1947

The following events occurred in 1947:

Events

• The Werewolf Register is introduced.
• A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot is first published.
• A fanged gerbil was found to have been put into Augusta Longbottom's handbag as a joke by her husband

Quidditch

Neil Lament captained the Slytherin Quidditch team.

Births

• Laurentia Fletwock, celebrated breeder and racer of winged horses

Behind the scenes

• 27 January: Peter Burroughs, who portrayed a bank goblin, born.
• 31 July: Richard Griffiths who portrayed Vernon Dursley, is born.
• 2 August: Eve Karpf, who provided the voice of Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, Rolanda Hooch and the Fat Lady in several Harry Potter video game adaptations, is born.
• 23 August: David Robb, the actor who provided the voice for Sirius Black in the video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Order of the Phoenix, is born.
• According to the mini-adventure The Queen's Handbag, Augusta Longbottom, grandmother of Neville Longbottom, was the victim of a prank by her husband involving her handbag and a fanged gerbil in 1947, leading her to booby-trap her handbags from then on (leading to some pain for Ron Weasley). The Queen's Handbag breaks from canon in several places (not least of which by being set in 2006), so therefore whether anything included in the adventure actually counts as continuity is a matter of debate. This piece of information regarding Longbottom is listed here, however, as the only piece of new Potter Universe backstory offered in the mini-adventure.

See also

• Dating conventions

External links

• 1947 on Wikipedia