Time Paradox- VERY Interesting theory

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 8395

There's another school of SF that holds that time is self-healing; If 
Harry had saved his parents in 1981, Voldemort would have got them 
next year.  If Hitler had not been born, for example, the theory holds 
that someone would have arisen to feed on the desperation of the 
Weimar Republic's depression and the anti-Semitism bubbling just under 
the surface in much of Europe; or that Stalin would have taken 
Hitler's place in igniting a World War. IOW, time is a river, and 
whether a stone is in one spot or another isn't critical; the river 
will find its course again.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> 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