Time Paradox- VERY Interesting theory

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 8349

I find this thread *extremely* fascinating!  Might not even need to 
know about the Veritaserum now... to verify the past, all one 
would have to do is to go back in time and actually witness it... 
even if one's memory was altered, he/she couldn't deny the proof 
of his/her own eyes... yes!  :::rubs hands together:::

Is wotan on this list?  She's presented an alternate year one 
scenario in one of her fics.  And I've said it before, but one of the 
best "time travel" novels I've ever read is Orson Scott Card's 
"Pastwatch:  The Redemption of Christopher Columbus".

But then one gets into questions of relativism.  Exactly which 
past is the desired/desirable outcome?  This was what 
fascinated me so much about Pastwatch--Card's theory seems 
to be that if you go back in time you don't just change the future... 
the "ripple effect" causes the *entire* future to disappear.  So if 
Harry goes back in time and saves his parents, for instance, the 
post-1981 "future" as we know it in canon would completely 
cease to exist.

Fascinating stuff.  Now, all I need to know is if a Time-Turner is 
only used for short-range time travel... how many turns would it 
take to go back several years?

--Ebony


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook 
<DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> At 10:28 PM 1/1/01 -0500, Alina wrote:
> >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.
> 
> This is quite a revelation!  If she said "might", then I'd say it *is*, 
or else
> she would have flat out denied it!  Now we're back to my theory 
that
> Jo saw the "Ouroboros" episode of _Red Dwarf_ and is now 
having
> Voldy pull the same space-time continuum-contorting stunt!
> (No wonder Slytherin's symbol is a serpent -- A serpent with its 
tail in
>    its mouth!!)
> 
> 
> 
>                                                  -- Dave