2018

The following events occurred in the year 2018:

Events

• 14 March: Muggle physicist Stephen Hawking dies.
• 1 September: Harry Potter escorts his reluctant son Albus Potter to the Hogwarts Express for the start of his second year.
• 1 September: Draco Malfoy asks Harry Potter to help him get rid of the rumours about his son, Scorpius Malfoy.
• September: Hogwarts Headmistress Minerva McGonagall announces Rose Granger-Weasley as the new Gryffindor Quidditch team Chaser.
• 14 November: The Ministry of Magic publicly announced the establishment of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force.
• 14 December: A Muggle speed camera captures blurry footage of several out-of-control riderless Nimbus 2000 broomsticks speeding on a motorway in Sydney, Australia. The Statute of Secrecy Task Force is deployed to track the rogue brooms before they are noticed by Muggle authorities.

Behind the scenes

• 21 April: Verne Troyer, who played Griphook in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, dies at the age of 49.
• 25 April: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is released.
• 7 May: Harry Robinson, a voice actor in the first three Harry Potter video games, dies at the age of 87.
• July: Broadcast rights for the Harry Potter film franchise to transfer from FreeForm / ABC to NBCUniversal and associated networks.
• 16 November: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second instalment of the Fantastic Beasts film series, is released.
• 2 December: Salo Gardner, who played a Knockturn Alley wizard in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, dies at the age of 82.

See also

• Dating conventions