Harry's father figures- theory for Book 6

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 73356

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
> How far into the past do you think Harry will go?  Time traveling 
> more than a very short time (a few days at the very most) seems 
> incredibly stupid to me.  You can't acurately predict the results 
of 
> your actions.  It would be easy to screw things up royally.
> 
Absolutely!  That's why Dumbledore would never approve of such a 
thing, but Harry is just reckless enough to think that he could do 
it.  

It was all the parallels between Voldemort and Hitler that made me 
think of this, though it was also first suggested on another board, 
where it caused quite a lot of friction.  I'm just a few years older 
than Rowling, and when I was a kid, and we learned about WWII and 
Hitler, we would inevitably end up in a discussion about "If you 
could go back in time to 1930 and kill Hitler, and prevent WWII, 
would you do it?"  We even discussed it in class, I think - it was 
an ethical question, of course, about the ends justifying the means, 
etc. But it occurred to me, what if Harry decides to do just that?  
Go back in time 50 years, to the time before Tom Riddle became LV, 
and stop him then?  I don't think he'd be planning to KILL him, but 
he'd be planning to interrupt him somehow, prevent him from going on 
to become the evil megalomaniac he turned into.  But of course, it 
won't work - as you said, time travel can mess things up horribly.  
Hermione said the same thing to him in PoA, I think; that there are 
cases of wizards going back in time and killing themselves by 
accident.  Even the little amount they did with the timeturner, to 
save Buckbeak and Sirius, was nearly ruined because Harry almost 
rushed out to intercept Snape when he saw him heading for the 
Whomping Willow.  So I think Harry will THINK he can handle the 
situation, but he won't be able to.

Wanda