The following events occured in the year 1981:
Events
- October 31:
- Lord Voldemort kills James and Lily Potter, but his Killing Curse rebounds off infant Harry Potter, causing the Dark Lord to lose physical form and Harry to gain a lightning-shaped scar, later discovered to be a Horcrux.
- The First Wizarding War ends.
- Horace Slughorn's fish dies.
- November 1: Sirius Black is arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and twelve Muggles. In reality, Pettigrew faked his death and went into hiding. Black is sentenced to Azkaban, without a trial.
- Vernon and Petunia Dursley (nee Evans) reluctantly become Harry James Potter's guardians.
- Horace Slughorn retires from his post at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- Severus Snape is appointed the new Potions Master at Hogwarts.
- Bellatrix, Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange, and Barty Crouch Jr. are arrested for the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom. The Longbottoms are committed to St. Mungo's and their infant son Neville is taken into the care of his paternal grandmother, Augusta Longbottom.
Births
- Colin Creevey to Muggle parents Mr. and and Mrs. Creevey (presumably)
- Luna Lovegood to Xenophilius Lovegood and Mrs. Lovegood (presumably)
- August 11: Ginny Weasley to Arthur and Molly Weasley.
Deaths
- July - Marlene McKinnon and her family[1]
- October 31: James and Lily Potter, Francis the fish.
- Edgar Bones, his wife, and their children[1]
- Dorcas Meadowes[1]
- Gideon and Fabian Prewett[1]
- Adalbert Waffling
Muggle events
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 In Lily's letter to Sirius in Deathly Hallows you can work out that the McKinnon died around about July or early August in 1981 and as we know that Marlene McKinnon and her family died two weeks after the photo of the Order was taken, all the rest of the members of the Order who died (or disappeared) must have died some time inbetween July and October 31st in 1981.
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