PoA: an explanation of the time/patronus paradox

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 68111

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stlcole" <cole.bitting at a...> wrote:
> Maybe this point has been discussed before, but ..
> 
> In PoA, Harry travels back in time to save himself .. of course, he 
> can only travel back in time to save himself, because he already 
> saved himself, or DID HE? ...edited...

bboy_mn:

This subject has been cover extensively in old posts, so I won't go
into my theory in detail, but I will say this....

Time never goes backwards. It marches forward with unrelenting certainty.

People go back in time, but time never goes back. As a consequence, I
can't accept the belief that time happened once without time traveling
Harry and Hermione, and once with them. The whole scene only happened
once and both Harrys and Hermiones were there.

Since people traveled back in time, rather than time traveling back,
at 9 o'clock in the evening, the one and only time that ...er... time
occurred, Time_Traveling!Harry and Time_Traveling!Herminone appear in
the entrance hall just before Harry/Ron/Hermione went down to
Hagrid's. From that point on, the one and only time that time
occurred, two Harrys and two Hermiones existed. 

Remember it's people who go back, not time itself; time forever move
forward and only forward.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn