1992

1992 is a notable year in the Harry Potter book series.

Events

January

• In early January: A day before term begins, Hermione Granger and other students go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after the Christmas holidays.
• The next day: The new term begins at Hogwarts. Harry, Ron and Hermione are starting to give up hope of ever finding out who Nicolas Flamel is.
  • Quidditch training is getting very intense for the Gryffindor team.
• Mid-January: Draco Malfoy puts the Leg-Locker Curse on Neville Longbottom who falls through the door of the Gryffindor common room. Harry finds out who Nicolas Flamel is.
  • Harry is not happy about the next Quidditch game against Hufflepuff when he finds out Professor Snape will be the referre.
• The next day: After hestitation, Harry decides to play in the next Quidditch match against Hufflepuff.

January or February

• Late January or early February: Gryffindor defeats Hufflepuff in their Quidditch match and they have a party in the common room.
  • Harry overhears Quirinus Quirrell arguing with Snape about the Philosopher's Stone. He finds it is evidence that Snape will try and steal it.

March or April

• Late March or early April: The teachers begin preparing students for their exams.
  • Quirrell begins to look more and more worried and pale every day.
• One afternoon: Harry, Ron and Hermione find out Hagrid has a dragon egg. He tells them about the underground chambers Dumbledore put together to protect the Philosopher's Stone.
• Early one morning: Hagrid sends a letter to Harry, Ron and Hermione telling them the dragon egg is hatching. Draco follows them and finds out about Norbert.
  • Hagrid won't let Norbert go because he is too young. When the dragon grows, it gets increasingly dangerous to be living in the Hut. He eventually agrees to send a letter to Charles Weasley to find out if he will pick him up.
• Next Wednesday: Norbert bites Ron on the finger. Charlie sends a letter back and agrees to pick Norbert up on Saturday at midnight.
• The next day on Thursday: Ron's finger swells up and he has to go to the Hospital Wing. Draco tells Ron he will tell everyone what really bit him. He takes a book which Ron hid Charlie's letter in and he finds out they are taking Norbert away the next day.
• Friday evening: Hagrid says goodbye to Norbert and Harry and Hermione sneak out to meet Charlie's friends.
• Saturday at midnight: Draco tells Professor McGonagall what they are planning to do. The two wait by the tower to catch them but Harry and Hermione hide under the Cloak of Invisibility and give Norbert away.
  • They are caught by Filch on the way back to their common room. They are taken to McGonagall. Neville Longbottom is there after sneaking out to warn Harry about Draco. Harry, Hermione, Neville and Draco lose significant house points. They are also told they will have detention and they should expect an owl telling them when.
• The next day on Sunday: Students in Gryffindor are shocked by the number of house points they've lost overnight. When they discover Harry Potter is one of the people they were taken from, students in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff are annoyed and don't speak to him. Slytherin thank him for putting them ahead.

May

• Late May: Harry overhears Quirrell talking about giving in and doing something. Harry suspects he is talking about stealing the Philosopher's Stone for Snape. Harry decides not to intervene and tell the other teachers because he has no proof.
• The next day: Harry, Hermione, Neville and Draco receive their detention. They meet Filch at night who takes them to Hagrid. They help Hagrid search for a missing unicorn in the Forbidden Forest. Harry encounters a cloaked figure drinking the unicorn's blood. He is saved by Firenze who implies the cloaked figure is Voldemort.
  • Hermione tells Harry he shouldn't worry if Voldemort is nearby because he can't be harmed when Dumbledore is around.

June

• Early June: The exams are held at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry begins having nightmares which involve a cloaked figure.
  • Harry realises how odd it is that Hagrid, after wanting a dragon egg for years, is suddenly given one by a hooded figure for no apparent reason.
  • Harry finds out Hagrid drunkenly told the hooded person how to subdue Fluffy, who is the first line of defence for the Philosopher's Stone. Harry, Ron and Hermione try to tell Professor McGonagall who is shocked that they know about it but is not worried about the heavily guarded Stone getting stolen. When they find out Dumbledore is away for the day, they figure out the Stone will be taken that evening and decide to stop it.
  • Harry, Ron and Hermione go through the undergrounds chambers after Fluffy falls asleep. They find the winged key, defeat a giant chessboard and solve a Potions riddle.
  • Harry faces Voldemort and with the help of the Mirror of Erised, he saves the Philosopher's Stone. Quirrell is killed when Voldemort abandons him. Harry is saved by Dumbledore.
• Three days later: Harry wakes up in the Hospital Wing.
• The next day: The final day of term. Gryffindor wins the House Cup and beats Slytherin who have won for seven years in a row.
• Mid-June: The grades for the exams are given out. Everyone heads home for the summer. Hagrid gives Harry a book of photos of the Potter family.

June - July

• Late June - Late July: Dobby begins intercepting Harry's letters. Hedwig kept hooting and waking everyone up at Privet Drive.

July

• Late July: The Weasley family start worrying about Harry because Ron isn't getting any letters back. Arthur and Molly think about going round if they don't get a letter from him by Friday.
• 31 July: Harry Potter's 12th birthday. Vernon Dursley has an important dinner at Privet Drive.
  • Dobby shows up to tell Harry not to go back to school. When he refuses to listen, Dobby levitates a cake and drops it on Vernon's dinner guests. The Ministry of Magic detect magic in the house which they hold Harry responsible for. They send him a letter via owl which frightens Vernon's dinner guests. He is accused of breaking the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery.

August

• 1 August: Harry is punished for ruining Vernon's dinner. He is locked up in his bedroom. Vernon puts bars put on his window and food is put by the door.
• 4 August: Arthur Weasley conducts raids in search of Dark artefacts. Mundungus Fletcher attempts to jinx him.
  • Fred, George and Ron Weasley save Harry by sneaking out of The Burrow and taking the flying car to fly to Privet Drive. Vernon wakes up while Harry is escaping. He attempts to get Harry back but he manages to get away.
• 5 August: Molly Weasley is angry at Fred, George and Ron for sneaking out and taking the flying car. She lets Harry stay at The Burrow. They de-gnome the garden and Harry is introduced to Arthur.
• c. 12 August: Letters from Hogwarts arrive for Harry, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny at The Burrow. Even though they are in three different years at Hogwarts, they all discover they have to buy Gilderoy Lockhart's books. They spend rest of the day practicing for Quidditch.
• Next Wednesday: Harry and the Weasley family meet Hermione at Diagon Alley and purchase new school books.
  • Gilderoy Lockhart has a book signing at Flourish and Blotts and announces he will be teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts that year.
  • Arthur and Lucius Malfoy have a fight in the bookshop. Lucius slips Tom Riddle's Diary into Ginny Weasley's cauldron.
• c. 15 August - 30 August: Harry has the best summer ever.
• 31 August: Molly cooks an amazing dinner for the final evening of the summer holidays.

September

• 1 September: Dobby blocks the way to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters so Harry and Ron miss the train. They take the flying car, the Ford Anglia, and drive the whole way to Hogwarts Castle. In the process, they break the Statue of Secrecy.
  • They crash the car into the Whomping Willow and miss the Sorting ceremony. They receive detention.
• 2 September: Molly sends Ron a Howler. Gilderoy Lockhart's first lesson is chaotic when he let Cornish pixies loose and runs away because he didn't know what to do.
• 3 September - c. 6 September (the next few days) : Harry avoids Lockhart. Hedwig is angry at Harry because of the long car journey to Hogwarts.
• c. 7 September (Friday): After the Whomping Willow crash, Ron's broken wand is malfunctioning. He tries to cast a spell which bounces back and whacks Professor Flitwick in his eyes.
• c. 8 September (Saturday): Oliver Wood wakes Harry up very early in the morning for Quidditch practice.
  • The Slytherin Quidditch team show up and claim they have booked the pitch. The two teams start arguing during which Draco calls Hermione a "Mudblood". Ron attempts to attack him using his broken wand but the spell bounces back at him. Ron starts throwing up slugs. Hagrid gives him a remedy.
  • Harry and Ron have detention. Ron cleans the trophy room and Harry helps Lockhart with fanmail. Harry hears a voice whispering about killing but Lockhart can't hear it.

October

• c. 27 October on Saturday: Gryffindor have a grim Quidditch training practice. Harry bumps into Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington and he accepts an invitation to attend Nick's Deathday Party on Hallowe'en.
• 31 October: Harry, Ron and Hermione attend the Deathday Party.
  • Harry hears a voice again whispering about killing but he is still the only one who hears it. He follows it and finds Mrs Norris petrified near writing on a wall that "the Chamber of Secrets is reopened" and "enemies of the Heir beware". A big group of other students find him by Mrs Norris and hold him responsible.

November

• c. 1 November - 4 November: The school talks about the events of Hallowe'en.
• Next Wednesday: Professor Binns tells them about the Chamber of Secrets and the Heir of Slytherin. Harry, Ron and Hermione wonder if Draco could be the Heir of Slytherin. Hermione proposes they questioning him after brewing a Polyjuice Potion to take the appearance of his friends. She says they have to get a book in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library which they will need special permission for.
• Friday in late November: Lockhart starts having Harry act out his book scenes during their lessons. Hermione manipulates Lockhart into signing a note that grants her access to books in the Restricted Section. She finds out it will take her one month to make a Polyjuice Potion.
• Saturday: Gryffindor play Slytherin in a Quidditch game. One of the Bludgers goes rouge and hunts Harry. Harry tricks Draco and catches the Golden Snitch. He falls in the process and breaks his arm. Lockhart uses a spell which accidentally removes the bones in his arm. He has to spend the evening in the Hospital Wing growing the bones back.
  • Later that night, Dobby shows up and admits he made Harry and Ron miss the train and set the rogue Bludger on him. He tells Harry that he needs to leave because he is in danger. Harry realises it has something to do with the Chamber of Secrets but Dobby won't say anything about it. Harry finds out Colin Creevey is petrified.
• Sunday: Harry leaves the Hospital Wing. He helps Ron and Hermione make the Polyjuice Potion. Harry is awarded 50 points for winning the Quidditch game against Slytherin.
• Monday: News of what happened to Colin sends the school into a panic. Everyone keeps talking about it and walking around in groups. Ginny is very upset and students start selling and buying product for protection.

December

• c. 10 December: Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco sign up to stay at Hogwarts over the Christmas holidays.
  • The Polyjuice Potion is only half done and they need items that will only find in Snape's store-cupboard.
• Thursday: Harry causes mayhem in Potions to distract Snape for Hermione. She sneaks into the store-cupboard to get Bicorn horn and Boomslang skin.
• c. 17 December: Duelling Club starts that evening. Harry duels Draco who sets a snake on him. Harry speaks Parseltongue to save Justin Finch-Fletchley. The school find it is evidence that he is the Heir of Slytherin because Salazar Slytherin could also speak to snakes.
• c. 18 December (the next morning following Duelling Club): Harry tries to apologise to Justin Finch-Fletchley who holds Harry responsible for setting the snake on him. The other Hufflepuffs actually think he is the Heir of Slytherin and he argues with them.
  • Harry finds both Nearly Headless Nick and Justin petrified.
  • Professor McGonagall takes Harry to Professor Dumbledore who tells Harry he knows he is not the Heir of Slytherin. He asks Harry if he has anything he would like to tell him, and despite thinking of many things he would like to say, he says nothing.
• c. 18 December - 24 December: The whole school debates what could have the power to petrify a ghost like Nick.
  • Term ends. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Fred, George, Ginny and Percy stay at school for the Christmas holidays.
• 25 December: With the Polyjuice Potion finally ready, Harry, Ron and Hermione prepare to take it. They plan to impersonate Gregory Goyle, Vincent Crabbeand Millicent Bulstrode.
  • Hermione accidentally tranforms into Millicent's cat. Harry and Ron sneak in the Slytherin common room and find out Draco is not the Heir of Slytherin.
• 26 December - 31 December: Hermione is in the Hospital Wing.

Notes and sources

Timeline
For a general timeline of the Harry Potter universe, click here. Please go to one of the pages below for the events that happen in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998