Adopted!Harry vs fanfic

[m.steinberger]

No: HPFGUIDX 58169

To Barb and all:

Sorry for having been brief to the point of being obscure. To clarify my theory:
1. Harry, Dumbledore and all vanquish Voldemort
2. Dumbledore tells Harry that when he was 1 yr old, his 18-yr-old self had appeared out of the future and saved his life, but died in the process.
3. Harry has to decide whether to go back "again."
4. What happened "the first time" on the night James and Lily died was this: 18-yr-old Harry showed up, went to Dumbeldore and told him quite a bit about the "future," then went to Godric's Hollow, but did not save his parents for some reason (any reason will do, like he was too late). Then he jumped between infant!Harry and Voldemort just as V was AKing infant!Harry, and also attacked Voldemort at the same time. The result of both spells was probably some more priori incatatum at first, but eventually, 18-yr-old Harry ended up dead, infant!Harry ended up scarred, and Voldemort ended up a wraith.

How to Time-Turn 18 years? I'll let JKR decide that. She has no constraints at all.
As for the rest of your complaints, Harry did not live till 35, and he blocked the AK exactly the way canon has already shown us he can. As for Lily's sacrifice - Dumbledore did not say that her sacrifice saved Harry's life. Canon still has not told us what saved his life. All we have been told is that her sacrifice protected Harry at age 11 from being physically touched by Voldemort. We have no canon whatsoever that Harry can't be AKed, even by Voldemort, just the fact that Voldemort attempted one AK against Harry that failed. Why is still a mystery.

I think that this sort of forum can deal with numerous speculative details in a much briefer format than fanfic, which I am not leery of, but generally have no patience for. Another nice feature of this kind of post rather than fanfic is that one can be honest about which details could go more than one way, and explore various options, whereas fanfic, to maintain a plot, must pick one route and ignore the rest.

For example, there is nothing in my theory that precludes Harry living till 35. I don't prefer that route for various thematic reasons, and because it makes for too many plot problems during Harry's 18th to 35th year, as you mentioned. However, it is still a possibility. It also allows Hermione to marry an older man (which I think would be good for her) and still ship with Harry (which I am impartial about), which is a twist that I am sure would make many people happy.

The Admring Skeptic



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