Time-turning as literary device (was: Just a comment about Lupin's malady)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brenda M." <Agent_Maxine_is at h...> wrote:
> Great analogy with Schroedinger's cat, Eleanor!!  But it can be 
> extended even further to *any* elements of literature that we don't 
> know everything about.  Plot, time-line, characterization, etc.  That 
> is precisely *why* we have ESE! and conspiracy theories running wild -
> - whatever is not told in canon are "fluid".  Sure, we can draw logic 
> from what we know to fill in the gap, but just look at how Peter 
> fooled WW for 12 years.

Yes!  And until we read the next book, all the theories (at least, all the sensible ones :) are 
equally "true".  See, I knew we'd get back to the "literary device" bit of the subject line 
eventually!

Eleanor