Time Travel Paradoces

[piskmiffo]

No: HPFGUIDX 57746


Barb:
> No paradox in this scenario.  However--Hermione says that some 
> killed their PAST selves.  This would need a new timeline.  If a 
> wizard lives his life, perfectly normally, then at the age of sixty 
> travels back in time to when he was twenty and kills himself--then 
> he'd never get to be sixty and a new timeline would be created at 
> the moment that he killed himself.  So unless Hermione misspoke 
when 
> she said that wizards had killed their past AND future selves, it 
is 
> in fact possible to change timelines, because the wizards who had 
> killed their past selves would have done exactly that.
> 


pisk:
Does a mortal wound count?
Let's say a Wizard wakes up in an alley, with no memory of last night 
and extremely hurt (hehe, let's ignore the wizard world's ability to 
heal people easily!).
They tell him that he will only live for 2 more weeks.
So he takes a chance, he goes back in time to either stop whatever 
was attacking him. But for some reason he accidently hurts his past 
self, and realizing this he goes to the ministry of magic (or 
whoever) and tells them in agony "Aaah, I killed myself! How tragic! 
Fate has a sense of irony!". Then he dies.
Sure, it's an annoying and stupid theory, but no paradox. :)


/pisk