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Harry Potter fans have created a timeline for the Harry Potter series, based on three shreds of information provided by author J. K. Rowling. [1]

The timeline itself contains flaws, contradicting itself on several occasions, and running, on many occasions, entirely contrary to the real calendar days and dates of the events it describes. [2] [3] Nonetheless, it has become a generally accepted timeline for the novels. [4]

The history of the timeline is obscure, and slightly controversial. The dates themselves derive from information given by Rowling, either in her books and interviews, on her website, or via other published material (for example the Black Family Tree).[5] However, two sources have each claimed to have been the authors of an authorially recognised "official" version:

  • Warner Bros., the film company resonsible for producing the Harry Potter films: the DVD editions of the Harry Potter films contain a timeline, which they claim to be authorially approved, of the events taking place in the course of the narrative of the novels. This, Warner Bros. reputedly claims, was created by themselves, whilst they were creating the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets DVD. This timeline was then shown to Rowling, who looked it over, apparently making several changes, before approving it. This approval means that the timeline is considered to be official.[6] However, Warner Bros.'s claim to have created this official timeline is challenged by:
  • Harry Potter Lexicon, a major online encyclopaedia referencing the world of Harry Potter: the site-creator, Steve Vander Ark, claims to have been the real author of the timeline used in the DVD editions, and to accordingly deserve the plaudits associated with the creation of an officially sanctioned timeline.[7] More of Vander Ark's claims can be read at The Harry Potter Lexicon

Ultimately, however, quarrels over authorship of any 'official' timeline have proved irrelevant: some readers consider the 'official timeline', being approved by Rowling, to be definitive, regardless of who wrote it or any flaws in it; some argue that only definitive dates within the novels are official, and that dates derived from any other sources are not relevant; and some "have expressed a stong belief that Rowling does not want her stories dated at all, pointing out that she has intentionally avoided giving dates when it would have been natural to do so."[8] This article, however, uses the standard dates commonly calculated from the known reference points outlined below.

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[edit] Timeline Basis

The starting basis of the commonly accepted timeline derives from an incident in Rowling’s second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which is set in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts. During the Halloween celebrations, another character (Nearly Headless Nick, a long dead ghost) celebrates the anniversary of his death, which took place on a long-ago 31 October, with a "five hundredth deathday" party. Rowling then notes that a central feature of this party is an "enormous grey cake in the shape of a tombstone", stating "Sir Nicholas de Mimsey Porpington [the real name of 'Nearly Headless Nick'] died 31st October, 1492". Thus, Rowling sets the date on which the event takes place in the book as 31 October 1992. [9] This means that Rowling places Harry's sorting ceremony, the year before, in 1991,[10] and Harry's birth year in 1980, since she has also stated that Hogwarts students must be eleven years old to start their first year.[11] Harry himself, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, had turned 11 years old in the school year preceeding his first at Hogwarts.[12]

Rowling, however, in using the life and death of 'Nearly Headless Nick' to express the chronology of her novels, initially contradicted herself. As she originally wrote Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Nearly-Headless Nick claimed to Harry that "I haven't eaten for nearly four hundred years"[13] Had Rowling left this statement unchanged, it would have created an inconsistency in her timeline. However, she corrected the statement in later editions to read "I haven't eaten for nearly five hundred years" - making it consistent with what she had disclosed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.[14]

Rowling later gave further confirmation of this originally disclosed timeline anchor when, in early 2006, she donated a hand-drawn copy of the Black family tree to a charity auction for Book Aid International.[15] In that document, she included the birth year of one of Harry's classmates, Draco Malfoy, as 1980.[16] She had previously, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, revealed Draco's birthday to be (like that of Harry) late in the school year, and past January.[17] By means of these two devices, she thus also clearly set the birthdate of her main character as 31 July 1980, and thus, by extension, reinforced her original signalling that the Sorting Ceremony which takes place on 1 September in her original book was envisioned by her as taking place in the chronological year 1991.[18]

Rowling's manuscript depiction of The Black Family Tree was shown as being similar to that she had described in the form of a tapestry, appearing in Order of the Phoenix on the wall of the Black family home. In her manuscript copy, Rowling drew several lacunae (which had been explained by her in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as burns in the Tapestry Tree featuring in the novel), which she noted as obscuring the names and birthdates of a number of disowned members of the Black family – including a major character of the novels, Sirius Black.[19] [20] This obscuration of Sirius's details allowed Rowling to avoid explicitly stating the year in which she supposes the character to have been born; which, in turn, allowed the author to avoid explicitly giving the birth-year(s) of the main character's parents, James and Lily Potter, as well as of Severus Snape, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, all of whom Rowling has specified as being in the same school year.[21] However, as is her custom, Rowling has left various clues through which she strongly suggests a small range of dates in which Severus Snape, Lily Potter, and 'The Marauders' (as she entitles Black, Lupin, Pettigrew and Potter). For example, on the Family Tree, she notes Sirius's older cousin Bellatrix Lestrange as being born in 1951 [22]. Because she has already noted, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, that Lestrange and Severus Snape were in a gang together at school, [23] she thus not only clearly indicates that Bellatrix's final school year was either 1968-69 or 1969-70, but also uses her previous reference in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to demonstrate that because Snape had been at school at the same time as her, his first school year (and that of his year-mates) must have been, at the latest, the school years of either 1968/69 or 1969/70. [24]

Rowling has also given three other references to the ages of the year-group which she supposes to have included Black, Lupin, Pettigrew, the Potters and Snape.

  • She has stated in an interview (after the publication of Goblet of Fire) that she imagined Snape to have been "35 or 36 years old" during the book, which (according to the specifications she gave in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) was set in the 1994-1995 school year. [25] This being the case, Rowling thus indicated in her interview statement that Snape's birth-year was in the 1958 - 1960 time frame. She also posted Snape's birthday as 9 January on her official website "desk calendar" on that day in 2006,[26] but did not provide an age or birth year. Snape's first year at Hogwarts as an eleven-year-old would have been in the 1969 to 1971 time frame. [27] [28]
  • Rowling also posted some biographical information about Sirius Black on her website, in order to give an indication of his age. According to her, Black was 'around 22' when he was first imprisoned in Azkaban on 1 November 1981. [29] Since she uses "around" to indicate that her statement is not precise, she thus places her idea of Black's age in the 1958 – 1960 time frame – matching that of Snape, and confirming that as Snape's year-mates, Black and his friends would then also have begun attending school at Hogwarts as eleven-year-olds during the 1969 to 1971 time frame. [30] [31]
  • As a final indication of the time period during which the Potters and their contemporaries lived, Rowling placed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix a casual reference to the space of time separating Harry from his parents at his age. In the book, Rowling made Harry observe a three-dimensional recollection of an incident in a Pensieve, during which his father James Potter and Severus Snape were sitting their O.W.L. exams at the end of their fifth year (and thus aged 15-16).[32] She later refers to the scene the scene as occurring "more than twenty years ago".[33] This recollection, and reference to the space of time, was set during Harry's fifth year, and is would have taken place after the Easter of 1996.[34] Rowling thus indicates that the exams took place in the school year 1975-1976 or earlier, giving a birth year for Snape of 1960 or earlier, and his and his classmates' initial attendance at Hogwarts in the year 1971 or earlier.[35]

The dating of the elder Potters and their friends is complicated by the fact that for each school year, the actual birthday may fall in one of two years, depending on the precise day and month; the specific month and day for many characters are not known. [36]

[edit] Contradictions

There are numerous contradictions in the timeline, both internal and compared with the real-world timeline – for example, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone opens on Tuesday 1st of November, despite 1 November 1980 historically being a Sunday.[37] [38] Rowling herself has admitted having difficulty with managing mathematics in the FAQ section of her website. [39]

[edit] Historical problems

Rowling also, at times, fails to match chronological history in her novels to the real chronological history of the same period.

  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set in the historical year 1996–1997, features a meeting between the 'Minister for Magic', and the 'Muggle' Prime Minister at the beginning of the book (i.e. the Summer of 1996): historically, at this time, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was John Major. Rowling gives no direct indications that her iteration of the nameless Prime Minister is not Major. However, she uses a comment of the Minister for Magic ("...you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor. He tried to throw me out of the window...") to indicate that the previous UK Prime Minister was male: yet, historically, Major's predecessor was Britain's only female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone features an important involvement of the noted 14/15th century alchemist, Nicholas Flamel, in the plot of the novel. Flamel, Rowling states, became immortal by use of "The Elixir of Life", and liveduntil c.1992. In the course of the novel, Flamel is noted as being 665 – an age which the historical Flamel would not have reached until 1996. [40]
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire features a reference towards the beginning of a character owning a Sony PlayStation. This, according to Rowling's timeline, would have occurred during the summer of 1994 – at which point, historically, Playstations were not yet on sale. [41]

[edit] Timeline of the Harry Potter series

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[edit] Events

  • 382 BC
According to Rowling, the Ollivanders – a family of magic wand producers – have been in business since this date. [42]
  • AD 962
Rowling dated the first use of broomsticks for transport very precisely, dating it "as early as AD 962".[43]
  • c. 1000
Although not dated precisely (the precise date is unknown to those within the novels), Rowling envisioned (in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, set in 1992–1993) Hogwarts, the magical centrepiece of her novels, as having been built "over a thousand years ago" by the four 'Founders', two witches and two wizards (named Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin) whom she portrays as revered figures through the novels. According to Rowling, the education of magical children began at the school at the same time; although, following the standard pattern of creation myths, she depicts this endeavour as becoming lessened due to internal dissent: two of the founders, Slytherin and Gryffindor, quarrel over their creation (Slytherin demanding that they not teach magical students whose families are not magical), resulting in Slytherin rebelling and abandoning the endeavour. At the same time, before leaving, he builds the Chamber of Secrets, a hidden chamber containing a deadly serpent. [44]
  • c. 1294
The Triwizard Tournament, a competition Rowling uses as a major feature in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is dated by her in that book (taking place in the year 1994–1995) as having been established "some seven hundred years ago". Rowling writes that, although a friendly competition, it was ended at an unknown point due to the mounting death toll. She noted, however, that there were several intervening centuries between the cancellation and the novel in which it becomes relevant, since "there have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the tournament."[45]
  • 1473
Rowling considered this a particularly notable date in the history of the major sport of her novels, Quidditch: not does she envision it as the year of the first Quidditch World Cup (a major sporting event in her novels, as seen in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), but she also humorously in Quidditch Through the Ages that, of the 700 fouls she writes of as existing in the game, "all of them are known to have occurred during the final of the first ever World Cup" in this year.[46]
  • c. 1891
Rowling imagines that Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter's headmaster and mentor, began teaching at Hogwarts around this chronological year. [citation needed]
  • 1918
Rowling cites this year as that in which Newt Scamander (who, within the context of her novels, is the "real" author of her book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) was asked to write a compendium of magical beasts – which, she explains, eventually became the book she herself wrote for Comic Relief.[47]
  • late 1925
Rowling used this as an important year in the plot development of her sixth novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: she depicts this year as seeing the marriage of the parents of Lord Voldemort (the main protagonist of the novels), and the conception of Voldemort himself, facilitated. Rowling depicts the events leading to this facilitation in flashbacks in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: an attack by the family of Merope Gaunt (Voldemort's eventual mother) on Tom Riddle Sr (Voldemort's eventual father) leads to Gaunt's family being arrested and gaoled. As Rowling describes it (via the narrative of Albus Dumbledore), Gaunt reacts to her family's imprisonment by enchanting Riddle (with whom she has fallen in love) into loving her; and the two, again according to Rowling by means of Dumbledore's explanation, were married roughly a year before the birth of their child.[48]
  • 1926
A fateful year in Rowling's novels: the very end of the year, New Year's Eve, sees the birth of Tom Marvolo Riddle, who, the author has already demonstrated (in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) will grow up to be the principle villain of her novels, "Lord Voldemort". She records this in expository dialogue in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, also noting that the baby's father had abandoned his wife, Merope Gaunt, some months before the birth; Gaunt herself dies an hour after the birth of her son, leaving the young Riddle entirely alone and unloved, to grow up in an orphanage, where – Rowling makes clear – he will gradually become the monstrous and terrifying figure who stalks through her novels.[49]
  • 1927
The fictional publication year of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them &dnash; which, in reality, was written and published by Rowling herself in 2001.[50]
  • September 1938
According to the dates recorded in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this year saw Tom Marvolo Riddle – i.e. Voldemort – being his education at Hogwarts.[51]
  • September 1940
Rubeus Hagrid – the kindly and friend whom Rowling uses in her novels as a protector of Harry – starts at Hogwarts. [52]
  • July-August 1942
Rowling uses this point to mark a milestone in the transformation of Tom Riddle into Lord Voldemort: as told in retrospect in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Riddle, aged 15, visits his estranged family, and murders his father and paternal grandparents, then frames his uncle Morfin Gaunt for the crimes.[53]
  • June 1943
As Rowling relates in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, precisely 50 years before the events of that book, Riddle secretly opened the Chamber of Secrets (introduced by Rowling in this book, a legendary hidden chamber under the castle, built by the rebellious founder Slytherin), and released the monstrous serpent (a basilisk) hidden within. As a result, a young student, Myrtle, was killed. Riddle – who, like Harry, is depicted as hating his home in the mundane world, and enjoying life in the school – being shown by Rowling to fear that the school will be closed because of his actions, is then shown to frame Rubeus Hagrid (who, Rowling has already shown in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, will later become Harry's friend) Hagrid for the crime. As a result, Hagrid is expelled, and Riddle – whose culpability in the matter is unknown – is rewarded; although Rowling also ensures that the matter is reversed by the end of the same novel.[54]
  • 1945
According to a throw-away comment she made by means of a trading card in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the wise and powerful Headmaster of the novels, Albus Dumbledore, defeated a Dark Wizard named Grindelwald in this year.[55] Historically, it was the year in which the Second World War ended, with the defeat of the German leader Adolf Hitler. These two facts, according to Rowling, are not a coincidence.[citation needed]
The same year has also been shown by Rowling as seeing the graduation of Tom Riddle from Hogwarts. As she revealed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he requested of the headmaster, Armando Dippet, that he be employed by the school as a teacher; significantly to the plot of the novels, this request was refused, and Rowling notes that Riddle instead found work in Borgin and Burkes, shown in the novels to be a purveyor of cursed and dangerous objects. [56]
  • c.1945-1947
Around these years, Rowling notes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Tom Riddle – having discovered in the course of his work at Borgin and Burkes two treasures, formerly the property of Salazar Slytherin and Helga Hufflepuff (that of Slytherin, Rowling is careful to note, was a hereditary possession of Riddle's maternal family) – facilitates the murder of the objects' legal owner, and disappears. This marks the final chronological stage in the novels when he appears as Tom Riddle; when he next appears, he has become in appearance and nature "Lord Voldemort". [57]
  • 1956
Rowling revealed in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that Minerva McGonagall, the firm but fair Deputy Headmistress who plays a minor role in the novels, had in the autumn term of that novel (and thus the chronological year of 1995) been teaching "Thirty-nine years this December": thus, since the December of 1956. [58]
The year in which Albus Dumbledore became Headmaster is not certain. However, Rowling's plot exposition in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince made it clear that he became Headmaster around 10 years after Rowling implies Riddle disappeared - and thus, somewhere between 1955 and 1957.[59] [60]
It is also implied in the same novel that, shortly after Dumbledore became Headmaster, Riddle returned to Britain – fully in the name and guise now of "Lord Voldemort" – and requested the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching position. When refused this by Dumbledore, Rowling explains, Voldemort – who had already recruited followers, including Rosier, Nott, Mulciber, and Dolohov, 'jinxed' the post he had requested – an explanation given by Rowling to explain the regular change on the school staff to that position each year in the novels.[61]
  • c. 1966
As noted by Rowling, through a comment of the 'Minister for Magic' in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (in the chronological year 1996), Voldemort, becoming more powerful, is supposed to have begun his campaign of fear against the Wizarding World around this time.[62]
  • c. 1968-1970
Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett, the parents of Ron Weasley (the best friend of Harry Potter), who are known to have eloped, are presumed to have done so around this period. [63]
Autumn, c.1969: as noted above, the six notable characters (James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Severus Snape) of the generation prior to that of the children who feature in Rowling's novels is likely to be intended by Rowling to have begun their first year at the school at this particular point; although Autumn 1970 is also possible. (See above). [64]
  • c.1976-1979
Rowling has not made clear when James Potter and Lily Evans – the parents of the main character – were married. Accordingly, no firm date exists; since it is known, through various pieces of information given by Rowling, that they were married by the time Harry was conceived, the range of marriage possibilities is thus from around 1976 to the Winter of 1979, when Rowling has made clear Harry was conceived. [65]
  • 1979
The year in which Regulus Black, the brother of Sirius Black, is shown as having died on the Black Family Tree.[66] Rowling stated in an interview and in the fifth novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that he was killed by Death Eaters, because he "got in a little too deep."[67]
  • c. late 1979 - early 1980
Rowling explained in first Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and then Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that Sybill Trelawney, the semi-competent Seer of the novels, made her first real Prophecy at some point in the year before the birth of Harry and Neville Longbottom: both of whom were referenced by the Prophecy in relating a substantial issue of the novels, the issue of who is 'destined' to destroy Lord Voldemort. This successful prophecy earned Trelawney a position at Hogwarts, teaching Divination, which allows Rowling to use her in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to make another real Prophecy.[68]
  • 1980
July - Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom are born.[69]
  • 1981
In Rowling's novels, the period from September-November 1981 is very important. The September sees Severus Snape – Harry's classroom enemy and eventual murderer of Albus Dumbledore – hired as Potions teacher at Hogwarts.[citation needed] Shortly after this, on 31 October 1981, comes the beginning of the first novel, and a seminal moment in Rowling's work: Voldemort, the enemy of Harry Potter, kills Lily and James Potter, but when attempting to kill the young Harry, is prevented from doing so by Lily, whose sacrifice to save Harry instills an inborne protection in her son. Harry, left with the scar he is distinctive for throughout the novels, is then sent to live with his maternal relatives, the Dursleys.[70]
Rowling allocates to the next day, 1 November, the backstory of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Sirius Black, the misjudged villain of that novel, is arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew; Pettigrew, in fact, is not dead, but has fled into hiding, as will prove significant in Prisoner of Azkaban.[71]
  • 1991
The chronological year in which the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, begins, Rowling writes July as being the month in which Harry Potter receives his invitation to attend Hogwarts. He, and the two characters whom Rowling places constantly at his side throughout the novels (Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger), begin attending the school in what Rowling demonstrates to be the September of that year.[72]
  • 1992
In the course of the first novel, the June of this year sees Harry defeat Lord Voldemort for a second time (although the first time shown to the readers by Rowling). [73]
The same chronological year, although the next novel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is also set-up by Rowling as seeing the beginning of the main plot of the second novel, when the Chamber of Secrets is re-opened. [74]
  • 1993
The ending of the second novel and the beginning of the third: Rowling places the climax of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – in which Harry destroys an incarnate memory of Tom Riddle (i.e. Lord Voldemort), rescues Ginny Weasley (who, it emerges, was responsible for the previous events) and, crucially to the plot of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, destroys a Horcrux of Lord Voldemort – in the June of 1993. The event which begins the next novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, comes shortly after, when the major character of that novel – Sirius Black – escapes from Azkaban.[75]
  • 1994
Professor Trelawney gives her second prophecy to Harry Potter, regarding the return of the Dark Lord to power.[76]
6 June - Harry learns of Sirius' innocence regarding the murder of his parents. Peter Pettigrew, guilt now established, flees and rejoins Voldemort.[77]
Peter Pettigrew murders Bertha Jorkins. [78]
Voldemort murders Frank Bryce.[79]
Summer - Ireland wins the 422nd Quidditch World Cup.[80]
Autumn - Hogwarts hosts the Triwizard Tournament for the first time in over a century [81]
Saturday October 31 - The names of the champions for the Triwizard Tournament are revealed to the students. (This is contriversial due to the fact that October 31 is on a Monday in 1994) [82]
November 24 - The first task of the Triwizard Tournament - Viktor Krum and Harry Potter tie for the lead with 40 points each.[83]
  • 1995
February 24 - The second task of the Triwizard Tournament is held - Harry and Cedric Diggory end up tied for the lead.[84]
June 24 - The third task of the Triwizard Tournament is held.[85]
June 24 - Peter Pettigrew murders Cedric Diggory in Harry's presence, on Lord Voldemort's orders, and using the Dark Lord's wand. Voldemort is restored to full power.[86]
Summer - The Order of the Phoenix is re-established by Albus Dumbledore.[87]
  • 1996
Voldemort fails to recover the Prophecy from the Department of Mysteries, due to the efforts of Harry and company. Harry learns of Professor Trelawney's first prediction and the wizarding world is finally alerted to Voldemort's return. Sirius Black is killed in The Death Chamber of the Department of Mysteries.[88]
Albus Dumbledore destroys another of Voldemort's Horcruxes, formerly encased in Marvolo Gaunt's ring.[89]
Harry, Ron, and Hermione start their sixth year at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy sneaks off to Knockturn Alley to go to Borgin and Burkes to reserve a vanishing cabinet to get the Death Eaters into Hogwarts.[90]
  • 1997
Albus Dumbledore is killed by Severus Snape. Harry Potter decides upon his quest to destroy the remaining four Horcruxes in which Lord Voldemort has sealed fragments of his soul.[91]

[edit] Births

  • 1325
Nicolas Flamel[92]
  • c. 1840s
Albus Dumbledore [93]
  • 1847
Phineas Nigellus Black[94]
  • c. 1907
Merope Gaunt to Marvolo Gaunt and an unknown witch.[95]
  • c. 1920s
October 4 - Minerva McGonagall [96] .
  • 1925
Lucretia Black to Arcturus Black and Melania Macmillan[97]
Walburga Black to Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe[98]
  • 1926
December 31 - Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort) to Muggle Tom Riddle Sr and witch Merope Gaunt[99]
  • c. 1928
December 6 - Rubeus Hagrid to the giantess Fridwulfa and an unnamed wizard[100]
  • 1929
Orion Black to Arcturus Black and Melania Macmillan[101]
  • 1938
Cygnus Black to Pollux Black and Irma Crabbe[102]
  • 1951
Bellatrix Black to Cygnus Black and Druella Rosier[103]
Rita Skeeter[104]
  • c. 1953
Andromeda Black to Cygnus Black and Druella Rosier[105]
  • c. 1954
Lucius Malfoy to Abraxas Malfoy and an unknown witch[106]
  • 1955
Narcissa Black to Cygnus Black and Druella Rosier[107]
  • c.1955-57
Bertha Jorkins[108]
  • c. 1960
January 9 - Severus Snape to Tobias Snape and Eileen Prince [109]
January 31 - Lily Evans (DH16)
March 10 - Remus Lupin [110]
March 27 - James Potter [111]
Sirius Black to second cousins Orion Black and Walburga Black [112]
Peter Pettigrew [113]
  • 1961
Regulus Black to second cousins Orion Black and Walburga Black [114]
  • 1962
Bartemius Crouch Jr to Bartemius Crouch Sr and his wife [115]
  • 1970
November 29 - Bill Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [116]
  • 1972
December 12 - Charlie Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [117]
  • c. 1972/3
Nymphadora Tonks to Ted Tonks and Andromeda Black [118]
  • c. 1975
Stan Shunpike [119]
  • 1976
August 22 - Percy Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [120]
  • 1977
Cedric Diggory to Amos Diggory and his wife [121]
c. - Viktor Krum [122]
c. - Fleur Delacour to an unknown wizard and a half-Veela [123]
  • 1978
April 1 - Fred and George Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [124]
  • 1979
c. - Cho Chang [125]
September 19 - Hermione Jane Granger to Mr and Mrs Granger, Muggle dentists [126]
  • 1980
March 1 - Ronald Bilius Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [127]
June 5 - Draco Malfoy to Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Black[128]
June 22 - Dudley Dursley to Vernon Dursley and Petunia Evans [129]
July 30 - Neville Longbottom to Frank and Alice Longbottom [130]
July 31 - Harry James Potter to James Potter and Lily Evans [131]
  • 1981
c. - Colin Creevey [132]
c. - Luna Lovegood to the editor of The Quibbler and his wife [133]
August 11 - Ginevra Molly Weasley to Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett [134]
  • c. 1983
Dennis Creevey [135]
  • c. 1986
Gabrielle Delacour to an unknown wizard and a half-Veela [136]

[edit] Deaths

  • 1492
October 31 - Nearly Headless Nick, by being partially beheaded [137]
  • 1926
December 31 - Merope Gaunt [138]
Phineas Nigellus Black [139]
  • 1943
June 13 - Myrtle (surname unknown), a female Hogwarts student, who will become known as Moaning Myrtle, was killed by the basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets under the influence of Tom Riddle [140]
  • 1979
Regulus Black, according to his brother Sirius he was murdered by Death Eaters because he wanted to leave them. [141]
Orion Black [142]
  • 1981
October 31 - James and Lily Potter, from an attack by Lord Voldemort [143]
  • 1985
Walburga Black [144]
  • c. 1990
Luna Lovegood's mother, in an accident when an experimental spell backfires [145]
  • 1991
Arcturus Black [146]
  • 1992
June - Professor Quirrell (as a result of Lord Voldemort abandoning him). [147]
Nicolas Flamel and wife Perenelle die after the Philosopher's Stone is destroyed. [148]
Lucretia Black [149]
Cygnus Black [150]
  • 1994
Summer - Bertha Jorkins, murdered by Voldemort after he extracted information on the approaching Triwizard Tournament from her. [151]
August - Frank Bryce, murdered by Voldemort for overhearing Voldemort and Pettigrew's plot to kill Harry Potter. [152]
  • 1995
May - Barty Crouch, by his son posing as Mad-Eye Moody after his attempt to inform Dumbledore of his son's escape. [153]
June 24 - Cedric Diggory, murdered by Peter Pettigrew on Voldemort's orders [154]
  • 1996
June - Sirius Black, from falling through the veil in the Death Chamber in the Department of Mysteries. [155]
Summer - Amelia Bones, murdered in the first days of the Second War, probably by Lord Voldemort himself. [156]
Summer - Emmeline Vance, murdered by Death Eaters in the first days of the war, on information from Snape, in the vicinity of 10 Downing Street. [157]
Summer - Igor Karkaroff murdered by Death Eaters because he betrayed them [158]
Spring/Winter - Hannah Abbott's mother [159]
  • 1997
Spring - Aragog, due to old age after Hagrid makes a valiant attempt to preserve his life. [160]
June - Albus Dumbledore, assassinated by Snape's Avada Kedavra curse on top of the astronomy tower after being previously weakened in an attempt to seize a Horcrux. [161]
June - Gibbon, a Death Eater, hit accidentally with an Avada Kedavra curse by one of his own allies, in the corridor leading up to the astronomy tower.[162]

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  156. ^ Rowling, JK, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 1
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  158. ^ Rowling, JK, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 6
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