[HPforGrownups] Nasty thought - Harry's destiny PoA

[Betsy Corts]

No: HPFGUIDX 76107


From: "sarah_haining" <sarahlizzy at hotmail.com>
>
>I was re-reading PoA recently and during Harry and Hermione's Time -
>Turner shenanigans a thought occurred to me. I haven't been reading
>the 'hints that Sirius would die' posts (still not over it:) so
>forgive me if this has already been brought up. Anyhoo, we know that
>it is against one of the strictest Wizarding laws to go back and
>alter time - it simply should not be done unless under very
>safe/strict circumstances. Harry and Hermione should not have by
>rights been using it, thus, Sirius was destined to die. He was
>supposed to die that night at the hands (sorry, mouth ;) of the
>Dementors. The fact that he was saved by Harry simply meant that he
>was essentially living on borrowed time; two years of it to be
>precise.
>
>So, whilst I was congratulating myself on my linkage I realised -
>who else was supposed to die that night? Who else was about to be
>kissed? Harry. Harry is also living on time that, by rights,
>shouldn't be his. Is his time also going to run out soon?
>
>I admit, in light of the prophecy this does get confusing. It could
>be argued that Harry could not be killed by the Dementors or the
>fact that Harry had the opportunity to save himself shows that the
>circumsatnce just wont arise where he could be killed by anyone
>other than Lord Thingy. I really don't want to get bogged down in
>that too much as I think, in any case, this may just be a big, nasty
>pointer as to whether Harry is going to survive the final showdown.
>Someone tell me I wrong!
>
I found very interesting your Sirius' theory, but I'm not quite sure about 
Harry's.  On PoA when Harry was about to be kissed by the Dementor he made 
his Patronus and it saved all of them.  But when Harry and Hermione went 
back in time, Harry just wanted to be closer to the action to see what was 
the figure he saw.  For that reason, I don't think Harry was meant to die 
that day.

In the other hand, Sirius' theory it's very interesting.  It made me wonder, 
can Harry (with Dumbledore's help, of course) go back in time and save 
Sirius???

Betsy