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Hi, all. Chapter 6 notes. This chapter gets the “1982 Gang” from Little Whinging to King’s Cross, and then to Hogwarts. The Marine First Sergeant mentioned was 1stSgt Donald Hamblen. His story is here. https://www.historynet.com/donald-hamblen-one-tough-marine-and-purple-heart-recipient/ The Navy Salvage Diver was BMCM Carl Brashear, the subject of the movie Men of Honor. Tom Daley is an “original” original character for this story. He might be important later, but I haven’t decided. He will be a much more typical eleven year old boy than the main characters. Joe and Max Stock are borrowed from Riding the Lincoln Way. Their younger sister was a “casualty of creative license.” Their younger brother Peter is a happy, healthy future wizard who will attend Hogwarts with Paul Dvorak. Joe and Max started what they’re doing for slightly different reasons, but not enough changes happened in their lives to stop that from happening. Chapter 7 will start with the sorting. The pace will soon pickup very quickly, since I’m actually writing about Harry Potter. He is still a very cute 25 month old toddler in this chapter, though. Cheers!

Chapter six, “Going to Hogwarts in 1982,” is now posted and available. Thanks in advance for reading. https://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600100444&chapter=6

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Hi, Desiderius Price, and all. Yes, there truly is a point where you have to write a separate story to tell the backstory of a character in the “other” story. Or two different stories actually intersect for a short space. Those are the “sidecar” equivalents to the prequel and the sequel. Before Disney destroyed Star Wars, they had an entire cottage industry writing those stories to the three, and later the six core canon stories. The last three movies were basically stewed pig feces, though there was the occasional gem to float up, but I digress… Cheers!

42751 – Not to be confused with KMG365, Cheers!

For a character thinking back to an earlier moment in time, those would tend to be short. If the character is relating an incident that happened to them before the “main” time of the story itself, or relating an incident through their own perspective that did not happen in the “view” of the main story perspective to one or more of the “main” characters, they can be far longer. When doing this “longer” flashback, you can also “come up for air” in the “present moment” of the story to get reactions from the characters being told or reading the story. And in some cases, you might need to. Cheers!

Perhaps the OP doesn’t realize that they have to click on the “three stacked hash” icon in the top left of the archives home screen and select “archives” from the options revealed then in order to even get to the categories?

Something interesting has percolated up from the past. Hmm… The most important thing in my personal opinion when writing a flashback is this: Never use the actual word “flashback,” unless your protagonist is a psychedelic drug user who is reminiscing or remembering when they were having either more or less “flashbacks” to suffer from. Otherwise, the length or shortness of a flashback isn’t entirely a fixed quantity, at least in my opinion. But, like anything else in creative writing for an audience, it does has its place, and its limits.

Chapter five has been revised as “Music, Romance, Magic, and Transitions.” The story link is the same. Beyond correcting minor errors, two sections have been added, so that Chapter six can start with the 1982 Hogwarts Express run. I’ve also edited chapters 1-4. A secondary character who was previously killed pre-story is now alive, although he won’t really be seen until later, since he’s a fourth year when Harry starts Hogwarts. Thanks in advance for reading.

Hi, Desiderius Price and all. Perhaps the terms “Primary and Secondary Characters” is more fitting here. The “classic Riverdale” cohort are all juniors in High School from what I remember, and I’m far from the only author here with more “curiously age-challenged” characters. “Going down the line” was what I was referring to. Lots of people go “railfanning.” Very few want to read the manifest in the lead locomotive that was pulling the train… ...Off topic, but I can’t resist. Most women prefer sailing and yachting over railfanning, when given only those two choices for a recreational activity. I’m told the reason is that no woman has ever had her reputation destroyed for pulling a boat. Ducking and running...

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Hi, Deadman and all. This isn’t necessarily a problem, per se. If for example you are trying to stress how generous your main character is with their physical affections, you might actually stress the genericness or anonymity of their paramours. “Just sayin’” Cheers!

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Hi, all. Chapter 5 notes. In Riding the Lincoln Way, “The Treasures” will first achieve fame in late September of 1982. Here, they’ve achieved in May, and their second sellout concert is at the Barbican Center, and is also broadcast live on BBC One Television. Next comes the romance. In the “movie version” of this story, “Love Theme from The Untouchables” is now the “love theme” here. Who will be Al Capone to David Dvorak’s Elliot Ness? It won’t be Voldemort, but who? Some things happen the same, but differently. A certain Pink Toad makes an off-camera appearance, but her maledictions are foiled here.