Even pre-euphmeius and fleamont, I rarely saw Dorea and Charlus portrayed as James actual parents. It was probably a 45/45 split of being grandparents or grandaunt/uncle. I'm in agreement that giving birth to James late in life and dying from old age 15 years later doesn't make any sense at all, from either the muggle or wizarding sense of ages. Like, one out is considering the possibility of 100 year old witches giving birth, but that sort of thing has far-flung consequences that JKR likely wouldn't even have thought about. Honestly though, you can mix/match whatever extra source material you want, since so much of it gets retconned or just written without thought that it's hard to say one thing is 100% when other things simply can't be.

 

Currently writing (yet another) PJO fic involving WW2.

My plan is to finish the (shitty) story before publishing it on WbA as the traditional 'post it as you go' really kills my muse.

Would you say just writing it as it goes in WbA is better, or worse? Or is neither inherently superior? I kinda think they're the same but I'd just like to hear your guys' opinions.

 

(sorry if I'm being annoying)

If I wanted to post an outline for my story, should I do it in the WbA thread?

 

Alright thx @Halt

 

Kind of off topic, but do you guys read your old stuff and realize it isn't as god-awful as you thought it was?

 

Soooo, uh... Any French speakers willing to translate a few lines of dialogue for me?

 

Sure I can do that.

 

I thought that was part of Arabella Figg's job. She would watch for any kind of magical activity going on, and if she saw something, she could floo call Dumbledore so he could obliviate the witnesses and keep anyone, including the Ministry, from finding out about it. Based on the relative response times we saw in book 5 after the dementors and the patronus, I would think that the plan would work. Accidental magic doesn't appear to set off the Trace, because Harry uses it a few times before going to the zoo and nothing happens as a result. I contend that if he accidentally killed someone with magic, the Ministry wouldn't know about it, either because their system only responds to spells, or because Dumbledore really has been covering for him the whole time. He would probably obliviate Harry as well.
The whole blowing up Aunt Marge incident must have gotten past the Squib across the street, so it's not a perfect system or anything. I would think that magical law supports Harry living with his relatives, and he has no other relatives than the muggles. Where exactly would they put him if they wanted to put him in the magical world?

 

Question to those who have read/watched Oregairu:

Did you ever get the sense that Yui is genuinely upset that her friends are smarter than her and occasionally poke fun at her for her being dumb? Or is it just a gag?

 

Generally no, she doesn't really get upset about that needling, likely seeing it as her version of how Yukino and Hachiman bitch each other out constantly.

That said, there's definitely a few moments in canon where she clearly feels inferior and not "good enough". I don't think it's ever in response to something the other two a said, but my memory could be failing me there.

 

I think its probably relevant to remember that in PoA the Ministry identified that the Accidental Magical Reversal Department needed to be deployed and that Harry was missing, all in the time it took for the Knight Bus to get him to the Leaky Cauldron. To be fair, the book says that took a fair bit of time - "a few hours" before Harry arrived at the Cauldron, the Ministry folk had gotten to Privet Drive and resolved the situation. There's no suggest that there was a delay in this happening, and given the nature of HP magic I think its reasonable to assume that there's a detector somewhere in the Ministry for accidental magic that has affected Muggles who are not in the know. So I think its definitely reasonable to take from this it of PoA that if Harry did have a big incident of accidental magic early on, the Ministry would be the ones to react to it.

That same portion of PoA gives a bit of an insight into what might happen with Harry afterwards. Dumbledore seems to have nothing to do with Harry's disposition after he arrives in London. The Minister is the one who says Harry will stay at the Cauldron, and presumably pays for it since money is never mentioned in regards to it.

I think the truly canonical way of dealing with Harry becoming aware much earlier due to accidental magic would be that the Ministry would get involved in his life, to at least some extent. Ched's first option is probably about right, but I'd replace Dumbledore with "The Ministry". Maybe they delegate the responsibility of easing Harry into the world to Dumbledore, but I think even that is unlikely. Fanon tends to give Dumbledore a much greater level of power in the Wizarding World than canon indicates. Dumbledore is an old man, the Headmaster, an "ambassador" of some sort, a "speaker of the house" type thing, and a "chief justice" type thing. He wouldn't have time to deal with Harry personally, and I wouldn't see any reason for the Minister to be alright with delegating to Dumbledore, only for it to be further delegated.

If I was writing this into a fic, I'd use it as an opportunity for Harry to get exposed to a variety of people in the Ministry who can then be useful later on in the fic. If the Ministry decides that a supervised interaction with the Wizarding world every 2 months is reasonable, then there could be a different member of the Ministry every time - it could be whoever is appropriately junior but not too junior and happens to be free on the relevant day. One visit could be Ludo Bagman (shortly before he becomes Head of Department)taking Harry to a quidditch match, 2 months later its Dirk Cresswell taking him for a tour of Hogsmeade and lunch at the 3 Broomsticks, then 2 months later its Kingsley Shacklebolt taking him to the British Gobstones Championships.

You get a bunch of side characters to play with if you want to make them relevant later on, and a chance to expose Harry to a load of different sorts of things which can shape his later progression. For example, it could be as simple as he really enjoyed the Gobstones championship, so he immediately join the Hogwarts Gobstones Club when he starts his 1st year, and that becomes the centre of his social life. Totally changes who he is friends with and gives you lots to play with.

 

Fudge was actually quite dependent on Dumbledore during the time Harry was 8 and was mentioned to ask for his advice multiple times a week, in Chamber fo Secrets we even see how reluctant he is to let the Ministry investigate the Heir of Slytherin since he doesn't think they could succeed if Dumbledore failed.

So it certainly makes sense that after the ministry becomes aware of the incident that they would immediately ask Dumbledore how they should proceed.

 

Honestly, I just wanted to get some ideas for a full oneshot from the brilliant minds at DLP.

 

What is the conceit you are interested in? What is the problem to solve or alternate approach to explore?