A time loop

[gregory_lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 95529

I have a theory, or rather a theory wrapped within a theory.

In a nutshell, the theory is that a lot of the characters are really 
just aspects of one person's personality, and that the story we're 
reading is part of a time cycle that has been repeated over and over 
and likely will be until someone does some special thing right to 
break the cycle.

Evidence, you ask?

It all nibbles around the edges.

One of the things that has always bugged me is that Dumbledore tells 
the Wizengamot that Snape is no more a death eater than he is.  Snape 
*was* a death eater.  Wouldn't that seem to indicate that Dumbledore 
is a former death eater?  I don't think he was, I think he was 
Voldemort.

I think Voldemort, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, and perhaps others are 
aspects of the same person.  Harry doesn't seem like a full person to 
me.  

He doesn't seem to have much of an ego for one thing.  While Ron's 
deepest erised is to be a Quidditch Cup winner and Head Boy, Harry 
wants his family.  This isn't a bad, thing, don't get me wrong, but 
it's not an ego driven thing.  He doesn't think about trying out for 
Quidditch, he's drafted into it.  He doesn't do things for the fame.  
He plays Quidditch because it's fun.  He wants to win because that's 
what you do when you play sports, and because he can't stand the 
Slytherins.  He doesn't suggest being an Auror, Ron does.  He doesn't 
talk about that night in the graveyard though everyone wants him to.  
He doesn't even let Hermione say the DA was his idea.  He never 
pushes himself forward
ever.

Neither does he seem to have much of a conscience.  He feels bad 
about the inquiry Mr. Weasley faces as a result of the Anglia crash 
and what else?  He doesn't feel bad about lying to Moaning Myrtle.  
He doesn't feel bad about breaking a million rules, he just worries 
about being caught.  He doesn't worry about stealing stuff from 
Snape's private stash.  He doesn't seem to think that the acts 
themselves are wrong (mind you, some of them aren't), he just seems 
to be trying to avoid consequences.

I think Harry is the repository of identity.

I think Hermione is the conscience.  At first, I thought she would be 
the intellect or perhaps the logic and reason faculties but no 
longer.  It seems that most of the reason she is the best student is 
because she is the most diligent.  She's the one that listens and 
takes notes in History of Magic.  She's the one that took her 
Transfiguation homework so seriously that she went to the library to 
look up the Ministry of Magic list of registered Animagi.  She's the 
one preparing study plans.  She's not a better student because she's 
smarter, she's a better student because she prepares better, more 
thoroughly.  Remember, it wasn't Hermione that made the connection 
that Hagrid had given up the secret to Fluffy in return for Norbert's 
egg.  Meanwhile, it is Hermione's voice he hears in his head 
reminding him not to break rules and such.  Hermione is all about 
doing what she is supposed to do.  A student is supposed to study.  A 
prefect is supposed to enforce and abide by the rules.  The organizer 
of a secret society is supposed to take steps to keep it secret.  
When Ron and Harry broke with Hermione it was because she wanted to 
be responsible and check out the Firebolt. She does what she's 
supposed to do
she's the conscience.

Ron, I think, is the intuition.  In the Firebolt incident, Ron had no 
reason to believe the Firebolt was okay, but it was.  He knew 
Crookshanks had it in for Scabbers immediately.  His joking 
predictions.  Heck, what he saw in the mirror of erised, he was 
Quidditch Captain and Head Boy, now he plays the position the former 
captain played, will be the one with the second most seniority when 
7th year comes, and he was chosen prefect because Harry had enough to 
get on with already.  He could very easily be chosen quidditch 
captain for the same reason.

Luna is faith.  She believes without reason.  The difference between 
faith and intuition is kind of a difficult one.  Intuition has 
reasons for believing what they believe, it just doesn't have the 
whole story.  It somehow senses the whole story with only a part of 
the information.  Faith accepts without any of the information.  
That's why Luna won't believe anything with any evidence supporting 
it.

Voldemort, and perhaps Draco Malfoy, are the ego.  They have the same 
lack of conscience that Harry has but they put themselves forward be 
it buying their way onto the quidditch team, sucking up to the 
Umbridge, loudly announcing their connections, naming yourself Lord, 
trying to conquer death.  They put themselves forward.

There are a ton of references of people being like older people.  
Harry pictures Wormtongue as looking like Neville.  Harry has his 
mother's eyes.  Harry is like Voldemort.  Hermione sounds like 
McGonagall.  Hermione sounds like Mrs. Weasley.

In addition, time and time travel are prominent themes.  There is the 
time turner episode.  There is the bell jar in the Ministry of 
Magic.  There's Harry's watch that stops after the second task but 
which he keeps wearing and looking at.  In addition, Harry looks back 
through time to see his parents in the Mirror of Erised and the album 
Hagrid gives him.  Tom Riddle comes through time to make issues in 
CoS.

I think there's a loop where the different aspects of personality are 
going through the same events multiple times from multiple 
perspectives and we're seeing this as different characters.  Hermione 
is Mrs. Weasley and Professor McGonagall.  Harry is James and 
Dumbledore.  Draco is Voldemort and who, Lucius?  

And have you noticed, there have been repeats with changes?  In a 
broad sense, in Book 1 Harry went through some challenges to prevent 
Voldemort from coming back.  In Book 4 he goes through challenges and 
sees Voldemort come back.  In book 2 he finds his way into a secret 
place to kill one of Voldemort's allies.  In Book 5 he finds his way 
into a secret place and one of his allies is killed.  In Book 3 he 
goes back in time to save someone.  In book six I expect him to go 
back in time and fail to save someone (the obvious candidate being 
Sirius, the same person he saved in Book 3).

I know I probably haven't explained it well, I just hope y'all 
understand.