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

[Robert Shaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 86758

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

>>
>> Perhaps they could somehow arrange things (time travel? an obscure
>> spell?) so that history is altered such that Tom Riddle never becomes
>> Lord Voldemort.
>> >
> No, doesn't sound crazy to me.
>
> 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.
>

If time travel is invoked, an elegantly circular way of irrevocably
disposing of LV is to send his obliviated soul back in time so
it can be (re)born as Tom Riddle.

That imprisons his soul in a time-loop, from which there would be
no hope of escape.

If some part of Voldemort remembered, but was unable to act,
it would be condemned to watch its failure repeated for all
eternity, truly a fate worse than death.

Conversely, Voldemort might send Harry's soul back in time,
locking Harry in the same inescapable prison.

Until the prophecy is resolved, either option might have happened,
but when it is which ever becomes true will always have been
true.

--
Robert