Dumbledore is Ron?

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 53336

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "brinforest" 
<petra.delisser at p...> wrote:
> I think that if Dumbledore is Ron, he has had plenty of time to 
> realise that things *must happen the way they always did*. If he 
> were to change something big like Sirius' prison sentence, not to 
> even mention Lily and James's death, who knows how that would 
change 
> the history we know happened. If he changed anything, he would 
> render himself clueless at the very least (when things subsequently 
> would not turn out the exact same way as they did when he was Ron), 
> or in the worst case, cancel out Ron's time-trip and thereby his 
> existence as Dumbledore altogether. Of course, the latter might 
very 
> well be impossible, as Melissa wrote.
>

Perhaps I am just dumb, but I can't wrap my brain around 
this "Dumbledore!Ron" theory at all. If I understand this theory 
correctly, here is the basic timeline:

* 1980 Ron Weasley is born
* 1996 or 1997 - Ron goes back in time and either purposely or 
accidentally goes back to circa 1840 and is born as (or assumes the 
identify of) Albus Dumbledore
* 1840 - 1945 - Dumbledore grows up, goes to Hogwarts, does a bunch 
of stuff we're unsure of (some of it with Nicholas Flamel), and comes 
back to Hogwarts as a teacher by no later than the late 1930s
* 1948 - Dumbledore defeats the dark wizard Grindelwald
* 1980 - 1991 Dumbledore is still headmaster at Hogwarts, while Ron 
is growing up in the Weasley household (so Ron is split into two 
people of wildly different ages at the same time in different 
locations??)
* c. late 1981 or early 1982 - MoM trials of Death Eaters following 
Voldemort's "demise" - Dumbledore gives testimony
* 1981 - 1996/7 Dumbledore continues as Headmaster
* 1991 ff. Ron Weasley enters Hogwarts
* various times during the following few years - Ron and Dumbledore 
are in the same room together and Dumbledore SPEAKS to him!! (near 
end of CoS)

Perhaps I'm not seeing something I should be able to see, but how can 
Ron and Dumbledore be in the same room at the same time and 
acknowledge each other's presence as a separate person if Ron IS 
Dumbledore and Dumbledore knows he used to be Ron??? Unless, of 
course, this works only because Ron doesn't know yet that he's going 
to become Dumbledore. OYYYYY. My head hurts.

Anne U
(who had no trouble following the time-travel in POA)