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est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: First Quarter
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
When were Frank and Alice Longbottom attacked?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Neville and the attack on his parents. I’ve always had trouble with the timing of this event and others surrounding it, and rereading the Pensieve scenes in Goblet of Fire leads me to think that it didn’t occur straight after Voldemort’s defeat at the end of 1981, but several years… Read More
Rufus Scrimgeour visits the Burrow on Christmas Day
December 25, 1996 – Scrimgeour shows up at the Burrow under the pretense of Percy wanting to see his family. It soon becomes apparent, however, that what he actually wants is to ask Harry to support the Ministry. Harry refuses to help him and walks away. Read More
Seven Things you REALLY Didn’t Know About J.K. Rowling
Recently, a website called Alux.com published a video called “15 Things You Didn’t Know About J. K. Rowling.” Of the fifteen points covered in the video, I didn’t know that Rowling had reconciled with her father, that she had bought a sprawling estate in Tasmania, that she plays Minecraft, or that she had made a guest appearance on The Simpsons,… Read More
Fenrir Greyback
Fenrir Greyback was a werewolf, low-level Death Eater, and friend of the Malfoy family. He killed for fun and especially enjoyed infecting children. Greyback was a follower of Voldemort since at least 1970s, though he was in it for the access to victims, not for ideological reasons. It was Greyback who contaminated Remus Lupin as a… Read More
Gilderoy Lockhart starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Ravenclaw
Much to his surprise and disappointment, he is not already famous; he is, in fact, just like all the other students beginning their studies at Hogwarts (Pm). Read More
Dumbledore visits Tom Riddle in the orphanage and offers him a place at Hogwarts
August, 1938: After charming the skeptical matron with magic, manners, and gin, Dumbledore meets Riddle in his room and reveals that the boy is a wizard and invites him to Hogwarts. Tom Riddle proves himself to be a bossy, hostile, independent, and calculating child who terrifies and torments the other orphans. At first, he guesses that Mrs. Cole has brought… Read More
Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen of England
She becomes Elizabeth I, Queen of England upon the death of her half-sister Mary… Read More
“Harry could not think of anything else to say, not least because it was highly unusual for Ron to be teaching anyone else tact.”… Read More
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