[HPforGrownups] It's A Wonderful Life? (was re: Overturning the prophecy)

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 86677

At 17:26 7/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Derek: wrote
>Taking a page from Frank Capra's classic film "It's a Wonderful Life,"
>I wonder if Dumbledore was talking about making it so that LV had
>never existed?  It's easy to see why merely taking LV's life would
>not satisfy DD.  It's not because DD is so bloodthirsty... it's
>because LV's presence in the world has caused so much pain and
>death.  What if DD meant that he would only be satisfied if LV had
>never existed, and all the evil he had done was reversed?
>
>Perhaps they could somehow arrange things (time travel? an obscure
>spell?) so that history is altered such that Tom Riddle never becomes
>Lord Voldemort.  Maybe the ultimate solution is not for Harry to kill
>Lord Voldemort, but for Harry to *prevent* "Lord Voldemort" and
>*redeem* Tom Riddle by somehow turning him away from this course before
>he ever takes it.
>
>DD made much of the fact that Harry's asking the Sorting Hat not to
>put him in Slytherin made him different from Tom Riddle.  Otherwise,
>everyone admits that there are many similarities between the two.
>What if Harry went back in time (or something) and talked to Tom Riddle
>before the sorting ceremony... orphan-to-orphan, halfblood-to-halfblood?
>What if Harry told Tom that his life could be whatever he made of it,
>that he could ask the sorting hat to put him wherever he wanted to go?
>Would Tom Riddle have gone bad if he'd been sorted into Gryffindor or
>Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin?
>
>This would fulfill the prophecy neatly.   The "Dark Lord" would not
>survive (even if "Tom Riddle" did) and Harry could live.  Tom Riddle
>has certainly marked Harry as an equal, talking in CoS about how alike
>they are.
>
>Too wild?  Have I now convinced you all that I'm crazy?  :)
>
>- Derek

Tanya here

No, doesn't sound crazy to me.  The problem with LV is what to do to or
for him so no one can ever bring him back in any form.  A 2nd deflected AK
might not end it for real.

However, this question is one I have, regarding this theory, I would like to
know what would then happen to all LV's actions the first time round.
Would they exist or not?  But it would neatly fix the prophecy, maybe
without another war.  Who knows.

Tanya