[HPforGrownups] Re: My three questions

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 56840





--- Laura wrote:
> Really?  Am I the only person who never thought
> of this?
> 
> I never really 
> thought their bet was so far-fetched.
> 

Lynn:

I never thought about it either until someone
else suggested it.  So you're not the only one. 
It is an intriguing theory but there are a few
things that bother me with that theory.

First, can people go forward in time?  We know
they can go back.  But when they go back, they go
to the specific place they were at that time,
e.g. Hermione and Harry go the Entrance Hall
where they had been 3 hours previously.  So,
first, if Fred and George could go forward, where
would they go if they hadn't been there yet? 
Would they end up sitting on their future selves'
laps?  How would they know how far into the
future to go when no one knows how long the match
is going to be?  If they didn't go forward to the
match, but instead went forward and checked the
Daily Prophet, wouldn't they have known by that
time that the gold Ludo gives them is fake?

Of course, there's always the possibility that
the future Fred and George time traveled back to
the present Fred and George and told them who to
bet on and they might not have waited long enough
to know that their winnings would disappear.

Lynn
(who's giving up on anything to do with time
travel as it just hurts my head too much)


ME:  I can't buy this line at all.  Time-travel is so advanced and restricted no kids (Hermonine being a very rare limited exception) would have access to it.  Heck, I don't think too many people know it even exists as a possibility.  Plus, if they came back from the future they would have known that the bet was in trouble almost immediately unless of course they traveled back that night from the tent before the DE party!  If they did it afterwards they would have already been too suspicious to recommend the bet and you would think they would have given some warning about what was going to happen that night.  None of that makes too much sense really. (clever idea though!)  I think it was just a logical bet based on two facts...1.  Ireland had a much better team and 2.  Krum is the world's best seeker.  They COULD have lost though if Krum had found the snitch befoe Ireland could have built up the lead, but it was still a reasonably solid logical bet.  Huggs Becky


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