Calendar Updates! (February 1 -9)

February 1

1997: The sixth years have an Apparition lesson

February 2

1993: Harry and Ron were angry with Hermione for reporting Harry's Firebolt to Minerva McGonagall. Hermione spends much of her time in the library and Hagrid’s hut helping Hagrid prepare for Buckbeak's trial. 

February 3

1994: Professor Remus Lupin teaches Harry Potter about the Dementor's Kiss, and Harry's Firebolt is returned to him after being tested by Minerva McGonagall and Filius Flitwick. Harry and Ron Weasley make up with Hermione Granger. That evening, Scabbers disappears from Gryffindor Tower with only some ginger cat hairs left behind. Ron is now angry with Hermione because she does not take Scabbers' dissapearance seriously.

1996: Harry Potter has an Occlumency lesson in the Dungeons with Professor Severus Snape.

1970: Warwick Davis is born. He is the actor who portrays the Gringotts Goblin teller in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Professor Filius Flitwick in the whole movie adaptation of the seven Harry Potter books.

1987: Sam Parham a British parkour performer, and freerunner who will portray a Snatcher in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is born.

February 4

1994: Rolanda Hooch admires Harry Potter's Firebolt and reminisces about her old Silver Arrow.

1973: Adrian Annis, a British actor who portrayed a Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is born

1994: Harry Potter notices Cho Chang for the first time, during the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Gryffindor wins the match, and Harry goes to bed on a high. Unfortunately, this is all brought to an abrupt end by what everyone assumes is a murder attempt by Sirius Black on Ron Weasley. In fact, he was attempting to find Peter Pettigrew in the form of Scabbers, Ron's pet rat.

1996: Harry Potter has an Occlumency lesson in the Dungeons with Professor Snape.

1945: Anne Rowling, J. K. Rowling's mother, is born.

February 6

1994: The Fat Lady is restored and trolls are brought in to guard her portrait. Filius Flitwick teaches the castle's front doors how to recognise Sirius Black.

1950: Arthur Weasley is born to Septimus and Cedrella Weasley (née Black).

February 7

1812: Charles Dickens the muggle author of David Copperfield, is born.

1994: Neville Longbottom receives a Howler from his grandmother for writing down all the Gryffindor Tower passwords, thus allowing Sirius Black a way inside.

1999: Barnabus Blenkinsop dies; all that is found in his bed is a tin of anchovies.

February 8

1944: Roger Lloyd-Pack, the actor who played Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is born.

1952: Carolyn Pickles, who plays Charity Burbage in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, is born.

John Williams, the composer of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is born.

February 9

1953: Ciarán Hinds, the actor who played Aberforth Dumbledore in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is born.

1987: Jade Olivia, the actress who played Astoria Greengrass in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, is born.