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The '''1970s''' was the time of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s first rise to power. Though [[Muggle]]s, of course, remain oblivious to the war, this time is remembered by the Wizarding World as a violent time of terror and bloodshed.
  
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[[File:Marauders1997.jpg|thumb|The [[Marauders]] in the 1970s|220x220px]]
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The '''1970s''' was the time of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s first rise to power. Though [[Muggle|Muggles]], of course, remain oblivious to the war, this time is remembered by the [[wizarding world]] as a violent time of terror and bloodshed.
   
 
Voldemort's followers, the [[Death Eaters]], tortured and murdered many Muggles and Muggle-borns for sport. Due to extensive use of the [[Imperius Curse]], it was hard to tell who was on which side and many who served Voldemort later claimed to have been under the influence of the Imperius Curse.
  
Voldemort's followers, the [[Death Eaters]], tortured and murdered many Muggles and Muggle-borns for sport. Due to extensive use of the [[Imperius Curse]], it was hard to tell who was on which side and many who served Voldemort later claimed to have been under the influence of the Imperius Curse.
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[[Bartemius Crouch Sr.|Barty Crouch]], the head of the [[Department of Magical Law Enforcement]], fought the Death Eaters with an iron fist, often sending innocent people to [[Azkaban]] without a trial.
  
[[Bartemius Crouch Sr.|Barty Crouch]], the head of the [[Department of Magical Law Enforcement]], fought the Death Eaters with an iron fist, often sending innocent people to [[Azkaban]] without a trial.
   
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With [[Harry Potter]]'s defeat of Voldemort in October of [[1981]], the war seemed to be over, but this, unfortunately, was not the case. With Voldemort's return to full power in [[1995]], the [[1990s]] became Voldemort's second reign of terror.
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With [[Harry Potter]]'s defeat of Voldemort in [[October]] of [[1981]], the war seemed to be over, but this, unfortunately, was not the case. With Voldemort's return to full power in [[1995]], much of the second half of the [[1990s]] became Voldemort's second, albeit shorter, but much more violent reign of terror.
   
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This was also the time period when [[James Potter I|James Potter]], [[Sirius Black]], [[Remus Lupin]], [[Lily Evans]], [[Severus Snape]] and [[Peter Pettigrew]] were attending [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
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This was also the time period when [[James Potter I|James Potter]], [[Sirius Black]], [[Remus Lupin]], [[Lily Evans]], [[Severus Snape]], and [[Peter Pettigrew]] were attending [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
   
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Additionally, many of the combatants of the [[Second Wizarding War]] were born during the war in this decade including: [[William Weasley|Bill Weasley]], [[Charles Weasley|Charlie Weasley]], [[Percy Weasley]], [[Fred and George Weasley]], [[Hermione Granger]], [[Cho Chang]], and among numerous others.
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==Events==
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*[[Wikipedia:1970|1970]] to [[Wikipedia:1972|1972]]: The [[Slytherin Quidditch team]] was captained by [[Steve Laughalot]].<ref name="HPtE">''[[Harry Potter: The Exhibition]]'', {{see image|File:SlytherinHouseCaptainsPlaque.jpg}}</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1970|1970]]: It is safe to assume that this year contained a major leap in [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s first rise to power<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]], Chapter 1 - (''The Boy Who Lived'') - Albus Dumbledore says in reaction to Voldemort's first downfall "We've had precious little to celebrate for eleven years" (at the time it is November 1981)</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1971|1971]]: [[Remus Lupin]] is accepted to begin his first year at [[Hogwarts]]; the [[Whomping Willow]] is planted<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]], Chapter 18- (''Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs'') - Based on Lupin's birthyear</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1972|1972]]: [[Remus Lupin]]'s friends discover that he is a [[werewolf]], and resolve to learn to become [[Animagus|animagi]].<ref name=":0">[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]], Chapter 18- (''Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs'') - "It took them the best part of three years to figure out how to [become animagi]... Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it."</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1972|1972]] to [[Wikipedia:1976|1976]]: The Slytherin Quidditch team was captained by [[Emma Vanity]].<ref name="HPtE">''[[Harry Potter: The Exhibition]]'', {{see image|File:SlytherinHouseCaptainsPlaque.jpg}}</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1972|1972]]: The [[Chudley Cannons]] adopt a new motto, "Let's all keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best."<ref>[[Quidditch Through the Ages (real)|Quidditch Through the Ages]], Chapter 7 - (''Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland'')</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1973|1973]]: The probable birth year of [[Nymphadora Tonks]]<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 3 - (''The Advance Guard'') - "'You're an Auror?' said Harry... 'Yeah,' said Tonks...'I only qualified a year ago'"
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[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 29 - (''Career Advice'') - "'...Auror training takes an additional three years...' [said Professor McGonagall]
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix begins in 1995, so Tonks must have finished Hogwarts in 1991, putting her birthdate in 1972 or 1973
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*[[wikipedia:1973|1973]]: [[Janus Thickey]] pretends to be killed by a Lethifold<ref>[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1973|1973]]: [[Charis Black]] dies at age 54<ref name=":1">[[Black Family Tree]], as drawn by JK Rowling</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1974|1974]]: The eighty-second [[Wizarding Schools Potions Championship]] is held.<ref name="BoP">''[[Wonderbook: Book of Potions]]''</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1975|1975]]: [[Remus Lupin]] becomes a Hogwarts prefect<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 9 - (''The Woes of Mrs. Weasley'') - "Lupin was the good boy, he got the [prefect's] badge"</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1975|1975]]: [[Sirius Black]], [[James Potter]], and [[Peter Pettigrew]] succeed in becoming animagi<ref name=":0" />
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*[[Wikipedia:1975|1975]]: [[Minister for Magic]] [[Eugenia Jenkins]] is seen as inadequate to the challenge of [[First Wizarding War|the first rise of Lord Voldemort]], and is replaced by the hard-lined [[Harold Minchum]].<ref name="PMministers">''[[Pottermore]]'' - [http://www.pottermore.com/en/book5/chapter7/moment1/ministers-for-magic New from J.K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic"]</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1975|1975]]: [[Sirius Black]], [[James Potter]], Remus Lupin, and [[Peter Pettigrew]] create the [[Marauder's Map]]<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]], Chapter 18 - (''Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs'') - Remus Lupin reveals that they wrote the map a little after they became animagi, somewhere in this year</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1975|1975]]: [[Hairy Snout, Human Heart]] is published by [[Whizz Hard Books]]<ref>[[Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them]]</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1976|1976]]: The Slytherin Quidditch team was captained by [[Lucinda Talkalot]].<ref name="HPtE">''[[Harry Potter: The Exhibition]]'', {{see image|File:SlytherinHouseCaptainsPlaque.jpg}}</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1976|1976]]: [[Sirius Black]] runs away from home to live with the [[Potter family]]<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 6 - (T''he Noble and Most Ancient House of Black'') - "'You ran away from home?' 'When I was about sixteen,' said Sirius. 'I'd had enough.' 'Where did you go?' asked Harry... 'Your dad's place,' said Sirius."</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1976|1976]]: [[Sirius Black]] sees his cousin [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] for the last time before they are both in Azkaban<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 6 - (''The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black'') "I haven't seen [Bellatrix] since I was [15], unless you count a glimpse of her coming in to Azkaban"</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1976|1976]]: [[Oliver Wood]] is born<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]], Chapter 9 - (''The Midnight Due''l) "But Wood turned out to be a person, a burly fifth year boy..."</ref>
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*[[Wikipedia:1977|1977]]: [[James Potter]] and [[Lily Evans]] become [[Head Boy]] and [[Head Girl|Girl]]<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]], Chapter 4 - (''The Keeper of the Keys'') - "Head boy and girl in their day,"</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1977|1977]]: [[Dorea Black]] dies<ref name=":1" />
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*[[wikipedia:1978|1978 or]] [[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[James Potter]] and [[Lily Evans]] get married, [[Sirius Black]] is the best man<ref>This happened sometime between Lily and James leaving Hogwarts in 1977, and Harry Potter being born in 1980</ref>
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*1 April, [[wikipedia:1978|1978]]: [[Fred Weasley|Fred and]] [[George Weasley]] are born<ref>[http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=7 "Some Random Facts About The Weasley Family"] on [[J.K.Rowling Official Site|J.K. Rowling's Official Site]]</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1978|1978]]: [[Universal Brooms Ltd.]] goes out of business<ref>[[Quidditch Through the Ages (real)|Quidditch Through the Ages]], Chapter 9 -(The Development of the Racing Broom)</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[Cho Chang]] is born<ref>Cho is a year above Harry</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[Peter Pettigrew]] begins passing information to [[Lord Voldemort]]<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]], Chapter 19 -(The ''Servant of Lord Voldemort'')- "DON'T LIE!" bellowed Black. "YOU'D BEEN PASSING INFORMATION TO [Lord Voldemort] FOR A YEAR BEFORE LILY AND JAMES DIED! YOU WERE HIS SPY!"</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[Regulus Black]] tries to leave the [[Death Eaters]] and is killed on [[Lord Voldemort]]'s orders<ref>[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]], Chapter 6 -(''The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black'')-"Sirius jabbed a finger at the very bottom of the tree, at the name 'Regulus Black'. A date of death (some fifteen years previously) followed the date of birth."</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[Newt Scamander]] earns the [[Order of Merlin]], Second Class<ref>[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)|Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]</ref>
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*[[wikipedia:1979|1979]]: [[Orion Black]] dies at age 50<ref name=":1" />
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*[[James Potter I|James Potter]] played as a [[Chaser]] for Gryffindor sometime in this decade.<ref>16 October 2000 Scholastic Chat with J.K. Rowling</ref>
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*At some point during this period, the Gryffindor team won the Quidditch cup.<ref name="PA14">''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Chapter 14 - (''Snape's Grudge'') - Severus Snape states that James Potter felt "rules were for lesser mortals, not Quidditch Cup winners."</ref>
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*[[M. G. McGonagall]] played on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, winning an award for it.<ref name="PSF"/>
   
 
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*[[Dating conventions]]
  
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Revision as of 02:54, 29 July 2015

Marauders1997

The Marauders in the 1970s

The 1970s was the time of Lord Voldemort's first rise to power. Though Muggles, of course, remain oblivious to the war, this time is remembered by the wizarding world as a violent time of terror and bloodshed.

Voldemort's followers, the Death Eaters, tortured and murdered many Muggles and Muggle-borns for sport. Due to extensive use of the Imperius Curse, it was hard to tell who was on which side and many who served Voldemort later claimed to have been under the influence of the Imperius Curse.

Barty Crouch, the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, fought the Death Eaters with an iron fist, often sending innocent people to Azkaban without a trial.

With Harry Potter's defeat of Voldemort in October of 1981, the war seemed to be over, but this, unfortunately, was not the case. With Voldemort's return to full power in 1995, much of the second half of the 1990s became Voldemort's second, albeit shorter, but much more violent reign of terror.

This was also the time period when James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, Severus Snape, and Peter Pettigrew were attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Additionally, many of the combatants of the Second Wizarding War were born during the war in this decade including: Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Hermione Granger, Cho Chang, and among numerous others.

Events

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter: The Exhibition, (see this image)
  2. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 1 - (The Boy Who Lived) - Albus Dumbledore says in reaction to Voldemort's first downfall "We've had precious little to celebrate for eleven years" (at the time it is November 1981)
  3. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 18- (Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs) - Based on Lupin's birthyear
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 18- (Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs) - "It took them the best part of three years to figure out how to [become animagi]... Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it."
  5. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 7 - (Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland)
  6. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 3 - (The Advance Guard) - "'You're an Auror?' said Harry... 'Yeah,' said Tonks...'I only qualified a year ago'" Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29 - (Career Advice) - "'...Auror training takes an additional three years...' [said Professor McGonagall] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix begins in 1995, so Tonks must have finished Hogwarts in 1991, putting her birthdate in 1972 or 1973
  7. ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Black Family Tree, as drawn by JK Rowling
  9. ↑ Wonderbook: Book of Potions
  10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 9 - (The Woes of Mrs. Weasley) - "Lupin was the good boy, he got the [prefect's] badge"
  11. ↑ Pottermore - New from J.K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic"
  12. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 18 - (Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs) - Remus Lupin reveals that they wrote the map a little after they became animagi, somewhere in this year
  13. ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
  14. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 6 - (The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black) - "'You ran away from home?' 'When I was about sixteen,' said Sirius. 'I'd had enough.' 'Where did you go?' asked Harry... 'Your dad's place,' said Sirius."
  15. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 6 - (The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black) "I haven't seen [Bellatrix] since I was [15], unless you count a glimpse of her coming in to Azkaban"
  16. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 - (The Midnight Duel) "But Wood turned out to be a person, a burly fifth year boy..."
  17. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 4 - (The Keeper of the Keys) - "Head boy and girl in their day,"
  18. ↑ This happened sometime between Lily and James leaving Hogwarts in 1977, and Harry Potter being born in 1980
  19. ↑ "Some Random Facts About The Weasley Family" on J.K. Rowling's Official Site
  20. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 9 -(The Development of the Racing Broom)
  21. ↑ Cho is a year above Harry
  22. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 19 -(The Servant of Lord Voldemort)- "DON'T LIE!" bellowed Black. "YOU'D BEEN PASSING INFORMATION TO [Lord Voldemort] FOR A YEAR BEFORE LILY AND JAMES DIED! YOU WERE HIS SPY!"
  23. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 6 -(The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black)-"Sirius jabbed a finger at the very bottom of the tree, at the name 'Regulus Black'. A date of death (some fifteen years previously) followed the date of birth."
  24. ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  25. ↑ 16 October 2000 Scholastic Chat with J.K. Rowling
  26. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 14 - (Snape's Grudge) - Severus Snape states that James Potter felt "rules were for lesser mortals, not Quidditch Cup winners."
  27. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named PSF
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