Since my non-Agents are currently not available and you have the book at hand, Agent Aviator, will you please hit Agent Dawn over the head, gently, and kindly remind her that Harry's name was put into the Goblet of Fire at the end of October, when the foreign students had arrived.
The badfic does not explicitly state that the accident is meant to happen in the first potions lesson, when the news of the Triwizard Tournament is still fresh, but it does say "Chapter Three: 11 Weeks (November 1994)" and "Chapter Four: Fifteen Weeks (The First Task)". Make this early and late November, respectively, and an accident making everybody magically pregnant already three weeks in happening in early September fits the books timeline. Even if you move Chapter Three to late November and the First Task to mere days rather than weeks before the Yule Ball, Harry must still have been several weeks pregnant at Halloween.
The Snowdrop, Inofficial Head of Department, Uncanonical Department of Inaccuracies
Merlin's pants, what did I read, and write, and wrap my head around. I can't comprehend the directions some minds go.
The Snowdrop, of course, refers to “Even if Harry
had put his name in the Goblet of Fire, it’s an unbreakable magical contract and he entered into it
before the pregnancy.”
Thanks for making this possible. I already missed the little guy.
HG