Battle of the Astronomy Tower
The night Severus Snape killed Albus Dumbledore.
The Battle of the Astronomy Tower, also known as the Battle of the Lightning-Struck Tower, was the second major conflict of the Second Wizarding War. It took place in the topmost part of the Astronomy Tower of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in the mountainous region of Scotland, Great Britain shortly after midnight on 30 June 1997.
Quick Facts
- Date
- 30 June 1997
- Location
- Astronomy Tower, Hogwarts Castle
- Cause
- Lord Voldemort's plot to murder Albus Dumbledore
- Result
- Albus Dumbledore killed
Facts from the source article.
Background
Lord Voldemort secretly organised the attack by ordering sixteen-year-old Death Eater and Hogwarts student Draco Malfoy to assassinate Albus Dumbledore, the only wizard in the world whom Voldemort feared. Although his previous attempts at assassination had failed, Draco managed to sneak a number of Death Eaters into Hogwarts via a pair of Vanishing Cabinets in the Room of Requirement, and they encountered a number of Hogwarts teachers, students, Dumbledore's Army members, and Order of the Phoenix members, who had been standing guard at the school at the request of both Dumbledore and Harry Potter.
As the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters battled, Severus Snape killed Dumbledore, an act that was later discovered to have been secretly planned between Dumbledore and Snape, as Dumbledore would soon afterwards still have died due to having put on Marvolo Gaunt's cursed ring, which was a Horcrux, and was afflicted with a deadly curse that would have eventually killed him anyway.
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