Nasty thought - Harry's destiny PoA

[Karina Aleksandrova]

No: HPFGUIDX 76237


> 
> From: "sarah_haining" <sarahlizzy at h...>
> >
> >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. <snip>

Now me:
Harry and Hermione hadn't altered the past. They were meant to save 
Sirus and Buckbeak, and Dumbledore knew that (I do not know how) and 
that's why he sent them into the past - not to change it, but to 
bring it about. At the time in the hospital wing, when Dumbledore had 
told them what they had to do, all of it had already happened. And I 
don't think he would have sent them if it was against the laws about 
altering time.

Betsy Cortés <betsymarie123 at h...> wrote:
<snip>
> 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???

Me again:
No. The most important argument is JK Rowling's own words, when she 
was asked in one of the interviews (or maybe chats), whether Harry's 
parents can be brought to life (I'm paraphrasing), she said that she 
has decided that one of the things magic cannot do is bring back the 
dead. Magic can heal faster and better than muggle medicine, so there 
is hope if a person is close to death, but hasn't died yet. Once the 
person has died however, it's irreversible. 
Sirius is dead.
As for going back in time part, from what we know so far, the past 
cannot be changed. When Harry and Hermione went back in time in PoA 
they haven't changed the past.

~Carina