The kids were forever racing to the library, because the internet isn't a thing. Arthur Weasley would have lost his mind trying to figure out how the internet worked. Hermione would have started building a wizard internet that ran on magic instead of electricity, in order to make Hogwarts, a History easily accessible to everyone. But alas, Google wasn't founded until 1998, so our golden trio had no way to look up horcruxes without bothering Professor Slughorn. I mean, having to go to the library to research the giant snake monster that's terrorizing your school? So '90s.

In book four, Harry's under-appreciated prom date, Parvati Patil, has to remove an "ornamental butterfly" from her hair, because Professor McGonagall found it "ridiculous." I choose to believe this is conclusive proof that the butterfly clips trend reached the Wizarding World. If only the books were narrated by Parvati and Lavender, we might have learned all about the wizard version of Lisa Frank and hair crimping, too.

I'm sure there were overbearing parents in the '90s, too...but in general, the '90s were a time before cell phones, when children were allowed to eat Halloween candy and log onto those first internet chat rooms without supervision. If these books took place today, there is no way the Granger parents would let their only daughter run off to a magical school that they are never allowed to visit. But in the '90s...sure, why not?

Baby Harry defeated the basilisk the same summer that Jurassic Park came out in theaters. Coincidence? Probably, but clearly stories about poorly supervised children fighting scaly monsters were very in at the time. Let's just hope that Harry didn't get dragged to the movies for Dudley's birthday, because he definitely didn't need to relive that.

What was it about the '90s that made people want to own virtual animals? We had Tamagotchis, furbies, and neopets. Wizards had pygmy puffs, which appear to be tribbles or some kind of living scrunchie. Also Scabbers, who turned out to be an evil middle-aged man pretending to be a pet, which doesn't feel that far off from your average furby.

Dudley Dursley throws his PlayStation out the window in the summer of 1994 when he gets in trouble for sneaking unhealthy snacks. I'd say that's all extremely '90s, except that the first PlayStation came out in December of 1994. So did the Dursleys buy their precious Dudders an early prototype? Or did the PlayStation come out earlier in the Harry Potter timeline? We demand answers, Jo.

Look, I'm sure that some kids, somewhere were politically active in the '90s. But it sure seems like middle schoolers and high schoolers are more political now than we ever were at their age. I'd like to think that Hermione would have gotten a little more traction if she'd started S.P.E.W. to help house elves in 2017.

Um, that's call a gif, Harry. A lot of the things that seemed so magical to little '90s kid Harry would be way less weird to a kid today, like moving photos and standardized tests that drive children to tears.

Ahh, the '90s, when people wore ugly clothes unironically. Ron's dislike of those bulky Weasley sweaters and those ancient, lacy dress robes dates him as a 90's kid, because any teen today would understand the value of a hilariously ugly sweater, or an upcycled, vintage set of robes. Get with it, Ron.