[HPforGrownups] Re: Time Travel Paradoces

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 57728

Gulplum wrote:

> 
> Actually, as I said a few days ago, I absolutely adore JKR's version of 
> time travelling, because she makes that an impossibility. In a nutshell, 
> "you can't change what has already happened".
> 
> Buckbeak wasn't executed, Harry saw himself (his future self) cast the 
> Patronus.

Okay, I'll admit my brain already hurts before trying to understand time travel (for the umpteenth time and not succeeding).  I can understand the Buckbeak thing, how Dumbledore couldn't use a time turner to go back and save Cedric, since everyone had already seen him dead, etc.  But what I can't understand is how Harry escaped in the first place from the dementor to go back and save himself.  The dementor is bending over him and suddenly the patronus comes and he sees what he thinks is his dad, but is himself.  But how did he get away from the dementor to get to the time turner to go back in time and save himself (and Buckbeak & Sirius).  I'm so confused . . . 

Richelle


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