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

[Risti]

No: HPFGUIDX 53544

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nobodysrib" <nobodysrib at y...> 
wrote:
> Andrea wrote: 
> I like to think that Ron, realizing he needed to acquire more 
> wizarding abilities in order to be Dumbledore, sought out 
> another "Doc" - Flammel.  I imagine that a wizard with the 
alchemical 
> skills to create the sorceror's stone would be very great and wise, 
> and someone who trained under him would learn a great deal about 
> magic.
> 
> - Nobody's Rib

First of all I have to say I find this to be an interesting idea, and 
if I didn't have a completely different life of Dumbledore FF bunny 
running through my head, I might be tempted to take it on.  In any 
case, I'd like to propose a different variant.

So Ron has accidently found himself back around the 1840's.  What if 
he searched for 'doc', being Dumbledore, and couldn't find him at 
all?  The only other person he knows to have been alive at this point 
is Flamel.  He also knows that Flamel is supposed to know 
Dumbledore.  What if, upon finding Flamel, and explaining the story 
to him, who surely in his 500 year life has heard some interesting 
stories already, discovers that there is known wizard named Albus 
Dumbledore.  Could it be that Flamel and Ron *create* the life of 
Dumbledore?  I propose this mainly because I don't like the idea of 
the original Dumbledore dying off in some way.  Surely Flamel, who 
has created the Elixer of Life, would probably find it only one more 
step to make a potion to make someone younger.  With this, Ron/Albus 
turns back into an 11 year old, is called up by the magic quill, and 
attends Hogwarts all over again.  Of course he is sorted into 
Gryffindor, and already having gone through this courseload once, he 
is able to do much better and learn things alot more thoroughly the 
second time around.  After that he goes on to be Flamel's partner, 
creating his own Philospher's stone to ensure that he'd still be 
around when Harry arrives.  Otherwise, he just lives life, and gains 
the wisdom and experience that are bound to come in 150 years of life.

That said, the one problem I have with the theory is the seeming 
continuum of the dragons blood uses.  In their first year, the trio 
learn the uses, presumably as a result of Dumbledore discovering 
them.  For Ron!Dumbledore to later discover them as a result of 
learning them seems to break some kind of time law in my opinion.  I 
can handle a person who has gone back shaping history to how it is 
now, but I can't handle discovering something only because you were 
first taught it.

~Risti