The Rise of Grindelwald 1881-1945
written by Anatoli Harvie
This is a book with references to all the events took part at the rise of Grindelwald. Timeline 188-1945
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05/31/21
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1926
Chapter 36
Bob, Bill, and Barnaby Ollerton start the Cleansweep Broom Company
In 1926, the Ollerton brothers’ first broom, the Cleansweep One, revolutionizes the game of Quidditch. The Cleansweep Broom Company continues to produce top quality racing brooms for the next few decades (QA9).
circa March, 1926
Marvolo Gaunt returns from Azkaban to find Merope gone
He had been given a six-month sentence. Forced to live alone, he withers away and dies sometime within the next two and a half years.
circa March 31st, 1926
Merope Gaunt gets pregnant with Tom Marvolo Riddle
Her husband, Tom Riddle, leaves her very soon afterward – Dumbledore suspects because she stops giving him love potion.
Timeline Notes
The date is deduced from being nine months before Voldemort's birth date. We know Riddle leaves her soon afterward because they were only married for "a few months."
November 27th, 1926
Confrontation at the Chateau
"The Obscurial was here? Where did she go?"
-- Percival Graves
Five Aurors attempt to capture Gellert Grindelwald at his remote, derelict chateau, possibly somewhere in Switzerland. The five approach the chateau only to be blasted by a “sudden explosion of pure white light” that throws them back and appears to have killed them. From this confrontation, Grindelwald travels to the United States of America to track down an Obscurial which he saw in a vision. Once there he impersonates Percival Graves, one of the most powerful Aurors in MACUSA, and tries to find out who the Obscurial is.
Timeline Notes
The date of November 28, 1926, was on the newspaper seen in the film just after the attack. The headline read "GELLERT GRINDELWALD Dark Wizard Strikes Again in Europe." Since the attack happened at night, we are assuming that this newspaper story appeared the next day. Of course, since this newspaper is a prop created by MinaLima and not written specifically by Rowling, the date is at best an approximation. Rowling's script doesn't list a date. It does, however, state the that next scene with the ship gliding into New York harbor happens the next morning, and newspapers seen in the main lobby at MACUSA headquarters that day say are dated December 6th.
Notes
Why do we state that the Chateau is probably located in Switzerland? We're making a little bit of an assumption here, but one with some pretty solid canon to back it up (WFT, scene 60):
An impressive hall arranged like an old parliament debating chamber. Every seat is occupied by wizards from all parts of the world. MADAM PICQUERY is presiding, GRAVES at her side.
The Swiss delegate is speaking.
HEINRICH EBERSTADT: . . . that threatens to expose us all.
MADAM PICQUERY: I will not be lectured by the man who let Gellert Grindelwald slip through his fingers—
Rowling is writing a script here, not relating actual historical events. It is highly likely in that context that Rowling is having Picquery refer to what has already happened in the script rather than bringing up random, non-existent events. Therefore we say that the confrontation at the chateau is very likely the event where the Swiss let Grindelwald "slip through" their fingers, and therefore likely that the chateau is in Switzerland.
December, 1926
Mrs. Cole starts working at the orphanage
"I remember it clear as anything, because I'd just started here myself. New Year's Eve and bitter cold, snowing, you know. Nasty night. And this girl, not much older than I was myself at the time, came staggering up the front steps. Well, she wasn't the first. We took her in, and she had the baby within the hour. And she was dead in another hour."
-- Mrs. Cole, speaking in Dumbledore's memory (HBP13)
Shortly after Mrs. Cole takes the job at the London orphanage, Merope Gaunt appears on the doorstep on a snowy New Year’s Eve, gives birth to a baby boy, then dies. Cole was a teenager at the time.
December, 1926
Merope Gaunt sells Slytherin’s locket to Borgin and Burkes
Pregnant and desperate for money, she has no idea what it’s worth and is only given ten Galleons for it. The locket is later sold to Hepzibah Smith.
Timeline Notes
According to Caractacus Burke, this happened "just before Christmas."
December 6th, 1926
Newt Scamander disembarks from a steamship in New York harbor
Newt Scamander walks off the ship and goes through customs, then walks through Manhattan, taking in the sights. As he walks near a bank, a niffler escapes from his case and runs into the bank. Newt follows and, in the process of retrieving the niffler, meets a Muggle named Jacob Kowalski. The two accidentally switch cases.
Timeline Notes
The date for this event is taken from the newspaper Newt notices when Tina takes him in to MACUSA headquarters. While the name of the paper, The New York Ghost, is mentioned in the script and therefore canon, the date may be simply the invention of the art department. That date does fit with the timeline of the story and the weather we observe, so we are using it.
December 6th, 1926
Tina takes Newt in to MACUSA headquarters
Tina Goldstein arrests Newt Scamander after he uses various spells in the presence of Jacob Kolwalski and fails to Obliviate him — and nearly loses a niffler in the process. No one at MACUSA will listen to her report except Percival Graves, who come down to her tiny office to see what’s his Newt’s magical case. Newt and Jacob have accidentally switched cases, however, and the one Tina shows Graves is filled with pastries.
December 6th, 1926
Hunt for the Erumpent in Central Park
Newt and Jacob follow the trail of destruction left behind by the Erumpent into the Central Park Zoo, where they manage to distract it from trying to mate with a very frightened hippo. The Erumpent turns its attention toward Newt, who performs a very interesting mating dance, but then discovers Jacob, who is holding a vial of Erumpent musk. The resulting chase across Central Park ends on a frozen pond with the Erumpent sliding around and falling into Newt’s open case.
Notes
The weather on December 6, 1926 does fit the description in the script for the film:
12-6-1926
Weather Station at: New York-Central Park Area, NY
Highest Temperature: 22 °F Rain/Precip: 0.00"
Average Temperature: 17.5 °F Snowfall: 0.0"
Lowest Temperature: 13 °F Snow on Ground: 7"
Source: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/birthday/newbirthday2.jsp
December 7th, 1926
Grindelwald is captured in the NY Subway by Tina Goldstein and Newt Scamander
He is incarcerated by MACUSA and his wand taken away (WFT).
December 7th, 1926
Tina, Newt, Queenie, and Jacob meet Gnarlak at the Blind Pig
"You've got a big price on your head, Mr. Scamander. Why should I help you instead of turning you in?"
-- Gnarlak (WFT)
They hope to get information from the notorious underworld goblin about the whereabouts of Newt’s missing Demiguise. The meeting is broken up by MACUSA Aurors Apparating into the bar.
Timeline Notes
The script says that this happens at night. The previous scene is "Dusk," so we might assume that this is taking place in the early evening of December 7.
December 31st, 1926
Merope Gaunt dies after giving birth to Tom Marvolo Riddle
Merope Gaunt arrives at the orphanage in the evening, destitute and near death. She had no will to live and has forsworn magic after being abandoned by her Muggle husband, Tom Riddle, whom she had tricked into wedlock with a love potion. Shortly after arriving, she gives birth to a boy and lives only long enough to name him Tom Marvolo Riddle (HBP13).
Timeline Notes
Rowling verified the date as December 31 on her original website (JKR) and then again with the year on Pottermore (Pm).
In 1926, the Ollerton brothers’ first broom, the Cleansweep One, revolutionizes the game of Quidditch. The Cleansweep Broom Company continues to produce top quality racing brooms for the next few decades (QA9).
circa March, 1926
Marvolo Gaunt returns from Azkaban to find Merope gone
He had been given a six-month sentence. Forced to live alone, he withers away and dies sometime within the next two and a half years.
circa March 31st, 1926
Merope Gaunt gets pregnant with Tom Marvolo Riddle
Her husband, Tom Riddle, leaves her very soon afterward – Dumbledore suspects because she stops giving him love potion.
Timeline Notes
The date is deduced from being nine months before Voldemort's birth date. We know Riddle leaves her soon afterward because they were only married for "a few months."
November 27th, 1926
Confrontation at the Chateau
"The Obscurial was here? Where did she go?"
-- Percival Graves
Five Aurors attempt to capture Gellert Grindelwald at his remote, derelict chateau, possibly somewhere in Switzerland. The five approach the chateau only to be blasted by a “sudden explosion of pure white light” that throws them back and appears to have killed them. From this confrontation, Grindelwald travels to the United States of America to track down an Obscurial which he saw in a vision. Once there he impersonates Percival Graves, one of the most powerful Aurors in MACUSA, and tries to find out who the Obscurial is.
Timeline Notes
The date of November 28, 1926, was on the newspaper seen in the film just after the attack. The headline read "GELLERT GRINDELWALD Dark Wizard Strikes Again in Europe." Since the attack happened at night, we are assuming that this newspaper story appeared the next day. Of course, since this newspaper is a prop created by MinaLima and not written specifically by Rowling, the date is at best an approximation. Rowling's script doesn't list a date. It does, however, state the that next scene with the ship gliding into New York harbor happens the next morning, and newspapers seen in the main lobby at MACUSA headquarters that day say are dated December 6th.
Notes
Why do we state that the Chateau is probably located in Switzerland? We're making a little bit of an assumption here, but one with some pretty solid canon to back it up (WFT, scene 60):
An impressive hall arranged like an old parliament debating chamber. Every seat is occupied by wizards from all parts of the world. MADAM PICQUERY is presiding, GRAVES at her side.
The Swiss delegate is speaking.
HEINRICH EBERSTADT: . . . that threatens to expose us all.
MADAM PICQUERY: I will not be lectured by the man who let Gellert Grindelwald slip through his fingers—
Rowling is writing a script here, not relating actual historical events. It is highly likely in that context that Rowling is having Picquery refer to what has already happened in the script rather than bringing up random, non-existent events. Therefore we say that the confrontation at the chateau is very likely the event where the Swiss let Grindelwald "slip through" their fingers, and therefore likely that the chateau is in Switzerland.
December, 1926
Mrs. Cole starts working at the orphanage
"I remember it clear as anything, because I'd just started here myself. New Year's Eve and bitter cold, snowing, you know. Nasty night. And this girl, not much older than I was myself at the time, came staggering up the front steps. Well, she wasn't the first. We took her in, and she had the baby within the hour. And she was dead in another hour."
-- Mrs. Cole, speaking in Dumbledore's memory (HBP13)
Shortly after Mrs. Cole takes the job at the London orphanage, Merope Gaunt appears on the doorstep on a snowy New Year’s Eve, gives birth to a baby boy, then dies. Cole was a teenager at the time.
December, 1926
Merope Gaunt sells Slytherin’s locket to Borgin and Burkes
Pregnant and desperate for money, she has no idea what it’s worth and is only given ten Galleons for it. The locket is later sold to Hepzibah Smith.
Timeline Notes
According to Caractacus Burke, this happened "just before Christmas."
December 6th, 1926
Newt Scamander disembarks from a steamship in New York harbor
Newt Scamander walks off the ship and goes through customs, then walks through Manhattan, taking in the sights. As he walks near a bank, a niffler escapes from his case and runs into the bank. Newt follows and, in the process of retrieving the niffler, meets a Muggle named Jacob Kowalski. The two accidentally switch cases.
Timeline Notes
The date for this event is taken from the newspaper Newt notices when Tina takes him in to MACUSA headquarters. While the name of the paper, The New York Ghost, is mentioned in the script and therefore canon, the date may be simply the invention of the art department. That date does fit with the timeline of the story and the weather we observe, so we are using it.
December 6th, 1926
Tina takes Newt in to MACUSA headquarters
Tina Goldstein arrests Newt Scamander after he uses various spells in the presence of Jacob Kolwalski and fails to Obliviate him — and nearly loses a niffler in the process. No one at MACUSA will listen to her report except Percival Graves, who come down to her tiny office to see what’s his Newt’s magical case. Newt and Jacob have accidentally switched cases, however, and the one Tina shows Graves is filled with pastries.
December 6th, 1926
Hunt for the Erumpent in Central Park
Newt and Jacob follow the trail of destruction left behind by the Erumpent into the Central Park Zoo, where they manage to distract it from trying to mate with a very frightened hippo. The Erumpent turns its attention toward Newt, who performs a very interesting mating dance, but then discovers Jacob, who is holding a vial of Erumpent musk. The resulting chase across Central Park ends on a frozen pond with the Erumpent sliding around and falling into Newt’s open case.
Notes
The weather on December 6, 1926 does fit the description in the script for the film:
12-6-1926
Weather Station at: New York-Central Park Area, NY
Highest Temperature: 22 °F Rain/Precip: 0.00"
Average Temperature: 17.5 °F Snowfall: 0.0"
Lowest Temperature: 13 °F Snow on Ground: 7"
Source: http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/CLIMATE/birthday/newbirthday2.jsp
December 7th, 1926
Grindelwald is captured in the NY Subway by Tina Goldstein and Newt Scamander
He is incarcerated by MACUSA and his wand taken away (WFT).
December 7th, 1926
Tina, Newt, Queenie, and Jacob meet Gnarlak at the Blind Pig
"You've got a big price on your head, Mr. Scamander. Why should I help you instead of turning you in?"
-- Gnarlak (WFT)
They hope to get information from the notorious underworld goblin about the whereabouts of Newt’s missing Demiguise. The meeting is broken up by MACUSA Aurors Apparating into the bar.
Timeline Notes
The script says that this happens at night. The previous scene is "Dusk," so we might assume that this is taking place in the early evening of December 7.
December 31st, 1926
Merope Gaunt dies after giving birth to Tom Marvolo Riddle
Merope Gaunt arrives at the orphanage in the evening, destitute and near death. She had no will to live and has forsworn magic after being abandoned by her Muggle husband, Tom Riddle, whom she had tricked into wedlock with a love potion. Shortly after arriving, she gives birth to a boy and lives only long enough to name him Tom Marvolo Riddle (HBP13).
Timeline Notes
Rowling verified the date as December 31 on her original website (JKR) and then again with the year on Pottermore (Pm).
