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Chapter five, “Music, Romance, and Magic,” is now posted and available. Thanks in advance for reading. https://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600100444&chapter=5

Hi, all. Chapter 4 notes. Towards the end of Chapter 3, Rita Skeeter got her clock maintained by John’s sister-in-law Hannah. In real life, if the sister-in-law of a protected diplomatic service employee cold-cocks a reporter at a public event such as a press conference, it’s a serious diplomatic incident. It’s a serious diplomatic incident here, too. John also had to register his and his children’s wands with MaCUSA, report their magical school enrollments, and pay both MaCUSA and USA import duties. Finally, in my ‘fanon,’ wands made with cherry wood are dangerous enough beyond the danger any wand poses that MaCUSA actually regulates them strictly, as well as differently than other wands. So, John takes everybody except for the three Weasleys to the MaCUSA side to take care of his other business, and talk to both the MaCUSA and USA Deputy Chiefs of Mission and report the serious diplomatic incident. There are very few things in real life that can defuse a serious diplomatic incident without seeing you and your entire family declared “persona non gratia,” or PNGed and literally stuffed on the very next flight home; or worse yet see the person involved prosecuted by the host country. One of those things is having the very reporter your sister in law assaulted get caught in the act of having evaded Embassy Security and spied upon classified national security conversations. And guess what Rita did? They are at the Embassy long enough that Skeeter’s capture in the middle of the Embassy has already made the front page of the evening Daily Prophet. In the next section, some wizarding eleven-year-olds can quote Kipling in context of their own lives. A “fanon” that I originally borrowed with some credit from a great fanfic author gets borrowed again here, but from a different perspective, and at a time closer to when it happened. Arthur Weasley receives some unsolicited parenting advice, but ends up accepting it. Ron Weasley still isn’t a time traveler here. Aaron ends up getting a wand. Unlike Charlie, he’s taking the “early wand” business seriously. A grave is visited and a prayer is sung. David and Aaron talk to each other more or less like the eleven-year-old and eight-year-old boys they currently are. Cheers!

Chapter four, “Problems, Solutions, and Dilemmas,” is now posted and available. Several corrections to locations were made, but nothing that changed the plot. Thanks in advance for reading. https://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600100444&chapter=4

Hi, @BronxWench and all. I’ve yet to hear of a story being hidden or worse for apostrophes. Your help on the rating and content tags has already shown up. Many grateful thanks. Cheers!

Hi, @WillowDarkling and all. I posted my Harry Potter story, The Yankee’s Nephew and the Philosopher’s Stone. I now realize that I will need to change both the rating and content tags, since I unknowingly blew the “one chance” when starting the story. If you can change them, I would ask they be changed to the following: Change the rating from SFW to Adult+ Nothing explicitly goes past the current rating yet, that I’m aware of, but that very well may change even if the actions themselves happen off-camera. Remove the ‘NoSex’ tag. This tag has not been broken yet. That could change. Add the Minor1 and Minor2 tags. This lack of tags hasn’t been broken yet. However both members of one protagonist couple are both eleven to twelve, and they are the ones most likely to “go pre-marital” as well as the ones to most likely “go pre-marital” on camera. The older “not moved out” couples could potentially go “pre-marital” as well, especially if the “most likely” couple does, but they would almost certainly be “off-camera” even if the consequences of their acts are openly mentioned in the text. Add both the “MF” and “MM” tags. MF would explain itself. I haven’t “committed hard” to a on-camera MM pairing beyond merely mentioning its existence, but there’s already one adult MM relationship explicitly out there, even if it hasn’t been “explicitly shown.” This relationship is also a “known triangle,” but only that and not a full-on 3Plus. A “junior known triangle” if not a “junior 3Plus” is also possible, but only possible. I honestly haven’t written the details out far enough to have decided whether the story would drive such a relationship here. If you have any “interim” suggestions as an alternative until authors can change ratings and tags, please let me know. Thanks in advance for your time and help.

“Embassies, Houses, Cars, and Tags.” Hi, all. I just had to do some quick “corrections,” and I’l also explain about cars and driving in this story. I will be asking the Archive Moderators to change the rating to “Adult +” and change some content flags after I post this entry. While nothing “flaggy” has been posted yet, the story is heading to the point where it might happen. Although it won’t be covered in anywhere near the detail of Harry Potter’s time at Hogwarts, we will be reading about Bill, Charlie, and Percy Weasley’s pre-1991-1992 Hogwarts careers, as well as the Hogwarts-bound OCs. So some content tags are appropriate, especially since one of the OCs is already dating. And, even in JKR Canon, the content tag “MiCD” is warranted, since Professor Quirell definitely does not leave the “Mirror Room” under his own power. Since that part of the Archive Database is still locked down for security reasons, the authors only get one chance to set the flags themselves; and have to ask the moderators to do it for them afterwards. The flags that appear don’t guarantee any “creamy porny goodness,” especially in a story that is not porn-driven, but incidents that might happen or come close to happening will be covered by the appropriate tags, even if it’s only a few paragraphs in a very large story. So, if you want to read a lot of Dvorak Sex Scenes, you should change channels over to “Originals” and read Riding the Lincoln Way. As an American writing Harry Potter Fanfiction, you would rightly expect me to know that the US Embassy moved from Grosvenor Square to Nine Elms in Wadsworth to some controversy in 2018. I didn’t, sorry. I have fixed this, and also changed the relevant train station from Waterloo to Vauxhall. At least it was on the same train line, even you would take the bus from Vauxhall to Grosvenor Square instead of the tube from Waterloo to Nine Elms. I also managed to find Steve VanderArk’s wonderful map of the Little Whinging development. Looking at it, I changed the house numbers for Arabella Figg’s house and the house Frank Floyd purchases. Even with the original house numbers I’ve chosen, I’ve been going with the movie/fanon location having Figg directly across the street from Number Four Privet Drive, which according to VanderArk would be Number Seven. I had Frank buy Number Two, since it is next door to Number Four. So, the west side of Privet Drive will be Number 2 (Frank Floyd Guest House,) Number Four (Harry Potter, Pet Dvorak, et al,) Number Six (a long-suffering family living between the “Jolly Red Yankee Giant” and “Dog-Shit City,” and Number Eight (Vernon, Petunia, Dudley, and often Marjorie Dursley with her ill-behaved dogs.) The family in Number Six might sell to a Milkman and his family who managed to win the lottery in the early ‘90s, but that is many chapters away if it happens at all. Ashford, Surrey, is a “common fan consensus” for the location of Little Whinging, though not absolute. I decided to go with it, and I’m staying with it. Why? Because Ashford is more or less underneath the flightpath for Heathrow Airport. The sound deadening installed in all new construction homes in this area because of one of the world’s busiest airports is also perfect for The Treasures to work out of the basement of Number Two without bothering the neighbors with the noise from their rehearsal and practice sessions. Finally, the “cars.” The Austin FX-4 was the iteration of the “London Taxi” being built that year. As will soon be mentioned starting with Chapter 4, both the brand-new one John bought for himself and the late-model one he bought to loan “extra-long-term” to Remus Lupin have “diplomatic plates” on them. “Diplomatic” registration plates are issued by many countries, including both the UK and the United States for foreign diplomats driving in their countries. While these plates are not a “get-out-of-jail-free” card, cars with diplomatic plates are given much less “intense” traffic and parking law enforcement when compared to the “ordinary” citizens of the host country. While John is a civil service employee, he is also high enough on the totem pole that he and his American-born children are in the UK under Diplomatic Passports, and John’s cars all have diplomatic plates. Only Harry himself is not directly given diplomatic protection, since he was born in the UK to two native UK Citizens. But, as John and Pet’s adopted son, he has some diplomatic protections. Petunia also has some diplomatic protection being John’s husband, but without renouncing her UK Citizenship, that protection is less than John has. But, back to the cars. John brought his ‘67 Ford over from the US. He had to title and register it in the UK. It has diplomatic plates. He also bought Petunia a new (then) Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II, since she didn’t like and couldn’t yet legally drive either of John’s two cars It has diplomatic plates. Any other car or motorcycle John owns and drives in the UK will also get diplomatic plates. Frank Floyd benefited from a game of diplomatic one-upsmanship between MaCUSA and the UK, so his Phantom V, a coach-built chauffeur driven limousine, has diplomatic plates, too. He will also be shown later to lawfully have a diplomatic passport, partly but not entirely from the same incident that got him his diplomatic plates. In the UK, if you get your driving license with a manual transmission, you can drive any passenger car. If you get your driving license in a car with an automatic transmission, you can’t legally drive a car with a manual transmission without passing and additional test to get the “automatic only” restriction removed from your driving license. So, John had to get Petunia something with an automatic transmission, since that’s all she was licensed for then. He went with the Silver Wraith II because he could afford to pay cash easily and casually for it, and because it was a big car that would only take two trips instead of three or four if she had to get all the kids somewhere by herself. The Silver Wraith II was also a focal point of one of the many “canon busters” here. According to JKR, Vernon Dursley’s first (off-camera) meeting with James and Lilly Potter started out similarly to what I actually portrayed in Chapter 1. In JKR Canon, Vernon bragged about whatever high-end luxury he and Petunia had just bought. James in turn bragged about his racing broom. But, having a chip on his shoulder, plus not being particularly observant or knowing anything about motorcycles, Vernon believed that the Nimbus 1200 was priced like a Muggle broom, rather than Ducati 900 SS which was its Muggle equivalent. When James stated that he “didn’t work,” when combined with bragging about a broom, Vernon assumed that James was not only (gasp!) a “magical weirdo,” but that he was also on the dole. Here, with just a little help from Sirius Black, things happened differently. First, John did not have a chip on his shoulder. He was actually trying to get Petunia and Lilly to reconcile, so he wasn’t going to start a war with James Potter if he could possibly help it. Second, since he worked at the Embassy for both the United States and MaCUSA, he had access to the Wizard World equivalent of “Who’s Who in the UK.” Third, he likes Muggle motorcycles, and understood that brooms, especially racing brooms were the Wizarding World equivalent. So, John already knew that James was a “trust fund baby,” and not on the dole. Second, his mention of the Silver Wraith II was made more in commiseration with James, saying how far he was already going for his Evans girl. So, after “kvetching” to James that he’d bought his own wife the most expensive “showroom” car in the UK, and she still found fault with it, James bragged about buying himself a magical Ducati. John was not happy with James, but instead of thinking “you silly wastrel,” he was more thinking “you selfish jerk!” So, John made the quip about the “bang-zoom blessings.” John grew up in the 1950s, when Jackie Gleason’s hit television series The Honeymooners was still first-run and “bang, Zoom!” was Ralph Kramden’s trademark phrase of displeasure towards his wife Alice. Sirius, rightly sensing the tension, does his brother Prongs a solid by making his counter-quip, finally braking the ice. “Doctor Jules Montiner” is a real person, and would actually be a real-live analog to Fleamont Potter, on top of being a Chicago native. The Jules Montiner company, most famous for their Stopette antiperspirant, also made Finesse shampoo. Montiner sold his company to Helene Curtis in 1956. Stopette was eventually discontinued, but the Finesse shampoo line is still being made. Montiner’s company also sponsored the then very popular television game show What’s My Line, which John would have also watched as a teenager. Finally, even in Riding the Lincoln Way, John is much better at lawfully selling other people’s stuff than he is his own. So, every house or vehicle John has ever come in contact with is either still his, or held in trust for the kid who’s supposed to Inherit it; and all of it is being kept in perfect condition. Tim owns a pair of totally rebuilt six-flats in Mokena, Saria owns a house in Morris, Pixie owns two houses in Will County, and so on – on top of Orchard Municipal Flight Services belonging to David and Aaron.

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Hi, all. Chapter 3 notes. First, I hope I’ve done a good enough job telling the story instead of telling about the story. The first scene at the Burrow shows the changes and non-changes from the Lincoln Way characters. While the relationships between the Dvorak/Floyd brothers are less contentious here, they are still not all “skittles and beer.” John is actually civil to Abner Junior and William, and only part of that is the recently demanded by Petunia reconciliation in exchange for her reconciling with Lilly. Frank is also not nearly as big of a dick to his son Andy as he is in Lincoln Way, although his inability to help his dyslexic son is still present, and still sees Andy moving in with John Dvorak. Frank’s relationship with his (dead here) brother is slightly better, because Rick actually flew Army helicopters in combat here, instead of being washed out for asthma during flight school. One of the other “random switch-flips” here was Junior and William’s relationships with John and their mother. While in Lincoln Way Junior and William believed Abner Senior could do no wrong, here the two biological sons of Abner Doubleday Dvorak took a more nuanced view of life. They protected John instead of bullying or trying to seduce him, even while they still knew that John and Richard didn’t share their biological father with them. Also, unlike in Lincoln Way, they also knew who helped Abner the First embark on his “journey of self discovery through a sausage casing.” While neither Junior nor William could resist a ten inch dick, they weren’t nearly as affectionate to the man who hosted it, even if they both agreed that “Dad had it coming. He should have fucked us who wanted it instead of trying for ‘little John.’” They were also not resentful towards their mother at all. When Sally Dvorak died, she had four loving sons gathered around her to see her off, even if the older two and the younger two didn’t get along well. While John continued to own the house, it became more a of a family “Museum and Refuge” than a rental property. David succeeds in keeping his very close friendship with Tim Cash, because he works at it. You saw more of that here. He’s also mostly formed an equally close friendship with Bill Weasley. You’ve also seen more of that here. Charley and Aaron will be members of this ‘orbit,’ because of the affection each has for their closest younger brothers. In JKR canon Bill is closest with Charley out of all of his siblings, though he’s the “cool and admired” older brother to all of them. Likewise, Aaron is David’s “third birthday present,” and while Rick and Stacy Dvorak were much better parents than Sam and Stacy Kopchek, David did fix more than his share of bottles and diaper changes for Aaron, even if his parents were actually watching from the wings here. In the “tell about the story” paragraphs leading to the press conference and wand purchases, I gave a quick snapshot into the workings of the Dvorak and Weasley families. John is friends with Sirius Black as well as Remus Lupin, and Sirius wants to be a part of Harry’s life, even while freely admitting that blood wards stronger than the Hogwarts wards are the best place for Harry to grow up, with two loving parents and a house full of loving siblings. Pet is taking a leaf out of Lilly’s book on the remaining Marauders. You’ve already seen the last of her discomfort with Remus’s “furry little problem,” but she knows to keep the “Mutt” on a tight leash. The boys will see their toy brooms, in Devon, and off-camera. Pet may be starting to like magic, but she really enjoys her walls free of broom-handle sized holes, thank you very much. Frank in both stories is all about family and responsibility, even if he isn’t any good with his youngest son. Here, he buys a house by John’s, for his and Junior’s use when needed. Junior and Hannah will not die in this story prior to the 1990s, even though William Dvorak is toast. Sometimes, even in real life, things are decided in seconds. In Lincoln Way, Junior makes it to a railroad crossing with their daughter in the car with them, and they pay with their lives. Here, Junior and Hannah arrive after the drunk student rams a freight train, if they’re on that road then at all. While Frank didn’t stage the ‘impromptu’ press conference, he absolutely knew that it was likely, and he planned ahead; including a press release to hand out. He also managed to build up enough ‘clout’ with MaCUSA to have them issue diplomatic license plates for his car, which is almost never done in real life, or here. Rita Skeeter also discovered, much to her own cost, that the Taylor girls are almost as nasty to deal with as the Evans girls if you piss them off. Even in JKR canon, Vernon Dursley never pushed Petunia further than she intended to go herself anyway. For the wand selection, I ended up having to do more wandlore research than I had done up to now for Third Time’s a Soul Bond, and that ‘Ron Weasley’ actually makes wands. The first thing I tried was one of the online “wand selection personality tests.” I took the test for Danny Dvorak, giving the closest answers to what Danny himself would give if he was a real person. The “options” didn’t match up with Danny would have chosen, so I had to pick the “closest” to the right answer for him. And, the “quiz” gave Danny The Elder Wand. I wasn’t going to have a fourteen year old guitar-playing Harley-Davidson fanatic bushwack Albus Dumbledore, so he got what he got here. While this is a Harry Potter story, and Harry Potter will do the heavy lifting once he’s older than a toddler, the Lincoln Way characters will have some involvement in the story beyond “background scenery.” This story is also focusing more on David Dvorak when compared to his fellow Lincoln Way characters. David will still be part of The Treasures, The Treasures will still be very popular and profitable, and he’ll still be an accomplished helicopter pilot; but he will do other things. And while the Lincoln Way characters won’t be “Deus ex Machina” characters, they won’t be wimps, either. You will see those cherry wands again. The rest of the Dvoraks got wands that matched their personalities. Likewise; Sirius, Bill, and Charley got wands most suited to their attitudes. Ronnie will eventually get a wand in much better condition. And, Ron won’t deal with his ash wand being weakened by being an “heirloom” wand. It will work quite well for him, actually. We will see several more chapters, including at least one run “on camera” of the Hogwarts Express before Harry goes to Hogwarts to learn magic. Cheers!

Chapter three, “More Arrivals for Little Whinging,” is now posted and available. Beyond a minor typo, nothing has been edited in prior chapters. Thanks in advance for reading. https://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600100444&chapter=3

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Hi, all. I posted a revision to Chapter 1 at the same time I posted Chapter 2. In Chapter 1, I explicitly wrote out several points that were only implied in the previous version. Chapter 2 notes. First, I explain why this version of John and Catherine Dvorak only had two children. In Riding the Lincoln Way, the explanation is rather obvious, but here, it needed to be explained in a ‘plot-consistent’ way, since Catherine Taylor Dvorak ‘stuck around’ well after Michael’s birth. Next, I show that Remus Lupin was the the ‘truest’ and ‘most consistent’ of the Marauders. In Lincoln Way, John Dvorak has become an expert in rapidly and correctly judging others as to their motives and aspirations towards him and those under his protection. Here, he is housing Lupin, and this pays off right away, and continues to pay off. David Dvorak is also shown to have a similar tendency, which he also has in Lincoln Way, even if it’s less obvious. We also get to see that Harry and Dudley are insane broom fliers, even if their closest friend is not. Next, John describes his ancestors in this universe, and their relationship with the Wizarding world. This is mostly ‘background’ to help explain what happens later on. The ‘hedge academies’ are fanon, not canon, but I’ve used them here The ‘fanon’ idea of ‘lesser magic schools’ makes more sense than JKR’s idea of only one school for an entire region of the world. The ‘big schools’ do get most of the student magic wielders, though. Did you really expect a person with “common sense” to see Peter Pettegrew in his Animagus form to not recognize him? Especially if that person also knows what kind of ‘chunks’ of a person will or won’t survive a serious explosion? John is the more ‘lawful’ of the youngest Dvorak brothers. Rick would have just conjured a baseball bat and ended things right then and there. John was able to tell that Arthur, and all the Weasleys had only been taken advantage of, though Rick would also have seen this. ‘Ol’ Petey’ does manage to get a trial, for what good it does him. John considers Sirius a friend, so he visits him along with Remus in hospital, after Sirius is allowed to go to the hospital. This is more common for boys than for girls, but they also have this happen. You meet the particular person, and all of a sudden, you are closer than siblings, and you freely share secrets that you wouldn’t even dream of sharing with just anyone. This will probably happen with Harry and Ron, it happens here with David and Bill Weasley. Cheers!

Chapter two, “Catching Their Breath,” is now posted. I also made an important revision to Chapter 1, although that revision mostly clarifies stuff that would have been implied in the previous version Thanks in advance for reading. https://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600100444&chapter=2

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Isn’t that the number of the Beast of 42nd Street or something? (42667) Cheers!

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Perhaps I’ll make a more poetic observation next time. Cheers!

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