Pet Theories (Re: No responses on the main list )

[elfundeb2]

Phil: 
> > Some people are desperate for a time-travel story, so they will 
try 
> to work that into the HP series, disregarding all the warnings 
about 
> it stated within canon. Suggesting that Dumbledore *must* be Ron 
> Weasley sent back in time, despite all the back-story about DD in 
> canon, and the absurdity of such a prominent figure springing up 
out 
> of nowhere, is a prime example.

> Erin: 
And I'm not sure what you mean 
> by "warnings about it stated in canon"  Perhaps you're talking 
about 
> Hermione's "plenty of wizards have killed their past or future 
selves 
> by mistake"?  Easily gotten around, as Ron going back 135 years or 
so 
> wouldn't be likely to meet his past self, would he?  Or 
> Dumbledore's "You know the law, Miss Granger, you know what is at 
> stake"?  Well, the law doesn't seem to be "thou shalt not muck 
> around," but rather "thou must not be seen to be mucking 
around".    

But there are also *huge* practical difficulties with this theory.  
By my calculations Ron would have to turn over the hourglass, oh, 
about 1.1 million times to go back 135 years.  And even if he got a 
special year-by-year timeturner, I keep conjuring up this scenario:

Ron, holding an enormous time-turner hanging like an albatross from 
his neck:  "One, two, three . . . twenty-three, twenty-four . . . 
ninety-six, ninety-seven, [hears someone calling him] be there in a 
minute, ninety-nine (or was it ninety-eight) . . . ."

What Phil and Erin have demonstrated is that every member's idea of 
a ludicrous theory is probably another member's pet mcguffin.  But 
the list would be a lot less fun if posters were forced to prove 
their theories using Occam's razor. ;-)  So I just skip the ones 
that make no sense to me.

Debbie
whose own pet mcguffin is named Memory Charm'd Neville