Time Travel Paradoces

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57719

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dan Delaney <Dionysos at D...> 
wrote:
> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Coble, Katherine wrote:
> > I don't see her returning to that particular Deux Ex Machina to
> > "solve" her overall story.  At least I hope not.
> 
>Dan Wrote:
> I was actually quite disappointed when she introduced the time 
> travel bit in the first place. It opens up too many 
> problems and introduces the blatantly obvious question: "Why didn't 
> McGonagall or DD just jump back in time to save the Potters?"
> 

Hi Katherine and Dan:
Pointless, though it may be, because it appears that your minds are 
made up about it, I am getting on my soapbox about time manipulation 
as a future plot revelation.

First I would like to make reference to the question, Why didn't 
Dumbledore use the time turner to save James and Lily? On the 
contrary I think he did use a time turner. To save Harry. Well 
actually Dumbledore sent Hagrid with the time turner. 
*proof* There is no mention of the transport he took to Godrics 
Hollow. In order to get out in time he needed to borrow a vehicle. 
Hagrid is not a small man. I assume he arrived on foot, so, it is 
unlikely Dumbledore sent him running after hearing that Lily and 
James were slain. I suspect a 50 plus year old half-giant is not 
particularly fleet-footed lol.
Now why just Harry and not James and Lily? Well I give two reasons. 

1 Fidelius Charm. Who could unlock the power of the Charm. While the 
Potters still lived the only people that could save them was Peter 
Pettigrew. 
*Though that does beg the question; Why, then, was it possible for 
Hagrid to find Harry? After all, the Fidelius Charm was his 
protection too. If he was not covered by it, why then couldn't LV 
just seek and find Harry Potter?
Well, guessing that Lily or James charmed the secret themselves would 
explain why the power of the Fidelius vanished after their deaths. 
Most likely Lily, for if it were James, accordingly, Lily could also 
have been saved with Harry. Not by Hagrid ,however. Who was probably 
not a match for LV.

2 Though my above argument to most degrees covers it, I would like to 
add this; 
Dumbledore and Hermione both imply, with feeling, that the 
constraints over time manipulation are complex and need careful 
planning. Perhaps at some stage Dumbledore realised that saving Lily 
and James was NOT inconsequential to the thread of time and posed 
more of a threat to Harry and themselves than the events that had 
already unfolded. 
OK OK I hear you saying "What more threat to James and Lily than AK?".
Well, perhaps Dumbledore, or some other wise being, (seer?) foresaw 
the future as having an immortal Voldemort. One capable of torturing 
the Potters through their lives, and eventual deaths, if they didn't 
die that night. 
I don't think its such a long shot, and, its a simple and neat way to 
fold the ends of a time travel paradox.

I remember someone posting a possible torture for Lily, recently.
Re:5th person at Godrics Hollow
Imagine the life of Lily, widowed of James and Imperiused under the 
care of Peter 'Wormtail' Pettigrew. *shudders* A fate worse than 
death? Likely.

I will leave it here for a now. There is more. Only if you are 
interested.
Valky