1991

The following events occurred in the year 1991.

## July

### July 25

* James Potter shows up at the Dursley residence to announce that he and Harry’s mother are not dead, and Harry is a wizard.
* James Potter takes Harry to Diagon Alley, and they get Harry’s school supplies.
* Harry Potter confronts his father over the fact that he was sent away to live in an abusive house since he was 15 months old and never visited.

## August

* Harry Potter studies his school books while waiting for Hogwarts to start.

## September

### September 1

* Harry Potter is picked up by the Potterrs to go to Kings Cross.
* Harry Potter meets Hermione Granger on the Hogwarts Express. They discuss Wizarding etiquette before Hermione leaves.
* Jim Potter and Ron Weasley enter Harry Potter’s compartment on the Hogwarts Express. Draco Malfoy and his goons enter the compartment and get into an argument with Jim and Ron.
* After Draco Malfoy and his friends leave, Harry Potter leaves as well and offers Draco a friendship
* Harry Potter is sorted into Slytherin.

### September 2

* James Potter sends Harry a drunken Howler expressing his anger over Harry being sorted into “slimy slithery snakey Slytherin” and threatening to snap his wand “if [he] step[s] one foot out of line, if [he] gives the tiniest hint that [he’s] /hic/ turning evil or anything”.
* Harry Potter contacts a solicitor to file an injunction against his birth parents.

### September 6

* The Gryffindors and Slytherins have their first Potions lesson. Professor Snape asks Jim Potter the questions he asked Harry in canon,and Jim responds with insults to his hair and calling him “bullying, snide, and cruel” as well as Snivellus. Hermione proceeds to stop him before he can cost them more points. Then, Snape proceeds to ask Harry Potter the same questions, and Harry answers all of them.
* After Potions class, in Gryffindor Tower, Jim Potter yells at Hermione Granger for calling him a “braying ass” during Potions. When he proceeds to say the House Cup is only for know-it-alls, Hermione calls am emergency Prefect meeting, and proceeds to reveal the fact that Jim cost them 35 points in under a minute by insulting Professor Snape’s grooming habits, talking about how his father and Snape hated each other, and calling Snape ‘Snivellus’. She proceeds to reveal how all the answers were in the assigned reading and that every other Gryffindor first year, besides Ron Weasley, knew at least one of the answers. After this, Jim calls Hermione ‘Mudblood’ for what she said, unknowingly in front of his mother and Professor McGonagall.
* Harry Potter presents his parents with an injunction blocking them from interfering with his schooling or inheritance or speaking to him without his Head of House.
* When Harry Potter meets up with Hermione Granger’s study group, Neville Longbottom tells Harry what Hermione did earlier in Gryffindor Tower.
* Harry Potter, along with Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown, and Dean Thomas, have a study session in the library. Hermione taught Transfiguration, while Neville led in Herbology. Harry taught DADA, and he and Hermione jointly covered Charms. Finally, Lavender Brown led Potions.
* Harry Potter searches Hogwarts’ Library for information on Sirius Black’s trial.

### September 7-8

* Harry Potter gets a makeover from Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil,

### September 10

* Hermione Granger’s study group meets again, this time with Justin Finch-Fletchley, Susan Bones, Anthony Goldstein, and Padma Patil.

### September 12

* Gryffindor and Slytherin’s first flying lessons. As in canon, Neville Longbottom loses control of his broom, Draco Malfoy spots Neville’s Rememberall, and he and Jim Potter proceed to battle it out for the Rememberall. As a result, Jim gets on Gryffindor House Quidditch team.
* Draco Malfoy challenges Jim Potter to a wizard’s duel, then proceeds to not show up.

Jim Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Hermione Granger discover Fluffy and the trapdoor.

### 13 September

* Neville Longbottom and Hermione Granger reveal to Harry Potter the events of the night before, and the fact that Jim Potter was made Seeker.

## November

### November 4

* Neville Longbottom tells Harry Potter the ways his uncle tried to kill him.

## References

Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 6 - Day One in the Snake Pit,

Direct quote from James Potter’s Howler..
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 6 - Day One in the Snake Pit,

Direct quote from James Potter’s Howler..
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 7 - Potions and Process,

Direct quote from Jim Potter’s response to Snape’s questions..
Book 1 - HP&PoS - Ch. 8 - Meanwhile, in the Lion,

Told by Lavender Brown to Gryffindor Common Room..