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<< March, 2008
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March in Harry Potter History......
1992
(PS)
1st - Ron's 12th birthday
23rd - Hermione begins prepping
for exams.
1993
(CS)
1st - Ron's 13th birthday.
1994
(PA)
1st - Ron's 14th birthday.
1995
(GF)
5th - At breakfast a brown
owl from Sirius with arrangements to meet next day; Rita's article about
Hermione, Krum, Harry appears in Witch Weekly; Karakroff shows up in Potions,
worried about his arm.
6th - Hogsmeade visit: the
Trio leave the castle at noon, pick out lurid socks for Dobby at Gladrags;
at 2 p.m. they meet Sirius and talk in the cave.
7th - After breakfast the
Trio writes to Percy, using Hedwig; They visit the kitchens again and
Harry sends food to Sirius. Form the owlery he sees Hagrid digging,
eagle owl flying.
8th - At breakfast, Hermione
gets the first hate mail. Students study Nifflers in Care of Magical Creatures
class.
1996
(OP)
8th - Entry Hall scene where
Trelawney is sacked by Umbridge and Dumbledore hires Firenze.
10th - First Divination lesson
with Firenze, who asks Harry to warn Hagrid.
1997 (HBP)
1st - Ron's fateful 17th
birthday! Students have Apparition lesson. The scheduled Hogsmeade
trip is cancelled. Ron takes Romilda's love potion by mistake. Harry
takes Ron to Slughorn and gets antidote, but Slughorn gives Ron poisoned
mead; Harry saves his life with a bezoar. The Weasleys visit
Ron in hospital wing. Hagrid lets slip that Dumbledore argued with
Snape. McLaggen corners Harry about playing keeper.
8th - Harry sees Malfoy sneaking
off with lookouts. Luna commentates the Quidditch match: Gryffindor
loses when McLaggen pelts Harry with bludger and cracks his skull.
Harry in hospital wing, asks Kreacher and Dobby to tail Malfoy.
10th - Harry and Ron leave
the hospital wing. Ginny & Dean and Ron & Lavender fight.
Harry has his fourth lesson with Dumbledore: he sees memories of Riddle
visiting Hepzibah Smith and asking for the DADA teaching post at Hogwarts.
16th - Harry talks with Ron
and Hermione, realizes Malfoy is using Room of Requirement.
17th - Between classes, Harry
tries to get into the Room of Requirement. Harry talks with Myrtle,
finds she's been conversing with a boy. Hermione and Ron go for Apparition
lessons in Hogsmeade. Harry runs into Tonks.
1998 (DH)
21 -
Ginny leaves Hogwarts for the Burrow, for Easter holiday.
(Exact date unknown) -
Trio listens to Potterwatch until Harry speaks Voldemort's name; trio is captured by Snatchers, taken to Malfoy mansion but escape thanks to Dobby, who is killed in the process along with Wormtail (happens partially post-midnight, early the next morning)
(beginning at dawn the next morning) -
Safe at Shell Cottage, Harry buries Dobby in the yard.
Harry asks Griphook and Ollivander for help.
Voldemort takes the elder wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
(a few days later) -
Griphook agrees to help Harry in exchange for Gryffindor's sword
Harry, Hermione, Ron, & Griphook begin plotting to break into Gringotts.
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March
Birthdays
1 - Ron Weasley
3- Miranda Richardson: Rita Skeeter (1958)
10 - Remus Lupin (1960 -d. May 2, 1998)
12 - Sue Upton: TLC Editor
13- Harry Melling: Dudley Dursley (1989)
15- Sean Biggerstaff: Oliver Wood (1983)
18- Steven Kloves: screenplay writer films 1,2,3,5 (1960)
20- David Thewlis: Remus Lupin (1963)
21- Gary Oldman: Sirius Black (1958)
22- Leilah Sutherland: Alicia Spinnet (1985)
23- David Gordon Rowling Murray (2003)
27 – James Potter (1960 -d. Oct. 31, 1981)
27- Julian Glover: Voice of Aragog (1934)
27- Adrian Rawlins: James Potter (1958)
28- Mike Newell: Director of Goblet of Fire (1942)
29- Brendan Gleeson: Mad-Eye Moody (1955)
30- Robbie Coltrane: Rubeus Hagrid (1950)
Events &
Reminders 2008
June 19-21, 2008: Convention Alley 2 - Ottawa, Ontario Canada
July 10-13, 2008: Portus 2008, Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas
July 13 - 18, 2008: NIU Muggle Academy summer camp, sponsored by Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois USA
July 25-27, 2008: Accio 2008, Magdalen College, Oxford UK
August 7-11, 2008: Terminus sponsored by Narrate Conferences, Inc.- Chicago, Illinois USA
November 14-16, 2008: As-yet-unnamed conference sponsored by Northern Illinois University, Illinois USA
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film will be released in theaters
November 20 – Germany, Netherlands
November 21 – Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA
November 26 – Belgium, France
November 27 - Australia
November 28 - Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, Spain
December 6 - Japan
2009
May 21-24, 2009: “LeakyCon”, Boston, MA
June 26-29, 2009: Sectus 2009, Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales CANCELLED
July 23-26, 2009: “Level Two 2009”, San Jose, California
December 1, 2009: Wizarding
World of Harry Potter Theme Park opens at Universal Studios,
Orlando Florida
2010
July 15-18, 2010: Infinitus 2010 at “Wizarding
World of Harry Potter Theme Park", Universal Studios,
Orlando Florida
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film to be released in theaters
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~ Monthly Trivia ~
"Challenge your knowledge of the details!"
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Answers
Trivia
Chamber of past challenges
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The Snippet Search ~
"How well do you know JKRowling.com?
Pretty Well?.....Think Again."
Each month we will post three little
“snippets”, tiny screenshot images, from Jo Rowling’s official website,
www.jkrowling.com
Your challenge is to scour the pages
of Jo’s site, searching for the exact location the snippet can be found.
Some will be easy, and some will be difficult to find… but all will be
visible somewhere on the current interactive flash version of her site.
(Not the Text only version, because it has no pictures, obviously!)
None will be from previous versions that are no longer visible, such as
“behind the door”. Once you’ve found the exact location of all 3
snippets, send us an email
with your answers. Be sure your answers are descriptive enough for
us to determine that you've truly found it.
For example:
“On the desktop” would not be an
acceptable answer here. It should read something like, “On the desktop,
below the keyboard and above the Rubber eraser Portkey".
Ready?
Current Snippet Search Challenge -
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Submit your answers here
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Dec- Jan Snippet Search Challenge -
1. The gift on the desk behind the door, using the timeturner back to 21/12/06.
2. Again from using the timeturner back to 21/12/06, the wreath on the door.
3. Using the timeturner to 20/12/04, a candle from the Christmas tree behind the door (after answering a riddle correctly).
Winners December 07-January 08:
1. John R.
2. Priscilla
3. Bandersnatch
4. Sonny Luna
5. Darlene Huey
6. Serphina
Thank you for entering and well done!
Well done indeed!
Previous months' winners have been immortalized
in the
Snippet
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~Potter Puzzle ~
WORD SCRAMBLE (by Mike Weinstein, edited by Anna Graham)
Unscramble the letters in each phrase to reveal a Potter-related term that fits into the given category. All terms can be found in the Harry Potter Lexicon.
Potion Ingredients
1. WE FEIGN LILACS
2. A NOTICE
3. AL REPENTS
4. RON’S NUN CHOIR
5. NO TWEEZERS
CRYPTOQUOTE (by Mike Weinstein, edited by Cody Goldbug)
A short quote from J.K. Rowling (archived at Accio Quote!) has been encoded with a substitution cipher, in which each letter of the alphabet is replaced with a different one. (For instance, every Q in the cipher might stand for E in the original text.) Can you decipher the quote?
A Word of Caution
PLS GEWQ JL KQ HEMQDSB XD PLS OQJ DMXQAFBP VXJG ZQ KQHESYQ PLS JQAF JL JSMA SR XA ZP KLLCY, EAF XD PLS LDDQAF ZQ, PLS LDJQA JSMA SR EY E AEYJP HGEMEHJQM.
ANSWERS:
WORD SCRAMBLE
Potion Ingredients
1. LACEWING FLIES
2. ACONITE
3. RAT SPLEEN
4. UNICORN HORNS
5. SNEEZEWORT
CRYPTOQUOTE
A Word of Caution
You have to be careful if you get friendly with me because you tend to turn up in my books, and if you offend me, you often turn up as a nasty character.
Edinburgh Book Festival, 15 August 2004
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm
Past Potter Puzzles archives and answers
Cryptic
Clues Crypt of past puzzles
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