Locating Key Incidents

[Abigail Draconi]

No: HPFGUIDX 106572

This is not so much a theory, as a question. I am a
fanfic writer who has recently been working with ideas
about alternate histories and alternate time lines
when it comes to Harry Potter; basically how changing
one event in the 'past' effects events within the
scope of cannon. The problem is, the further back the
event I am changing is in the time line, the more at
loose ends I become. It is not my intent to change the
key incidents of the book (beyond the initial change
that led to my work becoming an alternate history/time
line), but to figure out how the change effected the
key incident.

Which leads me to a new problem and the reason I am
posting this. I am having trouble figuring out which
events are key incidents. What makes a particular
event a key incident? And how do the various hints
that JKR leaves throughout her novels play into them -
or at least the idea that key incidents occur in Harry
Potter? Do key incidents occur in the books? Or are
they just not quite so ordinary events?

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