1993

The following events occurred in the year 1993:
==Events==
===February===
*14 February: Gilderoy Lockhart holds a Valentine's Day celebration. Harry Potter receives an anonymous singing valentine (sent by Ginny Weasley). He then begins to use the old diary of Tom Riddle.
===May===
*8 May: The basilisk petrifies Hermione Granger, removing Harry as a suspect behind the attacks. Rubeus Hagrid is sent to Azkaban and Albus Dumbledore is removed as headmaster of Hogwarts.
*24 May: Harry and Ron Weasley enter the Forbidden Forest and meet Aragog.
*29 May: Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets, where he kills the basilisk and stabs Tom Riddle's diary with a fang, destroying it and saving Ginny Weasley’s life. When Professor Lockhart attempts to Obliviate Harry and Ron and take credit for the rescue, the spell backfires, wiping his memory. Harry defeats Tom Riddle and the Basilisk.
*30 May: Dobby the house-elf is freed from service to the Malfoy family after Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into throwing a sock at him.
===June===
*31 May or Early June: Celebration feast lasts into the night; Hagrid returns from Azkaban; exams are cancelled. - "Harry had been to several Hogwarts feasts, but never one quite like this. [...] Hagrid turning up at half past three [...] Professor McGonagall standing up to tell them all that the exams had been cancelled as a school treat."
*Rest of term: Defence Against the Dark Arts classes cancelled; Lucius Malfoy is removed from the school’s Board of Governors. - "The rest of the final term passed in a haze of blazing sunshine. Hogwarts was back to normal with only a few, small differences — Defence Against the Dark Arts classes were cancelled (“but we’ve had plenty of practice at that anyway,” Ron told a disgruntled Hermione) and Lucius Malfoy had been sacked as a school governor."
==Deaths==
*29 May: Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk
*Hagrid's roosters
==Behind the scenes==
*Hebe Beardsall, who played Ariana Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was born in July of this year to Jonny and Janie Beardsall.The Telegraph
==Notes and references==
==See also==
*Dating conventions
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