'Harry Potter' fans, rejoice: You can now discover your true Patronus

I got a red squirrel!
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- The quiz we've all been waiting for is finally here.

After a day of teasing out clues on Twitter, official Harry Potter site Pottermore has finally confirmed what many were suspecting: we now have an actual Patronus quiz.

Pottermore shared a link to the quiz -- which invites you to answer a series of questions to determine which animal your Patronus would be -- in a tweet early Thursday afternoon.


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Being the dangerously obsessed Harry Potter fan that I am, I immediately abandoned everything else and went straight to their website.

So how does the quiz work?

Basically, you need to log in to Pottermore and answer a handful of multiple choice questions while you're sped along through a gloomily animated forest. Mysterious music plays in the background, and the whole thing is appropriately atmospheric and awesome.

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The questions are pretty straightforward -- rough or smooth; hope, trust, or love, etc. -- and you're asked to go with your instincts and answer as quickly as possible.

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Finally, you enter a clearing and are told to swipe the screen in order to reveal your Patronus.

I can't remember which answers I clicked, but I came out with a badass red squirrel for my Patronus so I was pretty pleased with that.

Just look at him go:

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On a side note, J.K. Rowling said in a tweet back in 2014 that her Patronus is a pine marten.

But it looks like she now has a brand new one:

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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