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• 2007
  • Real World: The fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is released.

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• 2007
  • Real World: Release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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Neville Longbottom's birthday

• 1980
  • Neville Longbottom is born.

• 1991
  • Harry and the Dursleys are still on the run. Vernon is desparate to shake any followers off. He brings the family to a big rock in the sea, where they spend the night in an old broken-down hut (PS3).

• 1997
  • Mr and Mme Delacour arrive at the Burrow at 11AM (DH7).
  • Molly discusses Harry's birthday plans with him (DH7).

July 31

Harry Potter's birthday

Real World: J. K. Rowling's birthday

• 1965
  • Real World: J. K. Rowling is born.

• 1980
  • Harry Potter is born (PS3).
• 1981
  • Harry's first birthday.
  • His godfather Sirius sends him a toy broomstick as a gift (DH9).
• 1990
  • Harry's tenth birthday.
  • The Dursleys give Harry a coat-hanger and a pair of Vernon's old socks (PS3).
• 1991
  • Harry's eleventh birthday.
  • At midnight, Rubeus Hagrid finds the Dursleys and Harry and gives the boy a Hogwarts letter (PS4).
  • Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley to buy school supplies. He buys Hedwig as a birthday present to Harry (PS5).
  • Gringotts is broken into for the first time; Quirrell tries to rob the Philosopher's Stone from Vault 713 (PS8).
• 1992
  • Harry's twelfth birthday.
  • Harry receives no letters or gifts from his friends because of Dobby, and Dudley taunts him for it (CS1).
  • Dobby visits number four, Privet Drive and causes a pudding to crash onto the kitchen floor [[[CS2]]).
  • The Improper Use of Magic Office, believing that Harry had cast a Hover Charm on the pudding, sends him a warning. The owl drops the letter on Mrs. Mason's head and she and her husband leave (CS2).
• 1993
  • Harry's thirteenth birthday.
  • Harry receives letters and presents from Ron, Hermione and Hagrid; respectively, a Sneakoscope, the Broomstick Servicing Kit and a copy of The Monster Book of Monsters.
  • Ron's letter to Harry mentions that the Weasleys won the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw (PA1).
• 1994
  • Harry's fourteenth birthday.
  • Harry gets four birthday cakes from Ron, Hermione, Sirius and Hagrid, which help him survive Dudley's strict diet (GF3).
• 1995
  • Harry's fifteenth birthday.
  • Ron and Hermione send Harry two boxes of Honeydukes chocolates; he eventually throws them away, unopened (OP1).
• 1996
  • Harry's sixteenth birthday.
  • There is a party at the Burrow. Remus interrupts it with news of Dementors attacks, informing also that Igor Karkaroff was found dead (HBP6).
• 1997
  • Harry's seventeenth birthday; he can now legally do magic outside Hogwarts.
  • During the night, Harry has a dream in which he sees Voldemort looking for Gregorovitch.
  • Ginny kisses Harry as a birthday present; they are interrupted by Ron.
  • Molly prepares a big party at the Burrow, attended by Hagrid, Remus, Tonks and the Weasleys.
  • Rufus Scrimgeour crashes the party. He gives Ron, Hermione and Harry the objects Dumbledore left to them in his will: the Deluminator, a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and a Snitch, respectively. Scrimgeour refuses to let Harry have Godric Gryffindor's sword, which was also one of Dumbledore's bequests.
  • Mrs. Weasley gives Harry a gold watch that once belonged to Fabian Prewett; Hagrid, a Mokeskin purse. Ron, Hermione and others also give him presents.
  • The Trio attempts to make sense out of Dumbledore's bequests. Harry sees the message "I open at the close" on the Snitch (DH7).