Who conjures the Prongs Patronus?

[melodiousmonkey]

No: HPFGUIDX 53843

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 
wrote:

> This has come up many times before on the list, namely because it
> remains one of the most mind-bending problems in the series.  Harry
> has to go back in time to save himself, in order to go back in time
> to save himself!  It other words, we're stuck with an apparently
> unresolvable temporal paradox in which two events separated in
> time are each other's cause and effect.  The only two viable
> resolutions seem to be that either (A) Everything in the Potterverse
> is predestined, which undermines the series' recurring theme of
> the importance of our choosing our own actions; or (B) The Harry
> that first saves -- er -- "our" Harry is actually from another,
> parallel universe, which raises the question of where did *he*
> come from?
> -- 
> Dave

Just a short note - there is a philosophical position called "soft-
determinism", that holds that the universe is basically 
predetermined, yet we still effectively have free will.  It's quite 
defendable too, but I won't try now.  At any rate, time travel, 
especially time travel into the past, is going to create paradoxes.  
I wasn't fussed.

Monkey