September the first, nineteen-seventy-one.

The day is one that will forever be remembered as the day the world's collective consciousness shuddered.

They could set the earth ablaze.

Leave nothing but ashes.

Oh, yes, they were downright lethal when they wanted to be. This was something the staff of Hogwarts was consistently reminded of over the span of those seven years.

(twenty years later, another slew of embers—just waiting to be set aflame—walks through those doors.)