[HPforGrownups] Time travel in PoA (was: Re: Remus is James and Time Trav...

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No: HPFGUIDX 48954

Pip!squeak:

> What created the time loop? The availability of a machine to create 
> a time loop. But when did you decide to hit the switch? You never 
> did. There never was a point where you originally decided to hit the 
> switch. Hitting the switch was always an accident, caused by the 
> result of your experiment.

But that's where the problem with the relevance to Harry comes.  There is 
nothing preventing the Billiard Ball from going into the time machine as 
planned... if you put it in as planned, this whole thing would happen exactly 
as you say it.  But what if you had the billiard ball in a clamp or something 
(the equivalent of harry's being kissed by the dementor )  then it would not 
be able to go into the machine, so it could never come out and hit itself

-scheherazade, has now confused herself


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