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"Patches of bright blue sky were beginning to appear over the castle turrets, but these signs of approaching summer did not lift Harry's mood."
— Description[src]

April is the fourth month of the year. It is one of the months of the year with thirty days.

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"It's a boy! We've named him Ted, after Dora's father!"
— Remus announcing the birth of his son[src]
Date Year Events
Unknown 1998 Teddy Lupin was born to Nymphadora and Remus Lupin in April 1998.[citation needed]
1 April 1978 Fred and George Weasley were born to Molly and Arthur Weasley on 1 April 1978.[citation needed]
12 April 2014 The opening ceremony of the 427th Quidditch World Cup takes place. Originally billed as "a magnificent exhibition of the diversity of the magizoological world", the choreographed display of the different teams' mascots escalates into a fight between the various beasts, prompted by an attempt to make the Fijian Dukuwaqa and Norwegian Selma share a lake. Healers have to attend to more than 300 crowd members suffering from shock, broken bones and bites. [1]
21 April 1996
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Dolores Umbridge becomes headmistress of Hogwarts.[citation needed]

21 April 1997 Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, and Ernie Macmillan attend Potions class whilst all other students currently of age take their Apparition tests, which Ron Weasley fails, though Hermione Granger passes. Aragog's funeral takes place. Harry Potter uses Felix Felicis to obtain the Horcrux memory from Professor Slughorn among other lucky events.[2]
22 April 1997 Harry Potter has his fifth private lesson with Albus Dumbledore shortly after midnight, due procuring Horace Slughorn's memory with use of Felix Felicis. Harry tells Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger about Horace Slughorn's memory at Charms Class. Later, Katie Bell returns from St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, but doesn't remember anything about who attacked her.[3]
28 April Unknown Horace Slughorn is born.[4]

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Notes and references[]

  1. Pottermore - DISASTROUS OPENING CEREMONY LEADS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP SECURITY (Archived)
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 17 (A Sluggish Memory) "Those who would be seventeen on or before the first test date, the twenty-first of April, had the option of signing up for additional practise sessions, which would take place (heavily supervised) in Hogsmeade". The other events took place on the same day according to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 22 (After the Burial)
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 22 (After the Burial) - Harry visit Hagrid with Slughorn on 21th April, but Harry brought the memory to Dumbledore on 22th April night, not 21th April. First he went to the Gryffindor common room, but Fat Lady angered that Harry woke her up from a dream, joked with him that the password changed at midnight in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23 (Horcruxes)
  4. "Horace Slughorn fact file" from Pottermore (archived)
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