[HPforGrownups] Re: Who conjures the Prongs Patronus?

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 53981

At 16:54 20-03-03 +0000,  Martin<martin.soilleux-cardwell at aon.co.uk> wrote:
>"Badger" <realbadger at e...> wrote:
>
>Greetings everyone, my first post (feel free to drag me out and feed
>me to the giant octopus if this has already been picked apart...)
>
>Has anybody considered that the first Patronus may not have been
>conjured by Harry (or Future Harry if you like). If the Patronus is
>conjured by Future Harry we have the messy paradox problem.

You've got that part wrong. If you allow someone else to conjure the Patronus
at any point _then_ you introduce a paradox. As long as Harry really sees
himself conjure it, then there is no paradox at all.

The Time-Turner plotline apparently confuse a lot of people, but it isn't 
really
necessary. Forget about all the complications and view the whole thing as it
is written - in subjective time, and tell yourself very firmly that the 
past is
*absolutely inviolate* - under no circumstances can you change the past at
all (this is the way time travelling is dealt with in physics - serious!).


BTW - first post here as well, so I had better say 'hi' and present my
credentials ;-)
http://www.hogwarts-library.net/reference  and especially
http://www.hogwarts-library.net/reference/Harry_Potter_timeline.html

Cheers,
Troels Forchhammer
(Denmark)