Adopted!Harry- the continuation/ How to defeat V.

[m.steinberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 57890

Sorry that Time Turning Turns some people off. The rest of my theory involves more TT, but this part follows the standard "can't change the past" approach.

In brief: Harry is 18, V is gone, and he's about to consider a peaceful life in the future when D tells him that back when he was 1 yr old, his 18-yr-old self had appeared at Godric's Hollow (5th person) and had blocked the AK, wraithing V and dying in the process. Now (year 7), Harry has a choice: he can go back 17 years to maintain the time-line, save his infant self, and allow his infant self to grow up to defeat V at age 18 - but now Harry will have to die - or he can stay put at age 18, which would change the time-line because 18-yr-old Harry wouldn't be there to save infant Harry. Would infant Harry die? Would V become a wraith? Would V take over the world instead? Would anyone ever defeat V in the end? No one would be able to say for sure how the time-line would reshuffle itself if Harry didn't volunteer to go back and save himself. Maybe Harry will just evaporate and the world will now be in the 17th year of V's dominion. Maybe some other scenario altogether.

What does Harry choose? Essentially, he has to decide whether the 18 years he's had so far have been meaningful enough to justify dying at 18 to ensure that those 18 years will have happened. I propose that JKR will present the dilemma so that the reader has to answer that question, too. Were the seven books we will have read so wonderful that we wish Harry to allow himself to die in order to ensure that he lived as an infant and gave us the satisfaction we had in reading about him? Or will we say that, fun as following Harry was for us, he should allow the time-line to be altered for the chance of living longer, even though the likelihood is that Harry will never have been?

Will JKR then give us one epilogue, or two?

The Admiring Skeptic

P.S. My personal preference for defeating V is to trap him in the Mirror of Erised, the way the stone was, and then to destroy the mirror. It would have the poetic justice of the Prince of Desire being defeated in the very seat of desire.

Harry could do the trapping and someone else could do the mirror-breaking, for those who prefer.



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