Turning time in PoA

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 97103

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naetrobyn" <madamepaisley at h...>
wrote:

> MadamePaisley:
> 
> In PoA, Harry and Hermione go back in time.  the result is that Harry 
> saves himself and the others from the dementors by producing his 
> patronus stag.  However, I'm struggling very much with my idea that 
> if Harry, in the 'first time' was attacked by dementors and given 
> the 'kiss', that means he would have died and therefore not been 
> alive to meet up with Dumbledore in the hospital wing to then go back 
> in 'second time' to save himself.  ...edited...


bboy_mn:
 
This has indeed been discussed many times, too bad Yahoo's search
facility doesn't work better. It would make these old questions easier
to answer.

You problem only occurs because you assume time occcurred twice; it
did not. 

Time only happens once. At 6 P.M. on that fateful night, Time
Traveling Harry and Hermione arrive from the future and enter the time
line. From that point on, both Normal Harry and Hermione, and there
Time Traveling Counterparts exist, and the story moves forward from there.

You clues are found in the entrance hall scene as viewed from two
different perspectives. When the normal Harry, Hermione, and Ron are
hiding in the cupboard off the entrance hall, they hear another set of
feet and a door closing. That is Time Traveling Harry and Hermione
hiding in another storage cupboard. 

Later in the story, when time traveling Harry and Hermione are hiding,
they hear Normal Harry, Hermione, and Ron in the entrance hall.

So, there was no first time and second time. You have to start at the
beginning and move through time in a linear forward fashion, and at
roughly 6 o'clock, Time Travel Harry and Hermione join the time line
and are there through the entire sequence of events. 

At roughly midnight, Harry and Hermione leave the timeline to return
to the past, and Time Traveling Harry and Hermione step into the
Hospital room to take their place. From that point on their is only
one Harry and one Hermione, but between 6pm and midnight, there are
two Harry's and two Hermione's.

That is the only sequence of events that does not create hopelessly
unresolvable time paradoxes.

Just one man's opinion.

bboy_mn