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Where is there an actual mention of a "anti-cheating quill"? Is it in the movie? Because all I can find in the American version of the book is this, "'Now, I must warn you that the most stringent anti-cheating charms have been applied to your examination papers. Auto-Answer Quills are banned from the examination hall, as are Remembralls, Detachable Cribbing Cuffs and Self-Correcting Ink. Every year, I am afraid to say, seems to harbour at least one student who thinks that he or she can get around the Wizarding Examinations Authority's rules. I can only hope that it is nobody in Gryffindor. Our new - Headmistress —' Professor McGonagall pronounced the word with the same look on her face that Aunt Petunia had whenever she was contemplating a particularly stubborn bit of dirt '- has asked the Heads of House to tell their students that cheating will be punished most severely - because, of course, your examination results will reflect upon the Headmistress's new regime at the school -'", and it doesn't say anything about a specific quill with an anti-cheating spell on it. I was thinking maybe it was in the english version, or an interview or the movie. --BachLynn23 12:18, August 4, 2010 (UTC)

In Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16, there's a reference to "special, new quills" that have been "bewitched with an Anti-Cheating spell" (the full portion of relevant text is quoted in the article). However, these quills are never referred to as "anti-cheating quills" or "Anti-Cheating Quills," and the "anti-cheating charms" referred to in OotP were place on the exam papers, not the quills. Starstuff (Owl me!) 08:13, October 6, 2011 (UTC)
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