Time Travel Paradoces

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 57763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Coble, Katherine" 
<katherine.coble at c...> wrote:
>>Okay, this is really difficult to explain, I think. To me time
travel 
booksare like spy novels or mystery novels. They have a certain 
atmosphere.When you sit down to read them you know that this 
book is going to use itsplot to explore the construct of the t/s 
continuum (T/SC). <<

I think that's true only for  "hard" science fiction. If the story
were *about* the characters attempting to resolve the logical 
paradoxes inherent in time travel, then I would feel cheated. 
Since it's not, I'll allow Rowling  to finesse the subject, just as I 
allow her to ignore the question of what happens to Peter 
Pettigrew's considerable mass while he is transformed into a 
rat. 

I do think we'll see time travel again. Hermione was allowed a 
time turner because she is an exceptionally brilliant student. 
Well, who's the *other* exceptionally brilliant student we know 
of? It would be just like Tom Riddle to  turn his time turner in only 
after secretly making one of his own. 

Pippin