Let It Be Known

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 78858

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> severusbook4 wrote:
> > 
> > ADD IN:
> > book 7: Harry wakes up at the Dursleys, still 11 years old.
> 
> Or something along the lines of Bierce's "Incident at Owl Creek 
> Bridge".  In that story, a man is being lynched.  He begins to 
fall, 
> but the rope breaks.  He runs away and has some adventures.  At the 
> end of the story, it turns out that the rope didn't really break, 
and 
> that he imagines the escape in the moments before he dies.  So the 
> infant Harry could have imagined his entire life in the time 
between 
> when Voldemort points his wand at him, and the time the curse hits 
him.
> 
> Highly unlikely, of course.  Very highly unlikely.  But it's not as 
> big a cliche as the dream idea.

Geoff:
The big weak link in that is, how would a child of one year old be 
able to imagine a complete life with experiences completely unknown 
to him, with only rudimentary language skills etc because of his 
extreme youth?