DD - maybe.

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 110432

Kneasy:
A bit late, but never mind; maybe you'll read the back posts and
find out just how many have said the same thing.

vmonte responds:
Oh, I agree with you on this point.

Kneasy:
But not very many of those subscribe to this Time Travel perversion.

vmonte responds:
I agree with you here as well, and it's ok with me if you don't.

Kneasy:
The one stone cold blocker on all these TT theories:_
Why is all the action *now* when all the preliminaries, foundations,
original acts happened way back *then*?

Why hasn't Voldy already been sorted? What's the delay? Hasn't DD/Ron
already had 50 years to sort out the Tom Riddle problem? And 15 years
to sort out the Voldy problem? Or perhaps he forgot to wind his watch.
It's no good having TT if you don't use it, and I see no point in DD
allowing who knows how many to die when a little judicious TT would
prevent it.

vmonte responds:
The problem with being a great strategist is that it might work fine
when all you have to rely on is yourself and ivory chess pieces.
Things tend to get messy when your working with real live people. You
know it's that small problem called "free will." You can't always get
people to behave the way you want them to, but you can create some
changes. And I don't think that DD would TT to the past to kill baby
Riddle. JKR makes a point of telling her readers in OOTP that killing
a child is wrong (the scene where Hermione yells at Harry not to hurt
the baby-headed DE. Even though we know that Tom Riddle will grow up
to be evil, it's not ok to go back in time and kill him as a baby).

I agree with your thought that the Order might be an ancient society.
It seems to me that Flamel was also probably involved with the Order,
and he was 666 years old at last count. If he is GG, then he is
probably even older than that.

You know your theory about the entity might just be true. Maybe
Salazar has lived so long because of his parasitic abilities. You
accept him into your soul, and presto, he's growing out of the back
of your head or living inside you.

Kneasy:
'Cos Ron is, to put it mildly, an intellectual lightweight verging on
half-wit. Ron? Become DD? Yeah, and Trevor is Godric Gryffindor.
Ron will be bloody lucky if he survives to the end of the series.

vmonte responds:
Ron is being set-up for something, Kneasy. I'm positive that his
parents (or at least Molly) are going to be killed next. There is
nothing like a little tragedy to make someone grow up--fast. Oh
yeah, I'm also sure the kids will be able to join the Order once
their mother is gone.

Page 450 OOTP, U.S. edition:
The scene right after Hagrid shows the students the thestrals...
"Yeah, Weasley, we were just wondering," said a malicious voice
nearby. Unheard by any of them in the muffling snow, Malfoy, Crabbe,
and Goyle were walking along right behind them. D'you reckon if you
saw someone snuff it you'd be able to see the Quaffle Better?"

vivian: Yeah, I reckon... :)