[HPforGrownups] Re: Who conjures the Prongs Patronus?

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 53331

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:45:31PM -0000, drtruman wrote:
> Put it another way: the dementors don't use the kiss, they use a 
> good, old-fashioned, Muggle pistol. Bang bang, you're dead, Harry. 
> How on earth (how in the Potter-verse?) can Harry, using the Time-
> Turner, alter this history if he is killed?

That's one of the things that make time-travel so confusing :)

He could go back in time to prevent himself getting killed, because he
was there to save his own life. It's a chicken and egg thing, but the
point is that he DIDN'T alter history. There is only one time-line, and
for a few hours, there were two Harry's, and future!Harry saved
present!Harry's life. So, when present!Harry becomes future!Harry, he
must save present!Harry, because that's what he did.

> I hope I am missing something that's completely obvious, because 
> otherwise I don't get this.

Finding the beginning of a circle is never easy, until you accept that
it has no beginning.

-- 
  // Trond Michelsen
\X/  mike at crusaders.no