[HPforGrownups] Locating Key Incidents

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No: HPFGUIDX 106617



Abigail Draconi <abigail_draconi at yahoo.com> wrote:
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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@---<-- Abby


Okay, here goes (and this is by no means a complete list)

SS/PS - 

Dursleys allowing Harry to stay, Harry  becomes friends with Ron, Harry chooses not go to Slytherin, Harry goes after Neville's rememberall, going to warn Hermione, going down the trap door.

CoS -

Not telling Dooby what he wants to hear, taking the flying car, not telling DD about the voices he is hearing, going after Ginny

moonmyyst...this is to get started with.  I will send more along in a bit... I have to tuck puppies to bed and wash red dye out of my hair... planning to become a Weasley so my puppies can herd the gnomes!!


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