Explanations please

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 8300

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kazza mazzoo" <kazz2439 at y...> 
wrote:

> Second of all, can anyone explain in PoA how Harry stops the
> dementors 
> the first time round before he goes back in time with Hermione? 
> First 
> he thought it was his dad, but when he goes back he finds out it was 
> himself, and stops them .. .but how did he manage it the first time.  
> I think I have a bad case of Back To The Future here lol.  It's like 
> round robin, without the start!  Does anyone know?

I'm over a hundred posts behind, so this may already be completely 
resolved, but I couldn't help tossing out something really silly that 
may help explain this.
Remember the Bill and Ted movies?  They are the best example I can 
think of for a super-simple example of this.  At one point the two are 
locked in a cell at the police station (I think) and one of them asks 
the other to remind him to go back in time and put the key inside the 
cell, or something to that effect.  As soon as he says this, they find 
the key, so then at some point after that they had to go back and 
actually put the key there.  Does that make any sense?  So Harry was 
saved by the future him, who had gone back in time and was standing on 
the other side of the lake, but the future him didn't realize that 
that's what had happened until the last moment, whereas Bill and Ted 
did it on purpose.  

kimberly