(#) BJH 2013-05-16
I find myself wondering how Harry will get his revenge on Albus, not to mention how will he get into Hogwarts to get the Diadem without waiting 6 years to attend as a firstie? Will he bother to attend at all? But you did give us a hint when you had Merlin say that as Harry changed the future his memories would change as well. And why did Mrs. Figg wish him Godspeed when she should have been freaked out by a 4 year old boy walking calmly into a UFO.
One little criticism though, if the hole left from Number 4 was hemisherical and sixty feet across shouldn't it have been thirty feet deep and not twenty? Picky of me I know but I am an engineer and that is what I do.
BJH
Author's response
Heya BJH!
Harry will get his revenge on Dumbledore by using something in canon.
Hoggy’s: Harry is still very, very powerful, and he knows all the in’s and out’s of the secret passageways…remember, he spent several hundred years as caretaker in the castle.
Hoggy’s 2: Harry will attend, but that is beyond the scope of this particular tale. As it is, when he does go, it will be a different world. ‘Sides…imagine the chaos he could cause…Hehehehehehehehehe!
Memories: As he changes things, the memories of the things he’s changed will fade. That’s why I had him decide to copy his msmories to My Little’s long term storage.
Here, I have Mrs. Figg knowing what’s been happening at number 4, and reporting it faithfully to the MOB, with him doing nothing. I think she’d feel better if he were able to escape that, by whatever means, than still be under his control.
True, a true hemisphere would be thirty feet deep, however, with the average house being thirty five to fourty feet across, if the bottom of the hole was thirty feet deep, the upper corners of the roof would be sitting in their neighbor’s gardens. Here, I moved the geometric center of the sphere up ten feet in order to take the entire house. I suppose you could call it an oblate indentation.
Alorkin