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1991 (PS)
1st - Harry meets the Weasley's on Platform 9 3/4, gets to know Ron and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express. Harry is sorted into Gryffindor. Dudley in London having his tail removed.
2nd - first day of term: Harry and Ron get into trouble with Filch, who thinks they're trying to break into the forbidden third floor corridor.
6th - Hedwig delivers her first message to Harry: an invitation to visit Hagrid that afternoon; he responds "Yes, please!" First potions class, double Potions wth Slytherin, Harry gets on Snape's bad side and loses five points. Tea with Hagrid at 3 o'clock
7th - Afternoon tea with Hagrid.
12th - First flying lesson: Neville breaks his wrist, Harry is made Seeker. Malfoy challenges Harry to a duel at midnight, they discover Fluffy.
20th - Harry receives his Nimbus 2000 has first Quidditch practice at 7 pm.

1992 (CoS)
1st - Ron and Harry miss the Hogwarts Express because the barrier is closed. They travel by flying car to school. Ginny Weasley is sorted into Gryffindor
2nd - First day of term. Ron receives a Howler from his mother.
3rd - Lockhart gives a quiz about himself, then unleashes Cornish pixies in DADA class.
5th - Quidditch practice at dawn. Ron's slug attack. Detentions 8pm-midnight: Ron polishes trophies, Harry answers fan mail. Harry hears the basilisk's voice for the first time.

1993 (PoA)
1st - Weather is rainy for the trip back to school on the Hogwarts Express. Dementors board the train, Lupin drives them away from Harry.
2nd - In Care of Magical Creatures calss Malfoy is injured by Buckbeak.
9th - Double potions with Slytherins, Malfoy comes back to class. The Boggart lesson in Defence Against the Dark Arts.

1994 (GoF)
1st - Amos Diggory calls on Mr. Weasley to help Auror Moody. Hogwarts Express back to Hogwarts, arrives in a violent downpour. Dennis Creevy falls in the lake, is recued by the giant squid.
2nd -Lessons begin: Bubotubers in Herbology, Skrewts in Care of Magical Creatures, astrology in Divination. Rita's article about Mr. Weasley/Moody appears in the Daily Prophet. Moody transforms Malfoy into a ferret.
3rd - First DADA class: Unforgivable Curses, Moody lends Neville Herbology book. Ron and Harry get creative with their Divination homework. Hermione founds S.P.E.W. Hedwig returns with Sirius's note.
5th - Harry sends Hedwig with a message to Sirius.

1995 (OotP)
1st - Harry meets Luna, and the Mimbulus mimbletonia on the Hogwarts Express. The Sorting Hat warns of a need for house unity.
2nd - First day of lessons: Draught of Peace in Potions, Harry gets detention in DADA, is warned about Umbridge by McGonagall.
3rd - Harry serves his first detention with Umbridge.
4th -Harry serves detention again.
5th -Harry serves detention again.
6th -Quidditch tryouts, Harry serves detention again. Harry feels pain and what he later (Oct. 8) recognizes as happiness when Umbridge touches him
7th - Harry writes Sirius, meets Cho in Owlery. In the Daily Prophet: Sirius in hiding in London; Sturgis Podmore sentenced to 6 months in Azkaban. First Gryffindor Quidditch practice.
8th - Percy's letter arrives. Sirius appears in Gryffindor common room fire. MoM passes Educational Decree #23 appointing Umbridge High Inquisitor
9th -DP article reporting High Inquisitor position. Umbridge inspects Charms (7th year class). Harry gets detention again (this time for remark about Quirrell). Umbridge inspects Divination.
10th - Umbridge inspects Transfiguration and COMC. Harry serves detention again. Hermione suggests Harry begin teaching them DADA
11th -Harry serves detention again.
12th - Harry serves detention again.
13th - Harry serves detention again.
24th - Hermione again asks Harry to teach DADA.

1996 (HBP)
1st - Before boarding the Hogwarts Express, Harry tells Mr. Weasley about Malfoy at Borgin & Burkes. First meeting of the Slug Club (on train). Harry sneaks into Malfoy's compartment, gets stunned. Tonks rescues him, Snape takes him to the Opening feast.
2nd - Class schedules handed out. In DADA class, Snape tries to jinx Harry, Harry retaliates and gets detention. In Potions, Harry gets HBP's book, wins Felix Felicis.
7th - Harry's first meeting with Dumbledore, they go into the Pensieve, see Gaunt House and Voldemort's family. Dumbledore explains circumstances surrounding Voldemort's birth.
13th - Stan Shunpike arrested.
14th - During breakfast Hermione explains Harry's popularity. At Quidditch tryouts: Harry picks Ron, Ginny, Demelza, Katie, Coote, Peakes for team. Hermione confunduses McLaggen during tryout so Ron will win position. Trio visits Hagrid, learn that Aragog is dying. First Slug Club dinner. Harry serves detention with Snape, tending Flobberworms.

1997 (DH)
1st - Extra Death Eaters appear outside Grimmauld Place; Daily Prophet reports that Snape is new Hogwarts headmaster. Harry decides to try to infiltrate Ministry tomorrow.
2nd - Trio infiltrates Ministry and narrowly escapes with locket, but Ron splinches himself. Harry sees Voldemort learning that a boy stole the thing Voldemort wants from Gregorovitch.
3rd - Trio moves to a new town, with dementors, and realizes the negative effects of wearing the Horcrux.

Events & Reminders

2007

Nov. 30- Dec. 2, 2007: Austrinus, Harry Potter-themed symposium in Sydney, Australia

2008

June 19-21, 2008: Convention Alley 2 - Ottawa, Ontario Canada

2009
July 23-26, 2009: “Level Two 2009”, San Jose, California

2010
July 15-18, 2010: Infinitus 2010 at “Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park", Universal Studios, Orlando Florida

Here at the Floo Network headquarters, we've been working behind the scenes on a new layout. Yay! I hear you cry.

Yes, this one is getting quite tired, its been around a long time. It has served us well, providing a simple text based format for bringing you instant access to Floo Network information. But its time for a change.

We still have some work to do, and it may take a couple of months, especially given the events over the past month. So as a special treat, how about a glimpse into the future?

Sneak peek at coming features!

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What's New on the Lexicon - The Harry Potter Lexicon

Bloomsbury Live Chat with JKR - Accio Quote!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Cover Art - Image Galleries

PotterCast - The Leaky Cauldron's Weekly PodCast

Reader's Guide to Deathly Hallows - The Harry Potter Lexicon

Now at the HP Lexicon.... The Canon Portkey!

We've cast the Portus spell on the Lexicon allowing it to transport you deep into the canon. This tool will have many uses:

• helping locate passsages in the books
• creating lists of related events, characters, topics or themes
• pulling together all the Lexicon's resources about a specific event
• connecting the non-book canon to the stories
• letting YOU set tags for searching through the canon and marking your favorites
• and many many more! (probably some that we haven't discovered yet!)

What it does NOT do:

• It does not search the texts of the books. An electronic version of the books would be illegal to create, and something we would never do.
• It does not search the Lexicon. That's what our Remembrall is for.

The Canon Portkey is not finished, there is still a formidable amount of data to be entered, but we've launched it in Beta for you to test out. Please have a look! Register an account and help us add tags! Give us feedback! and most of all... let us know want uses you find for this versatile new tool.

We are experiencing difficulties with our trivia creator. Please check back.

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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August Snippet Search Challenge -

1. Scrapbook extra, Page of Doodlings (page 2), part of doodle under 'Question or Riddle M'.

2. Pen beside the letter of Acknowledgments on the desk behind the no-longer-secret door.

3. Train ticket taped inside first page of the Biography journal.

Winners Aug 07:
1. Ginny Guerra
2. Michelle Holdaway
3. LOLA
4. Darlene Huey
5. Priscilla
6. Vidya K.
7. Serphina
8. Joan Harrison

WORD SCRAMBLE (submitted 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.

Incantations
1. ROOM IS PUBLIC
2. OOH, A MOLAR!
3. GOT ROPE
4. SAVE ONCE
5. FAT LAGER

CRYPTOQUOTE (submitted by The Dancing Men)
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?

How Rumours Get Started
N TYF YG YCWZNDYG UXVZGYPNLA LYO AX CW, "NL NA AZVW OXV JZXAW ATW JTXPW XE ATW ENZLA GXIWP XG GYMQNGL?" N ZWYPPO JYGAWF AX LYO, "GX, XG AWYSYKL. N VLWF AX LYIW ATWC."

Solutions to be posted next month