Time Travel and Prophecies (was PoA: an explanation of the time/patronus parado)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 68197

jsmithqwert wrote:

 We can't say that Harry 
> and Hermeione had to go back in time in order to enable the 
> prophesy's fulfillment by protecting Harry1 because the prophesy is 
> true due to Harry and Hermeione's travel back in time.  If, 
> hypothetically, they did not, then the prophesy would not be a 
> prophesy at all but just another of Trelawney's educated guesses.  

Or else, it was never meant for Harry after all (as being dead he 
couldn't fulfill it)- that is, everyone who assumed it meant Harry 
was actually wrong and for whatever reason is really was someone else 
(Neville, for example) all along and everyone was too blind to see 
because they thought it was Harry.

But I do agree that Harry and Hermione had to go back in time for 
different reasons than fulfilling the prophecy- but the fact that 
they survived is the reason that the prophecy was made in the first 
place (for if they hadn't, then there would have Harry vs Voldemort 
final outcome to which the prophecy depicts).

~<(Laurasia)>~