Name: Narcissa Black
Format: Artifact
Date: 09 January 1976
Relevance: A very rare and dangerous gift given to Severus O. Snape on the occasion of his coming of age.

( It is said there were only seven copies ever made. Three were burnt along with their author. )

Name: Rodolphus Lestrange
Date: June 1976
Format: Memoir
Relevance: Rodolphus is sent to New York to fetch a medallion.

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Name: Bellatrix Lestrange
Date: Late 1975 to early 1976?
Format: Memory
Relevance: Shreds of Bella's worst memory, presented to her Aunt Walburga. Due to trauma, the memory was retrieved as one incoherent mass but it can be deduced that it relates to a period of at least several weeks.

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Name: Severus Snape
Date: June 28, 1976
Format: Letters
Relevance: Suggests work may have done by S. Snape for the Death Eaters at L. Malfoy's request prior to his Hogwarts graduation, and illustrates factors related to his eventual inclusion in their ranks.

( Letters from the Manor )

Name: Augustus Rookwood
Format: Official Document
Date: 7th November 1976
Relevance: Signed copy of the International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy 1692 (Section 3, Department of Mysteries), which Rookwood was later arrested for breaking.

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