Unread postby MrRigger2 » August 28th, 2016, 10:10 am
Welcome to the forum, glad to have you with us.
1. NoFP and Team 8 are updated whenever Viridian (also S'Tarkan and the Authorlord) can update them. However, the last I heard, he was having health issues that prevented him from writing the way he wishes he could. Unfortunately, none of us are paying his bills, so we can't make him move any faster, no matter what we may wish.
2. When Apocalypse Harry sent his memories back in time, it created an alternate time stream (or he sent his memories to an already existing alternate dimension, whichever theory you subscribe to). No paradox necessary.
3. The point that is brought up as the main divergence from canon is that when Voldemort visited Hogwarts to apply for the DADA job, he made the Sorting Hat into a Horcrux. This caused his soul to be split even further than in canon, resulting in an even more vicious and unstable Voldemort. Everything that changed is supposed to have been born from that one difference. And, of course, Harry sending back his memories and having future knowledge. That's a pretty big one.
The only real difference in the magic system compared to canon is the existence of magical cores, which is widely used fanon, but not actually part of the books.
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