Modest, Too
Author's Note
The following chapters conclude Modest, Too. That is, each of the following chapters concludes the story. I thought of this, after I published Chapter 3, as a writing exercise to see what I could do with the setup of the first three chapters. Choose the one you like as the canonical ending; it's no skin off of my nose. And try to guess which was my original intended ending.
I have four endings plotted and partially written. There may be more if I think of them. They'll be posted as I finish them and see fit. (And at my usual slow update rate. Family and paying work come first.) You'll know the last one is up when the story is marked as Complete.
Story Notes
1) Value of gold: Galleons are "the size of a hubcap", according to a Muggle in The Goblet of Fire. Allowing for exaggeration, let's call it a four inch circle and an eighth of an inch thick — very thin for that size coin. Crunching the numbers we get a smidgeon under 16 troy ounces. (Recall that troy ounces, used in measuring gold and silver, are not the same size as the common avoirdupois ounces.) At the 1999 rates for gold, that would come to around 3000 pounds sterling per galleon — a bit off of the official five pounds per. No wonder the goblins were stealing.
2) Whining: Several comments on Chapters 2 and 3 noted that Harry was whining an awful lot, especially about problems of his own making. Um, yes, that's right. I'm guessing that the commenters either don't spend much time around teenagers or else are teenagers themselves and don't notice it.
Acknowledgements
jeconais, of course. He wrote the beginning of the story which I fostered into growing waaay outside the original premise. Like when you take someone's child and feed him Toxic Waste™ to see if he'll develop mutant powers. Er, no, that's kind of creepy. And worse, it's a bad analogy.
clell65619, in The Marriage Contracts Redux, had Dumbledore desperate to find how Harry killed Voldemort.
Rorschach's Blot, Make a Wish: Harry has a chip of basilisk fang in his arm.
Probably others, though I can't think of any explicit borrowing or outright theft.