[HPforGrownups] Re: PoA Plot does not work.

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 91179

Naama:
> JKR is not doing time lines here. She is doing classical timetravel -
> when you travel back in time, you travel to the very same time (or,
> the same time line) that happened already. It's weird talking about
> time as though it were a place, but it's the best way for me to think
> about it: when Harry returned to the past, he returned to the very
> same past he had occupied before. Which means, that there have ALWAYS
> been two Harrys and two Hermiones at that point in time.

She's only using a timeline, but I don't agree that implies by default that 
two Harry's had ALWAYS been there.  Determinism is not a necessity for PoA to 
be explained. As a reference, 'The End of Eternity' by Asimov plays with a 
unique timeline being rewrited multiple times.

silmariel