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Let's Try That Again, Shall We?
(#) wjwarren4269 2011-01-09
So... not understanding a continuity in which Lupin/Tonks would be alive and knowing specifics of horcruxes, other than the night/day of the final battle.Author's response
wjwarren4269 -- yes, that's more or less right in terms of when the chapters are set -- she was taken two days before the battle, unless I got the dates wrong.
Also for the purposes of this story, I'm using the premise that trusted order members were getting much more information than Harry all along. So revelations at the final battle for Harry in the original timeline would not have been, in my universe here, necessarily revelations for Tonks.
I have no actual commitment to canon, although I try not to depart from it by accident. :) I'll go back and clarify things if this story becomes popular enough that I both get lots of reviews and lots of confused people. (I do not expect this to happen.)
(This is my first attempt at using the "respond" function. Let's see what it does!)Let's Try That Again, Shall We?
(#) SomeGuyFawkes 2011-01-22
>> Except, do we need him alive when we destroy the horcruxes?
Tonks never knew anything about the horcruxes. She was killed before Harry beat Voldemort and Dumbledore told no one in the order, except Snape.
Also, wouldn't she remember grabbing/meeting the 1990 snitch when she saw the 1998 model?
Author's response
You're not the first person to make that first point. I have no commitment to canon, but I do have one to not accidentally confusing people, so I'll go stick some author's notes in there as to what my AU premises are. This was originally an error, assuming there's no canon support for my version, but I probably would have just made the change anyway. In any case telling me you're confused is actually helpful!
Second, the idea was that the effect was to move the subject sideways as well as back. It's not supposed to create stability and sanity, but rather to rip the old timeline out of existence. It's better than the ground-up fairies from your other comment, but it's still a little bit of hand-waving. :)Let's Try That Again, Shall We?
(#) lleon 2013-08-06
Hmm Tonks as the main character huh. Seems kinda sad taking her away from her baby.
I do hope the time travelling reduces her motherly feelings towards Teddy, I definitely don't want to read chapter after chapter of Angst.
She definitely seems overwhelmed and under-informed.
Hopefully she can make a difference.Let's Try That Again, Shall We?
(#) philakashaggy 2014-05-27
Interesting story, i like it. But you already have a flaw unless its intended. Tonk's last year at hogwarts was harry's 1st. Shes only 6 years older than him not 8.Author's response
I think fan canon had it so they didn't overlap when I started writing this in 2010. I was going by the Harry Potter wiki at the time. J K Rowling has released a whole lot of extra material and bits of information since then.
Since it would have been very convenient for the story to have Tonks overlap with Harry, and I pretty much had this whole extra year before he starts in order to deal with that problem, I'm pretty sure I was sure of the dates at the time.
In any case it's not deliberately AU or anything.
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