Deathday Party

Deathday Party
Event information
Location	Cold, damp and dark places. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 493rd Deathday Party was held in the Deathday Ballroom at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party was held in the Deathday Party Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Date(s)	Date of Death of the Ghost in question. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 493rd Deathday Party was held on 31 October, 1985. Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party was held on 31 October, 1992.
Participant(s)	Who the ghost intends to invite. At Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 493rd Deathday Party, Erling (co-host), the Fat Friar, Moaning Myrtle, Jacob's sibling, among others, attended the party. At Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party, the Bloody Baron, the Fat Friar, Moaning Myrtle, Peeves, the Wailing Widow from Kent, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, among others, attended the party.
Description	Party held to remembering the death of said ghost.

"The living see a Deathday as the day someone died, but ghosts see it as the day they started a new chapter."

— Nearly Headless Nick

A Deathday Party is a celebration thrown by ghosts to commemorate the anniversary of their death.

What seems to be a typical Deathday Party entails a candlelit dinner of rancid, mouldy food, the smell of which would cause a normal living creature to gag. The reason for this is apparently the claim that a ghost can "almost taste" seriously spoiled food.

Deathday Parties seem to the living to be rather gloomy affairs.

1985

Sir Nicholas and Erling the Great co-hosted a deathday party in 1985. It was the first Deathday Party Moaning Myrtle attended.

1992

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger attended Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington's 500th Deathday Party in 1992. Sir Nicolas was deeply touched that the three students put in an appearance, in part because it gave him a certain status in the eyes of his fellow deceased.

The only people normally invited to a Deathday Party are no longer living, as noted on the occasion above by Hermione Granger.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Cut from final film)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Game Boy Color and PlayStation versions only)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter: The Character Vault (Concept art)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery