Some Ravenclaw Techno-babble

[davehoz at yahoo.com]

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From: davehoz
Subject: Some Ravenclaw Techno-babble
Reply To: [Yahoo! #1728] Fly like an Eagle
Date: 6/8/00 6:59 pm  (ET)

>By the way, the sorting hat has officially named
>me a Ravenclaw !

It sorted me into Ravenclaw too! I was happy to subject myself to a
"scientific" sorting! I hope I'm not the only guy whose favorite literary
figure (outside Hogwarts) is Jo March.

>I declare the official song of Ravenclaw to be
>Steve Miller's "Fly like an Eagle"!

My vote is for ABBA's "Eagle".

>I guess it's my Ravenclaw nature to ask alot of
>questions.

And in my Ravenclaw nature to try to answer them... :)

> ...if Harry and Hermione leave Madam Pomfreys room at
>11:00pm travelling at 10 miles an hour using the
>talisman, and they pass a werewolf travelling
>north northeast at 7 miles an hour and dragging
>something behind him, How many pages does it take for Harry to retrace
>his steps and save the day? Couldn't Harry and Hermione keep using the
>time travel talisman and relive the ending into perpetuity?

No, because then they'd see themselves.

See, I think the thing is is that they can change time so long as they
have not observed the outcome, because before they do, the outcome
exists in a state of "Quantum Ambiguity" where it can go one way or the
other. That's why Hermione can't go back and attend the Charms class
she misssed, because the minute Harry and Ron awoke her, Harry and Ron's
ambiguous state in Hermione's consciousness was resolved, and could not
be altered. Likewise, the reason they can save Buckbeak is because they
didn't *see* him get beheaded -- They only heard an ax whack that could or
could not have been the beheading. Buckbeak was in an quantum-ambiguous
state until Harry and Hermione resolved the ambiguity by saving him. And
when Harry sees himself creating the Patronous, he wasn't really there
across the lake, he was only potentially there. Harry himself existed
in an ambiguous state until voluntarily saved his own life.

Got that? :)