1988

The following events occurred in the year **1988**:

## Events

* Gilderoy Lockhart visited Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to host a ***Valentine's Day*** event ***Voyages, Vampires, and Valentines!***.
* ***Jacob's sibling***, Charlie Weasley, a third student (either ***Bill Weasley***, ***Penny Haywood*** or ***Rowan Khanna***), Rubeus Hagrid and ***Torvus enter*** the ***Forest Vault***.
* Neville Longbottom is accidentally dropped from an upstairs window by his ***Great-Uncle Algie***. When he bounces instead of falling to his death, it proves he is not a ***Squib***.
* Charlie Weasley is made a Prefect.
* Bill Weasley is made Head Boy.
* The ***portrait curse*** causes ***Beatrice Haywood*** to get stuck in a portrait.
* The eighty-fourth ***Wizarding Schools Potions Championship*** is held.

### Individuals that started Hogwarts

#### Slytherin

* ***Lucian Bole***
* ***Peregrine Derrick***

#### House unknown

* ***Linderina*** ***Crane***
* ***Elora Dunn***
* ***Elspeth MacGillony***

## Behind the scenes

* ***12 February***: ***Afshan Azad***, who played ***Padma Patil***, is born.
* ***23 February***: ***Nathan Barris***, who played a ***Snatcher***, is born.
* ***4 March***: ***Matthew Kaye***, who played a ***Snatcher***, is born.
* ***4 March***: ***Martin Owens-Cairns***, who played an extra in the film adaptation of ***Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*** **(film)**, is born.
* ***20 June***: ***Shefali Chowdhury***, who played ***Parvati Patil*** in the film adaptions of ***Goblet of Fire*** **(film)**, ***Order of the Phoenix*** **(film)**, and ***Half-Blood Prince*** **(film)**, is born.
* ***2 July***: ***Edward Randell***, who played Justin Finch-Fletchley, is born.
* ***20 July***: ***Julianne Hough***, who played an ***Unidentified Gryffindor girl***, is born.
* ***23 August***: ***Amy Louise Pemberton***, voice actress for multiple characters in *Hogwarts Legacy*, was born.
* ***24 August***: ***Shaun Andrews***, who played a ***Snatcher***, is born.
* ***24 August***: ***Rupert Grint***, who played Ron Weasley in the films, is born to Joanna and Nigel Grint.
* ***28 October***: ***Devon Murray*** who played ***Seamus Finnegan***, is born to Fidelma and Michael Murray.
* ***22 November***: ***Jamie Campbell Bower***, who played ***Gellert Grindelwald*** (teenage), is born.
* ***1 December***: ***Zoë Kravitz***, who playeed ***Leta Lestrange***, is born to Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.
* ***2 December***: ***Alfred Enoch***, who played ***Dean Thomas***, is born to Etheline Lewis and William Russell Enoch.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ *Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery*
2. ↑ *Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery*
3. ↑ *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 7 "Great Uncle Algie came round for dinner, and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my Great Auntie Enid offered him a meringue and he accidentally let go. But I bounced -- all the way down the garden and into the road"
4. ↑ *Harry-Potter and The Order-Of-The Phoenix* (film), Chapter 9 Molly Weasley states "I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! Oh, Ron, how wonderful! A prefect! That’s everyone in the family!" You become Prefect in your fifth year at Hogwarts, so Charles would have been made Prefect in 1988 judging by *HP Lexicon - The Age of the Weasleys*
5. ↑ *Harry-Potter and-the Sorcerer's S Stone* (film), Chapter 6 states "Bill and Charlie have already left -- Bill was head boy" and judging by *HP Lexicon - The Age of the Weasleys*, Bill would be made it in 1988-1989 school year
6. ↑ *Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery*
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery*
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 In Ch. 19 of *Order of the Phoenix*, Angelina Johnson states, "Last year's Beaters, Derrick and Bole, have left." This indicates Derrick's seventh year was 1994-1995 and that he kept his position as Beater despite the cancellation of Quidditch matches during the Triwizard Tournament held that same term.
9. ↑ *Harry Potter: Magic Awakened*
10. ↑ *Harry Potter: Magic Awakened* (see this image)
11. ↑ Martin Owens-Cairns