1993

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

## Events

### January

* Dolores Umbridge designs anti-werewolf legislation that makes it nearly impossible for those infected with lycanthropy to get jobs.
* The Sweetwater All-Stars beat the Quiberon Quafflepunchers after a five-day match.
* Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge meets with the Muggle Prime Minister to discuss Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban.

### 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 use the old diary of Adalbert Gaunt.

### May

* 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. Nathara Prince-Slytherin is temporarily possessed by the diary before a piece of it latches onto her magic core.
* 24 May: Harry and Ron Weasley enter the Forbidden Forest and meet Aragog.
* 29 May: Harry and Nathara Prince-Slytherin enter the Chamber of Secrets, where Nathara calms the basilisk and Harry stabs Adalbert Gaunt's diary with a fang, destroying it and saving Ginny Weasley’s life. When Professor Lockhart attempts to Obliviate Harry, Nathara, and Ron and take credit for the rescue, the spell backfires, wiping his memory. Harry defeats Adalbert Gaunt.
* 30 May: Dobby the house-elf is freed from service to the Malfoy family after Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into throwing a sock at him.

### June

* 31 May or Early June: Celebration feast lasts into the night; Hagrid returns from Azkaban; exams are cancelled.
* Rest of term: Defence Against the Dark Arts classes cancelled; Lucius Malfoy is removed from the school’s Board of Governors.
* Late June: Return trip on Hogwarts Express; Harry gives Ron and Hermione his telephone number so he has someone other than Dudley to talk to for the next two months.
* Last week of June (one week into school vacation): Ron attempts to telephone Harry.

### July

* The Granger family vacations in France, and the Weasley family in Egypt. Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban.
* c. 24 July: The *Daily Prophet* features a picture of the Weasleys on vacation in Egypt.
* 30 July: Harry lay in bed reading A History of Magic and working on his essay *Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss*
* 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.
	+ Harry first hears of Sirius Black on the television news report.
	+ Marge Dursley's train arrives at 10 o'clock to being her week long stay with the Dursley family.

### August

* 2 August: Harry loses control of his emotions and accidentally explodes Aunt Marge's wineglass in her hand.
* 6 August: Harry loses control of his emotions to Aunt Marge's insults against his late parents, magically inflates her, and then runs away, taking the Knight Bus to Diagon Alley.
* 7 August: Harry arrived via the Knight Bus at the Leaky Cauldron near dawn and was met by Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge; he stayed too room eleven and stayed for the last three weeks of vacation.
* c. 14 August: The Firebolt appears in the window of Quality Quidditch Supplies.
* 31 August: Harry met Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in Diagon Alley. Hermione purchased her pet Crookshanks.

### September

* 1 September: Dementors board the Hogwarts Express on its journey to Hogwarts. Remus Lupin drives them away from Harry Potter, who fainted due to the power of the Dementors.
* 2 September:
	+ At 9 a.m, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger have their first Divination class. Hermione also attends Muggle Studies and Arithmancy at 9 a.m. as well. Later in the morning, they have Transfiguration. After lunch, Rubeus Hagrid teaches his first lesson of Care of Magical Creatures, where Nathara Prince-Slytherin is injured and knocked out by Buckbeak.
	+ A boggart moved into the old wardrobe in the Hogwarts staffroom.
* 3 September:
	+ Third year Gryffindors and Slytherins have Double Potions in the morning, when Nathara returns from the Hospital Wing.
	+ In the afternoon, Remus Lupin's first Defence Against the Dark Arts class; tackled a Boggart.
* 7 September: Lupin's essay summarising the chapter on Boggarts was due.
* Hermione is granted a Time-Turner by the Ministry of Magic in order to take extra classes.
* 15 September: Lapis Rivers is born to Erica and Yasuko Rivers.

### October

* 15 October:
	+ Harry has Quidditch practice.
	+ First Hogsmeade weekend announced for the end of October.
	+ Crookshanks attacked Scabbers.
* 16 October: Lavender Brown receives a letter that her rabbit Binky has been killed by a fox.
* 31 October:
	+ First Hogsmeade weekend for third years.
	+ Aurora and Nathara reunite with Erica and Yasuko and meet their daughter, Lapis Rivers.
	+ Lupin takes the Wolfsbane Potion made for him by Severus.
	+ Sirius Black breaks into Hogwarts and slashes the Fat Lady’s portrait while searching for Peter Pettigrew.

### November

* 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 be found. The Fat Lady is succeeded by Sir Cadogan.
* 6 November: Weather worsens; Wood continually gives tips to Harry, making him late for Defence Against the Dark Arts, which Snape was substituting teaching.
* 7 November:
	+ Harry woken at half-past four by Peeves.
	+ Gryffindor's first Quidditch match of the year; was planned to be Slytherin but is changed to Hufflepuff.
	+ Harry fell from his broom after the Dementors entered the pitch and ended up in the Hospital wing; Cedric Diggory captured the Snitch and Hufflepuff won by 100 points; Harry's Nimbus 2000 was blown into and destroyed by the Whomping Willow.
* 8 November: Madam Pomfrey keeps Harry in the Hospital Wing.
* 9 November:
	+ Severus's essay on recognising werewolves was due in the morning.
	+ Lupin returns to teach afternoon Defence Against the Dark Arts.
* End of November: Ravenclaw flattens Hufflepuff in their Quidditch match.

### December

* Two weeks before the end of term: The sky lightens and grounds frost over.
* Saturday on the last weekend of term in December:
	+ 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.
* Sunday on the last weekend of term in December:
	+ Harry was awake almost to daybreak and slept almost to lunchtime.
	+ First day of the holidays, nearly Christmas
	+ Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Hagrid and learn of Buckbeak's hearing with the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures on 20 April.
		- Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit the library to find books to help with Buckbeak's defence.
		- Hogwarts Castle was 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.
		- Harry, Ron, and Hermione have celebrate Christmas around lunchtime with Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, Filtch, Derek, a nervous first year, a sullen fifth year Slytherin, and Trelawney.
		- Lupin was ill again.
	+ Hermione avoided the common room until the rest of the school returned shortly after New Year.