1982

The following events occurred in the year 1982:

Events

 * Scabbers becomes Percy Weasley's pet rat.
 * Igor Karkaroff is released from Azkaban
 * Ludo Bagman is acquitted of being a Death Eater
 * Barty Crouch Jr. is secretly rescued from Azkaban
 * Elphinstone Urquart proposes to Minerva McGonagall and she accepts.

Individuals that started Hogwarts

 * Bill Weasley

Births

 * Romilda Vane
 * Astoria Greengrass
 * Derek