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1952

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1952**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1951/52 and 1952/53. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1950s or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1952** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet*

## Births

### Unknown date

* Pacha Patil (ten years older than his wife Ashanti, who was born in mid-1962)

## Other

* **The first edition of *Quidditch Through the Ages* was published.**
* **The Swiftstick racing broom was released by Ellerby and Spudmore.**
Anti-detection-spell potion

A non-canonical **potion that makes the drinker invisible to detection spells** is mentioned in *The Code*; it is one of several potions used by Bill Weasley to complement his invisibility cloak while spying on Death Eater meetings. While not stated outright, it is presumably brewed by Severus Snape.
1949

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1949**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1948/49 and 1949/50. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1940s, the decade 1950s, or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1949** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet.*

## Other events

* **The Snallygaster Protection League is formed in Maryland, United States.**
1990

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1990**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1989/90 and 1990/91. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1990s or the century 1900s.

## Deaths

### Date unknown

* **Pollux Black**
* Aislinn Connolly: on or shortly after 12 March ("almost eight years ago" in January, but not before this date)
* **Pandora Lovegood**: Between 13 February 1990 and 12 February 1991

## References

1. ↑ The Prisoner, Chapter1
2. ↑ The Prisoner, Chapter 14
1971/72

The **1971/72** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 1971 and ending on 31 Aug 1972. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 1971 and 1972. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1970s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **1971** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **1972** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1 September: Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, James Potter and Severus Snape started their Hogwarts education

## Births

### Date unknown

* Leticia Bones (six years older than Jessie Tickes)
* **Kirley Duke** (1 Sep-31 Dec)
* **Pippa Macmillan**
Air rune

An **air rune** is a non-canonical magical symbol mentioned in *A Godfather's Promise*; when activated, it conjures fresh air. In the Second Task of the 1994/95 Triwizard Tournament, Harry uses a breathing apparatus similar to muggle scuba equipment but constructed using air runes; it consists of small brass tubes held in the mouth, which can conjure enough air to last for thirty minutes each.
Arnold (muggle friend of Justin Finch-Fletchley)

**Arnold** is a muggle teenager and Eton student mentioned in *A Godfather's Promise*; he is a friend of Justin Finch-Fletchley, who introduces him to Harry sometime between the summer of 1993 and that of 1995. If he met Justin in school he is likely in the same year as he and Harry and lives in or near Reading (since, in this story, Harry lives there and went to the same school as Justin), but if they met somewhere else he could also be younger or older.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 22
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 3
1981

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1981**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1980/81 and 1981/82. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1980s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **1981** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* July: Voldemort wipes out the McKinnon family.
* September: Peter Pettigrew becomes the secret keeper of the Potter family, replacing Sirius Black; within a week, he betrays them to Voldemort.
* 31 October: Voldemort attacks the Potters, killing James and Lily but losing his corporeal form when the spell rebounds off Harry; the latter gains a scar and becomes a horcrux. This ends the First Wizarding War.
* 1 November: Celebrations of the fall of Voldemort throughout Magical Britain come dangerously close to breaching the Statute of Secrecy. Sirius Black is arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles, for which he is sentenced to Azkaban without a trial. Albus Dumbledore, with the help of Rubeus Hagrid and Minerva McGonagall, brings Harry Potter to 4 Privet Drive where he is reluctantly accepted by his aunt Petunia Dursley (née Evans) and her husband Vernon.
* November: Horace Slughorn retires from his post as Potions Master at Hogwarts, and is succeeded by Severus Snape.
* December: Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, together with Barty Crouch Jr, are arrested for the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom, due to which the latter two had to be committed to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Peter Pettigrew receives the Order of Merlin First Class posthumously for having supposedly confronted Sirius Black.

### Alternate timeline

* 31 October: Delphini's attempt to bring back her father is stopped by Harry Potter and his family.

## Births

* 13 February: **Luna Lovegood**
* 11 August: **Ginny Weasley**

### Date unknown

* **Colin Creevey** (between 3 May and 31 August)

## Deaths

* 31 October: **James Potter**, **Lily Potter**

### Date unknown

* **Edgar Bones, his wife and their children** (between July and October)
* **Caradoc Dearborn** (between July and October)
* **Benjy Fenwick** (between July and October)
* **Marlene McKinnon** and her family (July)
* **Dorcas Meadows** (between July and October)
* **Adalbert Waffling**

## Other

* September: **The eighty-third Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held.**
1 November

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **1 November**.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1 November** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1981: Rubeus Hagrid rescues baby Harry Potter from the ruins of the Potter Cottage, after Volldemort has murdered James and Lily Potter. Together with Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall, he leaves Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep. All over Britain, celebrations of the end of the War result in a night of large-scale breaches of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, which Minister for Magic Millicent Bagnold famously later defended with the words "*I assert our inalienable right to party*". Sirius Black confronts Peter Pettigrew on the betrayal of James and Lily Potter, but Pettigrew escapes after blowing up the street they were on, killing twelve Muggles. Pettigrew goes into hiding in his Animagus form of a rat. Black is arrested shortly after and convicted, without a trial, for killing Pettigrew and for committing Pettigrew's crimes.
* 1993: At three a.m. the staff ends searching Hogwarts Castle for any sign of Sirius Black.
* 1994: Harry Potter writes to Sirius Black about the Goblet of Fire selecting him as a *fourth* Triwizard Champion, using one of the school's owls.

## Para-canonical plot

* 1996: Muggle Madness Night is held at The Sticky Lick (Friday night a week after the Diagon Alley Chamber of Commerce election, which took place on 23 October).

## Deaths

* 1996: Ms Price-Fortescue ("a few days before" Ms Fortescue-Price (on 3 November) yet during the same weekend)

## References

1. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 19
2. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 32
3. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 33
1960/61

The **1960/61** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 1960 and ending on 31 Aug 1961. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 1960 and 1961. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1960s or the century 1900s.

## Births

* **Dirk Cresswell**, between 1 Sep and March
Acker

**Acker** is a non-canonical pure-blood wizard and Hogwarts student mentioned in *A Godfather's Promise*; he is likely two or three years above Harry and was sorted into Slytherin. In mid-November 1994 he is part of a group of a dozen Slytherin wizards led by Adrian Pucey, who assault Fleur Delacour, trying to rape her, and would have been successful if not for Harry's intervention. She manages to knock out six before being overwhelmed, and Harry quickly knocks out three more, but then Acker, Pucey and one unnamed wizard hold him back with a disciplined staggered attack until Fleur transforms into her battle form and hits Acker in the back with a fireball the size of a grapefruit. The fire quickly spreads over his body, causing third-degree burns that need to be treated at St Mungo's. Due to the political maneuverings of the Protectionist Party, Acker and the other perpetrators are not expelled, but they are suspended for the rest of the year.

Acker's age is not clear, but since Adrian in this story is said to be a sixth-year and the girls keeping watch outside are said to be seventh-years, he likely is one of those as well.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 7
3. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 8
4. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 3
1 September

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **1 September**.

On this day, the Hogwarts school year starts. The Hogwarts Express leaves London at eleven o'clock in the morning, arriving in Hogsmeade after nightfall, and the first-year students cross the Black Lake in boats. The sorting ceremony is held in the Great Hall.

## Canonical plot

* 1992: Dobby ensures that Harry and Ron miss the train; they instead drive to school in Ron's father's flying car.
* 1993: Dementors enter the train during the trip, but are driven off by Remus Lupin.
* 1994: Bartemius Crouch Jr starts impersonating Alastor Moody, whom he has abducted during the previous night.
Alice Longbottom

**Alice Longbottom** (maiden name unknown) is a canonical witch and former auror as well as member of the original Order of the Phoenix; she is the wife of Frank Longbottom and the mother of Neville Longbottom. Shortly after the end of the First Wizarding War she and Frank were tortured to insanity by death eaters who wanted to learn what had happened to Voldemort, and they have since been residents of the Janus Thickey Ward for irrevocable spell damage at St Mungo's.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Alice Longbottom** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Alice's son Neville was one of two boys that Sybill Trelawney's prophecy might have referred to (the other being Harry Potter). Therefore, when Voldemort lost his body Barty Crouch Jr, together with Bellatrix, Rabastan and Rodolphus Lestrange, thought Frank and Alice had been involved or at least knew what had happened. They abducted the two and tortured them in the hope of learning something, but since the Longbottoms didn't know anything they couldn't give them any answers and the torture continued until they went mad.

Since Alice was an auror in July 1980, she must have graduated Hogwarts in 1977 at the latest, and thus been born in or before 1958/59.

## Non-canonical information

### Minor appearances

* In *The Family Clock*, it is said that Frank and Alice were friends with James Tickes X and Siobhan McArran while at Hogwarts (implying that they were born in the mid-1940s), and that Frank was one of the groomsmen at their wedding in 1967.

* In *Ignore the Dementor*, the entire Longbottom family (including Alice) is said to be high elves masquerading as humans.

## References

1. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 2
2. ↑ *The Family Clock*, Chapter 25
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
1993/94 school year

The **1993/94 school year** is covered in canon by ***Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban***; see also 1993-1994 school year at the *Harry Potter Wiki*, as well as 1993/94, 1993 and 1994.

## Hogwarts staff

### Prefects

If Gemma Farley (S), Robert Hilliard (R) and/or Gabriel Truman (H), who were prefects in 1991/92, still attended school this year they were seventh-year prefects, but it is not known which year they were in.

In a source of limited (but non-zero) canonicity, no less than 21(!) further male prefects active during this year
have been named; at most nine of them can be considered canonical, and there is no way to determine which unless more data is released.

## Students

### In Hogwarts

\*Far too many people have been claimed to be prefects during the 1993/94 school year, so some of the students of unknown year and unknown house marked (5-7) above may not be so restricted.

### In other schools

**Note:** In the following table, years are given as "Hogwarts equivalent", i e the year they would have been in had they gone to Hogwarts. Other schools may have different matriculation and/or graduation ages, so the actual designations could be different. Also, schools outside of Britain would not necessarily use the same "cut-off date" (1 September) to decide which year a student belongs to.

As there are so very few canonical students in other schools, they are written in **bold** rather than on their own row.

## References

1. ↑ **Prefect** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*, see footnote at the end of the section "Unknown House"
20 December

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **20 December**.

## Canon plot

Main article: **20 December** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1996 (Fr): Horace Slughorn holds a Christmas party for select students and other guests.
* 1997 (Sa): Luna Lovegood is kidnapped.

## Para-canonical plot

* 1995 (We): The Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures holds its end-of-term party ("in the middle of [...] the last week of the term").
6 August

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **6 August**.

## Canon plot

Main article: **6 August** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1993: In a fit of accidental magic, Harry inflates Aunt Marge like a balloon. He runs away from home and takes the Knight Bus.
* 1995: The Advance Guard brings Harry from 4 Privet Drive to 12 Grimauld Place.
1979/80

The **1979/80** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 1979 and ending on 31 Aug 1980. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 1979 and 1980. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1970s, the decade 1980s, or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1979** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **1980** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* Regulus Black tried to destroy the locket horcrux, but was killed by an inferius
* Sybil Trelawney made her prophecy about the downfall of Voldemort

## Births

* 19 September: **Hermione Granger**
* 1 March: **Ron Weasley**
* 5 June: **Draco Malfoy**
* 23 June: **Dudley Dursley**
* 30 July: **Neville Longbottom**
* 31 July: **Harry Potter**

### Unknown date

* Agathe (likely in the same year as Millicent Bulstrode)
* Arnold (likely in the same year as Justin Finch-Fletchley
* **Dennis** (likely in the same year as Dudley)
* Diedre (same year as Draco)
* **Gordon** (likely in the same year as Dudley)
* **Leanne**
* **Malcolm** (likely in the same year as Dudley)
* Patrick (same year as Draco)
* Timothy (same year as Draco)
* **Hannah Abbott**
* Chloe Baxter (likely in the same year as Darla Burgess)
* **Susan Bones**
* **Terry Boot**
* **Mandy Brocklehurst**
* **Lavender Brown** (before 22 April)
* **Millicent Bulstrode**
* Darla Burgess: likely August, or possibly July (shortly before the exam period starts in 1997 – which should be in June, but could also be May since Draco's birthday (5 June, see above) is said to be the day after the end of term – there are two months left until her seventeenth birthday;)
* **Michael Corner**
* **Vincent Crabbe**
* **Justin Finch-Fletchley**
* **Seamus Finnegan**
* **Anthony Goldstein**
* **Gregory Goyle**
* **Daphne Greengrass**
* **Morag MacDougal**
* **Ernie Macmillan** (after 21 April)
* **Lily Moon**
* **Theodore Nott** (before 22 April)
* **Pansy Parkinson**
* **Padma Patil**
* **Parvati Patil**
* **Sally-Anne Perks**
* **Piers Polkiss** (likely in the same year as Dudley)
* **Oliver Rivers**
* **Dean Thomas**
* **Lisa Turpin**
* **Emma Vane**
* **Blaise Zabini**

## Deaths

### Unknown date

* **Regulus Black**
* Jamesina Tickes III, née Switch (likely in or around October 1979)
* Siobhan Tickes, née McArran (likely in or around October 1979)

## References

1. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 16
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 22
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The Code*, Chapter 3
4. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 22
5. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 17
6. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 27
1951/52

The **1951/52** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 1951 and ending on 31 Aug 1952. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 1951 and 1952. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1950s or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1951** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **1952** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet*

## Births

### Unknown date

* Pacha Patil (ten years older than his wife Ashanti, who was born in mid-1962)
2008/09

The **2008/09** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 2008 and ending on 31 Aug 2009. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 2008 and 2009. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 2000s or the century 2000s.

## Births

### Unknown date

* Theo Malfoy: September (Nine plus "a couple" months, but not yet a year, old at the start of the 2009/10 school year)

## Other

* Hermione Granger finishes her translation from the original runes of *The Tales of Beedle the Bard*, which is published as a children's storybook for muggles in December.
Braddock Brown

**Braddock Brown** is the name used in *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate* for Lavender Brown's father, who is not named in canon; he is said to be a member of the Hogwarts Board of Governors during the 1992/93 school year.

Given that his daughter was born during the 1979/80 scholastic year, he was likely born in the 1940s or 1950s; since she is a pure-blood he most likely is as well. He presumably is or has been married to her mother.

## References

1. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 34
2. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 28
Abigail Flourish

**Abigail "Abby" Flourish** is a non-canonical witch mentioned in The Family Clock; she is one of the owners of Flourish and Blotts.

Madam Flourish was able to nominate Jessie Tickes to the post of Chairperson of the Diagon Alley Chamber of Commerce, and must therefore be a member of its upper floor, which consists of people who own their shops; she is further described as an "eminent partner in Flourish & Blotts", which means she is not the only one.

## Physical description

She is described as "a matronly lady" in 1996, implying she was likely born in the early 1940s at the latest. (In any case, since she conspired with Florean Fortescue to place Siobhan Tickes on the board of the Diagon Alley Chamber of Commerce in 1978, she can not have been born later than the 1959/60 school year.) Her eyes are grey.

## Personality

According to Jessie Tickes, Abby is a sensible (i.e. practical) and cheerful woman; whatever you need done, she can either do herself or she knows just the right book to tell you how to do it. She is organized, competent, meticulous and "capable contentment personified", and in a crisis only more so.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Family Clock, Chapter 17
2. ↑ The Family Clock, Chapter 24
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Family Clock, Chapter 36
Ashanti Patil

**Ashanti Patil** is the name used in Harry Potter: Neko's Mate for the mother of Padma and Parvati Patil; their father is called Pacha. The two of them were friends with James and Lily, and signed a betrothal contract for Padma and Harry when their children were about a year old (May 1981).

Ashanti was born in the first half of 1962, and married her ten years older husband in 1979, barely seventeen years old. She seems to have been born in India, as her children were, but Pacha may have lived in Britain before marrying her, given that he was close friends with Charlus Potter. Since at least early 1986, however, the family has lived in Southall, London. Padma is said to be a pure-blood, so Ashanti likely is one as well (although she technically could have a muggle-born grandparent without it affecting her daughter's blood status).

She has an unnamed sister who is married to a high-born man in India, as the youngest of seven wives.

## References

1. ↑ Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 16
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 22
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter: Neko's Mate, Chapter 36
24 October

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **24 October**.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **24 October** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* 1992: Peeves, incited by Nearly-Headless Nick, damages the Vanishing Cabinet. Nick invites Harry, Hermione and Ron to his 500th deathday party on the 31 October.

## Births

* 1977: Jessie Tickes (probably; see The Family Clock#Timeline calculations, but also The Family Clock#Timeline inconsistencies)
1976

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1976**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1975/76 and 1976/77. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1970s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **1976** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans and Severus Snape sit their O.W.L. examinations in June
* Severus calls Lily a "mudblood", leading to her ending their friendship
* Sirius runs away from home, staying with James' parents Fleamont and Euphemia Potter until he, later in the year or the next, inherits enough from his uncle Alphard to get his own place.

### Date unknown

* **Viktor Krum**: May-August
* **Orsino Thruston**
* Clemence Vigouroux: December, or possibly late November ("about to turn 18" at the end of November 1994)
Athena (dementor)

**Athena** is a non-canonical dementor mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; her actual name is a sequence of screeching sounds impossible to translate or transcribe, much less pronounce, but Harry found she very much reminded him of McGonagall and decided to refer to her by this name. (It should be noted that, with dementors showing no signs of being split into different genders, the use of gendered pronouns for them seems to be strictly based on the assigned names.)
Arithmancy (subject)

**Arithmancy** is a canonical subject taught at Hogwarts; in the 1990s it was an elective available from third year, and taught by Professor Septima Vector in Classroom 7A, on the seventh floor of Hogwarts Castle. It is generally considered a tough subject, but an Arithmancy O.W.L. is necessary for certain job positions, such as curse breaker. It is not clear if Advanced Arithmancy Studies (taught on the first floor of the Hogwarts Turris Magnus) is a specific specialization within the subject or merely the formal name of the general N.E.W.T.-level course.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Arithmancy (class)** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
This subject is sometimes considered "the wizarding equivalent of muggle math", and in some of the games the Arithmancy classroom contains a blackboard with simple equations on it; however, in an interview, Rowling has described the subject as "*predicting the future using numbers*", together with a "*bit of numerology*". For homework assignments, students need to either consult or themselves construct complicated charts of numbers.

The third-year textbook *Numerology and Grammatica* is depicted in the films as two separate books, *Numerology* by L. Wakefield and *Grammatica* by M. Carneiro.

## Non-canonical information

### *The Code*

In this story, Professor Vector retires in the summer of 1996 after a Death Eater attack on her family, and is succeeded on the post by her former student Claire Jameson. Draco Malfoy, in Advanced Arithmancy (presented as the general N.E.W.T. course), considers combining Arithmancy with muggle Calculus and thereby "creating a new numeric system".

## Students known to have passed their O.W.L.

### Canonical

* Gethsemane Prickle (in or before 2001; likely before 1980)
* Septima Vector (in or before 1991)
* Bill Weasley (1987)
* Ben Copper (1989)
* Percy Weasley (1992)
* Hermione Granger (1996)

### Para-canonical

* Claire Jameson (second half of the 1980s)
* Draco Malfoy (1996)

## Students known to have passed their N.E.W.T

### Canonical

* Gethsemane Prickle (in or before 2001; likely before 1982)

## References

1. ↑ 2005 Royal Albert Hall interview with J. K. Rowling
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *The Code*, Chapter 2
3. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 7
1981/82

The **1981/82** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 1981 and ending on 31 Aug 1982. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 1981 and 1982. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1980s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **1981** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **1982** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* September: Peter Pettigrew becomes the secret keeper of the Potter family, replacing Sirius Black; within a week, he betrays them to Voldemort.
* 31 October: Voldemort attacks the Potters, killing James and Lily but losing his corporeal form when the spell rebounds off Harry; the latter gains a scar and becomes a horcrux. This ends the First Wizarding War.
* 1 November: Celebrations of the fall of Voldemort throughout Magical Britain come dangerously close to breaching the Statute of Secrecy. Sirius Black is arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles, for which he is sentenced to Azkaban without a trial. Albus Dumbledore, with the help of Rubeus Hagrid and Minerva McGonagall, brings Harry Potter to 4 Privet Drive where he is reluctantly accepted by his aunt Petunia Dursley (née Evans) and her husband Vernon.
* November: Horace Slughorn retires from his post as Potions Master at Hogwarts, and is succeeded by Severus Snape.
* December: Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange, together with Barty Crouch Jr, are arrested for the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom, due to which the latter two had to be committed to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Peter Pettigrew receives the Order of Merlin First Class posthumously for having supposedly confronted Sirius Black.
* Winter: Peter Pettigrew, now known as *Scabbers*, becomes the pet of Percy Weasley. Igor Karkaroff is released from Azkaban in exchange for testimony against Augustus Rookwood. Ludo Bagman is acquitted of being a Death Eater. Barty Crouch Jnr is secretly rescued from Azkaban.
* 26 March: Elspeth MacGillony has a traumatic encounter with a kelpie.
* Summer: Elpinstone Urquart again proposes to Minerva McGonagall, who finally accepts.

### Alternate timeline

* 31 October: Delphini's attempt to bring back her father is stopped by Harry Potter and his family.

## Births

### Date unknown

* **Derek**
* Emily
* **Astoria Greengrass**
* Aurelius and Aurora Jones
* Marco Riveria (fourth-year in 1996/97)
* Macy Singh (fourth-year in 1996/97)
* **Romilda Vane**

### Date unknown

* Bartemius Crouch Junior's mother (winter or early spring)

## Other

* September: **The eighty-third Wizarding Schools Potions Championship is held.**
* Summer: **Brazil reaches the final of the 419th Quidditch World Cup.**

## References

1. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 30
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *The Code*, Chapter 25
Brook Baye

**Book Baye** is a non-canonical witch and Hogwarts student in the year above Harry mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; she was sorted into Hufflepuff, is a member of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures because she is secretly a naiad masquerading as a human, and dates fellow member David Birch (a dryad). Their relationship is not easy, due to the longstanding political feuding between their respective species, but by the end of 1995 they have reached the point of wanting to introduce their families to one another.

Both she and her boyfriend joined Dumbledore's Army.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 10
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 8
Aurora (disambiguation)

**Aurora** is a female given name that can refer to:

* Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn
* Aurora Dillon, a canonical Jamaican expert on Divination in the 2010s
* Aurora Jones, a non-canonical half-werewolf starting Hogwarts in 1993
* Aurora Sinistra, a canonical professor of Astronomy at Hogwarts in the 1980s and 1990s

It may also refer to:

* Aurora or polar lights, a natural light display in the sky at high latitudes caused by solar winds interacting with the Earth's magnetosphere; sometimes referred to as *aurora borealis* (northern lights) and/or *aurora australis* (southern lights)

## References

1. ↑ Aurora (mythology) at *Wikipedia*
2. ↑ Aurora Dillon at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
1930s

The **1930s** is the decade 1930-1939. This page lists events known or likely to have occurred during these years, but where the exact year cannot be stated with certainty.

See also:

## Canon plot

Main article: **1930s** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* The *Pure-Blood Directory* is published by an anonymous author (presumed to be Cantankerus Nott) early in the 1930s.

## Births

* **Eileen Prince**: between September 1930 and August 1940, more likely in the early part of the interval
Caribbean Magical Community

The **Caribbean Magical Community** is a non-canonical political entity mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; it may or may not be associated with the muggle Caribbean Community, which contains all the independent English-speaking island countries and British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean plus the main-land countries Belize and Guyana, and the more northern territory of Bermuda. However, the magical community has its Ministry in the territory of Turks and Caicos Islands, while the secretariat headquarters of the muggle one is in Georgetown, Guyana.

The community is large enough to warrant its own magical prison, which from 1996 was guarded by dementors. At least some of its citizens are capable of creating flesh golems that the dementors can possess (and seem to be able to do so quite openly, rather than as secretive acts of dark magic).

## References

1. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 13
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 12
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 16
Ashish Patel

**Ashish Patel** is a canonical wizard and Hogwarts student sorted into Hufflepuff. His exact age is unknown, but he was present during the 1993/94 school year. It is not known if (and if so, how) he is related to Bhavana Patel.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Ashish Patel** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
See also: Patel family
Blood-testing padlock

A **blood-testing padlock** is a non-canonical magical object mentioned in *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*; it looks like a normal padlock but with a House crest indented into it. When one presses one's thumb against the crest, the lock pricks it, allows a drop of blood to emerge and then heals the thumb; if the blood belongs to the correct family, the padlock opens.

## References

1. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 18
1979

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1979**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1978/79 and 1979/80. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1970s, the decade 1980s, or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1979** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* Regulus Black tries to destroy the Gaunt ring horcrux, but is killed by an inferius
* The marriage of James Potter and Lily Evans may have taken place this year or the year before; in any case, their son Harry is conceived sometime during the fall.

## Deaths

### Unknown date

* **Orion Black**
* **Regulus Black**
* **Fleamont Potter**
* **Euphemia Potter**
* Jamesina Tickes III, née Switch (see discussion in article on Siobhan Tickes, below))
* Siobhan Tickes, née McArran (see discussion in article)

## Marriages

### Unknown date

* Pacha Patil and Ashanti (about a year before the birth of Padma on 19 April 1980)
* **James Potter and Lily Evans** (may also have been late 1978)

## Other

* **Newt Scamander is awarded the Order of Merlin, Second Class**
* Filius Flitwick replaces Sybill Trelawney's predecessor as faculty sponsor for the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures (likely)

## References

1. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 36
2. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 11
Anna Farrow

**"Point me!"**

This article is about **the Hogwarts student possibly sorted in 1992**. You may be looking for **somebody else named *Anna***.

## Affiliation

### School

Hogwarts

**Anna Farrow** is a non-canonical witch and Hogwarts student mentioned in *The Code*; in 1996/97, Colin Creevey publicly asked her for a Valentine's Day date in Hogsmeade, and she accepted. No further details are given, but from context it seems likely that she was either in his year (i e one year below Harry) or a year older.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 19
26 October

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **26 October**.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **26 October** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet*

## Para-canonical plot

* 1996: Jessie Tickes acquires the property 93 Diagon Alley (housing Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes) in order to avoid the former landlord foreclosing and evicting the tenants.
1960s

The **1960s** is the decade 1960-1969. This page lists events known or likely to have occurred during these years, but where the exact year cannot be stated with certainty.

See also:

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1960s** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
* Between March 1965 and March 1971: Armando Dippet steps down as headmaster of Hogwarts, succeeded by Albus Dumbledore.

## Births

* Evanna Quill: likely in the first half of the decade (in her early college/undergraduate years around 1983)
* Gardner Tickes: between Sep 1963 and early Oct 1966, likely in the earlier part of the span (see argument in article)

## Other

* **An unsuccessful campaign to reintroduce Creaothceann is led by Magnus "Dent-Head" Macdonald.**
Aswang

An **aswang** is a non-canonical magical being mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; it is one of a large number of such that live hidden among wizardkind using glamour to masquerade as humans (see Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures). No further details are given, beyond that Amelia Bones is one.

In non-creature!fic stories, the aswang may or may not be classified as a beast rather than a being.

## Etymology

Main article: **Aswang** at *Wikipedia*
In Filipino folk lore, the term *aswang* is used to refer to a number of different shape-shifting monsters, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and transforming human-beast hybrids (usually dogs, cats or pigs).
Arachna ambulata

**Arachna ambulata** is a non-canonical curse mentioned in *The Prisoner*; its effects are not specified, but it was used by Bellatrix Lestrange as part of an interrogation (read: torture) session, between breaking the victim's fingers and using the cruciatus.

## Etymology

The first word is the ablative form used by Romans of the Greek noun *ἀράχνης* "spider"; the Romans often declined Greek names, and sometimes other Greek nouns as well, with their original Greek endings even if they used them in an otherwise Latin text. That they would do so for this specific word (rather than using the Latin word *araneus*) is not obvious, but certainly possible; they would have been more likely to do so with the feminine form *ἀράχνη*, well known as the name of the mythological character Arachne (and apparently used at least once to mean "spider's web" rather than just "spider"), but then the ablative would have ended in *-e* rather than *-a*.

The second word, *ambulata*, is the ablative singular of the feminine past participle of the Latin verb *ambulo* "walk, go, travel (over)"; however, this would normally have a passive meaning "(having been) traveled over" which is hard to make sense of in this context. The intention may have been to form an *absolute ablative* with active meaning, something along the lines of "after the spider had moved", but it is not at all clear that the past participle of this verb can be used with such an active meaning. Further, while *ἀράχνης* belongs to the first declension, it is masculine and should therefore have the masculine participle *ambulato*; if the use of the feminine is taken to imply that the first word should be *ἀράχνη*, the meaning could be intended to be "after/because [someone] crossed the spider's web".

1. ↑ *The Prisoner*, Chapter 15
2. ↑ *Liddell and Scott's Greek-English lexicon*, 7th edition, lists at least one such occurrence, although the reference is not clear to a layman
Aurelius Jones

**Aurelius Jones** is a non-canonical wizard and Hogwarts student mentioned in *Ignore the Dementor*; he is two years below Harry, sorted into Ravenclaw and – like his twin sister Aurora – a Half-werewolf and member of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures. The students of his house, and likely of Aurora's as well, know what he is but otherwise he tries to keep it secret. Both he and his sister joined Dumbledore's Army.

His father's best friend is a werewolf, but whether that should be taken to imply that he is one as well, or that his wife is one and he met her through said friend, is not clear.

It is not known whether he is related to any of the canonical Joneses (Gwenog, Hestia, Megan and Peter), but given that he is a half-werewolf he is most likely not muggle-born; at the same time, considering the low status of werewolves, it is unlikely that he would be counted as a pure-blood no matter who his ancestors were.

## Physical description

He likely has auburn hair and amber eyes like his sister (although as fraternal twins they may also look different).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 8
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 14
2002/03

The **2002/03** scholastic year is the year starting on 1 Sep 2002 and ending on 31 Aug 2003. This page lists events known to have occurred during this year, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the calendar years 2002 and 2003. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 2000s or the century 2000s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **2002** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **2003** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet.*

## Births

### Date unknown

* Hugo Weasley (contra-canonical)
* Milo Weasley (contra-canonical)
30 December

This page lists events known or believed to have occurred on the **30 December**.

## Canonical plot

* 1997: Ambush at the Lovegood house. Harry, Hermione and Ron visit Xenophilius Lovegood, who tells them about the Deathly Hallows but also betrays them to the Death Eater-controlled Ministry because Luna has been kidnapped and is being held hostage; they barely escape.
Agathe (Slytherin)

**"Point me!"**

This article is about **the 1990s Slytherin student**. You may be looking for **somebody else named Agathe**.

## Affiliation

### House

Slytherin

**Agathe** is a non-canonical witch and Hogwarts student mentioned in *The Code*; she was sorted into Slytherin and from context seems to be in the same year as Harry. She is a friend of Millicent Bulstrode, and the two like to "gossip about the drama in the other houses".

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 16
Auto-translation spell

A non-canonical **auto-translation spell** is mentioned in *The Code*; Bill Weasley supposedly uses it to create Ancient Runes homework assignments for his classes, but Draco Malfoy discovers that the mistakes, seemingly introduced by the notoriously error-prone spell, are not randomly distributed but instead part of a code.
1943

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1943**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1942/43 and 1943/44. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1940s or the century 1900s.

## Canonical plot

Main article: **1943** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
* June: Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. Several students are injured, and Myrtle Warren is killed by the Basilisk.
* 13 June: Rubeus Hagrid is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is expelled. With the murder of Moaning Myrtle, Tom Riddle transforms his diary into his first Horcrux.
* August: Tom Riddle murders his father, Tom Riddle Sr, and his grandparents, Thomas and Mary Riddle, for having (in his eyes) abandoned him and his late mother, Merope Gaunt. He frames his uncle Morfin Gaunt for the attacks, resulting in the latter being sent to Azkaban. With the murder of the Riddles, Tom Riddle also transforms Marvolo Gaunt's Ring into his second Horcrux.

## Deaths

### Date unknown

* **Mary Riddle** (August)
* **Thomas Riddle** (August)
* **Tom Riddle Snr** (August)
* James Tickes IX (about two years before the fall of Grindelwald on 2 November 1945)
* **Myrtle Warren** (June)
Antidote to acromantula venom

**Antidote to acromantula venom** (incorrectly referred to in the text as "antidote [...] against the *poison* of an acromantula") is a non-canonical potion mentioned in *A Godfather's Promise*; as the name implies, it counteracts the effects of acromantula venom. It consists of a combination of two mixtures, and if brewed sequentially the process takes a full double lesson; however, if they are brewed in parallel (i e by different brewers) it can be finished in under an hour. The brewing is said to be fairly easy, but neither the ingredients nor any further specifics on the process are known.
Black family

The **The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black** is a canonical British pure-blood wizarding family. It was one of the largest, oldest and wealthiest families in Britain, and could trace its origin to the Middle Ages. After the death of Sirius Black in 1996 it is extinct in the male line, although there are many descendants through various female lines.

## Canonical information

Main article: **House of Black** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
The motto of House Black is *Toujours Pur*, French for "always pure", and they have a long history of disliking muggle borns and half-bloods. During the First Wizarding War many supported Voldemort, at least initially, and some became Death Eaters. At least eight family members have been disowned for marrying and/or supporting the rights of muggles and muggle-borns, or for simply fraternizing with those who did so.

## Non-canonical information

* In *A Godfather's Promise*, the Black family is said to be comparable in age with the Bones, Greengrass, Longbottom, Abbott and Potter families (possibly among others; notably the Ollivander family is not listed), and the Potter family is said to be the oldest of them all, tracing its roots to the Roman *gens Poteria*.

## Family members

#### Canonical

* Andromeda Tonks, née Black (disowned)
* Arcturus Black II
* Bellatrix Black
* Cedrella Weasley, née Black (disowned)
* Cygnus Black II
* Dorea Potter, née Black
* Lysandra Yaxley, married to Arcturus II
* Narcissa Malfoy, née Black
* Regulus Black
* Sirius Black (disowned)
* Violetta Bulstrode, married to Cygnus II

## Harry Potter and the House of Black

Canonically, the only known genealogical connection between Harry Potter and the House of Black is through his marriage to Ginny Weasley, granddaughter of Cedrella Black (and thus third cousin to Sirius, Andromeda, Bellatrix and Narcissa) – although, since Harry's published family tree only goes three generations back, and incompletely at that, further connections may still remain to be uncovered.

*Non-canonically*, in some stories Harry is the grandson of Charlus Potter and Dorea Black, making him a second cousin of Sirius and the others, as well as a third cousin of Ginny. (Such stories can be found in the Category:Grandson of Charlus.) In other stories Sirius adopts him (see Category:Potter-Black) or gives him the title of Lord Black in his will (see Category:Lord Black); both these types of course ignore or handwave the fact that Sirius was disowned. (Then again, the rules for inheritance of such titles are never mentioned, so it could theoretically be that they are not affected.)

## References

1. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 14
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 2
Annelise Flannery

**Annelise Flannery** is a non-canonical witch and Hogwarts student mentioned in *The Code*; she is in the year below Harry and was sorted into Slytherin. In the spring of 1997 she is assigned a group project in one of her classes together with Jeremy Brown, a fellow Slytherin student in her year but also the son of a muggle-born witch, and this leads to her being harassed by Cassius Warrington for spending time with him while working on the project; from the context, this seems to imply that she is a pure-blood herself. Later, as the school is attacked by ghouls, the two of them help evacuating the wounded.

How (or even if) she is related to Flannery, the man charged with the murder of Hamish Steed, is not known.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 22
3. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 25
4. ↑ Flannery at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
1951

This page lists events known to have occurred during the year **1951**, although the exact date may or may not be known.

See also the scholastic years 1950/51 and 1951/52. Events with more uncertain dates may be found in the decade 1950s or the century 1900s.

## Canon plot

Main article: **1951** at the *Harry Potter Wiki*
*None yet*

## Births

### Unknown date

* **Bellatrix Lestrange**
* **Rita Skeeter**