Yet Another Time Turner Q

[boyblue_mn]

No: HPFGUIDX 33136

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Brian Yoon" <Seiryuu_Avatar at m...> wrote:
> Continuing the discussion of Time Turners in another level...
> 
> One of the consequences Hermione mentions to Harry is that 
> you can startle yourself if you are seen by yourself.  (Boy, 
> that was a mouthful.)
> 
> But when Harry sees himself, he is not startled; he is just 
> reminded of his father, James.
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> So if you know what to look for, why would you be scared by 
> the  Time-Turnered second person?  If Hermione saw herself 
> sitting at a desk, for instance, ...
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> So there can't be too harsh consequences for being seen while 
> TTed (Harry doesn't seem to come out of it any worse), why do 
> people who use it worry about it?  
> 
> Seiryuu
> aka Brian Yoon
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The first rule of sci-fi time travel is that you avoid meeting 
your past or future self. As the book/Hermione pointed out, some
people have become so frightened or confused that they actually
killed their other self. The temporal repecussion of killing your
past self would certainly be extreme. It would be a unresolvable 
break in the continuity of the time line. The sci-fi theory of
the consequences of such an event range from locally disastrous
to universally cataclysmic. 

In Hemione's case, she is repeatedly traveling back an hour in 
time and has been doing it over the course of many days. So all
of her selves know what is going on. But picture your own 
doorbell ringing, and answering the door and seeing an absolutely
perfect likeness of yourself. That would be enough to freak 
anybody out. Now add magic and dark magic to the mix, add the
fact that the darkest force of evil is constantly trying to kill
you, and someone like Harry would certainly see it as some sort 
of dark magic if he saw himself.

When Harry saw himself across the lake, he saw a person who looked
like him, and his mind resolved what he saw in a logical way. The
only person that Harry is aware of that looks like him is his
father. So that was the only logical conclusion he could reach.

Just some thought on the subject

boyblue