HOL Timeline 2001

June 2001

June 01 - First Heads of House appointed: Prof. Bastet (Gryffindor), Prof. Elrond (Hufflepuff), Prof. Laffengraff (Ravenclaw), Prof. Mithrandir (Slytherin)
June 10 - Great Hall opened for news and announcements.
June 15 - Student Registration Office opened.
June 16 - First HOL-ID assigned.
June 19 - 1300 students registered for HOL in the first four days.

July 01 - HOL Forum opened.
July 07 - Sorting Hat opened.
July 08 - Brooms added to the HOL Forum.
July 09 - First ever House Points awarded to Erik Rowling, Gryffindor (10 P. for winning a forum contest)
July 09 - 'The Spell Binder' founded as the official HOL Newspaper. Publisher: Mellie Nel.
July 16 - House Points Rules became effective.
July 16 - First official Ops for the HOL Chatrooms selected: Chris Lupin (later Prof. Asclepius Argumentus), Tbyrd, Kalivett Potter, Emma Canada, Erik Rowling, Lizzy Finnigan, Dyre Ashling, Rhiannon Llewellyn (later Prof. Rhiannon Llewellyn), Nick Potter, Jess Fawkes, Hailey Paris, Linzi Clearwater, Icicle Black.
July 20 - 'Operation Quill' started in Slytherin.
July 23 - Prof. Paracelsus became new Head of Slytherin, Prof. Stirringstone new Deputy Headmistress.
July 23 - Prof. Zeln's Summer Trivia Bowl started.
July 30 - HOL Debate Club started by Prof. Paracelsus and Prof. Argumentus.

HOL moved from newnet to irctoo/fragglerock for chatrooms.
August 03 - Chatroom #greathall opened on IRC.
August 06 - Amicitia est Pervalidus Veneficium (Friendship is the strongest magic) becomes the HOL Motto.
August 08 - Hanie Hopkirk started the HOL Birthday Calendar.
August 09 - First prefects applications started.
August 10 - First issue of 'The Spell Binder' published.
August 13 - HOL Library opened.
August 16 - 'HOL Party Forum incident'. First expulsion in HOL.
August 21 - Sign-Up for HOL Classes started.
August 25 - 'Yule Ball Decision': Dating Forum and Yule Ball will not happen in HOL.

September 01 - First Year of HOL officially started. Common Rooms opened.
September 01 - HOL Trivia Bowl final.
September 02 - First Prefect Campaining started with 10 candidates from each house.
September 02 - HOL Chatrooms via Java opened. Andrew, the admin of the irc.fragglerock.org, set up an alternative to IRC. Official HOL Chatrooms are: #hpgalleries (main channel), #greathall (great hall chat), #quidditch (matches etc.), #gryffindor, #hufflepuff, #ravenclaw, #slytherin (house chats). Later that year, three more Quidditch related channels were added: #grandstand, #snitch and #refchan.
September 08 - Poltergeist sighting. He goes by the name of Snerdly, and can pop in just about anywhere!
September 10 - First 20 Prefects have been chosen in a schoolwide election.
September 11 - HOL classes, quidditch and house points suspended due to 9/11 events in the USA.
September 12 - HOL Support Forum opened after 9/11 tragedy.
September 19 - HOL classes, quidditch and house points resumed.
September 20 - First Class Member Lists published.

October 03 - A Spy in HOL. We received information from the Minister of Magic himself that a student from Omskomolsk - a famous school in Dark Arts - has intruded in HOL. The intention of this spy is to sabotage our school and to steal our magical secrets, so Olag Edam - the Feared Dark Wizard can take over our school.
October 20 - Xany Trivia started by Prof. Xanthos.
October 27 - Quidditch: Hufflepuff beat Gryffindor 80 : 50.
October 30 - HOL Halloween Party on mIRC.

November 04 - First Headstudents appointed (Leah Samson, Matt Whisp, Sara Ravenangel, Zara Black).
November 11 - Quidditch: Slytherin beat Ravenclaw 100 : 70.