1982

The following events occured in the year 1982:

Events

 * Bill Weasley starts his first year at Hogwarts.
 * Scabbers becomes Percy Weasley's pet rat.
 * Igor Karkaroff is released from Azkaban
 * Ludo Bagman is acquitted of being a Death Eater
 * Barty Crouch Jr. is secretly rescued from Azkaban

Births

 * Romilda Vane
 * Astoria Greengrass

Real-world events

 * The Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
 * First artificial heart transplant.