[HPforGrownups] Time travel (was Free will/Calvinism in a nutshell)

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 78676

Barb: 
In some other people's time travel stories alternate universes can 
be spawned; not so in hers, as far as we have seen (or at least not 
when one uses a Time Turner).  Events were always going to unfold 
in a particular way, and just because Harry didn't know that 
Buckbeak wasn't executed until he traveled through time didn't mean 
it was ever any different. 

A unique timeline doesn't imply events always unfold in a certain 
way. It only implies there is a single universe to deal with, but 
not that events can't be changed.

Melanie:
> Plus, there's an element of "providence" associated with the POA
> plot ... I mean, Harry only survives because he conjured the
> Patronus, but he wouldn't have been able to conjure the Patronus
> if he hadn't survive the Dementor attack. So basically ... he
> survives because he survives. :)

I though that before reading Talisman's post, 78370. She has 
reversed your argument, that Harry survives because he survives.

silmariel