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- The Cleansweep Broom Company and the Comet Trading Company are locked in a fierce competition over dominance of the racing broom market. Cleansweep has lost its monopoly with the release of the Comet 140 in 1929 and it takes the company until 1934 to retaliate and release the Cleansweep Two. The Cleansweep Three follows in 1937, and the Comet 180 in 1938. In the meantime, other broomstick companies are founded all over Europe (QA9).
- Tom Marvolo Riddle grows up in a Muggle orphanage in London. The other children are scared of him because odd things happen to those who cross him. Tom learns that he can do magic and talk to snakes; he gains some control over his powers and uses them to bully others, collecting trinkets and keepsakes from his victims. One summer, the orphans are taken for a visit to the sea. Tom takes Amy Benson and Dennis Bishop to explore a cave nearby and presumably tortures them (HBP13).
Around 1936 to 1943 (give or take a couple of years)...
- Minerva McGonagall attends Hogwarts. She is Sorted into Gryffindor (JKRW, ABC).[1]
- Tom Marvolo Riddle attends Hogwarts. He is Sorted into Slytherin (PS5, HBP17). He shows no outward signs of cruelty or arrogance at school. A handsome and talented orphan, he becomes a favourite with the staff, except for Albus Dumbledore, who distrusts him. Tom collects a group of followers around him, some of whom become the first Death Eaters after leaving school. He tries to find evidence that his ancestors were wizards. After learning that his father was a Muggle, he sheds the name "Tom Riddle" and creates the pseudonym "Lord Voldemort", which he first uses with his circle of followers. A number of nasty incidents occur during his school years (including the opening of the Chamber of Secrets in 1943), but none can be linked back to him or his group (HBP17).
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1930
- Real World: Terence Bayler, the actor who plays the Bloody Baron in the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone movie, is born.
- Real World: Richard Harris, the actor who plays Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies, is born.
1931
Elladora Black, a great-great aunt of Sirius who started the Blacks' tradition of beheading house-elves, dies (OP6).
1932
Erica Stainwright, a witch famous for selling cleaning potions that only create more dirt, is born (WM).
Oswald Beamish, a wizard known for greatly improving goblin rights, dies (FW).
The Vratsa Vultures win the European Cup. A short time later, they lose a match against the Appleby Arrows. The game, which lasts for sixteen days due to bad weather conditions, is known as the Arrows' most famous victory (QA7).
The giantess Fridwulfa leaves Mr. Hagrid and their half-giant son Rubeus (GF23).[2]
Summer (presumably):
- In the so-called Ilfracombe Incident of 1932, a Common Welsh Green swoops down upon a crowded beach near Ilfracombe, Devon, England. Luckily, the witch Tilly Toke and her family are among the sunbathing Muggles. They are able to prevent any fatalities and perform a mass Memory Charm that makes sure that the existence of dragons remains hidden from Muggles.
- All family members are awarded with the Order of Merlin, First Class.
- Some Muggles apparently escape the charm. A Muggle called Dodgy Dirk is known to talk of a "'dirty great flying lizard' that punctured his lilo" in bars along the south coast (FBi).
1934
The Cleansweep Broom Company releases the Cleansweep Two, a racing broomstick designed to rival the success of the Comet Trading Company's Comet 140 (QA9).
- Real World: Maggie Smith, the actress who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies, is born.
1935
Bertie Bott, inventor of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, is born (FW).
Jocunda Sykes is the first witch to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on a broomstick, using an Oakshaft 79 (FW, QA9).
- Real World: Julian Glover, the actor who provides the voice of Aragog in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie, is born.
- Real World: Peter Cartwright, the actor who plays Elphias Doge in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie, is born.
1936
Hambledon Quince, the author of the polemic theory that wizards originate from Mars and Muggles from mushrooms, is born (WM).
1937
The Cleansweep Broom Company releases the Cleansweep Three (QA9).
1938
The Comet Trading Company releases the Comet 180 (QA9).
- Real World: Jim Norton, the actor who plays Mr. Mason in the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie, is born.
Summer:
- Albus Dumbledore, Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts, goes to visit Tom Marvolo Riddle at the Muggle orphanage to give him his Hogwarts letter. He talks to the matron, Mrs. Cole, who tells him that Tom is a strange child and is glad to get rid of him. Albus talks to Tom, who immediately believes him and is proud of being special. Albus forces Tom to return the items he stole from other children. He gives him money for school supplies and offers to accompany Tom to Diagon Alley, but the boy wants to go alone. Dumbledore is intrigued by and worried about Tom's abilities and his apparent interest in domination and cruelty. He decides to keep a close watch on him for his own sake as well as for others (HBP13).
- Tom goes to Diagon Alley, where he buys his wand at Ollivanders. The wand core is a phoenix feather from Fawkes (PS5, GF36).
1939
- Real World: John Cleese, the actor who plays Nearly Headless Nick in the first two Harry Potter movies, is born.
Footnotes
- ↑ In an interview in 2000, Rowling stated that McGonagall was "a sprightly seventy years old". At that time, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which ends in the summer of 1995, had been published. If we take Rowling's statement literally and assume that she was speaking of McGonagall's age at the end of book four, that means that she is seventy in the summer of 1995, and will be turning seventy-one on October 4 (her birthday was celebrated on jkrowling.com). This would make her birth year 1924; therefore, she is eleven in September 1936. However, it is much more likely that Rowling meant that McGonagall was around seventy instead of speaking of her exact age. We should also not forget that in the same interview, she stated that Dumbledore was 150, when in fact he was more than thirty years younger (his birth year is 1881, WM).
- ↑ Hagrid says his mother left when he was "about three"; he turned three on December 6, 1931, so 1932 is most likely, but 1931 and 1933 are also possible.
