May 24 is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years). There are 221 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1993: Harry Potter and Ron Weasley "follow the spiders" into the Forbidden Forest, and meet Aragog.
Deaths
- "I killed my father."
- — Bartemius Crouch Jr., speaking of his father's murder[src]
Behind the Scenes
- 1949: Jim Broadbent, the actor who portrays Horace Slughorn, is born.
- 2008: Robert Knox, who plays Marcus Belby, is tragedially stabbed to death in a barfight.