1994

The following events occurred in the year **1994**:

* Night before term started: Wood sought Harry out to discuss his plans for handling the Dementors and obtaining a new broom.
* First day of term (Tuesday): Harry has two hours of Care of Magical Creatures, Divinations, and Defence Against the Dark Arts.
* Thursday of the first week of classes: At eight o'clock Harry has his first lesson with Remus Lupin on the Patronus Charm.
* A week after the start of term: Ravenclaw vs Slytherin Quidditch Match.
* Wood begins five Quidditch practices a week.
* Second Thursday in term: Harry has his second private lesson with Lupin.

### February

* Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick continue their examination of Harry's Firebolt.
* Harry continues his private lessons with Lupin.
* Thursday during fourth week of term: Harry learns of the Dementor's Kiss; Professor McGongall returns the Firebolt; Scabbers goes missing, presumably eaten by Crookshanks.
* Friday during fourth week of term: Last Gryffindor practice before Match against Ravenclaw; Harry tries Firebolt for first time.
* Saturday during fourth week of term, 11 a.m.: Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw Quidditch match. Gryffindors celebrate their win in the common room until 1 a.m.
* Sunday during fourth week of term:
	+ Early hours before dawn: Sirius Black slashes Ron's bed curtains; castle searched again, but Black escapes.
	+ Security increased at Hogwarts; Sir Cadogan fired and Fat Lady returns to her duties with the addition of a group of Security Trolls.
* Two days after Black's break-in (Monday or Tuesday):
	+ Neville Longbottom receives a Howler from his grandmother for dropping his list of passwords that allowed Black into Gryffindor Tower.
	+ Harry and Ron receive Hagrid's invitation to tea and attend from six to nine p.m.
* Friday, the week after Black's attack: Hagrid and Buckbeak travel to London for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures hearing.
* Saturday, one week after Black's attack: Ron and Harry, under his invisibility cloak, visit Hogsmeade, return to castle to learn from Hermione that Buckbeak is to be executed.

### April

* 20 April: The original date for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures hearing on Buckbeak, but it was held early in February.

### Around Easter

* Hermione hits Malfoy after Care of Magical Creatures class, missed Cheering Charms in Charms class, and leaves Divination classes forever.

### Easter Holidays

* Students spend the holiday completing homework; Ron works on preparing Buckbeak's appeal.

### Week after Easter Holidays

* Tensions run high in lead-up to final Quidditch match with several scuffles breaking out in the halls.

### First weekend after Easter Holidays

* Gryffindor vs Slytherin Quidditch match.
* Gryffindor wins the Inter-House Quidditch Cup for the first time since Charles Weasley was Seeker.

### June

* 3 June (Monday):
	+ Third years take their Transfiguration final exam in the morning.
	+ Third years take their Charms final exam in the afternoon.
* 4 June (Tuesday):
	+ Third years take their Care of Magical Creatures final exam in the morning.
	+ Third years take their Potions final exam in the afternoon.
* 5 June (Wednesday):
	+ At midnight, third years take their Astronomy final exam.
	+ Third years take their History of Magic final exam in the morning.
	+ Third years take their Herbology final exam in the afternoon.
* 6 June (Thursday):
	+ Third years take their Defence Against the Dark Arts exam in the morning.
	+ In the afternoon, Ron and Harry have their final exam, Divinations, and Hermione’s has her final exam, Muggle Studies
	+ Sybill Trelawney told her second prophecy to Harry Potter during his Divination exam in the afternoon. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger discover Peter Pettigrew and Albus Dumbledore were responsible for the deaths of James and Liliana Potter. Peter Pettigrew escapes, Sirius Black and Buckbeak are freed by Harry and Hermione, with the assistance of Hermione's Time-Turner.

### August

* 16 August (Saturday):[40] Lord Voldemort murders Frank Bryce.
* Harry receives an invitation from the Weasleys to attend the 1994 Quidditch World Cup final to take place this Monday night.
* 17 August (Sunday): Arthur, Fred, and George, and Ron Weasley arrive at 4 Privet Drive shortly after 5 o'clock via Floo Powder to only to find the fireplace was blocked up.
* 18 August (Monday): The 422nd Quidditch World Cup final is held in England, between Ireland and Bulgaria. The Irish National Quidditch team defeats the Bulgarian National Quidditch team 170 to 160, though Bulgarian Seeker Viktor Krum captures the Golden Snitch. Afterward, a Death Eater riot breaks out and the Dark Mark is cast into the sky by Barty Crouch Jnr.
* 19 August (Tuesday):
	+ Harry and the Weasleys take an early portkey back to the Burrow.
	+ SCENES OF TERROR AT THE QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP published by Rita Skeeter in the *Daily Prophet*.
* 31 August (Sunday): Harry and the Weasleys prepare to return to Hogwarts.

### September

* 1 September (Monday): During the early morning, Amos Diggory calls on Arthur Weasley to help Alastor Moody after a disturbance at his house. Bartemius Crouch Jnr (impersonating Moody), who has abducted Moody, claims he has been attacked by burglars.
* 2 September (Tuesday): The Fourth years have Herbology, where they learn about Bubotubers. They also have Care of Magical Creatures, where they meet the Blast-Ended Skrewts, and Divination, where they start Astrology. The *Daily Prophet* publishes Rita Skeeter's article about Arthur Weasley and Alastor Moody. Barty Crouch Jnr, impersonating Alastor Moody, transforms Draco Malfoy into a ferret.
* 5 September (Friday):
	+ Bartemius Crouch Jnr (impersonating Alastor Moody) teaches the Fourth year students about the Unforgivable Curses.
	+ Hermione Granger founds the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare.
* 6 September (Saturday): Harry sends a letter to Sirius trying to convince him that he is fine and not to try and return.

### October

* c. 23 October: Notice was posted of the arrival of Durmstrang and Beauxbaton.[52]
* 30 October (Friday):[52]
	+ The Great Hall was decorated with enormous silk banners.[53]
	+ The delegations from Durmstrang Institute and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic arrived about 6 o'clock.[54]
* 31 October (Saturday): The Goblet of Fire selects the champions for the Triwizard Tournament, held for the first time in centuries at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Due to the scheming of Barty Crouch Jnr, posing as Alastor Moody, Harry Potter is unexpectedly chosen as a fourth champion.[55]

### November

* 1 November (Sunday): Harry sends a letter to Sirius letting him know that he was also selected as a Hogwarts Champion.
* 2 November (Monday): Students react to Harry as Hogwart's second champion. Fourth year Gryffindor and Slytherin Care of Magical Creatures students take the Blast-Ended Skrewts for walks.
* 13 November (Friday): Garrick Ollivander presided over the Wand weighing ceremony during the Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
* 21 November (Saturday): Hermione and Harry, under his Invisibility cloak, visit Hogsmeade.
* 22 November (Sunday):
	+ At midnight, Harry, under his invisibility cloak, meets with Hagrid to learn that Dragons will be the first task.
	+ At one a.m., Harry speaks with Sirius via the Floo Network in the Hogwart's common room.
	+ Harry and Hermione spend the day trying to figure out spells to subdue a dragon.
* 23 November (Monday):
	+ Harry tells Cedric Diggory that the first task involves dragons.
* 24 November (Tuesday):
	+ The First Task of the Triwizard Tournament is held.
	+ Cedric Diggory uses a Transfiguration spell to change a rock into a dog to distract the dragon. He is burned, but retrieves the egg and passes.

### December

* Care of Magical creatures class tries unsuccessfully to box the Blast-Ended Skrewts.
* Dobby begins working at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry around this time.
* Thursday: Professor McGonagall made the announcement of The Yule Ball at the end of Transfiguration class.
* The last week of term: Increasingly boisterous as the Yule Ball approached.
* Wednesday - Flitwick lets students play games as they were obviously distracted.
* Thursday: The password to the Gryffindor common room is changed to "Fairy Lights".
* Friday, last day of term:
	+ Severus tests his fourth years on poison antidotes.
	+ Harry asks Cho to the Yule Ball, only to learn she is going with Cedric Diggory. He later asks Parvati Patil who agrees to go with him and to ask her sister Padma Patil for Ron.
	+ Skyler and Nathara go to the ball with Aurora Pikeman as friends, with Nathara as Skyler's date.
* Week leading up to Christmas: Harry receives a letter from Sirius congratulating him on the first task.

* 25 December
	+ The Yule Ball of the Triwizard Tournament is held. Ron Weasley goes with Padma Patil and Hermione Granger goes with Viktor Krum. Without realising, seeing this sparks jealousy in Ron Weasley, which later leads to him and Hermione Granger falling in love.

## Individuals who started at Hogwarts

#### Gryffindor

* Dennis Creevey
* Jimmy Peakes
* Natalie McDonald
* Nigel Wolpert

#### Hufflepuff

* Eleanor Branstone
* Laura Madley
* Owen Cauldwell
* Kevin Whitby

#### Ravenclaw

* Stewart Ackerley
* Orla Quirke

#### Slytherin

* Malcolm Baddock
* Graham Pritchard

## Known individuals who graduated from Hogwarts

#### Slytherin

* Marcus Flint
* Percy Weasley

## Deaths

* July: Bertha Jorkins
* 16 August: Frank Bryce