[HPforGrownups] Re: Who conjures the Prongs Patronus?

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 53332


 
 drtruman <DRTruman02 at cs.com> wrote:
Norm wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't Harry1 *have* to cast a successful Patronus in order to 
be able to return later (as Harry2)?


Me:  Technically, yes he would have to.  IF you look at time in the conventional frame.  That is it is a series of moments one after another. Without surviving the attack he couldn't be alive to come back and save himself.  BUT, modern Theoretical Astrophysisists though have a new interpretation of time as being essentially a physical dimension.  So that, in fact all points of time are happening similtaneously and we simply exist at one point of this diminesion at any given time and travel through it.  This is wonderful for any Religous scholars trying to justify an eternal God.  As God would have had to live "Forever" simply to get to this point of time, He or She could never have reached this point of time under traditional concepts of time.  If you have to live forever before creating the universe or blowing your nose, you would never reach that point in time where you would do it.  But if all time happens along points of a dimension, then God simply has the advantage of existing along the entire dimension at once. (Eternity!)

Well, getting back on track of the Harry Potter books, since this concept of time says that all times exist simultaneously, then it would NOT have been necessary for Harry to survive the Dementor's attack in order to travel back in time to save himself.  Both the time he was attacked by Dementors and the time they traveled back in time actually happened at the same time as our concept of time is illusionary, but they happened at different parts of the physical dimension of time.  Thank goodness for theoretical astrophysics!  Huggs Becky



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