Ron is Dumbledore?

[draco382]

No: HPFGUIDX 53525

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "btk6y" <btk6y at v...> wrote:
> -Plus, with that theory you would lose the recurring loop that is 
> needed for time to continue.  If the New Ron grows up in a world 
> where Voldemort is defeated by Harry, why would he decide to go 
back 
> in time? Even if he did decide to go back in time for some unknown 
> reason, he would meet both the original DD AND Ron!Dumbledore- 
there 
> would be no recurring loop like there is in PoA b/c the 
> circumstances that caused Ron!Dumbledore to go back in time no 
> longer exist.  Hope that wasn't too confusing...

Me:

De-lurking for a moment to ask a question:

In CoS, Harry is transported 50years into the past where he comes 
across a younger Dumbledore.  So Dumbledore was AT Hogwarts as a 
professor.  According to the HPLexicon, Dumbledore defeated 
Grindlewald in approximately 1942 and is the transfiguration 
professor at the same time.  What i'm wondering is, in order to 
become a professor at Hogwarts, you would probably have to have some 
training and "work your way up the ladder" so to speak.  Doesn't this 
mean that Ron would have to use the time-turner right after 
graduation (end of his seventh year at Hogwarts) in order to go back 
in time to the point where he can apply to Hogwarts as a young 
professor in transfiguration, and then stick around long enough to 
defeat Grindlewald, meet Tom Riddle, become headmaster, etc?  

does this mean that Harry DOESNT defeat Voldemort (and perhaps dies 
by the hand of V-mort) which means that Ron has to take up the 
mission, meaning that he has to go back in time and fulfill his 
duties as Dumbledore?

I'm sorry if my questions are incoherent...this is a pretty cool 
theory, and I wanted to get my facts straight.

thanks :-)
draco382