1940s

The following events occured in the 1940s:

Events

 * 1940 - Rubeus Hagrid starts Hogwarts.
 * 1943 - Tom Riddle opens the Chamber of Secrets. Hagrid is framed for the attacks by Riddle and is expelled. Minerva McGonagall graduates.
 * 1945 - Albus Dumbledore defeats the Dark wizard Grindelwald.

Deaths

 * c. 1941 - Hagrid's father
 * 1942 - Eunice Murray
 * 1943 - Myrtle (last name unknown)

Real-world events

 * World War II, which began in 1937, ends in 1945.
 * The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
 * The Cold War begins in 1947.

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