[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Time Travel

[Calliope]

<big snip of Barb's recommendations>

Thanks, Barb, I'll have to check those out!

>>--another theory of mine--
he can see through Invisibility Cloaks a la Moody, either with those 
blue eyes of his or his spectacles that are always so prominently 
described.)

I wish she would explain how he can do that!  It's been driving me nuts.



>>>If you travel back in time and kill yourself 
yesterday, you can't have traveled back in time.  Unless you just 
changed time.  Which means a time paradox, in a case like this.  Or, 
if you travel forward in time and your future self kills the time-
traveling self, wouldn't the future self automatically disappear as 
well? (Or you might be creating an alternate timeline that you 
cannot experience because it is one in which you had already died.)

That's the kind of thing that gives me a headache.  My poor brain.  (Unless
there is some kind of parallel universe going on where all these things are
happining simultaneously, instead of linearly, and when an event happens in one
time line it happens in all other time lines at the same instant.)


>>I wrote a fic (The Time of Good Intentions) about Harry changing 
time using a powerful spell, in part because he seemed to find it so 
tempting in PoA.  

Oh, yes, I thought about ToGI right after I sent that email.  That was a very
interesting look at what would have happened had Lily not died!  I enjoyed it
very much.

Calliope

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