calendar of events:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
"D'you get the feeling
Hermione's not telling us something?"
-- Ron Weasley
NOTES:
The dates
on this calendar are figured as precisely as possible from the text of
the book. In most cases, these dates can be determined with a high degree
of accuracy. However, there are a few huge discrepencies. For example,
there is a difference in June between the dates as they actually occured
and as given in the book. June 6, the last day of exams, when Sirius and
Lupin expose Pettigrew and when Harry and Hermione use the TimeTurner,
is supposed to be a Thursday. In 1994, however, it was a Sunday. I have
placed both dates on the calendar for that week: the actual date followed
by the date as given in the book in parentheses.
Also confusing is the date given for Buckbeak's first hearing. It's supposed to be on April 20, but in the story it clearly happens well before the Easter holidays, which would have happened around the first of April. In fact, we are told that it happens just after four weeks into the term. It would seem that for some reason the hearing was moved up a few months. This would account for Harry and Ron's surprise when Hagrid told them on a February afternoon that it was going to be coming up that Friday. Undoubtedly Lucius Malfoy, after the embarrassing diary fiasco of the last school year, wasn't willing to wait until April and moved the whole thing up to February.
One more minor inconsistency is that Fudge says that Harry will stay in Diagon Alley for the last two weeks before the new school year, but it's clearly THREE weeks. Aunt Marge only stayed one week beginning on Harry's birthday, leaving three weeks to go before Harry and his friends needed to board the Hogwarts Express. I suppose we can just pass this off on Fudge having had a very rough night, worrying about Harry and not knowing where he was.
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Harry's 13th birthday Aunt Marge arrives for a visit |
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Aunt Marge's wine glass explodes in her hand |
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Aunt Marge goes too far, and Harry "blows her up" like a balloon Harry runs away from Privet Drive and is picked up by the Knight Bus |
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Harry is deposited outside The Leaky Cauldron by the Knight Bus Fudge meets him and checks him into room 11 for the rest of the summer |
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Harry spends his days exploring Diagon Alley |
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Firebolt is displayed in Quality Quidditch Supplies |
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Harry spends his days exploring Diagon Alley |
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Weasleys return from Egypt |
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Harry spends his days exploring Diagon Alley Harry buys his school stuff |
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Harry meets Ron and Hermione in Diagon Alley Hermione buys Crookshanks |
rainy trip on the Hogwarts Express Dementors come aboard the train, Lupin drives them away from Harry |
9am Divination (Muggle Studies and Arithmancy for Hermione as well) later morning
lunch Care of Magical Creatures where Malfoy is injured by Buckbeak |
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late morning double potions: Gryffindors and Slytherins Malfoy comes back to class after lunch:
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Hermione's 13th birthday |
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evening Quidditch meeting to discuss tactics |
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Quidditch practice in the evening |
Herbology with Hufflepuff Transfiguration (Lavender learns of the death of her pet rabbit) |
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first Hogsmeade visit Harry has tea and a chat with Lupin Halloween Feast Sirius Black attacks the Fat Lady everyone sleeps in the Great Hall |
3 am end of the search of the castle |
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weather has become very stormy Defense Against the Dark Arts with Snape substituting for Lupin Ron gets detention scrubbing bedpans in the hospital wing FULL MOON |
Quidditch match for Gryffindor supposed to be with Slytherin but instead it's Hufflepuff Dementors come to the match, Harry passes out, Hufflepuff wins Harry's Nimbus 2000 is destroyed by the Whoming Willow |
Harry's movements are being monitored by everyone for his protection weather gets worse and worse as the week goes on |
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Potions Defense Against the Dark
Arts
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Quidditch: Ravenclaw "flattened" Hufflepuff |
haze of rain into December |
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McGonagall takes names of those staying at Hogwarts over Christmas |
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Hogsmeade trip Harry received the Maruader's Map and visits the village Harry hears the story of Sirius Black's supposed double-cross |
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End of Term Hogwarts Express back to London Hagrid receives letter informing him that Buckbeak's hearing is scheduled for April 20 |
Harry, Ron, and Hermione begin working on Buckbeak's defense |
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the smell of cooking is in the air |
CHRISTMAS Harry receives a Firebolt noon feast McGonangall confiscates the Firebolt |
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Hermione spends her time in the library Harry and Ron are mad at her for turning in the Firebolt |
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Hogwarts Express back to school |
start of term Care of Magical Creatures: Salamanders Divination:
Defense Against the Dark Arts |
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8 pm Lupin starts teaching Harry to do the Patronus Charm |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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Quidditch: Slytherin narrowly defeats Ravenclaw |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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Quidditch practices five nights a week |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons Lupin and Harry discuss the Demontor's Kiss over a bottle of butterbeer Harry finally gets the Firebolt back Scabbers disappears, Crookshanks is blamed |
Quidditch practice |
Quidditch: Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw clear, cool day with a light breeze Malfoy, Flint, Crabbe, and Goyle try to sabotage Harry Gryffindor wins Sirius Black rips Ron's bed curtains trying to get to Scabbers |
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tightened security security trolls guard the Fat Lady, whose picture has been repaired and rehung |
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Neville receives a Howler from his Gran Harry and Ron visit Hagrid |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
Buckbeak's hearing in London |
Hogsmeade weekend Harry gets caught by Snape after Malfoy spots him in Hogsmeade Hermione receives word from Hagrid that Buckbeak will be executed |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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Ron Weasley's 14th birthday |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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8 pm anti-dementor lessons |
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around Easter, Hermione hits Malfoy, misses her Charms class (Cheering Charms) and drops out of Divination |
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Easter Sunday |
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Easter Holidays, tons of homeowork |
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Gryffindor vs. Slytherin Gryffindor wins 230 to 20
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exams begin morning:
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Buckbeak sentenced to be executed Sirius Black and Remus Lupin expose Peter Pettigrew Peter Pettigrew escapes Buckbeak and Sirius Black escape together |
Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave the Hospital Wing at noon Hogsmeade visit Lupin resigns |
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exam grades come out end of the year feast |
Hogwarts Express back to London |
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Harry's 14th birthday |
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