Time travel hypothesis of Harry Potter

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From: Skimmel_98
Subject: Time travel hypothesis of Harry Potter
Date: 5/8/00 1:35 pm  (ET)

Thinking about our earlier discussion of time travel, I have come up
with a theory of the Harry Potter books. The theory: the books we've
read are the second time through a time travel loop. The story would go
something like this.

(First time through the loop.)

James and Lilly Potter have a son, Harry, shortly before they die in an
automobile accident. Harry is raised by his Aunt and Uncle. When the time
comes, he gets a letter from Hogwarts. He is helped onto platform 9 3/4
by Draco Malfoy a pleasant boy he met on Diagon alley. Draco rides with
Harry to Hogwarts and tells him how wonderful Slytherin is. The sorting
hat places Harry in Slytherin with his new best friend, Draco. One of
Harry and Draco's little pranks involved stealing a time turner. While
in Hogwarts, he meets and falls in love with Ginny Marvolo who curiously
enough is the last descendent of Slytherin. Eventually they marry and
have a daughter (who is now the last descendent of Slytherin). One day
the daughter discovers the time turner and gets shot back about 70 years
into the past. The past is changed and so the future is altered. Things
will be slightly different from now on.

Harry's daughter, exiled into the far past, meets and marries George
Riddle and have a son, who she names Tom Riddle. Tom is now the last
descendent of Salizar Slytherin. He becomes Lord Voldemort. Among the
things Voldemort does is turn the Malfoys to the dark side with one
consequence being that their young son, Draco, turns out rather nasty
instead of the fairly pleasant he would be otherwise.

Among his powers is that Voldemort can see, dimly, into the future but
not at all into the past. He can see that his ultimate downfall will be
caused by the Potter's newborn son, Harry, so he decides to destroy Harry
soon after he is born. Voldemort seeks out Harry to eliminate the threat
to his powers. He does not realize that Harry will become his grandfather.

(Second time through the loop. Now we come to the cycle that sounds
familiar.)

Voldemort kills James and Lilly but in attacking Harry he is attacking
himself. (James and Lilly have already done their bit towards producing
Voldemort but Harry must grow up first.) By attacking Harry, Voldemort
has changed his own past. It is a tribute to his vast powers that he
survives at all because if he destroyed Harry before he grows up and
gets married, he would destroy himself.

Harry goes to live with the Dursley's and eventually the letter comes
from Hogwarts. Harry meets Draco Malfoy at Diagon Alley but Draco is
now a slimey character and he and Harry become enemies. Harry is helped
through to platform 9 3/4 by the Weasleys instead of the Malfoys and on
the train, Ron tells him how vile Slytherins are. When the sorting hat
considers putting Harry in Slytherin, Harry begs and the hat puts him in
Gryffindor instead. There he meets the love of his life, Ginny Weasley,
and rescues her from Tom Riddle. Tom Riddle looks a great deal like
Harry mostly because he is Harry's grandson.

Eventually, with the help of his Gryffindor friends, Harry meets Voldemort
for the last time and destroys him once and for all.

This is a weak story line. The sort of thing rank amateurs and television
writers would come up with. I would hope Rowling has enough imagination to
explain everything without resorting to something like this. The biggest
problem is that it seems to explain everything without introducing
anything we haven't already seen.

If this is what J.K. Rowling has in mind, then I'm going to organize a
"I hate Harry Potter" group.

I sincerely hope to be proven wrong on this one.