[HPforGrownups] Time Travel in the Series

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 19688

 ....Hermione says, "wizards have killed their past or
future selves".  If there is truly only one possible
timeline, it would be possible for a wizard to kill
his FUTURE self, but not his past self.  Given the way
> that time travel is treated at the end of book 3,
I'm willing to believe that Hermione misspoke.  :)
> 
> If this "one timeline" theory is true, then, no HP
> character can 
> actually change the events of the past; the only
> thing the Time 
> Turner lets you do is be in two places at once.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Melanie
> 
I don't think Hermione misspoke.  I think that there's
one timeline in PoA because they Hermione goes to so
much trouble to make sure there is.  She prevents
Harry from taking the Invisibility Cloak, thus keeping
Snape from using it and altering the timeline.  I
think that altering the timeline is a huge danger and
something that is discouraged--hence the rarity of
time-turners, and Hermione needing special permission
to use one.  But impossible?  I don't think so, and in
fact, maybe JKR purposely left the door open on this
one...
 
 
 


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