REDHEAD ALWAYS Timeline (Was Re: Ron is Dumbledore?)

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 53532

--- draco382 wrote: 
> 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?

This is how I understand the basic timeline of the theory, though of
course there can be minor variations according to personal preference. ;)

Ron's jump to the past would occur during the course of the books, so
before the end of 7th year.  The best timing would be if it was towards
the end of 7th year, so Ron would be 17 and a legal adult in the wizarding
world.  Something happens that results in Ron's trip.  (Some prefer the
idea that it was some sort of accident, possibly occurring as he faces
Voldemort and making everyone think he's dead, giving Harry the final push
he needs to defeat Voldie.  Others like Ron making the choice to go back
and try to change things, using a TimeTurner or similar spell.)  Ron
either meets up with the (soon to be deceased) real Albus Dumbledore or
creates the AD identity out of wholecloth.  

Either way, he's a young man fresh out of Hogwarts with around 130 years
to wait before things work around to the point of the timeline we're
familiar with.  This gives him plenty of time to disappear for years in
order to put together his plans or establish the Dumbledore identity. 
Remember, he'd be 100 years old before the events of the COS flashback,
and we don't know how long he'd been at the school by then.

Other than his discovery of the uses of dragon's blood and partnership
with Flammel, we don't know anything about Dumbledore's life prior to his
defeat of Grindelwald and professorship at Hogwarts at age 100.  Ron would
have plenty of time to go out to the middle of nowhere for "research" and
spend his time working out exactly what he'll have to do in order to
preserve the timeline.  I'd imagine lots of carefully-written journals and
Pensieves containing everything he remembers about Dumbledore's life and
habits so he'll get it all right.  At the end, he scribbles out the 12
uses of dragon's blood he remembers from Potions class and presents it as
his discover to excuse all the years he was locked up. *g*


Andrea

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