January

"New Year's Eve and bitter cold, snowing, you know. Nasty night."

— Description

January is the first month of the year. It is the first month of the year that contains thirty-one days.

Notable events

Date	Year	Events
4 January	1995	Rita Skeeter's article stating that Rubeus Hagrid is a half-giant is published. Hagrid goes into hiding and is ashamed to be seen in public. This leads to the trio and Dumbledore trying to cheer him up and reminding that they are still his friends.
5 January	1992	The Hogwarts Express returns to Hogsmeade Station bringing back the students who went home for Christmas. This is the second term of the 1991-1992 school year.
	1994	Harry has his first lesson with Remus Lupin on the Patronus Charm. He succeeds in conjuring a non-corporeal Patronus in the form of a shield, an impressive feat for a thirteen-year-old wizard and manages to hold the boggart Dementor at bay.
6 January	1997	"This memory is everything... without it we are blind. Without it, we leave the fate of our world to chance. You have no choice. You must not fail." — Harry being assigned the task of retrieving the true memory from Slughorn Harry has his third lesson with Dumbledore. During this lesson Harry is assigned the task of retrieving the true memory from Slughorn.
7 January	1996	The Hogwarts Express brings students back to Hogwarts School after the Christmas Holidays. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, and George ride the Knight Bus to Hogsmeade. This is the second term of the 1995-1996 school year.
	1997	Potions Master Horace Slughorn presented each of his sixth-year Potions students with a phial of this poison so that they could brew an adequate antidote under the principle of Golpalott's Third Law.
9 January	1960	Severus Snape is born to Tobias and Eileen Snape.
30 January		Lily Evans is born to Mr and Mrs Evans.
26 January	1964	Gilderoy Lockhart is born.

Birthdays

6 January,
Queenie Goldstein

9 January,
Severus Snape

30 January,
Lily J. Potter

26 January,
Gilderoy Lockhart