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Hagrid Timeline
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Fridwulfa abandons Hagrid
She leaves her wizard spouse and their three-year-old son, Rubeus (GF23). Read MoreRubeus Hagrid starts at Hogwarts
Hagrid’s birthday is December 6 (JKR), so he turns 12 a couple of months after starting Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Tom Riddle is starting his third year. Read MoreHagrid's father dies
His mother having abandoned them years earlier, Hagrid is essentially orphaned upon his father’s death (GF23). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/riddle-rs-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Hagrid is falsely accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets
He is so accused because Tom Riddle catches him raising an Acromantula in the castle (CS17). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/hagrid-and-aragog-fc-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Rubeus Hagrid is expelled from Hogwarts
Hagrid is expelled after being accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets and releasing a monster who killed Myrtle Warren. He was framed for this by Tom Riddle, who saw Hagrid as an easy target for persecution, being oversized and clumsy and unusually fond of dangerous creatures. Tom confronted Hagrid,… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hagrid_s_house_by_marinamichkina-d94jpd5-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Hagrid remains at Hogwarts and is trained as gamekeeper
Believing Hagrid innocent, Dumbledore convinces Headmaster Dippet to let the boy stay . Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/order-photo-100x100-c-center.gif)
Order of the Phoenix photographed
The Order of the Phoenix arose in the 1970s to fight the first rise of Lord Voldemort. At a dinner at the Burrow before Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts, Mad-Eye Moody shows Harry an early photograph of the members of the Order of the Phoenix, including his dead… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/rubius_hagrid_by_gerre-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Hagrid arrives at the hut-on-the-rock
He brings Harry a birthday cake, tells him the truth about his parents, and invites him to Hogwarts (PS4). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/hp_marathon_film_1___the_egg_by_gerre-d4ivtc8-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Hagrid wins a dragon egg in a card game
While have a few drinks and playing a card game in Hogsmeade Village with a stranger, he won the dragon egg off the stranger after a winning round. Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rj_libr-100x100-c-center.gif)
The Trio are surprised to see Hagrid in the Library, looking for books about raising dragons
When they let on that they know about Nicolas Flamel, the Philosopher’s Stone, and Fluffy, Hagrid tells them to come to his hut later and he’d tell them more about it. Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/hagridandnorbert_by_danchampy-dbgw8wk-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Ron is bitten by Norbert
Ron is helping Hagrid feed Norbert late at night, having gone down to Hagrid’s hut under the Cloak of Invisibility. When Ron is bitten, Hagrid seems more worried about the dragon than Ron (PS14). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/36a1c81c7670343d31715ff6d7300cfb-da65jt3-100x100-c-center.gif)
A visit to the past by means of the mysterious diary
Harry learns how to work Riddle’s diary when he dribbles ink onto the pages and words appear. He has a written conversation with the memory of Tom Marvolo Riddle held in the diary and travels into Riddle’s memory of fifty years ago. In the memory Harry sees Tom… Read MoreHagrid is sent to Azkaban; Dumbledore is removed
After Hermione and Penelope Clearwater are petrified, Harry and Ron go to Hagrid’s hut and watch from under the invisibility cloak as Cornelius Fudge and Lucius Malfoy serve the orders (CS14). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/buckbeak-100x100-c-center.png)
Buckbeak's Hearing in London
Hagrid takes Buckbeak on the Knight Bus to appear before the Committee of the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. Hermione helps Hagrid prepare a defense but it’s not enough. Lucius Malfoy bullies the Committee into condemning Buckbeak to be executed. Hagrid writes a tear-stained letter back to Hermione at… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/azkab-buckbeak-am-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Buckbeak escapes his execution
Harry and Hermione lead the hippogriff away while the execution party – an elderly member of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, Walden Macnair (the executioner), Dumbledore, and Hagrid – is busy inside Hagrid’s hut. Prompted by Dumbledore, Harry and Hermione used Hermione’s Time-Turner to return to the time… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/op.c30-grawp-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Hagrid brings Grawp back to Scotland with him
Hagrid spends the next few years trying to train Grawp to act less like a giant and more like a human, with mixed results. Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/op30-weasley-is-our-king-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Quidditch match: Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw (1996)
During the Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw Quidditch match, from which Harry Potter is banned from playing, he and Hermione Granger go with Hagrid deep into the Forbidden Forest to meet his giant half-brother Grawp (OP30). In spite of Slytherin supporters singing “Weasley is our… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/op.c31-o.w.l.s.--100x100-c-center.jpg)
Umbridge attacks Hagrid and McGonagall during Astronomy O.W.L.s
The fifth years take the practical portion of their Astronomy O.W.L. On the grounds below, Umbridge and others go to sack Hagrid, who fights them off and runs out the front gates carrying Fang. McGonagall tries to intervene on his behalf, is Stunned and taken to St. Mungo’s (OP31). Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/17097498_1836493939951342_6506581964968932404_o-100x100-c-center.jpg)
Battle of the Seven Potters
The Battle of the Seven Potters is an aerial battle over southern England fought on the evening of 27 July 1997 between members of the Order of the Phoenix led by Mad-Eye Moody and a group of Death Eaters led by Lord Voldemort. The Order of the Phoenix strives to… Read More![](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/battle-in-the-entrance-hall-100x100-c-center.jpg)