Timeline

<span style="font-family: This is a timeline of events pre-dating Harry's time at Hogwarts through to the events in my fanfiction.

* 1960-1981
* 1981-1990
* 1991-1998
The Dark Wizard Voldemort makes himself known and in the 1970s begins his rise to power. At Hogwarts, a group of intrepid and plucky students, calling themselves the Marauders, are recognized for the trouble they cause but also for their brilliance and audacity. They come of age and join the resistance against Voldemort. It is the infant son of one of those Marauders who mysteriously causes the defeat and apparently destruction of Voldemort.

## Unknown

* Original Order of the Phoenix Photographed
* Harry learns that Snape was the one who told Voldemort about the prophecy.

## 1960

* circa 1960-Peter Pettigrew is born
* Lily Evans is born
* The 1960s-Morfin Gaunt dies in Azkaban

### March 1960

* March 10th-Remus Lupin is born
* March 27th-James Potter is born

## 1961

* Regulus Black is born
* c. September 1st-Arthur Weasley starts at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor.

## 1962

* Barty Crouch Jr. is born.
* Ignatius Tuft's controversial plan to breed Dementors results in his being forced out of office.
* Nobby Leach, the first Muggle-born Minister of Magic, begins his term.

## 1963

The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why Muggles Prefer Not to Know is published.

## 1965

* The Ban on Experimental Breeding is passed.
* Lycoris Black dies at age 61.

### c. March

Remus Lupin is bitten by werewolf Fenrir Greyback.

## 1966

* Albus Dumbledore becomes Headmaster of Hogwarts.
* Quidditch World Cup 1966.

## 1967

* The Nimbus Racing Broom Company is founded.
* Voldemort hides the Diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirement.
* Lord Voldemort visits Hogwarts to ask for a teaching job.

## 1968

* Hamish MacFarlan becomes Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports
* Minister for Magic Nobby Leach leaves office
* Eugenia Jenkins becomes Minister for Magic
* Squib Rights marches
* Pure-blood riots

### September 1st

Sturgis Podmore starts his first year at Hogwarts

## 1970

* circa 1970-Arthur and Molly elope
* circa 1970-Voldemort rises to power
* An Antipodean Opaleye kills several kangaroos

## 1971

* Remus Lupin is accepted to begin his first year at Hogwarts
* The Whomping Willow is planted at Hogwarts

### September 1st

* Lily Evans is sorted into Gryffindor
* The Marauders start Hogwarts
* Remus Lupin's friends discover he is a werewolf , explaining his monthly disappearances.

## 1974

* Stan Shunpike is born
* The Marauders finally learn the complex spells necessary to become Animagi

## 1975

* James Potter publicly humiliates Severus Snape
* Remus Lupin becomes a prefect

### September 1st

* Gilderoy Lockhart starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Ravenclaw
* The Marauder's Map is written

## 1976

* Sirius Black sees his cousin Bellatrix for the last time-until they're both in Azkaban
* Oliver Wood is born

## 1977

* James and Lily are made Head Boy and Head Girl
* Cedric Diggory is born
* Sirius gets his own place

## 1979

* Lily Evans and James Potter are married
* Cho Chang is born

## 1980

* Lavender Brown is born
* Hannah Abbott is born
* Peter Pettigrew starts passing information to Voldemort

## 1981

### October 24th

The Fidelius Charm is cast to hide the Potters, with Peter Pettigrew acting as Secret Keeper

### October 31st

* Defeat of Voldemort; James and Lily Potter are killed
* As a result of a curse gone wrong, a piece of Voldemort's soul attaches itself to baby Harry

### November 1st

Hagrid delivers baby Harry to Dumbledore at Privet Drive

### November 2nd

Petunia gets her first letter from Dumbledore

Snape is cleared of being a Death Eater

## 1980

* In disguise as a rat, Peter Pettigrew becomes a pet of Percy Weasley
* Snape meets Dumbledore on the Windy Hilltop

## 1981

### October 31st

* Defeat of Voldemort; James and Lily Potter are killed
* As a result of a curse gone wrong, a piece of Voldemort's soul attaches itself to baby Harry

### November 1st

* McGonagall arrives on Privet Drive in the form of a tabby cat
* Peter Pettigrew fakes his own death
* Sirius Black is framed for 13 murders
* Hagrid delivers baby Harry to Dumbledore on Privet Drive
* Harry is left on the Dursley's doorstep

## 1982

* Karkaroff is released from Azkaban
* Barty Crouch Jr. is secretly rescued from Azkaban

## 1983

### September 1st

* Nymphadora Tonks starts Hogwarts
* Bill Weasley starts Hogwarts

## 1985

Frank and Alice Longbottom are tortured by Death Eaters

## 1987

### September 1st

* Bill is made Prefect
* Percy is sorted into Gryffindor

## 1989

### September 1st

* Bill made Head Boy and Charlie Prefect
* Fred and George start Hogwarts

## 1990

* Charlie goes to study dragons in Romania
* Cornelius Fudge becomes Minister for Magic

### June

Nymphadora Tonks graduates Hogwarts and starts training as an Auror

### July 29th

A barrage of letters drives the Dursleys from their home

### July 31st

* Harry's eleventh birthday
* Hagrid arrives at the hut-on-the-rock
* Harry gets his wand at Ollivander's
* Failed attempt to steal the Sorcerer's Stone
* Harry's first visit to Diagon Alley
* Harry and Hagrid visit Gringotts
* Hagrid buys Harry his owl, Hedwig
* Harry and Draco meet for the first time

### August

* Voldemort possess Quirrell
* Percy gives Scabbers to Ron
* Percy becomes Prefect

### September 1st

* Molly Weasley helps Harry find Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
* Harry's first Hogwarts Express journey
* Across the lake to Hogwarts Castle
* Hannah Abbott is sorted into Hufflepuff
* Lavender Brown is sorted into Gryffindor
* Hermione Granger is sorted into Gryffindor
* Neville Longbottom is sorted into Gryffindor
* Draco Malfoy is sorted into Slytherin
* Harry Potter is sorted into Gryffindor

### September 12th

* The trio and Neville meet Fluffy in a midnight adventure
* Gryffindors and Slytherins have their first flying lesson
* Neville breaks his wrist during flying lessons

### September 19th

* Harry receives his Nimbus 2000
* Harry's first Quidditch practice

### October 31st

The Halloween Feast and the Mountain Troll

### December 25th

* Harry receives the Invisibility Cloak
* Harry's first Christmas dinner at Hogwarts
* Trying out the Invisibility Cloak, Harry visits the Restricted Section
* Harry discovers the Mirror of Erised

### December 26th

Ron visits the Mirror of Erised with Harry

### February 22nd

Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff

### May 8th

Ron ends up in the Hospital Wing with a badly infected dragon bite

### May 26th

* Detention in the Forbidden Forest
* Firenze Rescues Harry

### June

* The trio follow Quirrell through the trapdoor
* Harry and Ron are rescued from Devil's Snare by Hermione
* The room full of winged keys
* Ron sacrifices himself in a giant game of chess
* Dobby intercepts Harry's mail all summer

### June 4th

* Hermione solves the Potions riddle
* Harry confronts Quirrell, defeats Voldemort
* Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw

### June 8th

Dumbledore visits Harry in the Hospital Wing

### July 31st

* Harry's 12th birthday
* Dobby watches Harry from a hedge
* Dobby tries to dissaude Harry from returning to Hogwarts
* Harry receives a warning letter from the Ministry

### August 1st

Harry imprisoned in his room after Dobby's visit

### August 4th

* Overnight Ministry raids
* The flying car arrives at the Burrow

### August 19th

* A visit to Knockturn Alley
* Lockhart's book signing at Flourish and Blotts
* Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley get in a fight

### September 1st

* To King's Cross by Ford Anglia
* Ginny, Luna, and Colin start Hogwarts
* Dobby blocks the barrier at King's Cross
* Harry and Ron fly the car to Hogwarts
* Ron's wand is broken

### October 31st

* The Halloween feast and 500th Deathday for Nearly Headless Nick
* Mrs. Norris is petrified

### November 4th

Chamber of Secrets is discussed in History of Magic

### November 7th

* Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs Slytherin
* Dobby visits Harry in the Hospital Wing

### December 17th

* The Dueling Club
* Harry learns about Parselmouths

### December 18th

* Justin and Nick are petrified
* Harry sent to Dumbledore's office, visits the Sorting Hat and Fawkes

### December 25th

* Harry and Ron use Polyjuice to "become" Crabbe and Goyle
* Hermione is changed partially into a cat

## 1993

### May 8th

* Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater are petrified
* Hagrid is sent to Azkaban; Dumbledore is removed

### May 24th

* Mr Weasley's Ford Anglia rescues Harry, Ron, and Fang
* Harry and Ron meet Aragog

### May 29th

* Ginny is taken into the Chamber of Secrets
* Harry and Ron discover the Chamber of Secrets
* Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets
* The spirit-form of Voldemort is defeated by Harry

### May 30th

* Dobby is freed
* Lucius Malfoy is removed from the Board of Governors of Hogwarts

### July 31st

* Muggle news reports on Sirius' escape
* Harry's 13th birthday; Aunt Marge comes for a visit with the Dursleys

### August 7th

* Fudge meets with Harry at the Leaky Cauldron
* Harry stays at the Leaky Cauldron

### August 31st

* Shopping for third year supplies in Diagon Alley
* Hermione buys Crookshanks

### September 1st

* Harry starts his third year
* Remus Lupin and Rubeus Hagrid begin their professorships at Hogwarts

### September 9th

Lupin teaches his third year class how to handle a Boggart

### October 31st

* Sirius breaks into Hogwarts to find Peter Pettigrew

### December 18th

* Fudge, Flitwick, McGonagall, and Madam Rosmerta discuss Sirius Black at the Three Broomsticks
* End-of-Term trip to Hogsmeade
* Fred and George Give Harry the Marauders Map

## 1994

### January 6th

Lupin begins teaching Harry to cast the Patronus Charm

### June 6th

* Harry and Hermione travel the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack
* Peter Pettigrew, disguised as Scabbers the rat, is cornered and revealed
* Buckbeak escapes execution
* Sirius Black escapes from Hogwarts on the back of the Hippogriff Buckbeak

### June 7th

Remus Lupin resigns from Hogwarts after it becomes known he is a werewolf

### August 23rd

* Voldemort moves into the Riddle House
* Frank Bryce is killed

### August 24th

* An invitation arrives for Harry to go to the Quidditch World Cup final

### August 25th

* Taking the Portkey to the Quidditch World Cup
* Setting up camp at the Quidditch World Cup
* Barty Crouch and Ludo Bagman drop by for tea
* 1994 Quidditch World Cup (Final)

### August 26th

Chaos in the campground after the World Cup

### September 1st

* Dustbin commotion at the home of Mad-Eye Moody
* Harry and his friends travel to Hogwarts
* The Welcome Feast reveals and upcoming Tournament
* Dennis Creevey is sorted into Gryffindor

### September 4th

In Defense Against the Dark Arts, Moody shows the Unforgivable Curses

### October 30th

Durmstrang and Beauxbatons arrive at Hogwarts

### November 13th

* Interview in the broom cupboard
* The Weighing of the Wands

### December 25th

* Dobby visits Harry's dormitory on Christmas morning
* The Yule Ball 1994

## 1995

### January 4th

Rita Skeeter's article about Hagrid appears in the Daily Prophet

### February 23rd

* Dobby learns about gillyweed from the fake Moody
* Dobby retrieves gillyweed from Snape's office

### February 24th

* Dobby prepares Harry for the Second Task
* The Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament

### June 24th

* The Third Task
* Voldemort kidnaps Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory
* Cedric Diggory is murdered
* Voldemort is reborn
* Harry escapes the graveyard by Portkey
* Moody's true identity is revealed

### August 2nd

* Dementors attack Dudley and Harry
* Reaction to Harry's Patronus Charm

### August 6th

* Tonks and the Advanced Guard escort Harry
* The Advance Guard escort Harry to No 12 Grimmauld Place

### December 18th

* DA meeting before Christmas break
* Mr. Weasley is attacked by Nagini
* Harry and the Weasleys escape to Grimmauld Place by Portkey

## 1996

### January 13th

Harry begins Occlumency lessons with Snape

### March 10th

Harry's first Divination lesson with Firenze

### April 2nd

* Umbridge becomes Headmistress
* Fred and George set off crate of fireworks

### April 16th

Fred and George open Weasley's Wizard Wheezes

### June 10th

Students in Harry's year start their O.W.L.s

### June 19th

Umbridge attacks Hagrid and McGonagall during Astronomy O.W.L.s

### June 20th

* Harry takes his O.W.L.s, but they are interrupted by a vision of Sirius being tortured
* Umbridge carried away by centaurs
* Sirius Black is killed by Bellatrix
* Battle of the Department of Mysteries

### July 1st

* With the revelation that Voldemort has in fact returned, Fudge resigns in disgrace
* Rufus Scrimgeour takes over as Minister for Magic as war breaks out

### September 1st

Slug Club meeting on the Hogwarts Express

### September 2nd

On Harry's first day of class, he receives the Half-Blood Prince's old Potions book

### December 20th

* Harry eavesdrops on Snape and Malfoy
* Harry asks Luna to go to Slughorn's party with him
* Slughorn's Christmas Party

### December 25th

Rufus Scrimgeour visits the Burrow on Christmas Day

## =April 21st

Slughorn finally gives up his memory to Harry, thanks to Felix Felicis

### May 22nd

Harry serves his first detention with Snape

### June 30th

* Harry and Dumbledore set out to find a Horcrux
* Harry and Dumbledore retrieve the fake Horcrux from inside Voldemort's sea cave
* Draco brings Death Eaters into Hogwarts though a Vanishing Cabinet
* The Battle of the Tower
* Bill Weasley is attacked by Fenrir Greyback
* Dumbledore is killed
* Minerva McGonagall becomes Headmistress

### July 27th

* Battle of the Seven Harry's
* Hedwig is killed
* Moody dies in battle

### July 31st

* Harry comes of age; Harry's 17th birthday
* Scrimgeour gives Dumbledore's bequests

### August 1st

* Scrimgeour is murdered
* Fall of the Ministry
* Bill and Fleur's wedding
* Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour is murdered by Voldemort
* Pius Thickness is placed under the Imperious Curse and made Minister for Magic

### September 1st

Snape begins the new school year as Headmaster at Hogwarts

## 1998

### March

* Grindelwald is murdered
* Wormtail is killed by his silver hand
* Dobby is killed
* Captured by Snatchers
* Escape from Malfoy Manor
* Dobby's Funeral

### May 2nd

* Fred Weasley is killed
* Lavender Brown attacked
* Pius Thickness is replaced by Kingsley Shacklebolt as Minister for Magic
* Memories in the Pensieve show Harry the true story of Snape's life and love
* Bellatrix Lestrange dies in a duel with Molly Weasley
* The Diadem Horcrux is destroyed by Fiendfyre
* The piece of Voldemort's soul in Harry is destroyed
* Harry walks into the Forest to meet Voldemort
* Nagini is killed
* The Death of Voldemort
* Nymphadora Tonks is killed during the Battle of Hogwarts
* Battle of Hogwarts
* Harry and Dumbledore Talk at King's Cross