Time Paradox- VERY Interesting theory

Alina alina at dial7.com
Tue Jan 2 03:28:22 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 8324

I found this on one site, and it had me intrigued. All information is
copyrighted.

When did Arthur and Molly attend Hogwarts?
Okay, now we're getting into nitpicky stuff. I don't suppose this has
any bearing on things, but it bugs ME since I'm trying to create a
complete time line and right now there are BIG holes in it. I have
narrowed down the dates for James, Lily, Sirius, Snape, and that whole
crowd to the 1970's, which works okay, but it surprises me that there
are no more specific clues in any of the books. We know a lot more
details about other characters, even relatively minor ones. Charlie
Weasley, for example, left school seven years before Harry got there, so
we can determine what years he was there, when he was
born, and so on. But the Marauders and their contemporaries are trickier
to
nail down, even though we are learning much about their exploits and
adventures. So what? Well, I just get suspicious, that's all. If it
seems like something's being left out or information is being withheld,
I get curious. And here's why this question gets to me. There is one
niggling little comment in GF that suggests to me that--brace
yourself--there just might be TWO time lines going on here. Molly
Weasley fondly recalls a man named Ogg being the groundskeeper when she
went to Hogwarts. Now she's older than Sirius andLupin, granted, but not
so much older that she would have gone to Hogwarts before Hagrid and Tom
Riddle, which was fifty years ago. After Hagrid was expelled, however,
he was given the groundskeeper position. How does this Ogg fellow fit
into the picture then? Okay, this is very thin logic, since it assumes
that the gamekeeper and the groundskeeper have always been one  and the
same person and it also assumes that Hagrid wasn't an assistant or
anything for a while. But perhaps, just perhaps, we're dealing more than
one time line. Maybe Molly and Arthur remember one time line, a time
line that Voldemort changed somehow (changing time is a major no-no for
wizards, we learn in PA, but I don't think that would have stopped him).
Maybe Harry's big task is going to be to fix the past (Harry's present)
so the future turns out the way it should, not the way it did the first
time around (when Voldemort survived and somehow maybe even won). I'm
not sure what I just said, but you get the drift... And probably the
strongest evidence of some kind of time twisting going in  the comment
on CS that Voldemort is the last remaining ANCESTOR of Slalzar
Slytherin. Some editions of the books have this "error" corrected, but
other later editions have the word "ancestor" put back in. JKR herself
suggested that the word ancestor might be used intentionally in an
online chat session. We'll just have to see what happens next...
Here is the website, and it is the same one on which I found the link to
HPFG.
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/index.html



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