This is only temporary, and he is reinstated within the same year while Malfoy is removed from the board. Due to multiple students being petrified, Lucius Malfoy, one of Hogwart’s Board of Governors, convinces the rest of the Board and the Minister of Magic to remove Dumbledore as Headmaster. Albus Dumbledore is removed as headmaster of Hogwarts.In the following year, Hagrid would be accused of having a hand at this and sentenced to Azkaban.ġ993 ( Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) In the process, several students, a ghost, and a cat are petrified. This allowed Voldemort’s memory to slowly consume Ginny’s soul, possessing her long enough to open the Chamber of Secrets. Ginny got her hands on Tom Riddle’s Diary, which happened to be one of Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Ginny Weasley opened the Chamber of Secrets.They send a warning Howler to Harry against underaged magic. In an attempt to keep Harry away from Hogwarts, Dobby the House Elf uses a Hover Charm that the Ministry of Magic’s Improper Use of Magic Office picks up from Harry’s Trace and assumes it was his. Harry receives a warning from the Improper Use of Magic Office from the Ministry of Magic.In an attempt to take the stone from 11-year-old Harry Potter, Quirrell disintegrated and died. Having been convinced by Lord Voldemort to serve him, Quirrell had been trying to steal the Philosopher’s Stone to restore Voldemort. While Professor Quirrell is not the person in history to die within the school, his death would’ve been noteworthy due to the way he died and why. While the goblins refused to give any details and the public never found out who did it, it was actually Quirinus Quirrell, whom Harry had seen earlier that day.ġ992 ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) Luckily, Albus Dumbledore had sent Rubeus Hagrid to take it earlier that day. The attempt happened on July 31, 1991, on Vault 713, which was holding the Philosopher’s Stone. This was because the bank is owned and operated by goblins who have enchanted the place to make it nearly impossible for anyone to steal from their vaults since goblins are known for their extreme greed and need to protect valuables at any cost. Prior to this break-in, Gringotts was believed to be one of the safest places in the wizarding world after Hogwarts. 1991 (Notable Events During Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) While a lot of events in the books can be considered notable, these are the notable events in the wizarding world that would’ve been featured in The Daily Prophet, The Ministry of Magic, history books, or anything of note to the witches and wizards (and the reader) during that time. In this article, I go through the notable events from 1991 to 1998 featured in the original Harry Potter books from The Philosopher’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows. Hogwarts, for example, was established around the 10 th century by the original four founders that made Hogwart’s four houses, almost a thousand years before Harry Potter was even born. Rowling provides us of the wizarding world dates back centuries. While the years the Harry Potter books take place between 1991 to 1998, the lore J.K.

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