Paradoxes; Harry and the Patronus - was another wacko theory

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 108663

Mutt wrote:

When you time turn into the future and you get injured, do you return 
just a moment after you left with your new injured body, or do you 
create a new body when you time travel which stop existing and 
allowed your conscious to snap back to where you left off.

vmonte responds:

I imagine time-travel is like jumping on to a train.  You get on and 
you move from the present into the past (you are no longer in the 
present--you move from point B to point A). Once time elapses and you 
get back to the present you are again at point B.

When you hop on the train and go to the future you move from point B 
to point C. When time elapses and point B catches up to point C you 
are now in again in current time.

There are multiple problems and dangers with this kind of travel. The 
most important problem is that you have to be careful to not be 
spotted in several places at once. The other problem is that you 
could potentially be killed during point A or C and then people 
living during point B time will think you have vanished. This is  
until someone discovers or realizes what happened. 

(I think the hand of Glory probably belongs to someone important 
thats currently living: Voldemort? Also if there is going to be a 
graveyard featured in book 6 there may be someone buried there that 
is either unidentified or incorrectly labeled.)

So in my opinion the safest way to actually time-travel would be to 
change your appearance. Become a new character! Someone that will not 
be identified in several places at once, and because they are unknown 
could probably do a lot of undercover work without being suspected.
My favorite person for this character would be Aberforth Dumbledore.

vivian