Two Paradoxes that make my head swim...

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 17680

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dorband at u... wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm struggling with two instances that I just can't seem to come to 
> grips with...help me:
> 
> Paradox #1
> 

> wouldn't we then have Voldemort 
> and Riddle - two separate entities?  

At the time of CoS, Voldemort was still a disembodied spirit in 
Albanian exile, "barely alive" as Harry comments. Presumably a 
victory by Tom Riddle in the Chamber would have enabled Voldemort to 
enter into his 16-year-old body. I suppose that voldemort would then 
have, with characteristic ruthlessness, supplanted the spirit of Tom 
Riddle. 

> 
> Paradox #2
> 
> The nature and implications of the time-turner has always given me 
> fits

what you're describing is just inherent in any time-traveling 
fiction. Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that the dizzying paradoxes of 
time-travel prove that a Wayback Machine could never  be operational 
in reality. 


     - CMC