1975

The following events occurred in **1975**:

## Events

### Individuals who Graduated from Hogwarts:

The following individuals graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 20 June, 1975.

* Francis McKinnon
* Irma Pince
* Amelia Bones
* Alecto Carrow
* Cuthbert Selwyn
* Sherah Jaffe
* Bertha Jorkins
* Sturgis Podmore
* Tav Travers

### Individuals who Started at Hogwarts:

The following individuals began their education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1975.

* Glenda Chittock (Ravenclaw)
* Cornelius Fudge (Ravenclaw)
* Gilderoy Lockhart (Ravenclaw)
* James Ogilvy (Ravenclaw)
* Aurora Sinistra (Ravenclaw)

### First Wizarding War:

* **19 January:** Minister for Magic Eugenia Jenkins is seen as inadequate to the challenge of the first rise of Lord Voldemort, and is replaced by the hard-lined Harold Minchum.
* **February (Unknown Date):** Bellatrix Black decides to join Voldemort's organization in February 1975. The group has now been renamed the Death Eaters.
* **21 July**: A stampede ensues at a Quidditch match between the Ballycastle Bats and the Falmouth Falcons after Death Eaters attack the stadium, causing an explosion, which kills twenty and injures nearly thirty more.

### Other:

* **6 February:** Mundungus Fletcher is banned from the Hog's Head on 6 February, 1975, after engaging in a brawl.
* **19 March:** *Hairy Snout, Human Heart*, a book written by an anonymous author featuring detailed experiences about the lives of British werewolves, is published by Whizz Hard Books.
* **1 September:** Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, Adrien Abbott, Mary Jane McKinnon, and Stefan Wilkes become Hogwarts prefects and have their first meeting on the Hogwarts Express.
* **17 December:** James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew have all become Animagi, thus officially naming themselves the Marauders, along with Remus Lupin.

## Births

* **2 January**: Gideon Crumb to Mr. and Mrs. Crumb in Portland, Dorset, England.
* **10 July:** A boy calledCharles Britton was born into the Britton family of Hadleigh Heath, Suffolk, England.
* **8 October**: Brendan Kelly to Mr. and Mrs. Kelly in Kinvarra, County Galway, Ireland.

## Deaths

* **11 April**: Clotilda Malfoy (née Avery) dies aged 85 in London, Middlesex, England.
* **21 July**: Mathilda Goyle (née Crouch) is killed in a stampede at a Quidditch match between the Ballycastle Bats and the Falmouth Falcons after Death Eaters attack the stadium, causing an explosion. Also dead are members of the Bonham family of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire: Chester Bonham, aged 38, Agatha Bonham (née Hargrave), aged 38, and their two children, Clara, aged 16, and Alban, aged 14. Also dead is Walden Hargrave (aged 42), among others.
* **5 August**: Petronia Bulstrode (née Flint) dies aged 86 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.
* **13 October**: Ivor Greengrass dies aged 73 in Bath, Somerset, England.
* **30 November: *"****Eugenia McKinnon, beloved wife of celebrated auror Ivor McKinnon, has succumbed to a lingering illness, which persisted over twenty days... the deceased woman is united in death with her parents, who were muggles. The Lady Eugenia was born in Paris, France, after her family left Athens, Greece in 1928 after political problems sieged there... She was a Hogwarts graduate and married Ivor McKinnon in 1956 at Windsor Caslte, in Berkshire. She leaves behind three children, Francis McKinnon, aged 18, Marlene McKinnon, aged 16, and Laurel McKinnon, aged 14. Her daughters remain at school."*