Not a new chapter. Sorry! I hate when these get posted too! But thought I would answer some excellent questions posed to me! If your question didn't get answered it means that I plan on answering it through my next chapter posting! Thank you so much for the feedback! Love you all immensely! It means a lot!
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Stereotypical Warning: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does.
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skywiseskychan
One, you don't really explain why her relationship with the goblins is so good.
Two, how should she know the bow was a touch too deep even for a goblin friend, there hasn't been one since merlin so really no one should have any idea what too deep would be.
Okay, here's the thing. The Flamels are very old and while not as old as the time of Merlin they do understand the importance of the relations with the goblins and have learned over the years how to interact with them and have a respectful relationship. Nicolas Flamel is 669 years old. That means because this story is set in 2011, in 1411 he would have been 69. In 1612 there was a major Goblin Rebellion which took place in the vicinity of Hogsmeade. There was another rebellion in the 18th century where Urg the Unclean (a goblin who is on a Chocolate Frog card) participated in. So it stands to reason in my story that Nicolas Flamel has learned proper manners in dealing with the goblins who have an entirely different culture than the wizards and that he recognizes the need for good relationships with them as he has seen first-hand the blood shed that comes from the wars between the goblins and the wizards. In my mind Nicolas Flamel has passed on this knowledge to his wife that he has learned through experience and building a good relationship with the goblins due to his large amounts of gold (goblins like gold and Flamel as the Sorcerer's Stone which can create gold along with immortality). In turn Perenelle has passed on such teachings to Helen in her etiquette lessons.
On the touch too deep thing I just think it's something Helen inferred based on her knowledge of goblin etiquette and what she had experienced in her dealings with the goblins. Think of it like this, you may not know super fancy manners but you don't need to be able to tell when someone is being polite and respectful in their manner and when someone is fawning over someone.
I do hope you are continuing this, also you mentioned her as 15 this chapter but having just turned 16 much earlier. Just a slight discrepancy.
On this I looked back at what I have written and couldn't find where I had written she had just turned sixteen. I found in Chapter 5 this, "And, when my mother married into the family as a First Generation Witch she invested in some of the mundane world's stock because she recognized what could come to fruit. That was fifteen, almost 16 mind you, years ago."" But I even say there almost sixteen and I'm not talking about her age specifically. If you could point it out to me I would be much obliged so that I can fix it.
To clear things up Helen's fifth year just let out so that puts us in June 2011. Next year she will be a sixth year and sixteen but her birthday is July 31st so she's almost sixteen currently.
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sunsethill
I greatly enjoyed getting to see the NCIS team in this. You have definitely set up things for bringing the team back into Helen's life later. At this point, with Helen switching back and forth into French all the time, I wonder how she behaved at Hogwarts. We really haven't learned how this world worked at Hogwarts, yet. Was it canon, with Helen hiding all her knowledge? Or was she able to display some of her abilities and learning without tipping Dumbledore off? What was her relationship with Ron and Hermione like? Or maybe she was able to befriend Neville? I'm looking forward to what happens in her meeting with the President, but I also have a desire to get oriented in how this story differs from canon up until this point, other than her training with the Flamels.
On the canon question. Yes and no. Things didn't happen exactly for her as they did for Harry but the main events are similar enough. The question of Ron and Hermione. First year Helen took out some muggle money from the bank as well. When Hagrid dropped her off at the Dursleys she collected the few personal things she wanted and with her Aunt's easy agreement she took a cab back to the Leaky Cauldron. She stayed the rest of the summer at the Leaky Cauldron and got to find out more about the wizarding world by talking with Tom and the shopkeepers whom she had become familiar with. Tom instructed her to flue to Platform 9¾ so she didn't run into the Weasleys outside of the platform. However, Fred and George still saw her with her struggling with her trunk and helped her to get it into a carriage and brought Ron to her compartment to ride to Hogwarts with her. Later Hermione came by and was rather rude and Helen didn't take her telling her what she had read in books about her very well. However Helen suggested that Ron get Percy who was a Prefect to help find the boy's toad. Percy summoned Trevor the Toad and they found Neville and gave it to him. Hermione left to put her robes on in a huff after Helen finally snapped at her for talking about her parents' murder but Neville rode the rest of the ride with them. I feel like you need to know how it started so what I say next makes sense. All major events still happened but the little things and in between stuff is a bit different. Helen gets along very easily with Neville and Ron is still her first friend but he's still Ron and constantly puts his foot in his mouth so to speak. Helen will ignore Ron whenever he does something or says something to piss her off but as soon as he gets his head out of his arse and apologizes they are back to being friends. Helen rooms with Hermione and is on alright terms with her but is annoyed by the girl's non-questioning of authority figures and strict if the book says it than that's the only answer and the full truth. Helen recognizes that books and authority figures can lie. Helen, Ron, and Neville still saved Hermione from the troll but they didn't become instant friends afterwards, more like they started being tolerable and able to have small talk with each other but nothing beyond that.
Helen has friendships with other students too. I'll give names but not necessarily how they came to be. She's friends with Theodore (Theo) Nott and Daphne Greengrass of Slytherin, Susan Bones and Nymphadora Tonks of Hufflepuff, Padma Patil, Anthony (Tony) Goldstein, and Luna Lovegood of Ravenclaw, the entire Gryffindor quidditch team, and Ron, Neville, and Dean Thomas of Gryffindor.
When the Tournament happened in Helen's fourth year the four competitors realized what they faced they were all facing and actually began to meet up and practice with each other. All four of them became great friends over the course of the year. Helen and Victor attended the Yule Ball together, Cedric with Cho, and Helen arranged for Fluer to attend with Theodore Nott who was intelligent and had a charm from his mother that protected him against mind tricks including the allure of a Veela. When Cedric was killed Helen was even more devastated than Harry because they were friends whereas in canon Harry was more of an acquaintance of Cedric's to be honest. Helen, Fluer, and Victor mourned, truly mourned the loss of Cedric and missed him terribly.
Helen didn't necessarily hide her knowledge but she didn't boast it either. She did well in her classes and answered questions and participated when teachers asked her to. She stood out yes, but she was bound to just by her status as the Girl-Who-Lived. But she still played her part and played the brash act-first think-later Gryffindor golden girl when it was required of her, but when one on one with her close friends, then she might show a little more of her true personality. To Dumbledore she acted whenever she was around him and responded as he would expect her to respond.
I am actually planning on writing up bits and pieces of her life prior to A Different Path and posting them which is why I just want to give some sort of basic explanation now. I won't go through full years though. It will be sort of snippets here and there of major events or interactions so that you can get a better picture.
And now we know why Helen is so knowlegeable. But I really wonder how nine years of time-turner use could not have added to her physical age. I hope that's explained later.
wiki/Talk:Time-Turner
To a degree I used this posting to help figure out how the time turner would work.
"This logic seems pretty sound. However, even if Hermione only added 25 days to her life, it may have still had a significant impact. It means she would've turned 17 a month before her officially-recognized 17th birthday on September 19, 1996. Thus, The Trace may have expired on her early, allowing her to do magic outside of Hogwarts without getting caught. But I suppose that all depends on whether expiry of The Trace is based on one's recorded birthdate or on the age of one's body. Starstuff (Owl me!) 23:01, 23 May 2009."
Based on this I would say that due to whatever magic the sand within a time turner possess the user of it does not age while having used it. Theorists online make the comment that time-turners should not and cannot be used for long periods of time and only short periods due to Ministry decree. My answer again goes with Nicolas Flamel. He saw the time-turner be invented, saw where those experimenting went wrong, and got his hands on one of the models that came out before the Ministry limited and restricted the use of time-turners. The original models of time-turners were able to go back years but due to an accident with a witch who was experimenting with time-turners within the Department of Mysteries the Ministry began to strictly enforce only going back hours for purely academic reasons. It was possible to go back further but due to the risks of what could happen it was decided it the amount of risk wasn't worth it.
This forum also helped me to figure out how I would use the time-turner in relation to Helen.
questions/11946/why-couldnt-a-time-turner-have-been-used-to-stop-voldemort
"Time turners are for strictly academic use. It would be incredibly dangerous to go back and kill someone that we knew existed. See every story dealing with time travel. Hermione was able to use one because she didn't interact with herself. If she ever was found to use it in some other way, she could get in huge trouble, and not just from the law. Time travel is very dangerous stuff, not worth risking, even for such a noble cause."
Helen by being in two entirely separate countries did not risk a lot of interacting with herself and her purposes were academic really. She went back in time to learn from Nicolas and Perenelle and majority of her time in the past was spent on their estate.
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That's everything for now! Please if you have any more questions I will be happy to answer them! I hope I provided suitable explanations! You are all lovely people and I am currently working on my next chapter! Until then!
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