldemort is already face up when the card in front of him is removed, is he revealed for the Death Eater?
- If Morsmordre and a Death Eater both make everyone lose a heart, is it one heart or two?
- When do Villain abilities with no specific trigger take effect?
- Do Villain effects such as Dolores Umbridge's or the Basilisk's apply during players' turns, not only in the Villain step?
- Does Harry's Invisibility Cloak reduce each separate Villain or Dark Arts damage packet to 1?
- Does Harry's Invisibility Cloak protect the other heroes, or reduce Horcrux effects?
- When Draco Malfoy's trigger goes off on a Dark Mark, does it stun every hero, and what counts as a trigger?
- Do Villains that trigger when control tokens are added, like Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, still trigger when a stun or several Dark Arts cards add them?
- Does Petrification stop every draw during the turn, including Villain and Basilisk rewards?
- Does Petrification stop your normal end-of-turn draw of five cards?
- When does Petrificus Totalus wear off, and when does the frozen Villain become active again?
- Can you cast Petrificus Totalus before the turn's Dark Arts and Villain effects resolve?
- Does Petrificus Totalus on Barty Crouch Jr. stop his always-on ability?
- Can a second Petrificus Totalus token placed by another hero extend a Villain's paralysis?
- Can you play Cho Chang while petrified or while the Basilisk is in play?
- Does the Diadem's Horcrux penalty, losing 2 Health at the start of each turn, apply before Dark Arts events resolve?
- Can a once-per-turn Horcrux reward be used outside Step 3, such as during a stun or on another hero's turn?
- Who can use the Ring Horcrux's reward, and how often?
- Does the Ring Horcrux's lose-2-Health effect trigger for each Villain you give two or more Attacks?
- What does the Locket Horcrux stop while it is in play?
- How does Neville's Game 3 bonus heart work?
- Does Neville's Game 7 ability add a heart every time a hero gains Health on his turn?
- When does Harry Potter's Game 3 ability trigger, and on whose turn?
- Can Harry's Game 7 ability give both Attack tokens to the same hero?
- How does Ron Weasley's Game 7 ability work?
- Which cards trigger Peter Pettigrew's discard penalty?
- If Peter Pettigrew forces you to discard the top card of your deck, do that card's discard bonus trigger?
- If your draw deck is empty when Oppugno or Pettigrew makes you check the top card, do you reshuffle?
- While the Basilisk is in play, can you draw back up to five cards during your turn?
- Does the Basilisk stop you taking a card from your discard pile?
- If a card rewards defeating a Villain, does the reward still count when that Villain was defeated before the card was played?
- If you defeat two or more Villains in one turn, does a broomstick-style defeat reward pay out once or once per Villain?
- If another hero defeats a Villain, does your 'if you defeat a Villain' bonus apply?
- Does a card that collects damage when a Villain is defeated pay out if its own damage did not defeat that Villain?
- Do the Werewolf and Pansy Parkinson triggers depend on the Villain line-up order or the turn step?
- In Game 2, how many Villains are face up at once?
- Does 'any one hero gains' on a card let the reward go to any hero, including yourself or another player?
- When two Villains are defeated in one turn, in what order are their replacements placed?
Locations and Control Tokens
- Can heroes go back to an earlier Location, or reclaim one the Villains already took?
- When is a Location actually lost: as soon as it is full, or at the end of the turn?
- What happens when a card adds Villain Control to a Location that is already full?
- If a Location has 5 of 6 Control tokens and an effect adds three, how many are placed, and what do Draco and Lucius Malfoy do?
- When several Control tokens come off a Location with Voldemort, how much Health does each hero lose?
- In Game 5, does Location 3 (Ministry of Magic) make heroes discard an Ally or a Spell?
- Does an extra Dark Arts event drawn from a card count toward the Location's required number of reveals?
- How often does Harry Potter's ability trigger, and can it fire on another hero's turn?
- What happens when an effect removes a Control token from a Location that has none?
- Where do Location cards go once they are discarded?
- Does Draco Malfoy make the active Hero lose 2 Health for every Control token added, even on another hero's turn or from a stun?
- While Barty Crouch Jr. is in play, can Control tokens be removed, including by a defeated Villain's reward?
- If Avada Kedavra stuns you, how many Location markers are added, and what if you are already stunned?
- With Protean at low Health, can you skip the Dark Arts reveal on your own turn?
- Does defeating a Villain remove a Location's Control token, and does it save a full Location?
- If a defeated Villain's reward removes a Control token or skull, does it count before the end-of-turn Location check?
- Does Lucius Malfoy remove 1 Attack from each Villain for every Control token added to a Location?
- Does a Location's 'all heroes discard an Ally' effect repeat each turn?
- If a Location makes all heroes discard an Ally and you have none in hand, are you affected?
- In Game 7, can a stunned hero still remove a Villain Control token while Voldemort is active, and what does each removal cost?
- Once Voldemort is revealed in Game 7, does he add a skull to the Location every turn?
- Can Deluminator remove Villain Control tokens from more than one Location?
- If a Location is lost, does the Villain deck reset?
- Can the Hogwarts Castle Location's discard-five-Attacks ability remove a Control token every turn?
- If a Location's required Dark Arts count changes mid-turn, when do heroes move to the next Location?
End of Game
Additional RulesExpansion
- Does a Death Eater trigger its own ability when it is revealed?
- Does the Transfiguration proficiency search only your draw pile, or also your discard pile and hand?
- If your draw pile is empty when Transfiguration activates, can you search your discard pile?
- Does discarding an Item, or searching your discard pile, reach cards in your draw pile or cards in play?
- Can Accio or Transfiguration still put a card into your hand while a no-draw effect such as Basilisk or Petrification is in play?
- With Basilisk or another no-draw effect active, can you still play Trelawney and use her discard and Spell reward?
- With Basilisk active, can you play Cho Chang last so you discard nothing?
- If a stun happens partway through a card or Dark Arts event, when does it resolve?
- When Peter Pettigrew's ability needs a card and your draw pile is empty, do you shuffle your discard pile to make a new draw pile?
- For Peter Pettigrew's influence check, does the value mean the card's acquisition cost, and does a starting card trigger it?
- When Peter Pettigrew reveals your top card, what happens to it?
- When you are stunned on another player's turn, do you discard half your hand and lose your tokens right away?
- Can a stunned hero gain Health, refill the hand or draw cards before their own turn?
- When you are stunned, what do you discard first, and how many cards?
- If a Villain effect stuns you during your own turn, how does the Health reset work?
- If you are stunned between two Dark Arts draws in one turn, does your turn continue?
- If you are stunned and have no Health left, can you choose to lose Health instead of discarding when a Villain effect offers that choice?
- At 1 Health with an Item in hand, can you choose to lose your last Health (and be stunned) instead of discarding the Item?
- If a card lets you choose between losing Health and discarding, or discarding a type of card, can you pick the option you cannot pay?
- With 1 Health and two Allies facing a Villain penalty, can you choose the lose-2-Health option for the first Ally?
- When a card gives every Hero the same either-or choice, must all Heroes pick the same option?
- At 9 Health, does a card that says gain 2 Health still give the 1 Health that fits?
- When a card says any one Hero gains a reward, who picks which Hero receives it?
- Does Lucius's 'Remove 1 ray from all villains' also remove one from Lucius himself?
- Can you play Gilderoy Lockhart and still get his discard draw?
- If a card gives a bonus when discarded, do you get that bonus when its discard pays for a Proficiency or Horcrux?
- Can Crystal Ball discard a card you have already played this turn?
- When a Horcrux and another effect trigger together, which resolves first?
- Can you play an Ally while stunned with the Diary Horcrux out?
- When does a stunned hero regain full Health relative to a new Villain revealed in Step 4?
- Can a non-active hero use a Horcrux's once-per-turn discard ability?
- How often can a Horcrux ability be used, and can you play a Horcrux card on another hero's turn?
- Does a Horcrux die-roll reward go to every hero?
- When is a Horcrux counted as defeated?
- Does the Last Horcrux let you assign leftover attacks to Voldemort right away?
- Can Horcrux house symbols be saved across turns until the Horcrux is destroyed?
- Does Nagini's healing ban stop once Nagini is defeated, even on the same turn?
- Can you draw cards again on the turn you defeat Basilisk?
- When a Villain is defeated, when does its replacement come out?
- How much does Neville's Game 7 ability add when a card gives a hero +2 Health?
- Does Lucius Malfoy's effect apply to Control tokens placed before he appears?
- Can you assign more Attack to a Villain than its remaining Health?
- When do you receive the reward for defeating a Villain?
- Do other Villains' effects change a defeated Villain's reward?
- Can a defeated Villain be revived, and do its Attack tokens stay on it?
- Must you defeat Villains in a particular order?
- Does a Dark Arts card saying heroes cannot gain Health block a Villain's Health reward that turn?
- Can a hero refuse healing that another player gives them?
- Does George Weasley's Weasley condition apply to the Gryffindor die roll as well as the Health gain?
- Does Luna Lovegood's or Fleur Delacour's bonus count cards played earlier in the turn?
- When Crabbe & Goyle and another discard effect both trigger on one discard, which resolves first?
- Does Tom Riddle's Ally penalty count Allies drawn after the Villain step?
- When detentions are banished, do they go back to the detention pile?
- If Polyjuice Potion copies Fleur Delacour, does her 'if you play another Ally' bonus count the original Fleur?
- Does playing Polyjuice Potion count as playing an Ally for Ally-triggered effects?
- If Polyjuice Potion copies an Ally that offers a choice, such as Fawkes, must it copy the same option?
- Does Sybill Trelawney's 2 Influence bonus apply to any Spell you discard, or only one discarded by her own ability?
- Does discarding from the top of your deck, as Peter Pettigrew does, count as a discard for Crabbe and Goyle?
Reminders
- Are cards discarded during play placed in the discard pile straight away, or set aside until the end of the turn?
- Does a card's when-discarded effect, such as Neville's Remembrall, trigger when a Villain, Dark Arts event or Stun makes you discard it?
- Do discard-triggered effects fire when cards go to the discard pile at end of turn, or when you have unplayed cards?
- For a card that says draw 2 and discard any one, do you discard after drawing both?
- If a card says to choose from your discard pile and it is empty, do you still do it?
- If a card says you can't draw extra cards, does that stop drawing even when your hand is small?
- Can one discarded card pay for more than one Horcrux activation or discard reward?
- Must you spend all your Attack tokens on your turn, and must newly acquired Attack be assigned to a Villain right away?
- If drawing is blocked this turn, can you still play Gilderoy Lockhart when no other cards are left in hand?
- If a Dark Arts event makes all Heroes discard a card with Crabbe and Goyle in play, does each Hero lose a Health?
GeneralExpansion
- Can you use a proficiency on another hero's turn?
- Can a hero refuse a reward or hero ability another player gives them, such as Pius Thicknesse's influence?
- If Arithmancy lets you re-roll a die, does it apply to the Heir of Slytherin die roll when a Dark Arts card makes you roll?
- Does Herbology trigger when a Hero gains Health but the total would go past the 10 Health maximum?
- How many times can Herbology draw a card in one turn?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger when you discard cards because you were Stunned?
- If Tom Riddle makes you discard several cards, does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger once or once per card?
- Can you discard a card that was forced out by a Dark Arts or Villain effect to pay Transfiguration's discard cost?
- Can Transfiguration retrieve the Basilisk Fang?
- Does Luna's Lion Hat give an attack for each other hero's broom or Quidditch gear?
- Does a starting broom give Influence for each Villain its hero defeats, and does defeating a Creature trigger it?
- Does playing Transfiguration trigger Luna's healing ability?
- Must players keep their hands hidden from the other players, or can they be face up?
- Do you have to finish the base game (Games 1 to 7) before adding the expansions, and can they be mixed in earlier?
- Are the promo cards marked 'Box 1' used in Game 1?
- Is there a set order for playing the two expansions?
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle – The Charms and Potions ExpansionExpansion
- When you draw a Dark Arts Potion, does it take effect that turn or only from your next turn?
- If a Dark Arts Potion is in front of you at the start of your turn, does it resolve before you draw new Dark Arts cards?
- If you hold two Dark Arts Potions, in what order do they resolve?
- Does a Dark Arts Potion resolve on every player's turn, or only on its holder's turns?
- Where does a brewed Dark Arts Potion go, the discard pile or out of the game?
- Can any hero add ingredients to another hero's Dark Arts Potion?
- Does filling a Dark Arts Potion with its ingredients count as resolving it for the Pack 4 third encounter?
- Do Dark Arts Potions count toward an encounter that requires resolving five Dark Arts events?
- Do Dark Arts Potions trigger villain effects such as Crabbe and Goyle?
- Does View Slughorn's Memory count a Dark Arts Potion in the Dark Arts discard pile as face up?
- If Elixir of Life stops the next hero from revealing Dark Arts events, must that hero still resolve Dark Arts Potions already face up in front of them?
- Can Scourgify banish a Dark Arts Potion from your hand?
- Does discarding or banishing a Dark Arts card count toward a potion shelf's discard or banish requirement?
- Can the Defensive Charm banish a Dark Arts Potion, or only Dark Arts cards?
- Does the Defense Against the Dark Arts proficiency trigger when a Dark Arts Potion makes you discard a card?
- Must the ingredients from Potions Kit be used on a specific Dark Arts Potion?
- Can you banish a completed Potion right away for its banish reward, or must you keep it for a later turn?
- When a completed Potion gives all Heroes a card or token, can the active Hero use that reward on the same turn?
- After Step 3, is there an extra step to play cards or spend tokens gained from completing a Potion?
- Do you need a second card to banish a Potion from your hand?
- Does a Potion's banish reward apply if another card, such as Cornelius Fudge or Tergeo, banishes it?
- Where do banished Potions go, and do they come back when the Potion deck runs out?
- Does completing or brewing a Potion count as acquiring a card for an encounter, such as the Ministers of Magic one?
- Can the banish effect of a completed Potion complete another shelf's requirement, and can you then take an ingredient from that shelf?
- Does banishing a card trigger the Defense Against the Dark Arts proficiency?
- When is a Potion replaced on the Potion board after you complete it, and can you complete more than one in a turn?
- What does Babbling Beverage restrict: only spells, or also allies and items?
- After a Potion is banished in Step 4, can the attack from its reward be used that turn?
- When are Potion shelf requirements checked during a turn, and in what order?
- Does a shelf that needs a token you saved from earlier in the turn check the start of the whole turn or the start of the play phase?
- For a Potion shelf that needs a House die roll, does a Creature die count, and does a die rolled by a Villain or Dark Arts event count?
- Does a stunned Hero count as having 0 Health for a Potion shelf that requires 3 Health or less?
- On a Potion shelf requirement that says 'a Hero', does it mean any Hero or only the active Hero?
- Does a Potion shelf that asks you to give another Hero tokens count when you play any card that gives another player tokens?
- On a Potion shelf that requires a stunned Hero or 5 Influence, must the event happen on the active Hero's turn, and must the active Hero gain the Influence?
- Must you take a potion ingredient from a shelf once you meet its requirement, or collect ingredients each turn?
- When must you say which ingredient a Wild token replaces?
- Can you gather more than one potion ingredient in a turn, or only one per shelf?
- Can cards like the Cauldron or Potions Kit take ingredients from any shelf, and can you take two from the same shelf?
- Can you keep unused gathered potion ingredients for a later turn, and must they go to a specific Potion?
- Are the Potion shelves refilled during your turn, for example after the Cauldron takes an ingredient?
- When the Potion ingredient draw pile runs out, when do you refill it from the discard?
- Do the bottom ingredients slide down when a Potions shelf slides?
- Does a potion ingredient in Elixir of Life have to be a Wild ingredient?
- Are potion ingredients from the Cauldron item assigned immediately to a potion, or kept until Step 4?
- Does Devil's Snare stop the Potions Kit and the Cauldron from gathering ingredients?
- Does Influence on your board from earlier turns count toward a Pack 2 Potion requirement to acquire 5 or more Influence?
- Does Potions Kit's one-ingredient-per-Dark-Arts-Potion count the Dark Arts Potions of every hero, or only the active hero's?
- Does Confusing Concoction make cards in the market cost health, or only the Hogwarts cards you play?
- Do two Confusing Concoctions cancel each other out?
- Does Confusing Concoction affect Potions, and do Potions count as Hogwarts cards?
- Does Confusing Concoction change the result of dice rolls, including dice rolled by a Hogwarts card?
- Does Confusing Concoction affect all heroes, or only the hero who drew it?
- Is Confusing Concoction always on, or only during its owner's turn?
- Does Confusing Concoction change the cost of discarding a Detention?
- Can you discard a Detention while stunned with Confusing Concoction in play?
- Does Confusing Concoction change the health or influence you receive from another hero's card?
- If you heal another hero while you have Confusing Concoction, does that hero gain influence or hearts?
- Under Confusing Concoction, does Neville's extra-heart ability trigger when a Hogwarts card gives coins instead of hearts?
- Can the Protean Charm cancel Lord Voldemort's other effects?
- Can the Protean Charm, or Petrificus Totalus, let you assign Attack or Influence to Lord Voldemort before all other Villains are defeated?
- When you are stunned, do you discard your tokens before half your hand?
- When a stunned active hero resolves Narcissa's discard, does the stun discard happen first?
- When you discard a Detention to use a Memory Charm and it stuns you, is the Charm's health tier fixed at the level you had when you declared it?
- If playing an Ally heals you into a different Charm health tier, which tier applies?
- For Permanent Sticking Charm, which health tier applies: the health you started the turn at, or the health at the end of the turn?
- When you activate a Protean Charm at a health level and then heal, which health bracket applies?
- Can you save a charm ability for later, instead of using the one matching your health after a health change?
- Can an Apparition Charm's health-based effect be used if the Hero gains the Health that triggers it and goes past the threshold?
- Can you use a Charm while you are stunned?
- When can a Charm with no timing word be used, such as Undetectable Extension or Hover?
- Are Charm, Hero and Proficiency abilities optional during Step 3, such as the Protean Charm discard?
- When can Protean Charm be used, and does it stop Creature effects?
- Does In the Hall of Prophecy stop you from using a Protean Charm you already paid for?
- How long does Protean's ignore-one-Villain-effect last?
- Can one discarded item count toward both Protean Charm and Transfiguration in the same turn?
- If Protean Charm is used to ignore Cornelius Fudge's effect, does the charm still apply when defeated Villains are replaced?
- Does Permanent Sticking Charm check your health before or after stunned heroes recover at the end of the turn?
- If you are stunned on your turn, what does Permanent Sticking Charm do with your tokens?
- Does Permanent Sticking Charm keep your saved tokens safe from other discards, such as The Ministry is Meddling, Leprechaun Gold or Pius Thicknesse?
- Must a Hero ability be used once its trigger condition is met?
- Can you decline the reward for defeating a Villain or Creature?
- Can you refuse attack, influence or a reward that another hero gives you, including when Pius Thicknesse is out?
- Does an encounter that requires acquiring 8 Influence count Influence gained by other heroes?
- Does Pius Thicknesse's discard-for-coins trigger fire more than once in a turn?
- Does Silencio stop the next player from revealing Dark Arts cards, including the extra one from Pius Thicknesse?
- With Pius Thicknesse out, how many extra Dark Arts events are revealed for saved influence?
- Can you add more than one Influence to a Villain in a turn?
- During an encounter that requires being stunned a set number of times, does any stun count?
- Does Pansy Parkinson's discard trigger if a hero loses 3 Health across several hits in one turn, and can it trigger more than once per turn?
- Does Inferi's all-heroes heart loss trigger once per turn or once per Villain?
- If you defeat Inferi with two lightning bolts while Lucius Malfoy is in play, do heroes lose their heart before or after the defeat reward, and does Inferi's effect still resolve?
- Does a 'face-up villain: lose a heart unless you discard' encounter apply per Villain or per card?
- Does the Seventh Horcrux encounter's Lord Voldemort add an extra Voldemort to the villain stack?
- How do Pack 4's Voldemort limits on damage work while other enemies are in play?
- In the Epic Battle, is a Voldemort limited to one Attack per turn, including the Box 4 Voldemort that also needs 7 Influence?
- Do you get a reward for defeating a Voldemort in the Epic Battle?
- How many Villains and Creatures go into a Charms and Potions setup?
- Can Dumbledore's Request mix health loss and discards across Villains?
- Do duplicate Hogwarts cards stack in the market, so that every card on offer is different?
- Which base game cards go into a Charms and Potions Pack 1 game, and are the Ally cards of playable heroes shuffled in?
- After Game 6, which content should be included when setting up Charms and Potions if you have already opened Game 7?
- Can you use the Dark Arts events from the Monster Box of Monsters when mixing it with Charms and Potions?
- How do you set up a randomized game that mixes Charms and Potions encounters with Monster Box of Monsters encounters?
- Which Location cards should a randomized Charms and Potions game use?
- Should I use the Game 7 or Box 1 version of the Hero cards with Charms and Potions?
- Do the solo rules need changes for Charms and Potions?
- Which hero and character cards can you use with the Charms and Potions expansion, and do you need changes for Luna?
- If you reset the Hogwarts market during voluntary clearing, do the refreshed cards count toward a Potion shelf requirement?
- Do stacked duplicate cards in the Hogwarts market count as one card for the Memory Potion?
- When Family Disgraced triggers, do you replace the whole stack of highest-value cards, and does 'available to acquire' mean the face-down Hogwarts deck?
- If all six Hogwarts cards in the market share the highest value, does Family Disgraced cost six hearts?
- Does 'overcome a Villain' on the Shrunken Head card mean the same as defeating a Villain?
- Can a hero brew a potion on another hero's turn after gaining the effect through the Apparition Charm?
- When the Apparition Charm copies an effect to other heroes, can you choose which played card's effect is copied?
- When Apparition or Memory duplicates a card with a choice, can the second hero pick a different option?
- Does Summoning Charm level 3 let you choose a different Hero for each Ally played?
- Can the Memory Charm duplicate a starting deck card that has no value?
- Does Arresto Momentum force you to banish a card from your discard pile?
- Does Arresto Momentum's second power banish the top Dark Arts card of the draw deck or the discard, and can you look at it first?
- Can the Defensive Charm move any amount of Lightning between Villains or Creatures?
- Does an Apparition Charm with a value 3 or less condition work with a card that has no value, such as Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans?
- Does the Play 3 Spells requirement on the Potions Board need exactly three Spells, or three or more?
- Can the Basilisk Fang destroy Encounter 2: The 7th Horcrux?
- When Locomotor moves a card to another hero, does it stay in their deck for the rest of the game?
- Can you buy a card and then play Locomotor to give it to a neighbour the same turn?
- Does a failed Charm attempt count as using your Charm ability for a Potion shelf requirement?
- Can Permanent Sticking Charm satisfy the Use your Charm Ability shelf requirement?
- How does Alecto Carrow's extra Dark Arts count work when you discard Allies mid-resolution?
- Does Alecto Carrow's Ally count include other heroes' hands?
- What counts as spending Influence for a shelf that says Spend 6 or more Influence?
- Can Memory Charm replay Bertie Bott's Beans so each Ally played that turn gives attacks twice?
- Is the second option on Ginny's Bat Bogey Hex missing the word gain for ALL Heroes?
- Can a hero use a Patronus instead of a Proficiency, or use both in the same game?
- Can Luna's healing ability and her Healing Charm each be used more than once on a turn?
- Does a card played twice with Memory Charm count as played twice for goal and hero-ability counts?
- Does the Apparition Charm's 10-8 effect count as playing a card?
- Does the Defensive Charm's 10-8 ability give one Attack token or as many as you like?
- Do Potions have a cost for effects that refer to a card's cost?
- Engorgio draws six at end of turn, but Peskipiksi lets you draw four at low health. Which count applies?
- Does Self-Correcting Ink's 'visible' restriction exclude only the bottom face of a die?
- Does the Defensive Charm's move-attack ability count as assigning Attack for Ron's ability?
- Can the Defensive Charm move Attacks to Voldemort, or off Hungarian Horntail?
- Does the 'play 4 Items in one turn' encounter count a Detention and more than four Items?
- Must you complete an encounter if you do not want to?
- Can you play with the Charms and Potions expansion without the Monster Box of Monsters?
- Can you play Scourgify twice with Memory Charm when you are at 7 Health?
- Do the dice rolls for a Charms and Potions encounter need to happen in the same turn?
- Does Confundus trigger when the only enemy left is a Villain that takes only Influence?
- Are all effects on a Hogwarts card mandatory, or can you skip part of a card?
- Does playing Polyjuice Potion count as playing an Ally?
- Does playing a Detention count as playing an Item for Shaking in the Halls?
- Must all three Horcrux tokens in View Slughorn's Memory be rolled in one turn?
- In Pack 3 encounter 2, do you need to roll a heart, a coin and a bolt in one turn?
- Does Cornelius Fudge trigger his own ability when he is revealed?
- Can the Charm that banishes the top Dark Arts event be used on a second Dark Arts event drawn the same turn, such as one from Bellatrix?
- Must the three odd-value cards for the Magic Is Might encounter be played in one turn?
- Are encounter card effects processed every turn, or only when turned over?
- When does the Ministry is Meddling encounter's lose-2-hearts-on-discard effect apply?
- Which die does the Hermione Granger ally card use?
- If a Dark Arts event changes your Ally count, does a Villain's 'draw an extra Dark Arts per Ally' count change?
- When a Dark Arts or Villain effect offers a choice of losing Health or discarding, can you choose the option you cannot pay?
- When does Percy Weasley check how many cards you hold?
- If banishing leaves a hero with very few cards, how are draw or reveal effects handled?
- Does Permanent Sticking Charm let you skip paying Influence for cards?
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle – The Monster Box of Monsters ExpansionExpansion
- How often does the Care of Magical Creatures proficiency trigger?
- Does the Care of Magical Creatures proficiency matter in the base game?
- Must you claim a Monster Box encounter such as Peskipiksi once you meet its requirement?
- With the Mermaid out, can an Ally's die roll still give you Attack?
- With the Mermaid out, does discarding an Ally for its discard bonus still give Attack or Influence?
- With the Mermaid out, do Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans still give Attack or Influence?
- With the Mermaid out, does Polyjuice Potion copying an Ally still give its Attack or Influence?
- Does Basilisk stop cards gained from a die roll?
- Can Confundus remove a Control token when only Creatures are in play?
- Can you assign extra Attack or Influence to a Creature so you can still meet its requirement after losing some?
- Can you hold a Villain at low Health by assigning Attack without defeating it, to save it for later?
- When stunned with a Detention in hand, can you discard the Detention to meet a discard requirement?
- If fewer than three Villains and Creatures remain, can you still pass Full Moon Rises?
- When an effect removes Attack and/or Influence from all Creatures, do you remove one of each?
- Does Finite Incantatem stop Bellatrix Lestrange's extra Dark Arts reveal?
- Does Finite Incantatem also stop a Dark Arts card's own extra reveal, such as Crucio's?
- In Box 1 Encounter 2, do you add a Detention whenever you shuffle the discard pile into your draw deck?
- Can you play a Detention card for no effect to get it out of your hand?
- Can you play Erumpent Horn or Eye of the Rabbit while stunned?
- Does Neville's Box 1 ability trigger when another Hero gives him Health on Neville's turn?
- Can you complete two Encounters in one turn?
- Do Villain effects that name a Villain, such as Crabbe and Goyle, trigger when a Monster causes the discard?
- Are base-game Villains mixed with Monster Box Monsters in the same game?
- Can Dragon's Blood add extra Influence to Lord Voldemort?
- Does Dragon's Blood's extra Influence apply once in total, or once per Creature?
- Can Harry use the Stag Patronus when stunned or at 1 Health?
- Can you use an Encounter reward as an interrupt during a Dark Arts or Villain effect?
- Can Hogwarts: A History or Arithmancy be used on the Creature Die?
- When Luna plays Spectrospecs, does she see the next Dark Arts card herself?
- Must the creature or Villain named on an Encounter card be in play for its trigger to work?
- When a Detention is required and none remain, do you get a pass, and in what order are Detentions handed out?
- If a Troll-style effect offers a Detention or 2 Health and no Detentions remain, must you take the 2 Health loss?
- When a Detention is banished, where does it go?
- If a Creature die roll shows a double symbol, can one half go to a Horcrux or Encounter and the other half to a Hero effect?
- Do starter deck cards count toward an Encounter that requires cards of differing coin value?
- Does Arithmancy's cost reduction change the value counted for The First Task's 7-value requirement?
- Does Herbology trigger when another Hero is healed by The Third Task reward?
- Can you assign more than one Influence token to Lord Voldemort in a single turn?
- Is the Monster Box of Monsters content included in setup when using Charms and Potions, and what does it add?
- Can Influence be assigned to Villains, or only to Creatures?
- When Dragon's Breath discards Items and Detentions trigger Crabbe and Goyle, does Stun resolve before a Remembrall's coins are gained?
- If Chinese Fireball and Bellatrix are in play together, does each reveal an additional Dark Arts card, or only one card in total?
- Does the Mermaid block Attack or Influence from cards drawn by an Ally such as Flitwick, or from its house die roll?
- If Igor Karkaroff, which gains 1 Attack and 1 Influence when you defeat a Villain, is drawn after the defeat, does the reward still apply?
- Does Grawp's ability trigger any time the active player has six or more cards, or only when checked at step 2?
- When Transfiguration makes you shuffle your deck, do you add the Box 1 Detention first?
- Must the two house dice from the Box 4 Encounter 1 reward be different dice?
- Does Harry's Invisibility Cloak protect you from Creatures, or limit damage from them?
- Does Monster Box Game 1 reset to base Game 1, or use the full cumulative Hogwarts deck?
- Does Crabbe & Goyle make a Hero lose a heart when a Creature, not a Dark Arts event or Villain, forces a discard?
- Does the Mermaid stop Heroes from gaining Attack or Influence from playing Ally cards?
- In what order do several Villain or Creature abilities resolve, and does left-to-right order apply to every trigger?
- Does the Werewolf trigger if the active Hero loses their fourth heart outside Dark Arts or Villain resolution?
- Can you leave a Box 1 encounter in play after you meet its completion condition?
- Can you assign Attack or Influence to Lord Voldemort before the other enemies and Encounters are cleared?
- Does Neville's Non-corporeal Patronus trigger again when a Hero gains more hearts later in the same turn?
- Does the Box 2 encounter that stops Heroes removing tokens also block token removal from defeated-Villain rewards?
- When is a Hogwarts encounter that needs attack-token dice rolls completed?
- If an event stops you drawing cards, can a die roll's card symbol still go toward completing an Encounter?
- If a hero completes an Encounter but does not claim it, can a later player claim it, and must it be completed again?
- Does a Death Eater's heart loss trigger when a Creature is revealed?
- How many Villains are in play at the start of Box 1 of the Monster Box?
- If you cannot draw cards, such as under Petrification or the Basilisk's effect, can you still use the rest of Hermione's Otter Patronus?
- In the Epic Battle, in what order do Dark Arts, the Horcrux or Encounter, Voldemort and the Villain row resolve?
- How are the four Lord Voldemort cards placed in the Epic Battle Villain deck?
- Do the dice rolls for the second Box 1 encounter have to happen on the same turn?
- Which cards make up the Villain and Creature deck in Game 1 when using Basilisk and Dementor?
- Can heroes remove a Villain Control token with a defeat reward when Defensive Training forbids removing them?
- Can you assign Attack tokens to a Creature that only needs Influence to defeat?
- When the Troll Creature forces a choice, can you discard a Detention from your hand instead of losing 2 Health?
- If a Defensive Training encounter is completed on the turn it is rolled, can you remove Control tokens that turn?
- Can Luna's Spectrespecs stop the next player from drawing a Dark Arts event?
- Can a stunned hero still play Items and Allies during the Escape! encounter?
- When the Box 4 Creature die rolls a double heart, can the two hearts count toward an encounter that needs hearts?
- What Villains and Creatures go in the Box 4 Monster Box setup?
- Is banishing mandatory on cards that say "Discard or Banish a card", such as Argus Filch?
- Does the Stag Patronus set a hero to 2 Health when it stops a stun, and does it raise a hero already at 1 Health?
- When setting up Monster Box Villains and Creatures, do you know which base Villains were randomly chosen?
- Does Defense Against the Dark Arts trigger when a Creature or a stun makes you discard?
- Does the Forbidden Forest encounter need one of each token symbol, or any one of them?
- Can a hero's dice re-roll ability be used on a die roll made by a Villain or Dark Arts card?
- Does being forced to discard a spell by a Dark Arts card let Luna's Patronus roll the Ravenclaw die?
- Does Full Moon Rises trigger when a Villain or Creature stun adds a Dark Mark to the location?
- If Erumpent Horn stuns you at 2 Health, do you still gain its 3 lightning bolts?
- Does Neville's Box 1 bonus trigger once per Hero or once per his turn?
- Does the Care of Magical Creatures proficiency work only on your own turn?
- Do effects that refer to Villains also apply to Creatures in the Monster Box of Monsters?
- If two skulls are added at once, does an effect that triggers on each skull (like Draco's) apply twice?
- Do the Basilisk and Dementor from Box 1 replace the base-game cards?
- Can you use the Box 1 new heroes instead of the Year 7 heroes, and can a Year 7 hero and its Box 1 version both be played?
- How many Villains and Creatures are set up at the start of Box 1 of the Monster Box?
- Can a creature die roll count toward an encounter, or be used to clear one?
- Do Detention cards count as Items when an encounter requires playing Items, and can a Detention trigger effects?
- Does discarding a Detention cost 2 Health, including one you looked at with Divination rather than drew?
- For Inquisitorial Squad and Menacing Growl, do Heroes count Detentions in the active Hero's hand or in their own hands?
- In the Monster Box expansion, are the Horcrux cards used, and do its Hogwarts cards join the Hogwarts deck?
- Do you keep encounter rewards or cards when you move to the next box or book?
- In Box 3 Encounter 3, does each Item count as well as each Ally for losing Health?
- Does Box 4 Encounter 3 add a second Lord Voldemort to the game?
- What happens if you cannot complete an encounter?
- What does Basilisk Fang do when there is no Horcrux to destroy, and can it complete encounters that need dice symbols?
- Can a hero who was saved by Harry's Patronus discard a Detention to pay for a Creature effect?
- When Peskipiksi's reward says each time you play an even-value card, one Hero gains one, is each card resolved separately?
- In the Monster Box Box 3 setup, do you add 12 or 13 Villains and Creatures?
- When you start Box 2, do Creatures from Box 1 stay in the pool for enemy selection?
- Does Fluffy's per-item effect apply again in Step 3 when you draw an item from a Hogwarts card?
- When an encounter costs 1 Health for playing an Ally, does that loss come before the Ally's effect resolves?
- Does "assign 2 or more bolts to a Villain or Creature" count the total on your turn or each enemy?
- How many galleons can you assign to a Creature in one turn?
- How often does Grindylow's effect trigger?
- Can you change your proficiency card or character between Box 1 and Box 2?
- If the last Villain dies in the same turn as the last encounter, can you assign leftover attacks to Voldemort?
- Does Ron's "if you assign 3 or more tokens" ability count a mix of Attack and Influence?
- How do you build the decks for a Monster Box game, with previous boxes and years included?
- Do you need to complete Box 1 Encounter 1 without using the abilities of the cards you play?
- When can you play Luna's Spectrespecs, and what does it look at?
- What does "this turn" mean in Dark Arts or Creature effects, such as limits on drawing or Influence?
- Does Lucius Malfoy remove Influence from Creatures as well as Attack from Villains?
- What do the symbols on the Creature die mean?
- What does the Harp item do?
- Does Harry's Box 1 ability trigger once per card played or once per Location token removed?
- In Monster Box Boxes 2 and 3, must you complete all encounters to win, or is defeating the Villains enough?
- Must you finish the base game boxes before using the expansion?
- Can Luna be used when playing the base game years?
- Can Luna's Patronus ability be used on other Heroes' turns?
- Does Ukrainian Ironbelly's heart loss apply each time a hero plays an Item or Ally, including cards drawn mid-turn?
- When can you use an encounter reward, and can it be used on the turn you complete the encounter?
- How do you allocate Influence to defeat Creatures, and does spending Influence on buying cards trigger Ron's Box 1 ability?
- What do the new component dice faces do on Box 4 cards?
- What if the Box 1 "Student out of bed" encounter needs a dice roll but no dice card is in the stack?
- Do the random Villains from Box 1 carry over into Box 2?
- What does Old Sock give when played versus discarded?
- Are stunned heroes restored to 10 Health before the end-of-turn encounter draw?
- If Box 2 Encounter 1 is checked before Villains add Dark Marks, does its penalty still apply afterwards?
- For a Creature's defeat reward that rolls a House die, do all Heroes get the result?
- For The First Task reward, can you roll the same House die twice?
- Which cards can Argus Filch's ability discard?
- Does discarding a card count as playing it for Box 1 Encounter 3?
- Does playing Polyjuice Potion count toward the two-Allies requirement of Box 1 Encounter 3?
- For Box 2 Encounter 3, can House dice count, or only the Creature die?
- Can you assign Influence to several Creatures in one turn?
- Can Harry's Patronus be used during another Hero's turn?
- Does Luna's Lion-Head Hat give two Attacks when you hold two Quidditch items?
- Does a completed Encounter's effect stay active for the rest of the turn?
- Do re-roll effects from two sources stack, such as Arithmancy and a Forbidden Forest encounter?
- Which Dark Arts cards are shuffled with the 8 new Monster Box cards?
- When Vicious Bite hits, which Heroes lose Health if several are tied for the lowest?
- Does Dragon's Breath's "discard all Items" include Items in your draw pile?
- Does a card with value 0 count as an even value for the Box 1 encounter reward?