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View of Hogwarts Castle in September 1991
This article lists the general events of the 1991–1992 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which have been witnessed by the majority of the students and teachers. It leaves out those events which are only known to Harry Potter and the people close to him.
Contents
Staff
The staff at Hogwarts during the 1991–1992 school year were as follows:
Students
Timetables
First year Gryffindor
Period | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First | Transfiguration (unknown time)[6] |
Double Potions[7] | |||
Second | |||||
Lunch | |||||
Afternoon | Flying (at three-thirty)[8] |
Afternoons free[7] | |||
Midnight | Astronomy[9] |
- Notes:
- Breaks are used to get from one class to the other. They are at least ten minutes long.[10]
- Herbology was held three times a week.[11] At least one Herbology class is held in the first morning period.[12]
- There is at least one Defence Against the Dark Arts class in the morning.[13]
- Potions is held only once a week,[14] a double class on Friday morning, together with the Slytherins.[7]
- A Charms class was held on Hallowe'en morning,[15]. This class was held on the first morning period.[16] In 1991, Hallowe'en was Thursday.[17]
- Flying lessons (joint class with Slytherin) take place on Thursdays[18] at 3:30 pm.[19]
- Oliver Wood had a Charms lesson on Thursday afternoon, presumably with other fifth year students in Gryffindor, at the same time Flying lessons were taking place.[20]
- It is unknown when History of Magic classes take place.
Events

Harry Potter, the boy who lived
- Quirinus Quirrell, former Muggle Studies Professor, moved his Professorship to the Defence Against the Dark Arts's Chair.
- Harry Potter, who as an infant survived a Killing Curse cast by Lord Voldemort, entered Hogwarts.
- Hermione Granger, a Muggle-born witch who would be the most skilled witch of her generation, and future Minister for Magic, entered Hogwarts.
- Harry Potter became the youngest Seeker to play on a Hogwarts' Quidditch team in the last century.
- Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley defeated a mountain troll on Hallowe'en.
- On Christmas Day, Harry Potter got his father's Invisibility cloak, which would later be revealed being one of the three Deathly Hallows.
- Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger succeeded against the obstacles in the Underground Chambers: most notably, Ron Weasley defeated Minerva McGonagall's Chessboard, Hermione Granger solved Severus Snape's Potion riddle and Harry Potter both captured the Winged Key (charmed by Filius Flitwick) and, albeit unconsciously, surpassed Albus Dumbledore's charm on the Mirror of Erised.
- Defence Against the Dark Arts' Professor Quirinus Quirrell revealed being possessed by Lord Voldemort, fought Harry Potter in the skirmish in the Underground Chambers and was defeated, eventually dying.
- Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley and Neville Longbottom won an overall of 170 House points in the last evening of the school year, helping Gryffindor win the House Cup.
- Slytherin failed to win the House Cup for the first time in seven years.
Quidditch
Inter-House Quidditch Cup Winner: either Slytherin or, more likely, Ravenclaw after winning the last match against Gryffindor with a massive margin.
Match results:
- Gryffindor-Slytherin: 170 to 60
- Hufflepuff-Ravenclaw: ??? to ???
- Gryffindor-Hufflepuff: Gryffindor won in less than five minutes; referee of the match was Severus Snape
- Slytherin-Ravenclaw: ??? to ???
- Slytherin-Hufflepuff: ??? to ???
- Gryffindor-Ravenclaw: Gryffindor lost (worst defeat in 300 years)
House Cup
- Gryffindor: 482 Points
- Slytherin: 472 Points
- Ravenclaw: 426 Points
- Hufflepuff: 352 Points
Behind the scenes
- According to the timetable featured in Harry Potter Film Wizardry, the timetable for a first year Gryffindor during the 1991-1992 school year is as follows:
Lesson | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First | Xylomancy | Potions | Double Potions | Defence Against the Dark Arts | Herbology | Potions |
Second | Potions | History of Magic | Charms | Potions | History of Magic | Potions |
Third | Defence Against the Dark Arts | Herbology | Magical Theory | Transfiguration | Charms | Transfiguration |
Fourth | Charms | Transfiguration | Magical Theory | Flying | Magical Theory | Transfiguration |
Appearances

A standard first year timetable
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in flashback(s))
- Pottermore
- Wizarding World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Creator: Harry Potter
- Harry Potter for Kinect
See also
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 1991
- 1992
- 1992–1993 school year
- 1993–1994 school year
- 1994–1995 school year
- 1995–1996 school year
- 1996–1997 school year
- 1997–1998 school year
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 1 (Year Five Begins)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Side Quest "Yer a Prefect!", Elora is in the same house as the player
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 7 (Niffler Hunting)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "Become a Prefect" Achievement - Part 4, Side Quest "You Are Almost a Prefect!"
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, Side Quest "Searching for a Comet"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master) - "Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. [...] "Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, but it hadn't stopped her from giving them a huge pile of homework the day before."
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master) - "Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. [...] "What have we got today?" Harry asked Ron as he poured sugar on his porridge. "Double Potions with the Slytherins," said Ron." [...] "Wish McGonagall favoured us," said Harry. Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, but it hadn't stopped her from giving them a huge pile of homework the day before." [...] "I know you get Friday afternoons off, so would you like to come and have a cup of tea with me around three?"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel) - "Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday" [...] "At three-thirty that afternoon"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 28 - "They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13 (Nicolas Flamel) - "Once term had started, they were back to skimming through books for ten minutes during their breaks."
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master) -"Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology [...]
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 14 (Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback) - "Then, one breakfast time, Hedwig brought Harry another note from Hagrid." [...] "Ron wanted to skip Herbology and go straight down to the hut. Hermione wouldn't hear of it." [...] "Ron and Hermione argued all the way to Herbology and in the end, Hermione agreed to run down to Hagrid's with the other two during morning break."
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13 (Nicolas Flamel) - "The next morning in Defence Against the Dark Arts, while copying down different ways of treating werewolf bites [...]"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 13 (Nicolas Flamel) - "Potions lessons were turning into a sort of weekly torture, Snape was so horrible to Harry."
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 10 (Hallowe'en) - "On Hallowe'en morning [...] Professor Flitwick announced in Charms that he thought they were ready to start making objects fly [...]"
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 10 (Hallowe'en) - "Hermione didn't turn up for the next class and wasn't seen all afternoon."
- ↑ In the real world calendar, Hallowe'en would be on Thursday in 1991. However, the book often gets days mixed up. For example, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 3 (The Letters from No One) Harry says his eleventh birthday was on Tuesday, but in 1991, it was on Wednesday. Therefore, it is unknown what day of the week it would fall on for certain.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel) - "Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday — and Gryffindor and Slytherin would be learning together."
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel) - "At three-thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron, and the other Gryffindors hurried down the front steps onto the grounds for their first flying lesson."
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel) sees Harry leaving his Flying lesson with McGonagall before the end of that lesson, and heading to Charms where Oliver was in a lesson. The Flying lesson started at three thirty in the afternoon and Harry met Oliver a short while later.
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