1996

The following events occurred in the year **1996**:

## Events

* Unknown Date: The Rosenfeld case falls apart after questions about the Veritaserum used being tainted.

### January

* Early January:
	+ Sunday: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron, Ginny, Fred and George Weasley return to Hogwarts on the Knight Bus escorted by Remus Lupin and Willow Tonks.
	+ Monday: Harry Potter begins Occlumency lessons with Severus Prince-Slytherin.
		- Broderick Bode is strangled to death by a Devil's Snare while in St Mungo's.
		- Ten Death Eaters, including Emberly Comet, escape from Azkaban prison in a mass breakout.

### February

* 14 February (likely Saturday or Sunday):
	+ Harry Potter and Cho Chang have their first date in Hogsmeade.
	+ The Gryffindor Quidditch team, including Angelina Johnson, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Jack Sloper and Andrew Kirke, have a full day of Quidditch practice.
	+ Rita Skeeter interviews Harry Potter, as arranged by Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood.
	+ Nathara Prince-Slytherin begins dating Skyler Falcon and have their first date in Hogsmeade.
* Following Monday:
	+ Harry Potter tells Dean Thomas of his interview.
	+ The Gryffindor Quidditch team have Quidditch practice in the evening.
* c. 21 February (the following Saturday): Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff Quidditch match; Gryffindor loses in twenty-two minutes, 240 to 230, even though they caught the snitch.
* c. 22 February (Sunday): *The Quibbler* publishes the Rita Skeeter's interview with Harry Potter for the March edition.
* c. 23 February (Monday):
	+ Harry Potter receives mail from readers of his interview in *The Quibbler*
	+ Harry Potter is given a week's detention by Dolores Umbridge when she learns of his interview.
	+ Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, and Sybill Trelawney reward Harry Potter indirectly for his interview.
* c. 24 February (Tuesday):
	+ Cho Chang and Seamus Finnigan express their support for Harry doing his interview.
	+ Harry Potter had a vision of Lord Voldemort interrogating Augustus Rookwood.
* c. 25 February (Wednesday): Harry shares his vision with Hermione, but stops speaking to her after she reminds him he is supposed to be practising Occlumency.
* Rest of that week: Harry receives two more D's in Potions.

### March

* Near the end of the first week of March (likely Monday):
	+ Harry sees some of Severus Prince-Slytherin's memories after using a Shield Charm during their Occlumency lesson.
	+ Dolores Umbridge dismisses Sybill Trelawney, but Albus Dumbledore allows her to still live at Hogwarts and hires Firenze to teach Divination
	+ Firenze was banished from his herd.
* A few days after the sacking of Trelawney
	+ Firenze teaches his first Divination class.

### April

* Mid April:
	+ Dumbledore's Army is discovered after Marietta Edgecombe informs Dolores Umbridge about the organisation. Albus Dumbledore takes the fall and leaves Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
* The day after Dumbledore's departure:
	+ Educational Decree Number Twenty-Eight passed by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge making Dolores Umbridge Headmistress of Hogwarts School.
	+ Fred and George Weasley set off their Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs on the second-floor.
* Two days after Dumbledore's departure:
	+ Harry Potter has his last Occlumency lesson with Severus Prince-Slytherin after he sneaks a peak into Severus's memories in the pensieve.
* Friday after Dumbledore's departure: Start of Easter Holidays.
* c. 27 April: Easter Holiday

### May

* Early May, Monday:
	+ Harry Potter has a meeting with Minerva McGonagall to gather Career Advice.
	+ Fred and George Weasley depart from Hogwarts. They created a Portable Swamp which made Umbridge tell them they were about to find out "what happens to wrongdoers in my school". Fred and George then agreed that they had "outgrown full time education" and flew away while announcing the opening of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley.
* Mid-May: A week after Fred and George Weasley's departure: Peeves worked to loosen a chandelier, possible with Minerva McGonagall's help.
* Last weekend of May (Saturday):
	+ Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw at the last Quidditch match of the school year.
	+ Rubeus Hagrid introduced his half brother, Grawp to Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.
* Last weekend of May (Sunday):
	+ Harry, Ron, and Hermione study outside underneath the Beech tree on the edge of the Black Lake.

### June

* 7 June (Sunday): Harry attempts to help Hermione study after lunch for their Charms O.W.L. exams; the examiners, including Griselda Marchbanks, arrived during dinner.
* 8 June (Monday): Fifth years sat their O.W.L. exam, and Seventh years their N.E.W.T. exams for Theory of Charms at 9:30 a.m., and their practical exams in the afternoon, in the Great Hall.
* 9 June (Tuesday): Fifth years sat their Transfiguration O.W.L. written exam in the morning and the practical exam in the afternoon.
* 10 June (Wednesday): Fifth years took their Herbology O.W.L. exams.
* 11 June (Thursday): Fifth years sat their Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. exams.
* 12 June: (Friday):
	+ Harry and Ron took a break from studying and play Wizard's Chess.
	+ Hermione sat her Ancient Runes O.W.L. exams.
	+ Lee Jordan puts another niffler in Umbridge's office.
* 13 June (Saturday): Harry, Ron, and Hermione study for the Potions O.W.L. exams on Monday.
* 14 June (Sunday): Harry, Ron, and Hermione study for the Potions O.W.L. exams on Monday.
* 15 June (Monday): Fifth year Griffindors sit their Potions O.W.L exams with the written exam in the morning and the practical exam in the afternoon.
* 16 June (Tuesday):Fifth years sat their Care of Magical Creatures O.W.L exams, with the practical exam being in the afternoon.
* 17 June (Wednesday):
	+ Fifth years sat their Astronomy O.W.L. theory exam in the morning.
	+ Harry and Ron took their Divinination O.W.L. exams in the afternoon.
	+ Hermione took her Arithmancy O.W.L. in the afternoon.
	+ At eleven o'clock, fifth years took their Astronomy O.W.L. practical exam.

* 18 June (Thursday):
	+ Shortly after midnight, Dolores Umbridge and some Aurors attack and attempt to arrest Rubeus Hagrid at night during the Astronomy practical exam; Minerva McGonagall attempts to defend Hagrid but was injured. Hagrid escapes and goes into hiding.
	+ Fifth year students took their final O.W.L exam, History of Magic, at 2 o'clock in the Great Hall.
	+ Dolores Umbridge is attacked in the Forbidden Forest by centaurs when she calls them "filthy half-breeds."
	+ Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood thwart Lord Voldemort's plans to steal the prophecy and the Battle of the Department of Mysteries ensues.
	+ The Order of the Phoenix comes to their assistance; various Death Eaters are captured; the prophecy is destroyed.
	+ Lord Voldemort duels Albus Dumbledore and possesses Harry Potter, but flees when the Ministry of Magic arrive.
	+ Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge is forced to accept Lord Voldemort has returned, Dolores Umbridge is removed from Hogwarts and Cornelius resigns from Minister for Magic.
* 19 June (Friday):
	+ Harry Potter returns to Headmaster's office roughly a half-hour before dawn via portkey and Albus Dumbledore arrived thirty-minutes later and explained the nature of Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy and Harry's connection to Lord Voldemort.
	+ Cornelius Fudge admits that Lord Voldemort has returned and the Second Wizarding War *officially* begins.
* 21 June (Sunday):
	+ Harry, Ginny, Neville, and Luna spend time with Ron and Hermione in the Hospital Wing and read the British Ministry of Magic official statement in the *Sunday Prophet*.
	+ Minerva McGonagall returns from St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
* 22 June: Ron and Hermione released from the Hospital Wing.
* 24 June: Dolores Umbridge left the Hospital Wing at dinner time and Peeves chased her from the castle hitting with Minerva McGonagall's walking stick and a sock full of chalk.
* 25 June:
	+ Luna Lovegood looks for her belongings while Hogwarts' holds the End-of-Term Feast
	+ Harry Potter speaks with Nearly-Headless Nick about Sirius Black and being a ghost.
* 26 June:
	+ Students return home on the Hogwarts Express.
	+ Vincent Crabbe, and Gregory Goyle attempt to ambush Harry Potter but are stopped by Dominion members Ernie Macmillan, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Anthony Goldstein, and Terry Boot.

### July

Unknown date:

* Garrick Ollivander and Florean Fortescue mysteriously disappeared.
* The Millennium Bridge was brought down by Death Eaters.

Second week of July:

* The Brockdale Bridge brought down by Death Eaters.
* West Country, England heavily damaged, likely by Giants working with Death Eaters.
* Emmeline Vance murdered.

Middle of July:

* Albus Dumbledore visited the Gaunt Shack in Little Hangleton. He discovered the Horcrux ring and smuggled it back to Hogwarts.
* Rufus Scrimgeour replaces Cornelius Fudge as Minister for Magic.
* Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour writes a letter to Albus Dumbledore hoping he can persuade Harry Potter to speak in support of the Ministry.
* Cornelius Fudge and new Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour visited the Muggle Prime Minister to update him about the cause of the recent disasters and notify him of new security measures, including the inclusion of Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Prime Minister's office staff.
* 12 July: Albus Dumbledore visited Harry Potter at 4 Privet Drive. They later head to Budleigh Babberton to convince Horace Slughorn to once again teach Potions at Hogwarts.
* 13 July: Albus Dumbledore leaves Harry Potter in The Burrow for the rest of summer, shortly after midnight.
* 31 July: Harry celebrates his 16th birthday at The Burrow, but the celebrations are marred by grisly tidings from Remus Lupin of more Dementor attacks, the discovery of Igor Karkaroff's body in a shack up north, and the disappearance from Diagon Alley of Florean Fortescue and Garrick Ollivander.

### August

* 1 August: Hogwarts letters and booklists arrived at The Burrow. Harry Potter finds out he is Gryffindor Quidditch Captain.
* 3 August:
	+ Molly and Arthur Weasley escorted Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron and Ginny Weasley to Diagon Alley to procure their school supplies.
	+ Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger run into Draco and Narcissa Malfoy at Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.
	+ They all visited Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
	+ The Trio tailed Draco to Borgin and Burkes and eavesdropped on his conversation.
* 31 August: Harry Potter comes to the conclusion that Draco Malfoy has joined the Death Eaters

### Late Summer

* Rufus Scrimgeour sends a letter to Albus Dumbledore trying to get him to convince Harry Potter to become the Ministry of Magic's poster boy.

### September

* 1 September:
	+ The first meeting of the Slug Club takes place on the Hogwarts Express. Harry Potter sneaks into Draco Malfoy's compartment and gets hit with a Full Body-Bind Curse. Willow Tonks rescues him and Severus Prince-Slytherin takes him to the Welcoming Feast.

### December

* 20 December: Horace Slughorn, new Potions professor at Hogwarts, holds a Christmas party for his favourite students and other associates.
* Christmas holidays: Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour tries to convince Harry Potter to work with the Ministry of Magic, but Harry confirms his loyalty to Albus Dumbledore.

### Individuals that started at Hogwarts

#### Hufflepuff

* Alys
* Grim Fawley

### Individuals that graduated from Hogwarts

* Roger Davies
* Angelina Johnson
* Lee Jordan
* Alicia Spinnet
* Patricia Stimpson
* Kenneth Towler

## Deaths

* January: Broderick Bode
* Between 28 June and 4 July: Emmeline Vance and Amelia Bones
* June - July: Igor Karkaroff
* July: Fox near Spinners End
* Summer: Florean Fortescue
* September - October: Samara Abbott