1989

The following events occurred in the year **1989**:

### ***June***

* The Ordinary Wizarding Levels are held for students sorted in 1984, during which ***Professor Tofty*** spies on ***Jacob's sibling*** under orders from the Ministry of Magic.
* Jacob's sibling, ***Merula Snyde***, ***Bill Weasley***, ***Patricia Rakepick*** and a fifth person (either ***Penny Haywood*** or Charlie Weasley) ***enter*** the ***Portrait Vault***. After Jacob's sibling defeats the ***Hungarian Horntail*** guarding the vault, Rakepick reveals her alliance with ***R*** and attempts to kill the students. The students attack back and Rakepick escapes. Jacob's sibling enters the vault and reunites with ***their long-lost brother***, but their reunion is brief as Jacob leaves to go after Rakepick.
* The ***portrait curse*** is broken.

### ***September***

* A statue curse causes ***a Hogwarts student*** to be Petrified.
* ***Badeea Ali*** cast the ***Star Shower Spell*** over her house, enraging ***her mother***.

### Individuals that started at Hogwarts

#### Gryffindor

* Angelina Johnson
* Lee Jordan
* ***Alicia Spinnet***
* ***Kenneth Towler***
* Fred Weasley
* George Weasley

### Individuals that Graduated from Hogwarts

* ***Bill Weasley***
* ***Emily Tyler***

## Behind the scenes

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* ***20 January***: ***Louis Doyle***, who played ***Ernie Macmillan***, is born.
* ***8 February***: ***Dani Harmer***, who played an Extra, is born.
* ***22 February***: Actress ***Charlotte Skeoch*** who portrays ***Hannah Abbott***, is born.
* ***17 March***: Actor ***Harry Melling***, who portrays ***Dudley Dursley***, is born to Joanna Melling.
* ***28 April***: ***Jack Bagley***, who played Student, is born.
* ***27 June***: Actor ***Matthew Lewis***, who portrays Neville Longbottom, is born to Adrian and Lynda Lewis.
* ***21 July***: Actor ***Jamie Waylett*** who portrays Vincent Crabbe, is born.
* ***23 July***: Actor ***Daniel Radcliffe***, who portrays Harry Potter, is born to Marcia and Alan Radcliffe.
* ***21 August***: Actor ***Robert Knox*** who portrays ***Marcus Belby***, is born. He died in 2008.
* ***7 September***: ***Hugh Mitchell***, who played Colin Creevey, is born.
* ***1 October***: Actor ***Louis Cordice*** who portrays ***Blaise Zabini***, is born
* ***12 October***: ***Eleanor Columbus***, who played Susan Bones, is born.
* ***18 November***: Actor ***Luke Youngblood*** who portrays Lee Jordan, is born.
* ***18 December***: ***Brett Underwood***, who played Teenage Lucius Malfoy, is born.
* Actor ***Kenneth Branagh*** who portrays Gilderoy Lockhart in Template:COS, marries ***Emma Thompson*** who portrays ***Sybill Trelawney*** in Template:POA and Template:OOTP.

## See also

* Dating conventions

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6. ↑ Template:GOF states her seventeeth birthday was in October 1994. Therefore, she was in her sixth year then and left school in the 1995-1996 school year
7. ↑ Template:PS states Lee Jordan was in the same year as Fred and George Weasley meaning he would have left school in the 1995-1996 school year
8. ↑ Template:HBP states that Katie Bell was "the only remaining member of the original Gryffindor Quidditch team that Harry had joined in his first year". Alicia was still a member of the team the following year, since she is mentioned to be on the team in the Template:OOTP. This means she left following the 1995-1996 school year
9. ↑ Template:OOTP
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Template:POA "Fred and George, who were about to start their fifth year at Hogwarts" in the 1993-1994 school year so they can only have started in the 1989-1990 school year
11. ↑ Template:POA "Diggory was a fifth-year" in the 1993-1994 school year so he can only have started in the 1989-1990 school year
12. ↑ Roger's at least two years older than Harry Potter since he was captain of Ravenclaw's Quidditch team from at least 1993 to 1996 and Fleur considered him old enough to go to the Yule Ball with when she declined Ron. Therefore, Roger left Hogwarts following the 1995-1996 school year
13. ↑ Template:OOTP
14. ↑ *HP Lexicon - The Age of the Weasleys* works out that Bill was born in November 1970 meaning he started Hogwarts in September 1982 and graduated in 1989
15. ↑ Template:HM, Emily Tyler was shown to be in the same lessons as Bill Weasley, meaning that she graduated at the end of the 1988-1989 school year too.
16. ↑ MuggleNet interview with Harry Melling 22 March 2013