The one source for any of these dates that I see listed in the lexicon is the quote from POA: "It took them the best part of three years to work out how to do it." [how to become animagi] and "Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it ( Read more... )

Is there any mention in canon of what time of year the professional quidditch season begins? (Obviously it ends with the World Cup.)

I'm working on a fic that has some Marauder era stuff and I'm trying to figure out what year Snape, Lily, and the Marauders all started at Hogwarts. Do we have a definite birthday for any of the 5 so we can be sure of when they started at Hogwarts? I looked at the HP Lexicon website but different pages there are giving me different answers.

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