Harry's growing hair (was: Adopted!Harry) and Time Paradoxes

[Melanie L Ellis]

No: HPFGUIDX 57778

Okay, Harry's hair first:

I don't think Harry's ever growing hair is any sign of it being charmed
to resembles James'. We know that Harry doesn't like people staring at
his scar, even before he gets to the WW where it's even more famous. I
believe that Harry's growing hair is another manifestation of -
whatdoyacallit? - "incidental magic" even though it's not a result of
immediate danger or fierce anger. Kind of like the incredible shrinking
sweater - there was no danger from wearing Dudley's old sweater except
for the humiliation he would get from kids at school. I think Harry's
hair just grows out to cover his scar, and the untidiness is a result of
genetics.

Darrin wrote about the trouble with Time Turners:
>And what if you lose count and actually only turn it back 131,398 times?
Then 
>you get there too late and have to start all over! And unless the damn
thing 
>goes forward, how do you get back?

I can't prove it from canon, but I get the feeling that you can't really
go forward with the Time Turner. Even if you could, you would still have
to do it in hour increments, and they would have to be timed to coincide
with the hours that you turned back - very tricky busines. The way the
whole Time Turner scenario reads to me, the TTd characters have to live
out the whole time that is turned back, while avoiding their "original"
selves. LV would have a devil of a time trying to live yet another life
while hiding from his original self, LOL! As I said, I can't prove it,
but that's just the way reading about the TT feels to me.


Melanie Ellis
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