1993

The following events occurred in the year **1993:**

## Events

### Individuals who Graduated from Hogwarts:

The following individuals left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after having completed their final year of schooling in June of 1993.

* Gideon Crumb
* Isabelle Farley
* Erin Kelly
* Selina Moore

### Individuals who Started at Hogwarts:

The following individuals began their education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1 September, 1993.

* Trafford Cadwallader (Hufflepuff)
* Richard Coote (Gryffindor)
* Lydia Davies (Ravenclaw)
* Kevin Driscoll (Ravenclaw)
* Charlotte Fawley (Gryffindor)
* Astoria Greengrass (Slytherin)
* Susan Kinney (Ravenclaw)
* Andrew Kirke (Gryffindor)
* Thea MacIver (Slytherin)
* Brunhilde Macnair (Slytherin)
* Angus Matlock (Ravenclaw)
* Amelia Noble (Ravenclaw)
* Maxine O'Flaherty (Hufflepuff)
* Sean Peakes (Hufflepuff)
* Sarah Percy (Hufflepuff)
* Ellen Rigby (Gryffindor)
* Demelza Robins (Gryffindor)
* Rolf Scamander (Hufflepuff)
* Jack Sloper (Gryffindor)
* Esther Tofty (Hufflepuff)
* Alice Tolipan (Gryffindor)
* Astor Vaisey (Slytherin)
* Romilda Vane (Gryffindor)
* Annora Walsh (Slytherin)

## Other Events

* **8 January:** A Full Moon takes place this evening.
* **9 January:** Aquila tells Maisie that she knows about her being a werewolf, and once she had gotten over the initial shock she realised that it only made sense. Maisie quickly begs Aquila not to tell anyone, and Aquila promises that she won’t.
* **10 January:** Aquila visits the Library. She starts researching lycanthropy and what might combat it: she finds initial research of a Potion that had been developed in the summer of 1991 which seems promising, however, it is expensive, and looks extremely difficult to brew.
* **19 January:** New anti-werewolf legislation is passed; the bill was worked on (amongst others) by Dolores Umbridge. It will later become nearly impossible for those infected with lycanthropy to get jobs.
* **6 February:** Maisie Cattermole’s twelfth birthday. A Full Moon occurs this evening, lasting until the morning of 7 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 write in the old diary of Tom Riddle.
* **8 March:** A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **14 March:** Ophelia Brown’s twelfth birthday.
* **30 March:** Aquila Black and Ginny Weasley have a row but it leaves them both in tears.
* **6 May:** A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **8 May:** The Basilisk petrifies Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater, 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 Potter and Ron Weasley enter the Forbidden Forest and meet Aragog.
* **29 May:** A short time before Midnight, Dumbledore returns to discover what has happened to Ginny Weasley after a message was left saying that “*her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.*” He and McGonagall have a talk with her parents and discuss privately how to go about closing the school. That same night, Harry Potter and Aquila Black enter the Chamber of Secrets. Aquila slays the Basilisk, while Harry stabs Tom Riddle's diary with the Basilisk’s fang, destroying the diary, and saving Ginny Weasley’s life. Lockhart wipes his own memory trying to take credit for the rescue.
* **30 May:** Harry, Ron, along with Aquila and Ginny arrive back in McGonagall’s office after midnight, after having returned from the Chamber with Lockhart, who no longer remembers who he is. Dumbledore directs the Weasleys and McGonagall to the hospital wing with Ginny, but asks for an extra word with Harry and Aquila. While Harry and Aquila were attempting to explain how they’d managed it, Lucius Malfoy barges in. While Dumbledore and Malfoy have an exchange, Dobby the house-elf is freed from service after Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into throwing a sock at him. Aquila collapses due to exhaustion and is sent to the hospital wing.
* **1 June:** Dumbledore announces that for the rest of term, Defence Against the Dark Arts classes are cancelled. Aquila’s godfather, Lucius Malfoy, is sacked from the school’s Board of Governors. Aquila and Ginny have a heart to heart.
* **2 June:** Arthur Weasley discovers that he has won The Daily Prophet’s Monthly Galleon Prize Draw for the month of June.
* **4 June:** A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **25 June:** The Second Term ends. The Hogwarts Express returns students to London. Aquila presumably returns to her mother at Grimmauld Place for five consecutive evenings.
* **30 June:** Aquila and her mother, along with Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy and their son Draco, embark for a holiday in the South of France.
* **1 July:** The Weasley family, consisting of Arthur, Molly, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny, leave for a holiday to Egypt. Ron takes his pet, Scabbers, with him.
* **2 July:** By the third day of Malfoy family’s holiday, the aging Walburga is still acting quite cruelly toward all of them (Aquila for the most part). She reportedly spends much of the time “*holed up away in her private chambers, drinking the day away*”, while Narcissa Malfoy tries in vain to keep Draco entertained as possible, as he constantly “*complains of boredom*”.
* **4 July:** A photo is published in *The Daily Prophet* of the Weasley family enjoying their time in Egypt. Cornelius Fudge makes an inspection of Azkaban Prison. A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **6 July:** Lucius Malfoy is noted to be particularly irritated because he has been tasked with dealing with the drunken Walburga, while Narcissa takes Draco and Aquila swimming for the afternoon. When they return he is also intoxicated.
* **10 July:** Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban shortly after midnight.
* **12 July:** Ministry Aurors pay a visit to the Malfoy family villa in the South of France after no one answers the door at 12 Grimmauld Place. They are seeking an audience with Walburga Black to enquire about Sirius Black's whereabouts. They also kindly ask that the Malfoys nor the Blacks leave the area before they are done with their investigation.
* **13 July:** Lucius pours himself many drinks over the course of the next evening. He gets spectacularly drunk. So drunk in fact that Narcissa prevents him from entering the room where the kids are sleeping. The same day, two Aurors become stationed outside at the villa at all times, deterring them from leaving.
* **14 July:** Walburga Black supposedly throws out a reporter from the villa.
* **15 July:** An article was published on the front page of The Daily Prophet titled “*Still an Outcast: Mother of Escaped Criminal Seeks Black's Recapture.*” In the article, it stated that Walburga told the Aurors who were looking for Black that she had disowned him long ago and that he was "*never any son of mine*" but that she seemed prone to alcoholic tendencies and threw out the reporter that arrived at the villa on 14 July. It also stated that the Aurors’ final conclusion is that the "frivolous" family of pure-bloods were most likely unaware of Black's location and that they had not aided in his escape.
* **16 July:** Lucius Malfoy makes an executive decision and ends the holiday early.
* **31 July:** Harry Potter's thirteenth birthday; he receives cards and presents from Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid, as well as a letter and Hogsmeade permission form from Hogwarts. To his surprise, even Aquila sent him a short note wishing him a happy birthday. Harry first hears of Sirius Black on the television news report. Marge Dursley's train arrives at 10 o'clock to begin her week-long stay with the Dursley family.
* **2 August:** Harry loses control of his emotions and accidentally explodes Aunt Marge's wineglass in her hand. A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **20 August:** Dorothea Brown finally buys her daughters a pair of baby male rabbits; one was named Binky, by Lavender, and Ophelia names hers Barney.
* **30 August:** Aquila's mother deeply frightens her and she writes Ginny wondering whether they could meet at Diagon Alley. Ginny responds and says the Weasley’s will be going the next day to get their school things sorted.
* **31 August:** Harry meets Ron and Hermione in Diagon Alley on the last day of summer holidays. Hermione purchases her pet Crookshanks. Aquila and Ginny meet at Diagon Alley, but they have limited time to talk, what with everybody rushing to get their school supplies. Ginny notices that Aquila seems somewhat unsettled.
* **1 September:** Aquila also reunites with Maisie and Ophelia on the Hogwarts Express, but Maisie thinks that she seems oddly subdued. Dementors board the train. Aquila collapses. Harry falls out of his seat, and Remus Lupin drives the Dementors away.
* **2 September:** Rubeus Hagrid teaches his first lesson of Care of Magical Creatures, where Draco Malfoy is injured by Buckbeak.
* **3 September:** Aquila writes a rare letter to Narcissa to tell her about Draco’s injury, and also additionally asks her to check on her mother.
* **4 September:** Walburga has barred herself in her room at Grimmauld Place and refuses any visitors. Narcissa tries to visit this Saturday, but is denied entrance by Kreacher, the Black family House-Elf.
* **5 September:** Narcissa attempts to visit her aunt this Sunday, but is again denied.
* **6 September:** The second years have an essay due for Professor Lupin on small magical pests, including Cornish Pixies, Faeries, and Doxies this Monday. On the same day, the third years have an essay due on Boggarts.
* **1 October:** Aquila nearly falls asleep in the late afternoon in Potions class and Snape takes twenty points from her.
* **15 October:** Harry has Quidditch practice. The First Hogsmeade weekend for third years and above is announced for the end of October. Crookshanks attacks Scabbers the rat but he gets away.
* **16 October:** Aquila and Maisie have to comfort Ophelia Brown because her sister Lavender’s pet rabbit, Binky, got mauled by a fox. Barney is reportedly okay.
* **31 October:** The First Hogsmeade weekend visit occurs for third-years. Lupin takes the Wolfsbane Potion made for him by Snape. Sirius Black breaks into Hogwarts and slashes the Fat Lady’s portrait while searching for Peter Pettigrew.
* **1 November:** Students sleep in the Great Hall after Sirius Black's Hallowe'en attack on the Fat Lady; around three in the morning, Dumbledore returns to say that Black has not been found. The Fat Lady is succeeded by Sir Cadogan.
* **4 November:** Aquila Black’s thirteenth birthday. Maisie, Ophelia, and Ginny steal food from the kitchens and they have a small dinner inside their dormitory.
* **7 November:** Gryffindor's first Quidditch match of the year; it was planned to be played against Slytherin but has been changed to Hufflepuff. Dementors arrive on the field; Harry Potter falls from his broom. Cedric Diggory catches the Snitch and Hufflepuff wins by 100 points.
* **27 November:** Ravenclaw flattens Hufflepuff in their Quidditch match which takes place on a Saturday.
* **30 November:** Aquila nearly falls asleep in Defence Against the Dark Arts.
* **18 December:** A Hogsmeade visit occurs on the Saturday before the last day of term. Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauder's Map so that he can sneak into Hogsmeade. Harry, Ron, and Hermione overhear McGonagall, Flitwick, Hagrid, Rosmerta and Fudge discuss Sirius Black's supposed betrayal of Harry's parents.
* **19 December:** This Sunday, the Hogwarts Express leaves for London in the early morning. Ophelia and Ginny leave for the holidays along with Matilda Corner and Molly Roper, their other dorm-mates. Aquila and Maisie stay at school. Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Hagrid and learn of Buckbeak's hearing with the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures on 20 April.
* **20 December:** Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit the library to find books to help with Buckbeak's defence. Hogwarts Castle becomes decorated for Christmas.
* **25 December:** Harry receives a Firebolt anonymously. Hermione, fearing that it was sent by Sirius Black and jinxed, turns it into Professor McGonagall, angering Harry and Ron. Maisie tries to get Aquila to open some of their presents, but both of them end up sleeping until well past noon. Meanwhile, Harry, Ron, and Hermione celebrate Christmas around lunchtime with Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Sprout, Flitwick, Filch, Derek, a nervous first year, a sullen fifth year Slytherin, and Trelawney. Lupin is ill again. McGonagall enquires the whereabouts of Maisie and Aquila to Hermione, Harry, and Ron, but they say that they haven’t seen them. Aquila turns up late.
* **26 December:** Aquila’s presents remain unopened. Hermione Granger begins to avoid the Common Room. McGonagall visits Aquila and Maisie’s dormitory and asks Maisie whether they’ve received any gifts without a name. Eventually, it is determined that Aquila did not receive any unmarked gift from Sirius Black. A Full Moon occurs this evening.
* **27 December:** Hermione Granger continues to avoid the Common Room.

## Deaths

* **10 June:** Callidora Longbottom (née Black), widow of Harfang Longbottom and Neville Longbottom's other grandmother, dies aged 77 in Somerset.
* **27 August:** Mabel Bonham (née Moon), widow of Nigel Bonham, dies aged 80 in Puddletown, Dorset, England.
* **20 October:** Tabitha Liddell (née Goshawk), widow of Horace Liddell, dies aged 81 in Somerset.
* **27 December:** Algernon Higgs dies aged 86 in Coleshill, Warwickshire, England.