Name: Bill (and Charlie) Weasley
Format: Letter
Date: April 1980
Relevance: References to injuries sustained by G. Prewett and early contact between B. Weasley and A. Rookwood.

( Adorable Ginger Boys Here! )

Name: Rita Skeeter
Format: original manuscript (also with copy-editor's notes); newspaper clipping
Date: 17th August 1980
Relevance: evidence of The Daily Prophet heavily editing and censoring articles with potentially controversial content. At the time of publication, Lucius Malfoy was not suspected of any wrongdoing by the general public. If the ( Read more... )

Name: Lucius Malfoy
Date: 12th August 1980
Format:  Newspaper article
Relevance:  A cutting which shows Lucius' conversative campaign for Minister of Magic, "Back to Basics" focused around family values and traditional morals, a very pure-blood and very certainly inspired by Lucius' Death Eater status. Proof that the Death Eaters also had a politcal ( Read more... )

Name: Andromeda Tonks
Format: Diary entry
Date: August 5, 1980
Relevance: Concerns Andromeda's feelings about the death of her cousin Regulus, and hints at her motivations for joining the Order.

( I'm not there. I should be. )

Name: Narcissa Malfoy
Date: 03 June 1980
Format: Note
Relevance: This letter, discovered after the second war, contradicts N. Malfoy's sworn testimony that L. Malfoy was at home on the date indicated, thus casting doubt on the truth of the remaining testimony she provided in his first trial. Related records from St Mungos show that Draco Lucius ( Read more... )

 
Name: Sirius Black
Format: Formal complaint
Date: 06.08.1980
Relevance: Formal complaint filed by Auror Cyril Richards against Specialty Wizard Sirius Black. The contents provide evidence of S. Black's increasing irrationality immediately following the death of his brother, Regulus Black.

( On 6 August, 1980... )

Name: Bellatrix Lestrange
Date: August 3rd 1980
Format: Newspaper clipping
Relevance: The obituary of Regulus Black from the Daily Prophet. While reference to Death Eater attack and wartime killings was not unheard of in the paper at this late stage of the war, no explanation for Regulus's death was given to the public.

( BLACK: Regulus Black... )

 
Name: Sirius Black
Date: August 1980 (?)
Format: Note
Relevance: Possible reference to the death of Regulus Black. The back of the note is stained with blood, later determined to be Sirius Black's. This event (aforementioned death) was the precursor to a series of suspicious actions on the part of S. Black.
Archivist's note: After examination, ( Read more... )

Name: Bellatrix Lestrange
Date: August 1st, 1980
Format: Pensieve memory
Relevance: This relates to Bellatrix Lestrange's disposal of her cousin's body after she murdered him by administering a fatal dose of sleeping potion. The quality of the memory suggests it was extracted shortly after creation and never replaced. Study of the memory compared ( Read more... )

Name: Sibyll Trelawney
Date: 6 January 1980
Format: S. Trelawney's application for the position of Hogwarts Divination Professor. Includes a Letter of Application, References, and a Family Tree.
Relevance: These documents record Seer Sibyll Trelawney's training in divination, as well as her initial contact with Albus Dumbledore.
And again, dial- ( Read more... )