The following events occurred in the year 1993:

Events

• Dolores Umbridge designs anti-werewolf legislation that makes it nearly impossible for those infected with lycanthropy to get jobs.^{[citation needed]}
• The Sweetwater All-Stars beat the Quiberon Quafflepunchers after a five-day match.^{[citation needed]}
• 14 February: 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 8 May: The basilisk petrifies Hermione Granger and Penelope Clearwater, removing Harry as a suspect behind the attacks. Rubeus Hagrid is sent to Azkaban and Albus Dumbledore is removed as headmaster of Hogwarts.^{[citation needed]}
• 24 May: Harry and Ron Weasley enter the Forbidden Forest and meet Aragog.^{[citation needed]}
• 29 May: 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 30 May: 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.^{[citation needed]}
• July: The Granger family vacations in France, and the Weasley family in Egypt. Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban.^{[citation needed]}
• 7 August: Harry Potter, angered by Marge Dursley insulting his late parents, magically inflates her, and then runs away to stay at the Leaky Cauldron.^{[citation needed]}
• 31 August: Harry meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in Diagon Alley. Hermione purchases her pet Crookshanks.^{[citation needed]}
• Romilda Vane is sorted into Gryffindor. Astoria Greengrass is (presumably) sorted into Slytherin.^{[citation needed]}
• Hermione is granted a Time-Turner by the Ministry of Magic in order to take extra classes.^{[citation needed]}
• 31 October: Sirius Black breaks into Hogwarts and slashes the Fat Lady’s portrait while searching for Peter Pettigrew. The Fat Lady is succeeded by Sir Cadogan.^{[citation needed]}
• Late December: Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauder's Map so that he can sneak into Hogsmeade.^{[citation needed]}
• 25 December: 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.^{[citation needed]}

Individuals starting at Hogwarts

Gryffindor

• Romilda Vane^{[citation needed]}

Slytherin

• Astoria Greengrass (possibly)

Behind the scenes

• Hebe Beardsall, who played Ariana Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was born in July of this year to Jonny and Janie Beardsall.^[1]

Notes and references

Deaths

Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk (presumed)^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Dating conventions