Odp: [HPforGrownups] Re: Crouch / Moody (long)

[annezo at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 9296

In a message dated 01/15/2001 12:23:42 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
vmclure at hotmail.com writes:

> Also, look at the restrictions on time travel.  You can't change 
>  things.  Granted, Hermione and Harry did.  But, would the results have 
>  been worse if the trophy had been reprogrammed?  Just a thought.
>  Vic

I might disagree that H & H "changed" anything.  They
had no proof that Buckbeak (sp?) had actually been
executed...just the sound of the axe that was explained
later as the executioner using it on the fence. They didn't
see Hagrid again, remember, so they didn't know if he was
pleased at Buckbeak's escape or crying for his loss. And they
didn't "change" Sirius' fate, because it was still up in the
air at the moment Hermione Turned the hourglass.

In fact, Harry seeing himself by the lake...and having been
rescued by his own Patronus originally, argues that their
journey back in time wasn't a "change" but was, in fact,
actually what originally happened.

Anne
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