1993
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The following events occurred in the year 1993:
[edit] Events
- Dolores Umbridge designs anti-werewolf legislation that makes it nearly impossible for those infected with lycanthropy to get jobs.
- The Sweetwater All-Stars beat the Quiberon Quafflepunchers after a five-day match.
- February 14 – Gilderoy Lockhart holds a Valentine's Day celebration. Harry Potter receives an anonymous singing valentine (sent by Ginny Weasley). He then begins to use the old diary of Tom Riddle.
- May 8 – The basilisk petrifies Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater. Rubeus Hagrid is sent to Azkaban and Albus Dumbledore is removed as headmaster of Hogwarts.
- May 24 – Harry and Ron Weasley enter the Forbidden Forest and meet Aragog.
- May 29 – Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets, where he kills the basilisk and stabs Tom Riddle's Diary with a fang, destroying it and saving Ginny Weasley’s life. When Professor Lockhart attempts to Obliviate Harry and Ron and take credit for the rescue, the spell backfires, wiping his memory.
- May 30 – Dobby the house-elf is freed from service to the Malfoy family after Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into throwing a sock at him. Malfoy is removed from the school’s Board of Governors and Hagrid and Dumbledore return to Hogwarts.
- July – The Granger family vacations in France, and the Weasley family in Egypt. Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban.
- August 7 – Harry Potter, angered by Marjorie Dursley insulting his late parents, magically inflates her, and then runs away to stay at the Leaky Cauldron.
- August 31 – Harry meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in Diagon Alley. Hermione purchases her magical familiar Crookshanks.
- Romilda Vane is sorted into Gryffindor. Astoria Greengrass is (presumably) sorted into Slytherin.
- Hermione is granted a Time-Turner by the Ministry of Magic in order to take extra classes.
- October 31 – Sirius Black breaks into Hogwarts and slashes the Fat Lady’s portrait while searching for Peter Pettigrew.
- Late December – Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauders' Map so that he can sneak into Hogsmeade.
- December 25 – Harry receives a Firebolt anonymously. Hermione, fearing that it was sent by Sirius Black and jinxed, turns it into Professor McGonagall, angering Harry and Ron.
[edit] Muggle events
[edit] See also
| 20th century : 1990s |
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| 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 |
